(a.) Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks.
Example Sentences:
(1) From these results, BM-Eo are naive and seem to be a good indicator for eosinophilotaxis and its modulation.
(2) Rats were divided into four groups: drug naive controls; HAL-treated for 6 months; AMPH-treated for 1 month; and rats administered both continuous HAL for 6 months and concurrent AMPH treatment during the 2nd month of HAL administration.
(3) Three experiments in person perception were conducted to investigate the conditions under which naive observers label an actor as aggressive and to ascertain how this label affects the reactions of the observers to the actor.
(4) One group of rats was made immunocompetent towards P. aeruginosa by intraperitoneal injection of phenol-killed P. aeruginosa while a second group remained naive to this organism.
(5) But pollsters said that even if the president's worst failing was to have been naively taken in, being hoodwinked by a tax-evader he appointed to one of the country's most important jobs would be hugely damaging for his presidential standing and authority.
(6) It is at present unclear whether this discrepancy is due to the preferential clonal selection of a pre-existing subpopulation of naive B cells that express variable regions altered via nucleotide replacement, or whether the process of nucleotide replacement occurs only during the antigen-dependent stages of B cell differentiation.
(7) In naive cows, strain 433.31 induced less exudation of plasma into the milk, shedding of bacteria, macroscopic alteration, and a lower somatic cell count (SCC) than did the reference strain.
(8) Those transmitted orally to naive hamsters developed in the normal way.
(9) We also found that the frequency of self-reactive but not alloreactive IL-2-producing T cells in the spleens of infected mice was 3- to 10-fold higher than that in naive mice.
(10) IgE helper activity by naive T cells was inhibited by IL-2.
(11) Primed Ts populations that were alloantigen restimulated for 8 hr adsorbed TsDF in a cell dose-dependent fashion and produced TsF in response to that adsorption, whereas alloantigen-stimulated naive cells or primed but nonrestimulated cells neither responded to nor bound TsDF.
(12) PKC was partially purified from the CA1 region of hippocampal slices from naive, pseudoconditioned, and conditioned rabbits 24 hr after the rabbits were well conditioned.
(13) Basal serum amino acids (including central monoamine precursors), central monoamines, and hormones were studied in schizophrenic patients (drug-naive; n = 20; drug-withdrawn for 3 or more days, n = 67; neuroleptic-treated, n = 23) and healthy subjects (n = 90) to answer the following questions: (1) Do neuroleptic-withdrawn and neuroleptic-naive patients differ on these serum measures?
(14) In contrast, rat erythrocyte-primed spleen cells suppressed both a primary 2,4,6 trinitrophenyl (TNP) response and anti-erythrocyte autoantibody production (but not anti-rat erythrocyte antibodies) upon transfer to naive recipients and challenge with TNP-rat erythrocytes.
(15) Animals still immune 6 weeks after immunization were found to have mucin profiles which did not differ significantly from those of freshly immunized animals, whereas animals susceptible to re-infection 12 weeks after immunization had mucin profiles more closely resembling those seen in naive controls.
(16) The cerebellar membrane GABA receptor complex was also studied with binding experiments using naive AT and ANT rats.
(17) These observations also suggest that the Leu8- and DR+ T cells with increased adhesion molecules might preferentially migrate into inflammatory tissues, and that naive T cells are being further converted to to memory T cells by in vivo stimulation within the tissues.
(18) Asked whether she could promise customers that such an attack would never happen again, Harding said: “No, that would be naive.
(19) Mean arterial blood pressure in dives was unchanged from pre-dive levels in both naive and trained dabbling ducks.
(20) In naive Cartesianism this assertion starts out from the assumption that illness may develop solely from physical causes.
Rookie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Now he can look forward to a rookie contract worth millions.
(2) A lot is being expected of rookie cornerbacks Desmond Trufant and Robert Alford, but defensive co-ordinator Mike Nolan has a good track record of keeping his units competitive.
(3) The American actor played sinister rookie methylamine chemist Todd Alquist in the final season of Breaking Bad.
(4) The Rangers hit the ice looking to leverage their home advantage, and with 18,006 behind them, the plan was to pepper the rookie goalie Dustin Tokarski.
(5) If the stakes were high a year ago, when rookie vice-chairman Ed Woodward said Moyes was "cut from the same cloth as the Old Trafford greats who go before him", now they are that much higher still.
(6) Manager Mike Scioscia may have one-time slugger Josh Hamilton back in time for the postseason, should he heal from rib inflammation ( if they even need him ); same goes for starting pitcher Matt Shoemaker, who has carried the team down the stretch and is recovering from a mild left rib-cage strain , not to mention his rookie hazing role as a Saudi oil tycoon.
(7) Even more so if "rookie" Hyun-jin Ryu doesn't get his act together tonight - the first Korean pitcher to start in the playoffs looked nothing like the impressive hurler he was in the regular season, getting hit hard by the Braves in the NLDS.
(8) Colorado’s MLS rookie of the year candidate, Dillon Powers, clashed heads nastily with Seattle’s Zach Scott and has been out since with concussion symptoms.
(9) So little, in fact, that the strategy implemented under Mayor Emanuel – sending extra officers (all rookies) to walk beats in the most violent areas – has not had the desired effect.
(10) The A’s pitcher Dallas Braden, then a rookie, certainly wasn’t happy with Rodriguez’ conduct – as you can see here.
(11) The World Cup winner and World Cup star respectively could not have taken kindly to being overlooked for a callow rookie.
(12) Faced with a rookie goalkeeper for the whole of the second half they barely tested his shot-saving ability.
(13) A get a rookie phenom on the bench in Xander Bogaerts just waiting to come in and turn the series on its head, piles of starting pitching, boatloads of bullpen talent, a Cardinals team capable of scoring in droves without hitting homers and a Boston lineup that bullied the AL all season long by racking up over 850 runs, even if they haven't scored many lately .
(14) Myers holds up at third and it looks a little bit like the rookie pitcher isn't as comfortable as he may have alluded to in his pre-game quote.
(15) In his rookie year with the Rangers, 2005, he went 1-7 with a 6.94 ERA.
(16) His backup, Daryl Richardson, is inactive, meaning that rookie Bennie Cunningham should see some action in relief of Stacy.
(17) Sir Alex Ferguson finds himself outdone by the rookie in the other dug-out but everyone else who has contended for prizes this season has suffered the same experience against Barcelona.
(18) I wrote about the wide-eyed optimism that rookie comedians come north with; the joy of spending time necking lager in the same drinking holes as your heroes; the elation of hearing the first laugh of the summer; the sadness of leaving your venue for the last time; the friends you make; the haunts you start to call your own; the feeling of finding your place in this mystical world; and the certainty that this is where you must be in August – that you must not go on a nice holiday or find paid work or attend a wedding or do up your chaotic flat instead.
(19) The rookie shortstop boots it, bobbles it, picks it up and fires home and nails Angel Pagan who is trying to trot home!
(20) A fine run by the rookie who will be feeling good after donating the Packers first seven points just minutes ago.