(n.) The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.
(n.) A match at cockfighting.
(n.) A main-hamper.
(v.) Strength; force; might; violent effort.
(v.) The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.
(v.) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.
(v.) The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.
(v.) principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main.
(a.) Very or extremely strong.
(a.) Vast; huge.
(a.) Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.
(a.) Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.
(a.) Important; necessary.
(a.) Very; extremely; as, main heavy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(2) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
(3) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(4) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(5) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(6) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
(7) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(8) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(9) Immunofluorescence analysis of Pr-28 antigen showed that the antigen was localized mainly in perinuclear cytoplasm.
(10) The main result of the correspondence analysis is a geometric map of this relationship showing how the relative frequencies of headache types change with age.
(11) Myocardial ischaemia was induced in perfused rabbit hearts by ligating the left main coronary artery.
(12) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
(13) Statistically significant differences were found mainly in the randomized trial, where during the first and second years, respectively, adenoidectomy subjects had 47% and 37% less time with otitis media than control subjects and 28% and 35% fewer suppurative (acute) episodes than control subjects.
(14) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
(15) In four main regions the conservation varied from 83-91% while in the remaining regions the homology dropped to between 56-62%.
(16) In the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus (Vc), the collaterals of one half of the periodontium afferent fibers terminated mainly in lamina V at the rostral and middle levels of Vc.
(17) Loratadine has one main metabolite, descarbethoxyloratadine, which is four times more active than the parent drug.
(18) The structures of 1 and 2 were established mainly on the basis of nmr spectroscopic data.
(19) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
(20) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
Undivided
Definition:
(a.) Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; continuous; as, plains undivided by rivers or mountains.
(a.) Not set off, as a share in a firm; not made actually separate by division; as, a partner, owning one half in a firm, is said to own an undivided half so long as the business continues and his share is not set off to him.
(a.) Not directed or given to more than one object; as, undivided attention or affection.
(a.) Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire.
Example Sentences:
(1) mycoides cluster' at a similarity level (S) of 66% and which remained undivided at up to 78% S. At higher similarity levels, these strains fell heterogeneously into mixed sub-phenons containing strains of both subspecies.
(2) The performance with the affected limb improved over the 3-month time period and reached a level of performance that was not significantly different from that of the unaffected limb for either the undivided or divided attention task.
(3) His technique was based on limited opening of the left side of the chest directly over the common or undivided pulmonary artery and encircling the proximal aorta and pulmonary artery together through the transverse sinus of the pericardium.
(4) Under nonpermissive conditions, mcm3-1 exhibited a cell cycle arrest phenotype, arresting at the large-bud stage with an undivided nucleus that had a DNA content of nearly 2n.
(5) The differentiation of undivided cells in stg embryos is not restricted to the peripheral nervous system; in all types of tissues analyzed in this study (e.g., epidermis, intestine, muscle, CNS), precursor cells express characteristics normally exhibited by their progeny.
(6) Not to mention the impact it would have on the comfortable life he has so far enjoyed – private education, lots of holidays and my undivided time and attention.
(7) Khizr Khan paid tribute to his late son, Cpt Humayun Khan, who was killed by a car bomb in 2004, and described his family as “patriotic American Muslims with undivided loyalty to our country”.
(8) By contrast, LETS is minimally exposed on undividing, relatively disperse old cells.
(9) The operation consists of three parts: (1) end-to-side anastomosis of the superior vena cava to the undivided right pulmonary artery; (2) construction of a composite intraatrial tunnel with the use of the posterior wall of the right atrium; and (3) use of a prosthetic patch to channel the inferior vena cava to the enlarged orifice of the transected superior vena cava that is anastomosed to the main pulmonary artery.
(10) But in the process of painting her, says Celia, maybe she finally managed to claim the undivided attention she had missed as the fourth of five daughters.
(11) Multiple states of differentiation developed within the same undivided egg cytoplasm of ascidian zygotes cleavage-arrested with cytochalasin B.
(12) Therefore, a median furrow in the external hairy skin of the upper lip, found in some platyrrhine monkeys, could be a rudiment of a cleft, indicating that a kind of a split lip condition was ancestral to the undivided lips of platyrrhine monkeys.
(13) Undivided atrioventricular valve leaflets were sandwiched between the two patches.
(14) The relative movement is the difference of the mean DNA fluorescence of the labeled undivided cells from the G1 channel relative to the difference between the G1 and G2M channels.
(15) A modified shunt from the divided end of the superior vena cava to the side of the undivided right pulmonary artery utilized in 21 patients is described.
(16) Republican senators introduce bill to move US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem Read more However, while other presidential candidates, including Bill Clinton and George W Bush, also promised to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, they backed away once in office and deferred implementation of the 1995 congressional Jerusalem Embassy Act , which recognises Jerusalem as Israel’s “undivided” capital and calls for relocating the US embassy there.
(17) Because the centromere remains undivided until anaphase, it cannot undergo the later stage of condensation found in the chromosome arms after separation into chromatids, and therefore the centromere remains as a constriction.
(18) The effects of these dividers on feeding, extending head out of the cage front and agonistic behaviour were compared with undivided areas.
(19) One species (Ceratophrys cranwelli) shows undivided bladed monocuspid teeth.
(20) The invariable absence of septation of the ventricular infundibula and semilunar valves, in spite of the variable anatomy of the free wall of the conus, indicates that all types of truncus arteriosus, ontogenetically, should be considered as a single undivided conotruncus.