(superl.) Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
(superl.) Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
(superl.) Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of.
(superl.) Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
(superl.) Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
(superl.) Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
(superl.) Unconnected; rambling.
(superl.) Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
(superl.) Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
(superl.) Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
(n.) Freedom from restraint.
(n.) A letting go; discharge.
(a.) To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
(a.) To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
(a.) To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
(a.) To solve; to interpret.
(v. i.) To set sail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
(2) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
(3) This study investigates the use of the incentive inspirometer to observe the effects of tight versus loose clothing on inhalation volume with 17 volunteer subjects.
(4) Security forces have also tried to wrest back the Sunni stronghold of Tikrit from a loose alliance of Isis fighters, other jihadist groups and former Saddam Hussein loyalists.
(5) His shot, though, was pawed on to the inside of the post by David Marshall and it was left to Victor Wanyama to lash the loose ball into the empty net.
(6) We had our bicycles and we were just turned loose all day.
(7) Our model is a development of previous models, but differs in several respects: the overall activity is assumed to be dependent on the error level, the effect of errors in the translating system, giving rise to additional errors in the succeeding generation of products, is explicitly included as a special term in our model, and scavenging enzymes are assumed to break down and eliminate products with a loose structure.
(8) Clearance into the mediastinum may be the major pathway for liquid sequestered in the loose, binding connective tissue.
(9) Two tibial components (2%) were believed to be mechanically loose, but no revisions for mechanical loosening were done.
(10) The results indicate that the optimal cruciform loop size is four bases, with loose 'breathing' at the first base pair at the top of the cruciform stem at 37 degrees C, and little or no opening of base pairs at the four-way junction.
(11) Theresa May’s plan for a loose alliance with the Democratic Unionists to prop up her government was thrown into confusion on Saturday night after the Northern Ireland party contradicted a No 10 announcement that a deal had been reached.
(12) We have also confirmed loose linkage with the marker (Mfd22, locus D4S171) used to establish the initial assignment of the disorder to chromosome 4.
(13) As demonstrated by Ficoll density gradient centrifugation and HPLC gel filtration, the cholate dialysis method made the reductase bind tightly to the liposomal membranes, while the incubation with the preformed vesicles made the reductase bind loosely to the membranes.
(14) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.
(15) Twenty-one of 24 adult male and female cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis ibis) collected in Geneva County, Alabama had numerous white cyst-like structures (1,466 microns X 354 microns) found within the loose connective tissues of the skeletal muscles of the inguinal region, beneath the serosa of the proventriculus and in the heart beneath the epicardium (one adult male bird).
(16) SCLC variant lines could further be divided into (a) biochemical variant lines having variant biochemical profile but retaining typical SCLC morphology and growth characteristics; and (b) morphological variant (SCLC-MV) lines having variant biochemical profile, altered morphology (features of large cell undifferentiated carcinoma) and altered growth characteristics (growth as loosely attached floating aggregates, relatively short doubling times and cloning efficiencies).
(17) At rostral levels, one third of the tracts are loosely built forming a king of curtain, while they become more compact at caudal levels.
(18) (1) The prerequisite for development of cholesteatoma is a cholesteatoma bed, that is a loose subepithelial connective tissue layer which acts as a nutrient bed and makes papillary growth of squamous epithelium possible.
(19) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
(20) Initially, 4-5 days post-operative, the plasma clot maintained the grafted cells in a loose sponge-like sack at the site of implantation.
Shock
Definition:
(n.) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
(n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
(v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
(v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks.
(n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.
(n.) A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
(n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.
(n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.
(v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
(v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
(v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
(n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
(n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
(a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(2) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(3) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(4) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
(5) It was also shown that after a shock at 44 degrees C teratocarcinoma cells were able to accumulate anomalous amounts of hsp 70 despite hsp 70 synthesis inhibition.
(6) Six of 7 SAO shock rats treated with U74006F survived for 120 min following reperfusion, while none of 7 SAO shock rats given the vehicle survived for 120 min (P less than .01).
(7) The shock resulting from acute canine babesiosis is best viewed as anemic shock.
(8) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
(9) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
(10) It is unclear if the changes in high-energy phosphates during endotoxin shock cause irreversibility.
(11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
(12) The first method used an accelerometer mounted between the teeth of one of the authors (PR) to record skeletal shock.
(13) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
(14) Induction of both potential transcripts follows heat shock in vivo.
(15) Passive avoidance performance of HO-DIs was, indeed, influenced by the age of the subject at the time of testing; HO-DIs reentered the shock compartment sooner than HE at 35 days, but later than HE at 120 days.
(16) In positive patterning, elemental stimuli, A and B, were presented without an unconditioned stimulus while their compound, AB, was paired with electric shock.
(17) Instead, an antiarrhythmic drug should be administered and another shock of the same intensity that defibrillated the first time should be applied.
(18) Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) have been reported to increase mean arterial pressure in animal models of sepsis and recently have been given to patients in septic shock.
(19) The aim of the present study was to explore the possible role of heat shock proteins in the manifestation of this heat resistance.
(20) Frequency and localization of spontaneous and induced by high temperature (37 degrees C) recessive lethal mutations in X-chromosome of females belonging to the 1(1) ts 403 strain defective in synthesis of heat-shock proteins (HSP) were studied.