(a.) Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trump’s appeals to African American voters received a lukewarm response inside the Washington County Fair Conference Center on Tuesday evening.
(2) Although several other countries are lukewarm about renewing or extending sanctions against Moscow or the Russian separatists, diplomats said there were no other dissenters on the statement, which squarely held Russia to blame for facilitating the Mariupol attack.
(3) He dismissed suggestions that ministers' eventual statements of support had been lukewarm, insisting: "You can read into quotes what you want."
(4) Britain and the US, both of which have strong financial sectors, have always been lukewarm about transaction taxes, arguing that they are impractical and will drive business offshore.
(5) It seems that Italy’s Matteo Renzi, despite his lukewarm support, is alone in fully grasping what is at stake in Greece.
(6) After another lukewarm show of quarterly earnings on Wednesday evening, that's the question both consumers and shareholders have been asking.
(7) The reaction to Osborne's announcement ranged from lukewarm praise to fiery opposition.
(8) In 2001, Howard Katz , an examination of male midlife crisis, sank amid lukewarm reviews.
(9) The Afghan president, who has put lots of his own political capital into seeking negotiations, even if he has always been lukewarm about the Qatar office, appeared to be edging back towards the negotiating table.
(10) The reaction of shareholders can't be described as icy, but Dudley will have hoped for better than lukewarm.
(11) One senior Lib Dem peer told the Guardian that Cable's defence was "lukewarm at best".
(12) Some lukewarm romances and underperforming comedies – Four Christmases, How Do You Know, Water for Elephants, This Means War – as well as the well-intentioned but flawed political thriller Rendition meant that the second half of the 2000s and early 2010s was a largely fallow period.
(13) The angriest say that he was fighting for justice for Serbs during the war; the more "lukewarm" only that he is innocent until proven guilty.
(14) We survived for six hours with only scraps of quality banter, three cans of Rockstar and a lukewarm quarter chicken that my mate Karl smuggled in his Superdry man bag.
(15) The reaction to a call for 30 days of tranquillity to allow people to go home to plant – although it may already be too late for this with the rains starting – was lukewarm: both leaders said they would if the other did, then made it clear they did not trust the other's words.
(16) The romantic comedy has been picking up lukewarm early reviews , by contrast with recent Oscar-winning Allen fare such as 2012's Midnight in Paris and last year's Blue Jasmine.
(17) In the 1979 devolution referendum a wobbly promise made by Alec Douglas Home of a better devolution bill later allowed lukewarm Labour devolutionists – such as present Scottish Labour leader, Johann Lamont – to vote against the Scottish assembly on offer then.
(18) A lukewarm response to Bachmann carried over as Romney's son's took to the stage.
(19) However the Afghan leader, who has long been lukewarm about efforts to set up a Taliban base in Qatar, also called for any negotiations to move back to Afghanistan as soon as possible.
(20) When the two were declared the winners in March's election with 50.03% of the vote, both countries gave only lukewarm congratulations.
Temperature
Definition:
(n.) Constitution; state; degree of any quality.
(n.) Freedom from passion; moderation.
(n.) Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or of boiling.
(n.) Mixture; compound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, volumes, and temperatures of expired gas were measured from the tracheal and esophageal tubes.
(2) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(3) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(4) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
(5) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(6) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
(7) Augmentation of transformation response was generally not seen at 40 degrees C; incubation at that temperature was associated with decreased cellular viability.
(8) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(9) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(10) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
(11) Breast temperatures have been measured by the automated instrumentation called the 'Chronobra' for 16 progesterone cycles in women at normal risk for breast cancer and for 15 cycles in women at high risk for breast cancer.
(12) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(13) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
(14) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
(15) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(16) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
(17) The family history and associated anomalies were recorded and particular attention was paid to temperature gradients and neurocirculatory deficits with respect to band location.
(18) Average temperature changes observed were less than 1 degree C. The present study demonstrates that the electrically evoked response in mammalian brain can be altered by ultrasound in a non-thermal, non-cavitational mode, and that such effects are potentially reversible.
(19) The distance of nucleoid sedimentation increased as a function of exposure temperature and exposure time, and was proportional to an increased protein to DNA ratio in the nucleoids.
(20) Once the temperature rises above 28C, shoppers' behaviour changes in all kinds of ways, according to Jones.