(n.) A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.
(n.) A mass or aggregation of things.
(n.) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
(v. i.) To throw into a mass; to unite in a body or sum without distinction of particulars.
(v. i.) To take in the gross; to speak of collectively.
(v. i.) To get along with as one can, although displeased; as, if he does n't like it, he can lump it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although distributed models yielded improved fits of the data, the distributed and lumped models produced similar estimates of membrane parameters.
(2) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(4) In agreement with the predictions based on a simple lumped-parameters model, we found that Z reached very low values, especially at the frequencies where H had a resonance peak.
(5) The effective electrical geometry under the conditions of control and 0.5 mM PNB sufficient to completely abolish the postsynaptic potential were determined from analyses of the membrane charging curves assuming the lumped-soma-short-cable model.
(6) Examination of the patient revealed 2 lumps detected in the right hemi-scrotum which felt like small testes and did not permit transillumination.
(7) Relief on contributions, national insurance, tax-exempt lump sums and others amounts to a phenomenal £48.4bn a year.
(8) If the abnormal sensation, such as a lump or choking, in the throat was mainly caused by inflammatory changes in the palatine tonsils or their surrounding tissues and conveyed via vagal nerve branches distributing there, the sensation might be reduced by topically injected Impletol (Procaine and caffeine in saline solution), i.e.
(9) Combination with IP degrees increases polyhead formation when head formation is not blocked at a more defective stage but results in a qualitative shift to lump formation in association with gene 22 mutants.
(10) "It really gets my goat when commentators (literally all British ones especially Townsend) complain that Spain don't play with a striker as they 'lack a focal point' or 'don't have any direction', presumably because these commentators would lump it up to the 'big man'.
(11) The degree of observer variation in recording 11 186 items of clinical data from 242 woman who presented complaining of a lump in the breast to a group of 10 surgeons was studied.
(12) It is therefore felt that (1) a cautious attitude is necessary when commenting on FNAC samples until more specific criteria are forthcoming for the diagnosis of this neoplasm; and (2) if cellular atypias are seen in FNAC samples, these should be reported with a recommendation for removal of the breast lump and a detailed tissue examination.
(13) Our analysis of 1051 breast biopsies in West Indian women under the age of 30 y revealed that 99% of the breast lumps were benign.
(14) Kadyrov also gave the happy couple an unusual wedding present – "a five kilo lump of gold".
(15) A female patient presented with a lump in the right parotedeal region.
(16) GCPP includes standardization of both experimental factors (lumped constant, arterialization, purity of tracer, regions of interest, relative rates) and clinical factors (state of the subject, wakefulness, anxiety, gender, course of the disease) in PET performance.
(17) There are clearly lots of nice, benign, kind nuns who'd be a bit miffed to be lumped in with all the others."
(18) The rest of ICD-10, either on the three- or on the four-digit level, has to be grouped into combinations of classes (lumping) to allow compatible conversion to the remaining rubrics of ICPC.
(19) His BBC television career famously came to an end when he thrust a lump of cheese in his commissioning editor's face .
(20) A 39-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital complaining of large breast lump (11.5 X 8.0 cm) and an abnormal nipple discharge.
Sum
Definition:
(n.) The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12.
(n.) A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.
(n.) The principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.
(n.) Height; completion; utmost degree.
(n.) A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.
(v. t.) To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.
(v. t.) To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.
(v. t.) To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(2) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.
(3) It is shown that, by comparison of a reacting mixture at chemical equilibrium with a non-reacting but equally composed one, the sum of the mean concentrations of the reaction products can immediately be taken from optical absorption or from interferometric measurements.
(4) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(5) The norms are reported as "Scaled Score Equivalents of Raw Scores" for each age group and as "IQ Equivalents of Sums of Scaled Scores."
(6) The molar refractivity has been shown to be a superior parameter for the description of the activity of sulphonamides than the sum of electronegativities of atoms making up a heterocyclic substituent in the sulphonamide molecule and molecular weight of the substituent.
(7) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(8) The length of the diaphragmatic wall of the heart in both the right and left ventricle was equal to the sum of the length of the inflow tract and the thickness of the ventricular wall at the apex.
(9) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
(10) This structure is further characterized by approaches of both the carbonyl and the furan O atoms to ring H atoms with separations which are slightly less than the sum of the relevant van der Waals radii.
(11) The amount of gallium in 'blood-free' tissues was measured by correcting for gallium in residual blood and an estimate of intestinal absorption was then made by summing the values for all tissues examined.
(12) Enzyme levels in strains with concurrent mutations in both regulatory genes are considerably higher than the sum of the levels in strains with a cytR or a deoR mutation alone, indicating a certain co-operativity between the two repressor proteins.
(13) Transfer of nonprofessional tasks out of nursing and reduction of tension arising from reduced responsibility of nurses for coordinating activities with ancillary departments are possible explanations for the positive relation between the presence of SUM and professional nurses' satisfaction.
(14) The Soret MCD of the reduced protein is interpreted as th sum of two MCD curves: an intense, asymmetric MCD band very similar to that exhibited by deoxymyoglobin which we assign to paramagnetic high spin cytochrome a3(2+) and a weaker, more symmetric MCD contribution, which is attributed to diamagnetic low spin cytochrome a2+.
(15) In sum, these studies demonstrate the novel phospholipid ceramide 1-phosphate in HL-60 cells and suggest the possibility that a path exists from sphingomyelin to ceramide 1-phosphate via the phosphorylation of ceramide.
(16) During bilateral displacements, the activity induced by the respective contralateral leg is linearly summed or subtracted, depending on whether the legs are displaced in the same or in opposite directions.
(17) Binaural difference waves (BDWs), obtained by subtracting the sum of two monaural BAEPs from a binaural BAEP, were obtained in 16- to 20-day-old jaundiced Gunn rats before and after injection of sulfadimethoxine, which produces bilirubin neurotoxicity by promoting net transfer of bilirubin out of the circulation into brain tissue.
(18) The index was calculated by dividing the sum of the count rates over both knees and both wrists by the dose of technetium given.
(19) A "peeling" technique was used to estimate the time constants (tau 0 and tau 1) and coefficients (a0 and a1) of the first two exponential terms of the series of exponential terms whose sum represented the slope of the voltage response.
(20) To determine the effectiveness of nitroglycerin, alone or with phenylephrine, during AMI in man, 12 patients (five or whom had left heart failure) were evaluated by summing ST-segment abnormalities (sigmaST) from 35 precordial electrodes.