(a.) To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
(n.) An idle gait or stroll; the state of reclining indolently; a place of lounging.
(n.) A piece of furniture resembling a sofa, upon which one may lie or recline.
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.
Relax
Definition:
(n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.
(n.) To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.
(n.) Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.
(n.) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.
(v. i.) To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.
(v. i.) To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.
(v. i.) To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.
(n.) Relaxation.
(a.) Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.
Example Sentences:
(1) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(2) Arteries treated with atrial natriuretic peptide showed no alterations in relaxation or cGMP content after incubation with pertussis toxin.
(3) For dental procedures requiring tracheal intubation, one could perhaps use non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, like pancuronium, with reversal at the end of the procedure.
(4) In in vitro preparations GABA (10(-7) - 10(-3) M) elicited a dose-dependent relaxation; a decrease in the spontaneous contractions was sometimes observed.
(5) Anaesthesia was achieved by a mixture of oxygen, nitrous oxide and fluothane without use of muscle relaxants.
(6) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(7) Endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine and endothelium-independent relaxations to nitric oxide were observed in rings from both strains during contraction with endothelin.
(8) Relaxation situations are marked by relaxation, usually after a meal.
(9) The rabbits were either breathing spontaneously or were ventilated by a phrenic nerve-controlled servorespirator without the use of muscle relaxants.
(10) For each RG patient, two sex, age, and initial diastolic blood pressure (DBP) matched controls were found, obtaining thus a control group (CG) consisting of 70 hypertensive patients who were not participating in any relaxation program.
(11) Under the condition in which ryanodine (10-100 microM) treatment was found to cause the SR to be nonfunctional, pinacidil relaxation DRC remained unaltered, suggesting a lack of a stimulatory effect of pinacidil on SR Ca++ accumulation.
(12) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
(13) Trimazosin at the dose used and under the conditions of study did not reverse the peripheral pressor effect of angiotensin II or B-HT920 but at higher concentrations, unlike prazosin, it relaxed the K+ contracted thoracic aorta.
(14) The relaxations in response to a nonreceptor-mediated endothelium-dependent vasodilator, A23187, and an endothelium-independent vasodilator, sodium nitroprusside, were not different between normal and diabetic aortas.
(15) Nitric oxide (NO) is a major component of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) the synthesis of which from L-arginine can be inhibited by NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA).
(16) Binding to HSA occurs primarily with the imidazolidine and thiazolidine groups of levamisole as it has been demonstrated by selective changes in the relaxation times and the chemical shifts of the protons attached to the carbon atoms.
(17) We conclude that gastric adaptive relaxation remains abnormal in patients with postvagotomy diarrhoea but not in those who are asymptomatic or who have other symptoms.
(18) Nitric oxide (NO) induced tetrodotoxin-resistant NANC relaxation, similar to that induced by electrical stimulation or acetylcholine (ACh).
(19) Treatment of bacterial cells with inhibitors of gyrase at high concentration leads to relaxation of DNA supercoils, presumably through interference with the supercoiling activity of gyrase.
(20) The kinetics of extracellular neutral proteinase synthesis by an isogenic stringent (IS58) and a relaxed (IS56) strain of B. subtilis were compared.