(v. t.) To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.
(v. t.) To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.
(v. t.) To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.
(v. t.) To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.
(v. t.) To affirm; to support or defend by argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
(2) Despite their absence, photoreceptors maintained a normal rate of OS assembly.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Nasotracheal intubation has been well established as a method for maintaining an artificial airway in children.
(5) 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.
(6) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
(7) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(8) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(9) Subunits maintained under the above ionic conditions were compared with 30S and 50S particles at low (6 mM) magnesium concentration with respect to the reactivity of individual ribosomal proteins to lactoperoxidase-catalyzed iodination.
(10) Although temazepam was effective for maintaining sleep with short-term use, there was rapid development of tolerance for this effect with intermediate-term use.
(11) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
(12) For enrolled nurses an increase in "Intrinsic Job Satisfaction" was less well maintained and no differences were found over time on "Patient Focus".
(13) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
(14) The difference in the volume of diuresis was maintained after intravenous injection of 20 mg of frusemide.
(15) These levels are sufficient to maintain normal in vivo rates of mRNA and rRNA synthesis, but the average density of packing of polymerases on DNA is considerably less than the maximum density predicted by Miller and Bakken (1972), suggesting that initiation of polymerases of DNA is a limiting factor in the control of transcription.
(16) As total pancreatectomy markedly reduces the pancreatic hormone level, leading to a mortal hypoglycaemia, we attempted to maintain plasma glucose within the normal range by constant I.V.
(17) The resistance of GSA 65 to proteolytic degradation, together with previous immunofluorescence data that indicate the antigen is an integral part of the G. lamblia cyst wall, suggests that this molecule may play a role in maintaining the integrity of the cyst in vivo.
(18) The return of NE to normal levels after one month is consistent with the observation that LH-lesioned rats are by one month postlesion no longer hypermetabolic, but display levels of heat production appropriate to the reduced body weight they then maintain.
(19) The UNTR rats were subjected to a continuous food restriction to maintain body weights equal to those of the TR rats.
(20) During periods of wet steam it was impossible to maintain consistent sterility of the mouse pellets even using a cycle of 126 degrees C for 60 minutes.
Thermostat
Definition:
(n.) A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is desired.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parenterals, sterile preparations intended to be injected in man or animal, should be free from pyrogenic substances which are able to raise the thermostatic setting in the hypothalamus.
(2) Modifications described provide two high temperature thermostats and one low temperature thermostat, which shut the unit down if the temperature limits are exceeded.
(3) Sequential elution conditions are fully programmable by virtue of a 32K BBC microcomputer interfaced with an elution buffer selection valve and a thermostatically controlled column.
(4) A novel incubation device, a thermostatically controlled ultrasonic bath, is used to produce highly uniform enzyme reaction rates.
(5) The requirements of a thermostatic description are introduced; then those of nonequilibrium thermodynamics are added.
(6) It's tempting to turn your thermostat up on colder days.
(7) Change your approach to energy consumption Turn your heating and hot water thermostats down.
(8) The construction facilitates the even distribution of the circulating water, and a thermostatic control allows the temperature to be fixed at any level required.
(9) Thermostatic regulation of tissue temperature is provided by on-off control of the average power supplied independently to each heating jig.
(10) Evidence of complex responses of the "thermostat" at a reptilian level of organization
(11) Since we doubted the accuracy of the measurements made with this device, we compared the values found using this thermometer with values from a conventional mercury thermometer, both in a thermostatic regulated water bath and when used clinically.
(12) It will.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Americans are connecting more and more of their devices – their refrigerators, their thermostats, their cars, their door locks – to the internet.
(13) Connected to a smartphone app, it also lets users control the thermostat when on the go.
(14) The effect of ICV administered TSH on Brobeck's thermostatic hypothesis was evaluated by recording chronological changes in electrical activity of precise loci (POA, VMN and CO) coupled by rectal temperature changes in dogs.
(15) Draught-free homes are comfortable at lower temperatures, so you'll be able to turn down your thermostat, which could save another £55 a year.
(16) Cells freshly seeded into the closed culture flasks or dishes and placed on the metal tray with holes of the thermostat or incubator are seen to form the layer with uneven density: with high density corresponding to the flask bottom regions above the metal and low density corresponding to the flask bottom region above the holes in the tray.
(17) Higher ranges of temperature (38-44 degrees C) were achieved by a thermostatically controlled disc heater.
(18) The transfer of the samples from field conditions to a laboratory was imitated by putting the case with the samples into a thermostat at the temperature of 20 degrees C and 37 degrees C. In the first trial, at the temperature of 20 degrees C, statistically significant changes in pH values were recorded in seven hours.
(19) He was mocked – three decades before global warming became a fashionable concern – for walking around the White House, turning down the thermostats.
(20) The chromatographic system must be stable, and efficient thermostatting is essential.