(a.) Of or pertaining to Lithuania (formerly a principality united with Poland, but now Russian and Prussian territory).
(n.) A native, or one of the people, of Lithuania; also, the language of the Lithuanian people.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
(2) Most repulsively of all, while rehabilitating convicted Nazi war criminals, the state prosecutor in Lithuania – a member of the EU and Nato – last year opened a war crimes investigation into four Lithuanian Jewish resistance veterans who fought with Soviet partisans: a case only abandoned for lack of evidence.
(3) French soprano Natalia Dessay and Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana were invited to perform.
(4) Professor Aleksandravicius calls for a "soft hand", for outsiders to understand how psychologically difficult it is for people to realise that victims can be perpetrators too, to accept that having suffered in the first Soviet rule of 1940-41, "Lithuanians turned on the weakest people of all, the Jews".
(5) Unlike the wave of Polish, Lithuanian and other east European migration since 2004, Romanians and Bulgarians are much more likely to head for London and south-east England rather than be dispersed across the country.
(6) The volte face was a result of Russian blackmail, the Lithuanian president's office said as senior officials in Brussels said Yanukovych was sacrificing the hopes and wishes of most of his countrymen on the altar of Russian money and contracts.
(7) The Post Office is tipping Lithuanian capital Vilnius as the next city break hotspot.
(8) But when the Russians, British and French mark VE Day, their celebrations grate on the Poles, Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians and Czechs.
(9) It heads the Post Office list of emerging destinations based on the back of a 42% surge in sales of its currency (Lithuanian litas) during 2012, and Vilnius looks set to emulate the success of Estonia's Tallinn and the Latvian capital, Riga.
(10) I would like to get English friends, but I can't go around and say, 'Oh, be my friends' … Around us, it's mostly Polish and Lithuanians."
(11) Food behavior was studied in schoolchildren of the same age in the GDR (1602) and in the Lithuanian SSR (720 schoolchildren).
(12) Imagine being a Lithuanian cleaner, for instance, and told that you were part of a swamp, a flood, a ruinous invasion made rhetorically part of something akin, say, to the devastation of the lowlands of Somerset last winter.
(13) Let it be stressed that none of this is about the fine, tolerant, welcoming and hardworking people of the region, among whom I have lived happily for over a decade, in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital.
(14) "I tried, and they said, 'Are you fluent in Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian or Russian?'
(15) She grew up in a Soviet-era Lithuanian town called Elektrenai, before spending a year in Northern Ireland, returning to Lithuania, and then moving to Wisbech four years ago.
(16) One of the accused survivors, Dr Yitzhak Arad (born 1926), a gentle scholar who was founding director of Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust museum, was duped into joining the Lithuanian red-brown commission (to give it legitimacy) before being absurdly accused himself.
(17) Lithuanian prosecutors have also asked to see the full report.
(18) As if that were not bad enough – banning a veteran of the anti-Hitler resistance from parading his medals – in May, a Lithuanian court held that the swastika was not a Nazi symbol after all, but part of "Baltic culture" and therefore could be displayed in public.
(19) In respect to sex, the disease is more frequently diagnosed in women, the incidence of which ranges from 53% in Lithuanian SSR to 69.5% in Hungary.
(20) The chemiluminescent signal was registered by means of a special luminometer designed at the Institute of Biochemistry (Lithuanian Acad.
Main
Definition:
(n.) A hand or match at dice.
(n.) A stake played for at dice.
(n.) The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.
(n.) A match at cockfighting.
(n.) A main-hamper.
(v.) Strength; force; might; violent effort.
(v.) The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.
(v.) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.
(v.) The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.
(v.) principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main.
(a.) Very or extremely strong.
(a.) Vast; huge.
(a.) Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.
(a.) Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.
(a.) Important; necessary.
(a.) Very; extremely; as, main heavy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(2) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
(3) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(4) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(5) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(6) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
(7) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(8) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(9) Immunofluorescence analysis of Pr-28 antigen showed that the antigen was localized mainly in perinuclear cytoplasm.
(10) The main result of the correspondence analysis is a geometric map of this relationship showing how the relative frequencies of headache types change with age.
(11) Myocardial ischaemia was induced in perfused rabbit hearts by ligating the left main coronary artery.
(12) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
(13) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(14) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
(15) In four main regions the conservation varied from 83-91% while in the remaining regions the homology dropped to between 56-62%.
(16) In the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus (Vc), the collaterals of one half of the periodontium afferent fibers terminated mainly in lamina V at the rostral and middle levels of Vc.
(17) Loratadine has one main metabolite, descarbethoxyloratadine, which is four times more active than the parent drug.
(18) The structures of 1 and 2 were established mainly on the basis of nmr spectroscopic data.
(19) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
(20) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.