(a.) To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.
(a.) To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
(a.) To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
(a.) To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
(a.) To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
(a.) To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
(v. i.) To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
(v. i.) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
(v. i.) To frown; to look sullen.
(n.) Cloudiness; gloominess.
(n.) A frowning; sullenness.
Example Sentences:
(1) These factors might account for the lower systemic bioavailability of these compounds.
(2) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(3) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(4) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(5) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
(6) LHRH therapy leads to higher plasma LH levels and a lower FSH in response to an intravenous LHRH test.
(7) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(8) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(9) Spontaneous locomotor activity was lower in naloxone-infused rats on day 3 only.
(10) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(11) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(12) The rate of accumulation of degraded LDL products was lower in collagen gel cultures, but the final levels achieved were the same in the two substrata.
(13) [Ca2+]i exhibited a sigmoidal dependence on [Na+]o. Mg2+, a competitive inhibitor of Na2+-Ca2+ antiport in these cells, antagonized the increase in [Ca2+]i produced by lowering [Na+]o.
(14) Side effect incidence in patients treated with the paracetamol-sobrerol combination (3.7%) was significantly lower than that observed in subjects treated with paracetamol (6.1% - P less than 0.01), salicylics (25.1% - P less than 0.001), pyrazolics (12.6% - P less than 0.001), propionics (20.3%, P less than 0.001) or other antipyretics (17.9% - P less than 0.001).
(15) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(16) Diltiazem monotherapy effectively lowered blood pressure in 60% of patients at 8 weeks.
(17) Thus, our study confirmed that male subjects with a history of testicular maldescent have an increased risk for testis cancer, although the magnitude of this risk was lower than suggested previously.
(18) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
(19) Nicardipine lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure to normal, plasma aldosterone was reduced and serum potassium levels were increased.
(20) The overall recoveries of activated ER following chromatography on DEAE-cellulose were significantly lower than the recoveries of the nonactivated ER, 71 and 85%, respectively.
Sower
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sows.
Example Sentences:
(1) The long-lived fusogenic state induced in spherical-shaped erythrocyte ghosts by electric field pulses (Sowers, A.E.
(2) Classical studies on mutagenesis with prototype mutagens like 2-aminopurine (2-AP) and 5-bromouracil clearly show that mutations can occur by incorporation of deoxynucleotides of tautomeric or ionized (Sowers et al., 1987) bases into newly synthesized DNA (Ronen, 1979; Lasken and Goodman, 1984, Coulondre and Miller, 1977).
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Sower by Eric Gill, at the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London.
(4) We are a messenger of peace, stability and security in the region and the world.” He said that the only people who were not happy were “Zionists, warmongers, sowers of discord among Islamic nations and extremists in the US” and it that “opened new windows for Irans’ engagement with the world”.
(5) Aliquots of the suspensions (microrganism++ + disinfectant) were transferred at regular intervals (1, 3, 5 and 10 minutes) to the two substrates in liquid and solid state, and the growth of microorganisms was followed at 28 degrees C for 48-72 h in the case of yeasts, and for up to 21 days in the case of sower growing fungi.
(6) The electrophoretic freeze-fracture electron microscopy method (Sowers, A.E.
(7) "But I think it's more like the parable of the sower .
(8) It seems possible that a localised, surface exposure of acidic phospholipids may contribute to the 'long-lived fusogenic state' (Sowers, A.E.
(9) A seed sower will help; you can pick up of these little devices for few quid.
(10) Although most readers, in Britain especially, will know him principally for The Scarlet Letter (which sat unread on my father's shelf of "Classics" until one dark November day I started reading it with goggle-eyed disbelief), and so think of its author as the epitome of New England austerity and demon-driven repression, he was, in fact, the most luxuriant of the seed-bed sowers of American literature.
(11) He followed a course where students had to copy plaster casts,” Van Heugten says, “and ended last of the class.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Van Gogh’s The Sower (after Jean-François Millet), 1890.
(12) On histological sections of testes, inhibition of spermatogenesis (manifested by a sower frequency or even absence of tubules producing mature sperm, reduced frequency of tubular cells and their degenerative changes) was observed in almost all males immunized with the higher dose of the conjugate.
(13) In the early years of the 1930s, the sculptor Eric Gill was commissioned to carve an imageof a sower for the entrance hall of Broadcasting House.
(14) In the end, it goes back to the sculpture of the sower.