(n.) A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.
(a.) Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.
(a.) See Lento.
Example Sentences:
(1) The insulin regimen was determined according to the amount of insulin infused during the examination, dividing insulin dosages into two separate doses using semilente in the morning and a mixture of regular and lente insulin in the evening.
(2) The overall control of blood glucose before and two hrs meals was better with soluble insulin regiment than with the Lente insulin regimen.
(3) It was in that period that Ronald Reagan lent official US recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organisation, making a move that would have been too costly for his successor, Bush the elder.
(4) In 2012, politicians in the Welsh Assembly applauded its success in tackling financial exclusion in south-east Wales, noting that the most affordable credit alternative to MoneyLine required the borrower to pay back £82 for every £100 lent whereas MoneyLine charged between £19 and £35 for every £100 lent [link].
(5) Nationwide said its gross mortgage lending in the six months to 30 September rose 15% to £10.2bn and, of that, £2.5bn was lent to first-time buyers – helping almost 20,000 borrowers buy their first home.
(6) Rylance has lent his support to the Save Our Sands campaign, speaking about his ancestors who lived in Dover, including his great grandfather, who was the captain of a cross -channel ferry.
(7) I lent the book to my mother after my re-reading, and - half-jokingly - she asked whether this novel had been rewritten "to be contemporary".
(8) Private sector bondholders, many of them German banks who lent hand over fist to Greece in the runup to the crisis, were largely made good; workers have suffered wage cuts as the government struggles to make repayments to its bailout creditors.
(9) The 59 outpatients, aged 7 to 70 years, attended each morning, and started therapy with 8 to 12 units of Lente insulin daily, the dose being increased every 2 or 3 days by small increments until control was attained.
(10) In 31 patients transferred from conventional Lente to Monotard, proinsulin and a-component antibody levels were significantly lower than in 22 patients maintained on conventional Lente after the 5-year follow-up period.
(11) Crossreactivity of nitrite reductase (cytochrome cd1) with a respective P. perfectomarina rabbit antiserum was limited to strain DSM 50227 of P. stutzeri; although it could not contribute information towards broader relationships within rRNA group I, it lent further prove to the unity of these two species.
(12) These infections also exhibited a course slow enough to permit the assessment of treatments under conditions mimicking human infections and lent themselves to the choice of the best adapted strategy to treat an infection.
(13) The Welsh secretary, David Jones, has given up Twitter for Lent.
(14) Citigroup's boss, Vikram Pandit, said his firm wrote $75bn of loans in the final quarter of 2008 while JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon said his bank had lent $150bn – a rate barely different from the previous year.
(15) Increases in the specific radioactivity of lipid extracts from washed spermatozoa lent support to the contention that lipoproteins become firmly bound to the cells.
(16) i lent brett ratner my 2nd (of 2) parms dorz cos he wantd 2 impress women and I was worrid he mite get bbq sauce on it agen lol You've said your films are intended as "polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator."
(17) Of Ms Bailey, he said: "She's got a great track record, excel lent media credentials.
(18) Italy compared Italy’s economy stopped growing and banks like BPV became consumed by non-performing loans, tens of billions of euros that had been lent to small and large businesses that then failed under economic hardship.
(19) If Gleeson could be the guest speaker, how then could it be described as a “Liberal party event?” Even if it was a party occasion, the commissioner asks: “how does that demonstrate that the speaker has an affinity with a partiality for or a persuasion or allegiance or alignment to the Liberal party or lent it support?” If the fair minded lay observer (FMLO), who in this instance is the judge of apprehended bias, had an idea of Heydon’s record on the high court they might get a whiff of partiality to a particular world view, or philosophy.
(20) Gerbils were divided into four experimental groups and were studied for up to 1 week of survival: Group A (n = 50) was fed but received no insulin, Group B (n = 50) was deprived of food for 24 hours before surgery but received no insulin, Group C (n = 49) was fed and received daily injections of 0.1 IU lente insulin for 3 days before surgery, and Group D (n = 48) was deprived of food and received daily insulin injections.
Tent
Definition:
(n.) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
(n.) Attention; regard, care.
(n.) Intention; design.
(v. t.) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
(v. t.) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
(n.) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
(n.) A probe for searching a wound.
(n.) A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
(n.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
(v. i.) To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pharmaceutical services were provided from a large tent near the hospital, which consisted of an emergency treatment facility, two operating rooms, and a small medical-surgical ward.
(2) The dog was discovered in a tent during a clean-up after thousands of festival-goers left the site.
(3) In fact the aim for many of those braving increasingly chilly nights inside the tents is to be here until Christmas at least.
(4) Hugo de Armas, 37, from Tenerife, whose tent was one of the first to arrive outside St Paul's, said: "We have created a space for dialogue, I hope to stay here for Christmas, longer."
(5) They need tents very badly,” said Kempo Chimed Tsering.
(6) We chat to a lovely woman in the Samaritans tent, which is manned in shifts.
(7) Protesters crawl out from the tents they have pitched on the cobblestones and huddle in the cold around makeshift fires, as volunteers distribute hot tea and soup.
(8) Stuart Fraser, the corporation's policy chairman, said: "We took this action to clear the tents and equipment at St Paul's.
(9) Nico Stevens from Help Refugees said at least 150 people had so far lost their shelters, but many of those had remained in the camp, sleeping in tents or communal buildings.
(10) Thirty-day-old corn seedlings, grown in the greenhouse with different concentrations of supplemental nitrate nitrogen, were moved to a constant-temperature growth chamber and sealed in a 560-liter tent made of polyvinyl chloride.
(11) In a tent for those recovering, a talkative man wearing a heavy gold chain played up to amused doctors during the lunch break.
(12) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
(13) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
(14) Hastily packing his one-man tent, the youngster set off walking from Idomeni, alone.
(15) Nosheen Iqbal, writer Discovering the Acoustic Tent (and its real ale supplies) After nearly three decades of Glastonbury attendance, this year I finally made it up the hill to the Acoustic Tent.
(16) In 2013 , a 16-year-old boy was lounging outside his tent at a Minnesota campsite when a wolf clamped its jaws around his head.
(17) We need a different, big-tent approach – one in which no one is too rich or poor to be part of our party.
(18) Their red and black flag flies above several of the tents in Kiev's sprawling downtown protest city; young volunteers – unarmed but wearing khaki fatigues – have commandeered a boutique and a city council office.
(19) The tented village around St Paul's – 200 canvas homes and counting – has acquired an increasingly permanent feel, and now boasts a bookshop, information centre and a prayer room.
(20) The more the president rules by decree – and one faction in the Brotherhood argues that he should issue a constitutional decree of his own, annulling the content of the decree Scaf issued within hours of the closing of the presidential polls – the more he risks alienating his future political partners in the broad-tent political coalition he intends to set up both under him as president, and under the prime minister he intends to nominate.