(Superl.) Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interphase death thus involves a discrete, abrupt transition from the normal state and is not merely the consequence of progressive and degenerative changes.
(2) By way of major complications, merely one perforation occurred.
(3) Indeed, the nationalist and religious right bloc merely held steady , gaining just one seat.
(4) A brief review of the last decade or so of developments in health politics, policy and law suggests that health is no longer a field of mere "dynamics without change."
(5) The view that testes found lateral to the external ring and which could be pushed some way into the scrotum were merely retractile was questioned.
(6) In these three patients, laxity of the knee in flexion was so severe that posterior instability could not be corrected merely by patellar relocation.
(7) It has so far returned a mere $6m (£3.6m) of its relatively meagre $28m (£17.1m) budget, according to Forbes, a percentage of just 21%.
(8) In the literature this disease is presented merely as a metastasis.
(9) The plasmid-encoded activity does not merely replace the RecBCD enzyme failure but differs in several significant ways.
(10) Furthermore, changes between merely perceived identical parts can result in apparent depth.
(11) Thus, the long stalks of Sk1 or phosphate-starved caulobacters are not merely a function of their longer doubling times.
(12) Exogenous macromolecular DNA was able to repair, to an important degree the radiotoxic effect of 3H-thymidine on V79 cells by a mechanism other than the mere reduction of specific activity of 3H-thymidine.
(13) Multiple contacts between the gamma-subunit and calmodulin (delta-subunit), as indicated by our data, may help to explain why strongly denaturing conditions are required to dissociate these two subunits, whereas complexes of calmodulin with most other target enzymes can be readily dissociated by merely lowering Ca2+ to submicromolar concentrations.
(14) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
(15) The charity Bite the Ballot , which persuaded hundreds of thousands to register before the last general election, is to set up “democracy cafes” in Starbucks branches, laying on experts to explain how to register and vote, and what the referendum is all about (Bite the Ballot does not take sides but merely encourages participation).
(16) These outcomes further supported the conclusion that the contextual stimuli exerted true conditional control over conditional relations in the equivalence classes and were not merely elements of compound stimuli.
(17) A mere glance at the time courses shows what reaction schemes are inapplicable.
(18) Since the discovery of the antidepressant effects of interventions in the sleep-wake cycle, a number of hypotheses have emerged according to which disturbances in sleep physiology are not merely expressions but essential components of the pathophysiology of depression.
(19) In a Facebook post , the songwriter and activist claims that Swift has merely chosen sides in the battle between Google and Spotify, saying that the singer was trying to “sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers”.
(20) It is assumed that one function of grooming behaviour may be a merely cleansing one.
Whelp
Definition:
(n.) One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps.
(n.) A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt.
(n.) One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass.
(n.) One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.
(v. i.) To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey.
(v. t.) To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pancreatic secretion was evaluated in eight pregnant female mongrel dogs prepared with Thomas duodenal and gastric fistulae, during pregnancy (corresponding to the third trimester in humans), during the puerperium, and several months after whelping.
(2) One of seven female coyotes (Canis latrans) captured in Webb County, Texas during September 1986 and confined and mated in holding facilities at Millville, Utah whelped the following spring.
(3) After all pups were whelped, each dog was euthanatized and necropsied, and the testis and epididymis were examined microscopically.
(4) Further consideration is given to its use to estimate the time of ovulation retrospectively and estimate the time of whelping prospectively.
(5) Large cells, probably of uterine symplasma origin, were observed in vaginal lavages following whelping or pseudopregnancy.
(6) Final body weight (FBW) of the whelps was to be predicted from their body weight (BW) in early August (r = 0.689).
(7) They are, however, expected to announce a deal for the Norwegian whelp Martin Odegaard any time now.
(8) It is probable that all breeds of dogs are at risk for these or other traits that influence whelping and neonatal care.
(9) Six bitches were sampled daily, for 10 days, before whelping and then, together with four puppies per litter, at whelping (day 11) and at 1 and 7 days thereafter.
(10) In a second experiment, female mink were provided diets containing 20 ppm ZEN, 20 ppm ZEN plus 0.5% HSCAS or a control diet from 1 January 1989 through whelping (25 April to 15 May 1989).
(11) The malformation rate from two cohorts of females whelping at different times of the year was low (less than 1.0%) and not significantly different.
(12) This included proportion of mink breeding (47 to 100%), proportion giving birth (33 to 80%), and average litter size (2.6 to 4.0 kits per whelping female).
(13) Finally, morphometric analyses revealed a significant increase in epithelial and connective tissue compartment thicknesses, as well as a marked increase in the volume fraction occupied by glands between 1 day and 161 days after dogs were whelped.
(14) Enzyme activities in bitches' serum remained within the normal range for adult dogs throughout whelping and lactation.
(15) Herpesvirus was isolated from the brain, lung, liver, spleen, kidney and intestine of one of the affected litter which died on day 10 after whelping.
(16) A smaller decrease in all 3 measures occurred between 161 and 337 days after the dogs were whelped.
(17) Beagle pups were delivered by cesarean section six days before their predicted whelping date and exposed to an alternating protocol of asphyxial episodes known to produce IVH.
(18) Both veterinary surgeon and dog breeder should be involved in assessing the whelping capability of brood bitches as one essential point in the selection of sound stock.
(19) The fifth bitch did not have elevated progesterone during the induced estrus, and upon return to estrus one month later was successfully bred and whelped a normal litter of 10 pups.
(20) Ip treated dogs whelped 5 pups; im 7 pups; and sc, 5 pups.