(n.) The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
(n.) The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced.
(n.) The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, the measure of the intensity of a total stress of forty pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches area is ten pounds per square inch.
(n.) The degree or depth of shade in a picture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with normal echocardiogram and ECG on admission do not require intensive care monitoring.
(2) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(3) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(4) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(5) The intensity of the type III specific peptide bands correlates with the type III content of the samples.
(6) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
(7) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
(8) The pattern and intensity were followed up for up to 15 days.
(9) Respiratory alteration in the intensity of heart sounds is one of the commonest auscultatory pitfalls.
(10) They are capable of synthesis and accumulation of glycogen and responsible for its transfer to sites of more intense metabolism (growth, bud, blastema).
(11) After either 5 or 10 days of culture with both cytokines, intense immunofluorescent staining for Ia could be identified on the surface of greater than 80-90% of the viable islet cells.
(12) Experiment 3 showed that the color-induced increase in odor intensity is not due to subjects' preexperimental experience with particular color-odor combinations, because the increase occurred with novel ones.
(13) The epithelium of Brunner's gland stained intensely with Ricinus communis agglutinin-I (RCA-I), succinylated-WGA (S-WGA) and wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA), moderately with Bandeirea simplicifolia agglutinin-I (BS-I), Concanavalia ensiformis agglutinin (Con A) peanut agglutinin (PNA) and Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I (UEA-I) and occasionally with Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA), Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) and soybean agglutinin (SBA).
(14) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(15) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(16) Electrical stimulation of afferent pathways at intensities just below threshold for eliciting action potentials resulted in a dramatic decrease in JSCP threshold.
(17) It was not possible to offer all very low birthweight infants full intensive care; to make this possible, it was calculated that resources would have to increase by 26%.
(18) At sufficiently high field intensities, the reaction may approach a value equal to that of the free enzyme system.
(19) The present results using approximately 12% hemoglobin concentration in 0.1 M Bistris buffer at pD 7 and 27 degrees C with and without organic phosphate show that there is no significant line broadening on oxygenation (from 0 to 50% saturation) to affect the determination of the intensities or areas of these resonances.
(20) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
Outwit
Definition:
(v. t.) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
(n.) The faculty of acquiring wisdom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
(2) Plans to pursue a second appeal against HMRC come despite MPs on the Public Accounts Committee citing the pub group's scheme as one example of "an illegitimate game to outwit the taxpayer".
(3) The Napoli midfielder Marek Hamsik gave Slovakia the lead after 24 minutes, outwitting his marker to slot home left-footed.
(4) Rosenthal himself was busy by then on a script for The System, a Granada anthology series dedicated to the theme of management, or the outwitting of it.
(5) So was the sense that she had outwitted the oil industry.
(6) An untold truth is that we use a tiny fraction of each computer's capacity: you could say we're already outwitted by them.
(7) Fortunately for the Guardian, the paper was able to retain barristers who outwitted the government’s lawyers.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Diane James’ acceptance speech from 16 September In her acceptance speech, she promised to bring a new professionalism to the party, saying: “We are going to confound our critics, we are going to outwit our opponents, we are going to build on our election success that we have achieved to date and do more.” But questions were raised about her commitment to the post after she declined to take part in hustings debates around the country with rival candidates.
(9) And finally, the carnage in Paris revived the reflex to slam doors, build walls and trust no one.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Angela Merkel consoles teenage refugee brought to tears Merkel was described as a political climber, a practitioner of “the politics of baby steps”, either outlasting or outwitting rivals.
(10) Vincent Kompany and Martín Demichelis never truly nullified his nuisance value, outwitted as they were by canny centre-forward play.
(11) But though a brilliant tactician who ran rings around his peers and rivals in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, confounded the Serbian opposition and outwitted an endless array of international mediators, Milosevic was a lousy strategist.
(12) They showed footage of Cruise as a soldier who dies and must relive events over and over until he cracks a way to outwit pesky aliens hell-bent on destroying earth.
(13) The Twitter hashtag #KarametWatan ("dignity of the nation") has been used with stunning effect to organise protests and outwit the government.
(14) Even as he found himself discussing how England might look to outwit an opposing lineout whose locks are 6ft 2in and 6ft 3in tall respectively, though, he will be uncomfortably aware his side could rack up a century of points and still depart the tournament with tails between legs.
(15) The series opener of Sherlock – watched live by almost 10 million people – updated Arthur Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia , the short story in which Holmes is, unusually, outwitted by an acute American adventuress in possession of a compromising picture of the Bohemian king.
(16) Outwitted in that first international by the veteran Irish centre-forward Dave Walsh, of Aston Villa, Charles's massive physique, 6ft 2ins and 15 stone, availed him little that day.
(17) We – civil society – have been co-opted into economic and institutional processes in which we are being outwitted and out-manoeuvred.
(18) He can’t take it that we’ve out-tactic-ed him and outwitted him.
(19) For Merkel, Juncker is also a liability, a fellow Christian Democrat she has been outwitted into reluctantly supporting for the top job in Brussels later this year.
(20) For the riots were not the work of mostly disaffected teenagers but a "feral" , "uneducated" "underclass" who somehow managed to outwit the police for the best part of a week using new technology.