(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.
Went
Definition:
(imp.) of Go
() of Wend
() imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go.
(n.) Course; way; path; journey; direction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
(2) The district’s $110bn of economic activity went up by 22% since 2007, outpacing city growth by 9% during the same period.
(3) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
(4) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
(5) The majority of the hearts went spontaneously into ventricular fibrillation at some stage of the operation.
(6) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
(7) His mother, meanwhile, had to issue Peyton with a series of polaroids of his own clothes showing him which ones went together.
(8) It was sent into the box and Jaap Stam's free header went towards Kaka at the far post.
(9) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
(10) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
(11) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(12) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(13) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
(14) I went to a reasonably good school, though I think I hated the headmaster just as much as he hated me.
(15) So when President Obama went before his country on Wednesday, this is the context in which what he had to say about his plans should be considered.
(16) Aitken was subsequently declared bankrupt and went to prison.
(17) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(18) I'll admit to not having realised that more than £100bn would be committed to Trident – I half-remembered reading that it would cost £20bn, so went online, only to discover that the higher figure checks out .
(19) To this day, 10 patients (31%) are alive with a functioning kidney transplant, 16 (50%) are still treated by CPD awaiting a transplant, 5 have died (16%) and one went back to hemodialysis (3%).
(20) They said it shows Bergdahl, now 27, in poorer health than previous footage taken in the years since he went missing in Afghanistan on 30 June 2009.