(n.) A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.
(n.) Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered in writing or printing.
(n.) The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article.
(n.) Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty.
(n.) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc.
(v. t.) To furnish with a margin.
(v. t.) To enter in the margin of a page.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood pressure control was marginally improved during the study and it is thought possible that better patient compliance might explain this.
(2) Nine of the 12 long-term survivors showed lymph node metastasis and six of the 12 revealed cancer cells at the surgical margins.
(3) Fusiform cells were most concentrated along the lateral margin of the subnucleus interpolaris.
(4) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(5) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(6) Computed tomography (CT) is the most sensitive radiologic study for detecting these tumors, which usually are small, round, sharply marginated, and of homogeneous soft tissue density.
(7) Although patients treated with postoperative radiation therapy showed significantly extended survival rates as compared to those receiving surgical resection alone, the glioblastoma recurred within a 2cm margin of the primary site in more than 90% of the patients and conventional external radiation therapy with a doses of 50-60 Gy did not result in local cure.
(8) Such margins would be enough to put the first female president in the White House, but Democrats are guarding against complacency.
(9) When collateral marginal vessels were eliminated, adjacent arterial blood flow decreased to control levels and venous flow virtually stopped.
(10) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
(11) The ruffles of the sub-marginal cells showed different characteristics, being longer and not propagated successively as were the marginal ruffles.
(12) Based on review examination of 224 patients 5 years after their ankle fractures, the authors demonstrate a significant worsening of prognosis with fractures of the anterior or posterior tibial margin.
(13) Chloroquine concentrations were marginally but significantly higher in venous whole blood.
(14) Sialomucin was markedly increased in 17.0 percent of proximal resection margins and 17.3 percent in distal resection margins.
(15) The combined prevention of caries was conductive to improved treatment quality which was accounted for by a 1.5 to 2-fold reduction in the rate of disorders in marginal contact with filling material and secondary caries.
(16) The dietary information on children with diarrhea came from focus groups with mothers in 3 marginal urban communities, 3 rural indigenous communities, and 4 rural Ladino communities.
(17) After 21 days, supragingival and marginal plaque was collected from each subject and assayed for total cultivable microbiota, total facultative anaerobes, facultative Streptococci, Actinomyces, Fusobacterium, Veillonella and Capnocytophaga.
(18) Even when combined with a peripheral-acting BZD, such as Ro5-4608, which displayed only marginal antiproliferative activity against human melanoma cells when applied alone, growth suppression of the combination of this peripheral-type BZD with all three types of IFNs was more than additive.
(19) Suede sang about life on the margins, in council homes.
(20) The most important variable for anastomotic recurrence was mucin histochemical changes at the resection margins according to the Wald statistic value.
Narrowly
Definition:
(adv.) With little breadth; in a narrow manner.
(adv.) Without much extent; contractedly.
(adv.) With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly.
(adv.) With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; -- often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped.
(adv.) Sparingly; parsimoniously.
Example Sentences:
(1) This procedure, using mixed ligand chelate systems, may well be one which is limited to conditions more narrowly similar to those reported by Schubert and Derr (1978).
(2) This confirms that the PLL cells arrested at an advanced stage of differentiation progressed narrowly to more differentiated cells.
(3) Before the debate, most of our focus group expected David Cameron to win narrowly “because he’s best at debates”.
(4) The department of corrections stressed that the two reviews were the initial reports into the execution and were narrowly cast to look specifically at whether the requirements of the state’s death penalty protocol had been complied with.
(5) George Bush, who won Ohio narrowly last time, has been there almost 20 times in the past four years and Vice-President Cheney is on his way this week.
(6) However, marketing has to be understood correctly as a philosophy providing a means of approaching the establishing, maintaining and enhancing patient or customer relationships and not as a narrowly defined set of tools.
(7) Ajax responded with Kolbeinn Sigthorsson shooting narrowly wide and Serero, who had provided Ajax's most potent threat, driving over with 12 minutes left.
(8) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
(9) Tim Krul had already made a splendid save to keep out Agüero, and Dzeko had put another effort narrowly wide, before the early bombardment conjured up the opening goal.
(10) When a woman's work was taken into consideration, it was frequently viewed narrowly as being either present or absent.
(11) The treatment of patients with Wilms' tumour was narrowly coordinated by the program consisting of the surgical extirpation of the tumour, postoperative irradiation of the tumorous area at degrees II, III, IV and V and intensive adjuvant chemiotherapy.
(12) Under control conditions neural activity was narrowly confined to a vertical strip of cortex.
(13) The NBA players dramatically underestimated the speed and skill of their opponents, and are narrowly defeated by the North Koreans in an exhilarating match.
(14) The British historian Simon Schama narrowly escaped death this year when the helicopter he was on caught fire and crash-landed.
(15) For a long time I saw little real merit in English films, which seemed to me too narrowly middle-class in their tastes and subject matter.
(16) Growth is still too weak and its benefits too narrowly focused to make a real difference to those who have been hit hard by the crisis and who are being left behind,” said the OECD’s secretary general, Ángel Gurría.
(17) Having narrowly avoided taking the state into the realm of a free press we should not be intruding on the freedom of worship that is the proper preserve of the church not the courts."
(18) Both broadly and narrowly tuned units were encountered in the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus.
(19) The company has lurched from one crisis to the next over the past two years, including industrial action this spring by the chorus, with a strike only narrowly averted .
(20) In contrast, choline acetyltransferase immunoreactivity was limited to matching subpopulations of amacrine (A14) and displaced amacrine (dA14) cells, ramifying narrowly at 20% and 49% depth levels within the IPL.