(superl.) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
(superl.) Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil.
(superl.) Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.
(superl.) Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.
(superl.) Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.
(v. t.) To make mellow.
(v. i.) To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, these somewhat mellow headlines mask a year of considerable underlying progress for Mr Clarke and Tesco to our minds.
(2) My wife is ex-Workers Revolutionary Party, so let’s not go there – she’s mellowed a bit down the years!” Whelan was a bright boy who passed the 11-plus and went to grammar school: the Oratory, where Tony Blair sent his children.
(3) I think after those 60 seconds of mellow, we're safely back in Manic mode now.
(4) I hope that with this court ruling China will start to mellow and south-east Asian countries won’t have to live in fear of them anymore.
(5) Add the broth to the pot and briskly simmer the mixture over medium to medium-low heat for about 2 hours for all the flavours to come together and mellow.
(6) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
(7) In the film , we meet a considerably mellower grade of psychopath.
(8) We have obtained expression of the beta-N-acetylglucosamine-binding receptor from chicken hepatocytes in Xenopus oocytes by injecting mRNA synthesized in vitro from a full length cDNA cloned into an expression vector (Mellow et al: J. Biol Chem 263: 5468-5473, 1988).
(9) You don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't see life in a more glowing way.
(10) The 34-year-old CSKA Moscow midfielder may have mellowed off the pitch but on it his will to win remains as strong as ever, as England can expect to discover when the teams meet in Marseille on Saturday night.
(11) The track I’d play at sunset in Ibiza Medina: You And I I always drop this song when I want to mellow out the crowd yet still have them engaged in the melody, as the lyrics are so simple yet effective.
(12) Mellow Birds The British brand brought instant coffee to a tea-drinking nation in the 1970s.
(13) Either mellow or frenetic masking music was played for half the students in each group.
(14) He's a man of mellowness, not ego – far from bitter at the lack of meaty roles, just gently getting on with what he's offered.
(15) Whether these hard times will mellow his external ambitions or fuel further revanchist adventurism is now a key question.
(16) Attitudes toward him have mellowed to the point that well-known Vietnam draft dodger Bill Clinton, in reviewing Caro's latest volume in the New York Times , could write that he found plenty to admire in LBJ and never hated him the way that many of his generation did.
(17) At times he talks with a soft, cooing seduction, mellow in voice and avuncular in manner.
(18) By turn mellow and electrifying, it channels funk's rawness and the warmth of house music into what at first glance appears to be pop, but is actually much more fluid.
(19) "I'm like, fine, take it, let's get it over with," he remembers, his mellow, late-night radio voice at odds with his imposing physique.
(20) And finally we had an appearance by the eminent Lord Grabiner QC on behalf of the Liverpool board, who eased to his feet and held forth in a voice that was smooth, mellow, unhurried and as finely textured as particularly well-aged pipe tobacco.
Relax
Definition:
(n.) To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.
(n.) To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.
(n.) Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.
(n.) To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.
(v. i.) To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.
(v. i.) To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.
(v. i.) To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.
(n.) Relaxation.
(a.) Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.
Example Sentences:
(1) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(2) Arteries treated with atrial natriuretic peptide showed no alterations in relaxation or cGMP content after incubation with pertussis toxin.
(3) For dental procedures requiring tracheal intubation, one could perhaps use non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, like pancuronium, with reversal at the end of the procedure.
(4) In in vitro preparations GABA (10(-7) - 10(-3) M) elicited a dose-dependent relaxation; a decrease in the spontaneous contractions was sometimes observed.
(5) Anaesthesia was achieved by a mixture of oxygen, nitrous oxide and fluothane without use of muscle relaxants.
(6) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(7) Endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine and endothelium-independent relaxations to nitric oxide were observed in rings from both strains during contraction with endothelin.
(8) Relaxation situations are marked by relaxation, usually after a meal.
(9) The rabbits were either breathing spontaneously or were ventilated by a phrenic nerve-controlled servorespirator without the use of muscle relaxants.
(10) For each RG patient, two sex, age, and initial diastolic blood pressure (DBP) matched controls were found, obtaining thus a control group (CG) consisting of 70 hypertensive patients who were not participating in any relaxation program.
(11) Under the condition in which ryanodine (10-100 microM) treatment was found to cause the SR to be nonfunctional, pinacidil relaxation DRC remained unaltered, suggesting a lack of a stimulatory effect of pinacidil on SR Ca++ accumulation.
(12) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
(13) Trimazosin at the dose used and under the conditions of study did not reverse the peripheral pressor effect of angiotensin II or B-HT920 but at higher concentrations, unlike prazosin, it relaxed the K+ contracted thoracic aorta.
(14) The relaxations in response to a nonreceptor-mediated endothelium-dependent vasodilator, A23187, and an endothelium-independent vasodilator, sodium nitroprusside, were not different between normal and diabetic aortas.
(15) Nitric oxide (NO) is a major component of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) the synthesis of which from L-arginine can be inhibited by NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA).
(16) Binding to HSA occurs primarily with the imidazolidine and thiazolidine groups of levamisole as it has been demonstrated by selective changes in the relaxation times and the chemical shifts of the protons attached to the carbon atoms.
(17) We conclude that gastric adaptive relaxation remains abnormal in patients with postvagotomy diarrhoea but not in those who are asymptomatic or who have other symptoms.
(18) Nitric oxide (NO) induced tetrodotoxin-resistant NANC relaxation, similar to that induced by electrical stimulation or acetylcholine (ACh).
(19) Treatment of bacterial cells with inhibitors of gyrase at high concentration leads to relaxation of DNA supercoils, presumably through interference with the supercoiling activity of gyrase.
(20) The kinetics of extracellular neutral proteinase synthesis by an isogenic stringent (IS58) and a relaxed (IS56) strain of B. subtilis were compared.