(n.) An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(2) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
(3) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(4) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(5) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(6) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(7) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(8) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(9) Arthrotomy with continuous irrigation appears to be more effective in decreasing long-term residual effects than arthrotomy alone.
(10) A significant correlation was found between the amplitude ratio of the R2 and the sensitivity ratio of the rapid off-response at short and long wavelengths.
(11) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(12) A novel prostaglandin E2 analogue, CL 115347, can be administered transdermally on a long-term basis.
(13) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(14) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(15) But that's just it - they need to be viable in the long term.
(16) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(17) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(18) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
(19) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
(20) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
Lounging
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lounge
Example Sentences:
(1) The first-floor lounge is decorated in plush deep pink, with a mix of contemporary and neoclassical decor, and an antique dining table and chandelier.
(2) In between the two sets, we slip to the Silverlake Lounge ( foldsilverlake.com ), where Silversun Pickups used to play, to listen to Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, a six-piece that meshes folk rock with the Beach Boys with Yes.
(3) Robert Halfon, a Conservative MP, said the British people would be "very concerned that our country is being used as a transit lounge for alleged war criminals".
(4) 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.
(5) Thankfully, mazot guests can also use the lounge and dining room in the Chalet Les Mazots, a lovely wood-panelled home full of antique chairs, chests and cabinets, built by a family of silk manufacturers from Leon who chose the location for their farm for its south-facing views of Mont Blanc.
(6) Brandishing images of what Virgin "lounges" might look like – similar to a stark yet trendy hotel restaurant – Gadhia admits that her other motto for running the business is "wanting to make everyone better off".
(7) 73 Kloof Street, +27 21 424 6169, onceincapetown.co.za The Backpack Facebook Twitter Pinterest Founder-owners Toni Shina and Lee Harris have created a homely hostel spread across four adjoining houses with cool courtyards and flowery gardens, a chillout lounge, communal kitchen, health-food cafe and terrace bar.
(8) Upstairs there’s a gallery space perfect for rehearsals, talks and live performances, while on the ground floor is a large communal area, with lots of scope for lounging with a cocktail, craft Beavertown beer, or excellent-value wine.
(9) • Meals $5-$11, 17143 D Street, + 1 760 243 9938, no website Great bars 11 The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, Chicago The Green Mill is the place for late-night jazz and cocktails.
(10) Youths lounged in the entrance lobby and ground floor of the city building.
(11) Down at the beach, there’s always a canoe arriving on shore with fresh fish; or you can hide yourself way in the pousada’s meditation lounge, content with a soundtrack of tropical birds.
(12) Each roomy retreat sleeps five, and has a patio and lounge, but only Berghylur backs onto a waterfall.
(13) 'He said he was coming late, so I went upstairs to a lounge bar called the Dragon Fly which is a few doors away.
(14) On the journey there, I tune into an AM broadcast from a famed Mamou Establishment called Fred's Lounge, known for its Saturday morning Cajun dances, before arriving at the Last Farewell to Luke Collins, a DJ and the self-styled 'godfather of zydeco'.
(15) On the right is her rival, Kosciusko-Morizet, known as NKM, 40, a former minister in Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right government, nicknamed "the harpist" ever since she was photographed for Paris Match lounging in a party gown in a forest next to a harp, like some posh wood nymph, in 2005.
(16) There are also connections with the Dark Tower series: the Overlook's Red Eye Lounge, some thematic concepts regarding the use and gathering of psychics, the suggestion that Danny's imaginary friend could be one of the Dark Tower's Twinners.
(17) The breakfast and bar area is a light, informal space, with a big wooden communal table and a small outdoor courtyard, but it’s clear this isn’t a hotel for lounging around in; it lacks the cosy corners and sofas that suck you in at hipper boutique hotels.
(18) Sam Levy's Village offers Zimbabwe's middle class a cocktail lounge, designer watches and a competition to win an iPad mini.
(19) A "news" report on Chris Morris's satirical Brass Eye once summed up a particularly unpleasant sight as resembling "Dante meets Bosch in a crack lounge in hell".
(20) We had just missed Ozzy Osbourne shuffling though the lounge, and then Simon le Bon suddenly couldn't come.