(a.) Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was put on a gurney and he was lifeless,” she said.
(2) It all started with a problem Wolf was having in her own sex life; the quality of her orgasms suddenly changed from being full of light and colour and what she describes in terms of transcendental experience, to something dull and lifeless.
(3) Southall and coworkers have demonstrated in a recent study that attacks of lifelessness with sudden and severe hypoxemia and cyanosis are caused by a combination of respiratory arrest in expiration, and a right-to-left shunting of the blood through the lungs due to increased pulmonary vascular resistance.
(4) She felt hollow and lifeless and compared herself to the calm centre of a tornado, "moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo", she writes.
(5) From start to finish, maybe apart from the first five minutes, it was a pretty lifeless performance,” Muscat said.
(6) The mastiff fell lifeless and Stapleton was swallowed in Grimpen Mire.
(7) Perhaps, the evolution of medicine has eclipsed what was once sensational, disturbing, interesting, and marketable, leaving only the dry and lifeless bones of stories--remnants of what once they were.
(8) It is physiology's responsibility to put together the lifeless pieces of the molecular biologist into living systems.
(9) Several men from the local fire department and EMT department are already there, hovering around the seemingly lifeless body of a 31-year-old man on the living room floor in a soaking wet T-shirt and jeans.
(10) The latest tragedies follow the death of a Syrian toddler whose lifeless body was photographed washed up on a Turkish beach last week, becoming a heartwrenching symbol of the plight of asylum seekers fleeing war.
(11) Hidalgo, currently deputy mayor of Paris and the pollsters' favourite to win the municipal election in March, caused a storm when she announced she wanted to transform Avenue Foch, which some critics have described as a "lifeless urban motorway", into a "green corridor" leading straight to the neighbouring Bois de Boulogne public park.
(12) In a variety of new situations under the beaker (presence of a lifeless object, of a grouped mouse or of an isolated mouse), the isolated mice were more reactive than the grouped mice.
(13) Aggressive treatment, including emergency room thoracotomy, is justified for lifeless and deteriorating cardiac injury victims.
(14) Now that I’m rewilding my once-lifeless garden, I’m hoping to be surprised.
(15) These laws will be used to stamp out plurality and difference, to douse the exuberance of youth, to pursue children for the crime of being young and together in a public place, to help turn this nation into a money-making monoculture, controlled, homogenised, lifeless, strifeless and bland.
(16) The US can either use the lifeless tissue for transplants or for other research or it can throw it away.
(17) Early Thursday morning, one penguin was spotted floating lifelessly in the pool.
(18) But soon after returning, “there is no energy and you are lifeless and you are dull”.
(19) Emergency room thoracotomy was performed in 17 "lifeless" patients, 4 of whom survived.
(20) Economic turmoil, a lifeless advertising market and print publications folding across the industry - it is a strange time to launch a magazine.
Monochromatic
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contrary to previous reports, approximately 20% of the neurons in V3 were color selective in terms of showing a severalfold greater response to the best monochromatic wavelength compared with the worst.
(2) The goal of this work was to study the effect of monochromatic visible light having a low intensity on Escherichia coli WP2 growth.
(3) Activation of GV by monochromatic 450-nm radiation causes two specific DNA changes in human P3 cells in culture as shown by alkaline elution techniques: single-strand breaks (i.e., alkali-labile sites plus frank strand scissions) and DNA-to-protein covalent bond crosslinks.
(4) Additionally, the silver staining properties of the Duracryl matrix result in proteins appearing as monochromatic shades of grey instead of red, brown and yellow, as is the case of conventional polyacrylamide matrices.
(5) ERG bp-waves were recorded in congenital color blindness by scanning monochromatic light stimuli, and spectral responses obtained could be evaluated as a spectral pattern.
(6) Responses to monochromatic flashes were recorded intracellularly from double cones in the retina of the turtle, Pseudemys scripta elegans.
(7) Initially, the essential electronic driver was developed to facilitate the systematic characterization of the paratellurite (TeO2) AOTF and to demonstrate that this filter can be successfully and uniquely used as an all solid-state, nonmoving parts dispersive device to rapidly diffract white incident light into a selected color beam, to amplitude modulate the diffracted monochromatic light, and to keep its intensity constant.
(8) A method for determining the spectral sensitivity of the different color mechanisms of the human eye uses the pattern of color names applied to small, brief, dim, monochromatic flashes.
(9) The scotopic visibility curves of two observers have been measured by determining their absolute thresholds for monochromatic lights and by direct comparison matching just above the threshold, in a 10 degree field with its centre 15 degrees above the fixation point.
(10) The patient developed an immediate type of skin reaction with erythema and whealing following monochromatic irradiation at 400 nm, but did not have any abnormal immediate skin reaction after exposure to natural sunlight.
(11) The kinetics for the quantitatively important reaction: (Formula: see text) that is, the photochemical interconversion between bilirubin and its geometric and structural photoisomers bound to human serum albumin in aqueous solution when various wavelengths of monochromatic light were used, were assayed by h.p.l.c.
(12) Monochromatic infrared gas spectrometers cannot identify volatile agents.
(13) Experimental conditions were as similar as possible to those used in a separate study in which psychophysical absolute thresholds were measured: large, dim, monochromatic spots 1 sec in duration were projected close to the right eye of alert, self-respiring goldfish.
(14) The method consists of the determination of the spectral characteristics of different elements of interest and selective monochromatic illumination of a microscopic field followed by image analysis.
(15) by measurement of the blackness of a film without creen exposed to a well-defined monochromatic ray.
(16) However, samples that contain a large number of compounds often result in overlapping peaks, and for such samples, it has been found that the spectral selectivity of monochromatic emission selection reduces the interference due to compounds eluting near the compounds of analytical interest.
(17) Changes in Q were determined from Q = k X Vmax X D2, where Vmax is the center line red blood cell velocity measured from temporal veins by laser Doppler velocimetry, D is the vessel diameter obtained by monochromatic fundus photography, and k is a constant of proportionality.
(18) After an infrared stimulus from a carbon dioxide laser, which has a monochromatic output at 10.6 micrometers, we find evoked potentials in boas with chronically implanted electrodes.
(19) (3) The effect is greater for monochromatic lights of wavelengths in the shorter region of the spectrum.
(20) As illumination level increased, the ability to discriminate wavelength differences deteriorated for the blue cone monochromats, whereas, for the deutan achromats, wavelength discrimination remained relatively constant even near 100,000 scotopic trolands.