(a.) Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story.
(a.) Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; -- followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to rain.
(a.) Similar; like; alike.
(a.) Such as suits; good-looking; pleasing; agreeable; handsome.
(a.) Having such qualities as make success probable; well adapted to the place; promising; as, a likely young man; a likely servant.
(adv.) In all probability; probably.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(2) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(3) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(4) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(5) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(6) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(7) 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.
(8) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(9) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
(10) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(11) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
(12) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(13) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(14) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(15) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
(16) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(17) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(18) But at the same time I didn't feel like, 'Aw, I'm home!'
(19) "They wanted to pass it almost like a secret negotiation," she said.
(20) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
Plausible
Definition:
(a.) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
(a.) Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion.
(a.) Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doctors may plausibly make special claims qua doctors when they are treating disease.
(2) The ordered aspect of the genetic code table makes this result a plausible starting point for studies of the origin and evolution of the genetic code: these could include, besides a more refined optimization principle at the logical level, some effects more directly related to the physico-chemical context, and the construction of realistic models incorporating both aspects.
(3) It seeks to acquaint them with 'ethical' arguments against their work which, because they are simple and plausible, persuade many people.
(4) This algorithm is not only efficient for the recognition of order and disorder in "machine vision", but also plausible in biological visual perception.
(5) For the lysozyme-catalyzed hydrolysis of cell-wall proteoglycan three plausible mechanisms of substrate inhibition can be postulated.
(6) The pathogenesis of the prolific mite population is unclear, but either a specific immunologic deficit or the inability to effectively eliminate the mites by scratching is a plausible possibility.
(7) Now 31, England captain and a respected veteran of the game, she's seen plausible, semi-professional wages become a part of women's football – finally – and can currently expect to earn about £25,000 a season.
(8) A debate in 1998 in International Security magazine saw the Chicago academic, Robert Pape, barely challenged in his view that only around five of the 115 cases of sanctions imposed since the war could claim any plausible efficacy.
(9) The only plausible response is an appeal regarding the likely side effects and exploitation of the system, but that is something that could be tested with controlled pilot studies, and safeguards could be put in place.
(10) On the basis of a comprehensive review of the literature, it is shown that among all the locally employed NSAIDs, kinetically reliable and plausible evidence of therapeutic effectiveness is, at present, available only for indomethacin, diclofenac, salicylic acid salts and ibuprofen.
(11) The comparative risks of these exposures are computed and the plausibility of the relative risks is examined by comparing the equivalent doses with actual measurements of exposure taken in the homes of smokers.
(12) In other cases no localization occurred, and we suggest plausible reasons for this failure and modifications of imaging technique to improve the performance.
(13) Based on the results obtained with the in vitro assay system and from a consideration of data currently in the literature, plausible schemes for ferritin and bacterioferritin iron uptake and release are described.
(14) The findings also cast doubt on the idea that sex-related differences in spatial ability could be caused by sex differences in timing of puberty or lateralization, although other biological mechanisms remain plausible.
(15) The most plausible explanation for the difference in the endocrine response of islet cells in the two types of widely used in vitro systems is that the alpha and beta cells have lost inhibitory receptors in the plasma membrane as a result of the collagenase isolation technic.
(16) The objective is to comment on some plausible mutual implications of generally attested pathologies and normal models of lexical retrieval for production, particularly with respect to the roles of semantic and syntactic categories.
(17) However, the cost-benefit ratio under a range of plausible assumptions remains extremely high--in the region of six to one to 30 to one, or even higher.
(18) They give no biologically plausible explanation for a cause and effect.
(19) Semantically congruent situations consisted of adjective-noun pairs that were not highly predictable but were nonetheless plausible (e.g., GOOD-AUNT).
(20) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.