(a.) Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.
(2) The FT explains: Billions of dollars of intangible assets will enter the gross domestic product of the world’s largest economy in a revision aimed at capturing the changing nature of US output..... At present, R&D counts as a cost of doing business, so the final output of Apple iPads is included in GDP but the research done to create them is not.
(3) The intangible benefits include easy access to health care and time-saving convenience.
(4) The operative technique is described together with its intangible principles, its difficulties and its variants.
(5) Climate change is a notoriously intangible risk for people to grasp.
(6) This paper discusses in qualitative terms these tangible and intangible benefits and the factors that impact their realization and maximization.
(7) Pragmatism may have triumphed once again over idealism on the legislative floor, yet something intangible snapped these past few days in the fevered corridors of Congress.
(8) The EDPRS is not a document that collects dust in ministerial offices nor does it contain vague or intangible commitments.
(9) Sharing a tournament between two countries inevitably reduces the event's cultural identity, an intangible quality that grows more precious in the memory.
(10) Yoga , the mind-body discipline based on ancient Indian philosophy and now practised all over the world, has joined Unesco’s list of intangible world heritage.
(11) There is growing acceptance of the intangible benefits of computerization in the laboratory.
(12) Under federal anti-fraud statute , Harvard law professor John Coates told the site, “it is a federal crime to conspire with anyone, including a foreign government, to ‘deprive another of the intangible right of honest services’.” “That would include fixing a fraudulent election, in my view, within the plain meaning of the statute,” Coates said.
(13) Maybe, for all that this most cocksure of champions has the intangible aura only the sporting gods know, he also needs the love and reassurance of others.
(14) I know the history of the game so I knew how many rings he has won as a coach and how he was a player at Kentucky – and all those other intangibles that go with a great career like he's had.
(15) And since I am pretty determined here to prove that like proponents of Sopa I "don't understand the internet" , can I also wonder about something more intangible?
(16) Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian One travel story we’ve enjoyed from the web this week is Unesco’s “intangible heritage list” , which was brought to our attention by Rough Guides .
(17) The bank, run as a public-private partnership, would have several tasks: developing insurance schemes to underwrite the value of intangible assets, as well as mentoring UK businesses and players in the financial sector, including banks and venture capitalists.
(18) But despite the burgeoning value of intangible assets, most financial institutions don't know how to value them, according to David Martin, an intellectual property expert.
(19) Although Unesco is best known for designating world heritage sites such as the Great Wall of China, the agency also recommends safeguarding the intangible heritage represented by traditions and oral expressions, rituals and festive events, traditional craftsmanship, music, dances and traditional performing arts.
(20) Its estimate of benefits and of 74,000 jobs includes such intangibles as people being employed in local shops to sell sweets to the site's security guards.
Tag
Definition:
(n.) Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
(n.) A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
(n.) The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
(n.) Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
(n.) A sheep of the first year.
(n.) A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.
(v. t.) To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
(v. t.) To join; to fasten; to attach.
(v. t.) To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.
(v. i.) To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.
(v.) A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.
Example Sentences:
(1) In general, optimal DAGAT activity in vitro was observed when long-chain unsaturated acyl-CoAs and diacylglycerols (DAGs) containing long acyl chains were used as substrates for in vitro TAG synthesis (although 1,2-didecanoin was also very effective).
(2) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
(3) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(4) Nuclear pores were frequently tagged after estradiol treatment.
(5) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(6) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
(7) Genetic relations of skin tags, colon polyps, and colon cancer are a matter of ongoing research.
(8) Here we describe the cloning of da by the transposon tagging approach as well as some aspects of the molecular characterization of wild-type and mutant alleles.
(9) Liquid nitrogen spray followed by light electrodesiccation treatment is helpful in the management of flat warts, small skin tags, seborrheic keratoses, and cherry angiomas.
(10) Harry Kane laughs off one-season wonder tag after Alan Shearer pep talk Read more “He is a great role model.
(11) This is a report on our experience with the EPICS C (Coultronics) cytometric flux apparatus, a screening cell analyzer, employing a laser ray (2 or 5 watts); we obtained good results to analyze immunologically-tagged mononuclear blood cells with or without prior separation: for rhythm, repeatability, and contamination.
(12) Monoclonal antibodies tagged with chelated metal ions have numerous potential applications.
(13) Not just going to a live show, but that kind of live show, with that kind of audience, the kind where mums and dads either have to tag along or turn up at the end to pick their children up.
(14) The recurrent cases were found to be caused by adhesion bands produced by hanging tags of incompletely removed yellow ligament.
(15) Bolus tracking, flow enhancement by spin replacement, and selective tagging are three classes of methods being pursued for MR angiography.
(16) We evaluated 109 women with endometrial carcinoma to determine the accuracy of preoperative tumor-associated antigen levels (CA 125, CA 72, CA 15-3) for prediction of extrauterine disease and whether TAG 72, CA 15-3, or both would improve the predictive value of CA 125 alone.
(17) The duration of S phase was unaffected by Tag expression.
(18) Although more than one vector can be utilized, only a library of fragments cloned into any single phage, phagemid or plasmid vector is actually required, together with a set of tagged oligonucleotide primers.
(19) The results also showed that Tag treated fruits developed their internal and external coloration normally, whereas mangos with Falvorseal coating did not develop their external coloration nor their red internal coloration.
(20) In addition, nonheme iron absorption from a test meal of the respective beef pattie consumed for the 180 days was estimated by the extrinsic tag procedure.