(n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
(n.) Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.
(n.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.
(n.) Intervention; interposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) No significant toxic side effects occurred and no refractoriness ensued during intermission between treatment periods.
(2) Marian Gaborik's goal meant that Chicago blew three leads in the game, something their fans can chew on during the intermission.
(3) Paroxysmal cerebellar ataxia (PCA) is a specific disease which exhibits spasmodic cerebellar ataxia but rarely shows abnormal neurological findings in the intermission.
(4) What does Alain Vigneault tell his Rangers during the intermission?
(5) The acute stage of the disease was observed in 76 patients, 73 patients were in the intermission period.
(6) The torpid process of chronic bronchitis, the two-phase pattern of the disease, dyspnea at 3-4 month intervals, intermissions, edema and failure of complex therapy with antibiotics and cardiac glycosides provided a tentative diagnosis of Legionella pneumonia with affection of the myocardium.
(7) The prospect hung that a bad call could decide everything hung in the air as the teams left for the second intermission.
(8) By the intermission, questions had begun to spread among the celebrity guests.
(9) Of these, 61 were investigated in depressive state, 15 in mania, 28 in intermission.
(10) These results clearly indicate that the prevention of the portal congestion improves recovery from energy metabolic disorder and, in addition, division of total ischemic time with moderate intermission is effective to diminish the metabolic disorder due to occlusion of both hepatic artery and portal vein.
(11) Their first period (after which they trailed 1-0) was so bad, they were booed off the ice as the intermission began.
(12) The clinical and social parameters of the prognosis in mental diseases first expressed after 40 years of age were on the whole lower but they reflected the modern tendency to attenuation of pathological manifestations: by the time of examination the status of 48% of patients was characterized by intermission or syndromes of a nonpsychotic level.
(13) During the intermission, between the horrors, the guests repaired to an upstairs room for coffee and biscuits.
(14) This procedure was repeated eight times in each rat with a 15-min intermission.
(15) Treatment with 3 days intermission showed the same favorable results as continuous application, although the amount of glucocorticoids applied was 75% less.
(16) Bilateral electrolytic lesions were made in various areas of hypothalamus or thalamus on the 6th day of a period of daily radioiodide injections (1 or 5 muCi125I-daily per animal) in male rats weighing about 350 g. Such injections were continued for another 4 days and after 2 days of intermission the blood thyroid hormone was acutely depleted by isovolemic exchange transfusion of thyroid hormone free blood cell suspension.
(17) In intermissions these changes were expressed either minimally or were absent altogether.
(18) It was an eight-hour play, I think, with two intermissions where you went out for dinner and came back.
(19) HDL-cholesterol, more specifically HDL2-cholesterol, reduced transiently during the 1st VLCD, intermission, and 2nd VLCD periods, and tended to increase in the 2nd LCD.
(20) After this intermission in arsenic exposure the urinary excretion of arsenic decreased to normal values, whereas the vasospastic reaction in the fingers remained.
Play
Definition:
(n.) To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
(n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
(n.) To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.
(n.) To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.
(n.) To act; to behave; to practice deception.
(n.) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays.
(n.) To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.
(n.) To act on the stage; to personate a character.
(v. t.) To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump.
(v. t.) To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.
(v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin.
(v. t.) To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks.
(v. t.) To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman.
(v. t.) To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.
(v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
(n.) Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
(n.) Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game.
(n.) The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.
(n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit.
(n.) A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.
(n.) The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play.
(n.) Performance on an instrument of music.
(n.) Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.
(n.) Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(2) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
(3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(4) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(5) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(6) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(7) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(8) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(9) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(10) In concert with TF expressed by monocytes and macrophages this endothelial cell procoagulant activity may play a role in the pathogenesis of thrombotic disease.
(11) To determine whether or not the glycan moieties in hTPO play a role in the disease-associated epitopes in Hashimoto's thyroiditis, radiolabeled recombinant hTPO was immunoprecipitated after digestion with N-glycanase.
(12) Immunohistochemical observation of myoepithelial cells with monoclonal antibody from human mammalian cancer suggested that these cells play an important role in the process of glandular ducts formation.
(13) Anti-human factor V IgG decreased this enhanced thrombin formation in the presence of platelets, indicating that factor V from platelets was playing an important role in thrombin formation.
(14) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
(15) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(16) The behaviour of DAO suggests that the enzyme plays an important role in the control of intracellular diamine concentration.
(17) It was with unanimous consent.” He denied that Trump’s tweets had played a part, saying: “No, no, no.
(18) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(19) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(20) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.