(superl.) Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder.
(superl.) Clamorous; boisterous.
(superl.) Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort.
(superl.) Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors.
(adv.) With loudness; loudly.
Example Sentences:
(1) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
(2) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
(3) This was followed by loud applause for Gündogan and De Bruyne, when each was later taken off.
(4) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
(5) Clinical measurements of the loudness discomfort level (LDL) are generally performed while the subject listens to a particular stimulus presented from an audiometer through headphones (AUD-HP).
(6) From a set of tones that varied only in intensity, it was possible to calculate the growth of loudness with intensity for the budgerigar.
(7) The footballer said the noise of the engine was too loud to hear if Cameron snored but his night "wasn't the best".
(8) To produce intramodal arousal, normal subjects also had EEG recordings made during the random sounding of a loud bell.
(9) The vocalight lights up a variable number of light-emitting diodes depending upon the loudness of sounds received at a hydrophone within the suction cup.
(10) At one point, shortly after Suárez had given them a 3-0 lead, a loud cry had gone up from the Liverpool end of "We're going to win the league".
(11) Oestrous and dioestrous rats were observed during the initial 2 min of open-field exposure, and after a loud bell had sounded.
(12) We are not doing it as loudly, we're not embracing it quite as much, but the fact of the matter is we do need a much more stimulative fiscal policy."
(13) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(14) Voice control, a punishment technique based on loud commands, has been used widely in pediatric dentistry.
(15) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
(16) In this experiment, observers were asked to match the loudness of partially masked test-tone bursts in one ear by adjusting the level of unmasked bursts presented to the other ear.
(17) But the evidence from the nation at large is loud and clear.
(18) A loudness meter that combines the spectral shapes of different sounds to produce an overall perceived magnitude offers greater promise.
(19) More important, however, context simultaneously affected the degree of loudness integration as measured in terms of matching stimulus levels.
(20) He's been speaking loudly, then realising the other customers had begun to listen in to what he was saying, he lowers it again, before continuing: – There were military planes flying low over the forest.
Loup
Definition:
(n.) See 1st Loop.
Example Sentences:
(1) The weight of a complete binocular prism loupe, including the frame, is from 100 to 110 grammes.
(2) With the capsid and membrane proteins, the degree of homology between louping ill and the western subtype was greater than that between the two subtypes, indicating very close evolutionary relationships between louping ill and the western subtype of tick-borne encephalitis.
(3) For superficial lesions located near eloquent areas, a 'centered' craniotomy is performed, usually under local anesthesia, and removal is performed using loupe magnification, bipolar coagulation ultrasonic aspiration of the Nd:YAG laser fiber in the contact or noncontact technique.
(4) To aid the partially sighted in writing on small areas, such as bank drafts, a clip-on eyeglass loupe (11 diopters, 3.5 inches, Bausch and Lomb) attached to a finepoint felt pen provides adequate vision.
(5) A magnifying loupe system has been evaluated for use in emergency medicine.
(6) A macroscopic technique was used by 9.5% of the responding urologists, loupes were used by 58.5% and an operating microscope by 32%.
(7) For the purpose of understanding the influence of the use of magnifying loupes on the reading process, the reading field is a relevant concept.
(8) Most difficulties in reading with a magnifier, especially finding the beginning of a new line, appear to result from the need to move the loupes horizontally in order to read the complete line of text.
(9) The Keplerian loupes allowed the physician to visualize the exquisite details of wound configuration and to perform wound closure using microsurgical techniques.
(10) Louping ill virus, a tick-borne arbovirus readily established a persistent infection in porcine kidney (PS) cells after initially inducing minor cytopathic changes.
(11) For the dermatologist a binocular loupe with magnification of 3X to 4X appears to be the most useful diagnostic magnifying device.
(12) Technique for the use of loupe or microscope magnification can also be developed.
(13) In this series, no loupe or operating microscope was used.
(14) Dissection of both vessels can be done with x2.5 ocular loupes.
(15) Seven arteries in 7 grafts were reconstructed with the use of loupe magnification in the Loupe group, while 8 arteries in 7 grafts were anastomosed with microscopic techniques in the Micro group.
(16) Nevertheless, it was possible to differentiate the Skalica strain from Langat, louping-ill and Omsk haemorrhagic fever (OHF) viruses by ELISA when monoclonal antibodies and antigens were diluted 1:10,000.
(17) Louping ill disease should not be forgotten in cases of unexplained encephalitis in those whose lifestyle exposes them to the virus.
(18) The procedure does not require the operating microscope and can be done under standard loupe (1.5 to 3.0 x) magnification.
(19) Its optic properties greatest possible distance from the work which can be varied with additional lenses, variable magnification even into the region of the smallest biomicroscopes with a relatively large angle of vision, good mobility with regard to the object of vision with unchanged adjustment, simultaneous possibility of using semispectacles for presbyopia and easy swinging of the instrument out of and into the line of vision with one hand movement make this instrument very appropriate for the reasons for which it was developed and makes possible also - especially in the surgery of injured eyes, exact observation and assessment of the eye and performance of operations where no operating microscope is present with much greater magnification as that obtained with a customary loupe.
(20) Sera of wild red deer from 16 localities in Scotland were tested by the indirect fluorescent antibody technique for antibody to Babesia and by the haemagglutination inhibition test for antibody to the virus of louping-ill. Babesial antibody was detected in sera from all localities in proportions ranging from 22 to 100 per cent.