(superl.) Of trifling moment; nimportant; trivial.
(superl.) Overscrupulous or exacting; hard to please or satisfy; fastidious in small matters.
(superl.) Delicate; refined; dainty; pure.
(superl.) Apprehending slight differences or delicate distinctions; distinguishing accurately or minutely; carefully discriminating; as, a nice taste or judgment.
(superl.) Done or made with careful labor; suited to excite admiration on account of exactness; evidencing great skill; exact; fine; finished; as, nice proportions, nice workmanship, a nice application; exactly or fastidiously discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice point of law, a nice distinction in philosophy.
(superl.) Pleasing; agreeable; gratifying; delightful; good; as, a nice party; a nice excursion; a nice person; a nice day; a nice sauce, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would be nice if it was more ... but I am trying."
(2) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(3) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tried to liven things up, but there are only so many ways to tell us to be nice to chickens.
(4) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(5) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(6) These can lead to communications blackouts around the Earth and produce aurorae; indeed, there have been several nice displays over recent weeks.
(7) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(8) I started yelling at him to come back,” Brittany Nicely, of Dayton, told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
(9) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(10) This is a very nice drug and I’m sure Merck are feeling very pleased with themselves.” Matt Kennedy, who led the trial at Merck, said: “Today there are very limited therapeutic options available for people with Alzheimer’s disease, and those that exist provide only short-term improvement to the cognitive and functional symptoms.
(11) McCall said the outlook remained uncertain: “The economic and operating environment remains uncertain, following the high levels of disruption and more recently the UK’s referendum decision to leave the EU, as well as the recent events in Turkey and Nice, which have affected consumer confidence.
(12) A young literature student accused him of manipulating the language, and then – at the end – another woman noted that he spoke very nicely before declaring him “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
(13) Legal tax avoidance is something even nice people make decisions about every day.
(14) Nice says the change would be highly cost effective.
(15) Furthermore, the approach provides a nice graphical representation of the relationships between the PK-PD parameters and covariates.
(16) They turned out to be very nice and greatly appreciative of my efforts despite their own grave situation as I’ve since learned is generally the case.
(17) It is so sad, we don’t let her go out even if the weather is nice,” he says.
(18) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(19) Romney contends the president is a nice guy who has failed to make things better.
(20) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
Tid
Definition:
(a.) Tender; soft; nice; -- now only used in tidbit.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the significantly lower relative bioavailabilities for the prolonged-action hydroxymethylnitrofurantoin formulations suggest that Urfadyn PL 100 mg bid and Uridurine 100 mg tid are not pharmacokinetically equivalent to Furadantine MC.
(2) The membrane-reactive, photoactivatable probe 125I-TID [3-(trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[125I]iodophenyl)-3H-diazirine] was found to label the M protein of vesicular stomatitis virus about 40% as much as G protein in intact virions, in agreement with labeling studies with other probes.
(3) The B-cell activity as measured by the anti-dinitrophenyl (DNP) antibody responses to DNP-thymus-independent carriers (TID) was not impaired in tumor-bearing mice as compared with normal mice, whereas the anti-DNP antibody response to DNP-thymus-dependent carriers (TD) and the development of helper T-cell activity to TD were markedly suppressed in tumor-bearing animals or mice pretreated with cell-free cancerous ascitic fluid.
(4) Kinetic profiles were developed in 12 elderly patients (age range: 72-81 yr) after single (12.5 mg) dose and multiple oral dosages (12.5 mg tid for 17 days).
(5) Using [125I]TID-labelled mf-AChE as substrate, radiolabelled diradylglycerol was obtained with both peak activities.
(6) The acute effects of oral enoximone on rest and exercise hemodynamics, ejection fraction, aerobic metabolism, exercise capacity, and arrhythmias were studied in 11 patients with moderate to moderately severe dilative cardiomyopathy after 8 days of enoximone (100 mg tid) in addition to baseline therapy (diuretics and digitalis).
(7) Mean peak serum netilmicin concentration in the od group was approximately two-fold greater than that in the tid group; mean trough serum netilmicin concentrations were similar for the two groups.
(8) A patient presenting a recurrent episode of pulmonary leiomyomatosis has been treated with the LH-RH agonist buserelin at a dosage of 200 micrograms tid SC for 7 days, then 500 micrograms SC daily for a total period of 6 months.
(9) Membrane proteins were radio-iodinated in their hydrophobic cores with the hydrophobic photoactivatable reagent 3 (trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[125I]iodophenyl) diazirine (TID).
(10) Plasma concentrations of indomethacin have been studied in 5 healthy volunteers after single and multiple doses (25 mg intravenously [iv], 25, 50, and 100 mg orally, 100 mg rectally, and 25 mg three times daily [tid].
(11) The streptokinase titrated initial dose (TID) was estimated in 31 2 patients consecutively admitted to a medical department in Oslo.
(12) Furthermore, increasing concentrations of NaCl, decrease the labeling of apo-alpha-lactalbumin with [125I]TID.
(13) Comparable amounts of TID per mg of protein were incorporated into each subunit.
(14) C9 was assembled on liposomes and after photoactivation, several labeled and non-labeled peptides, obtained by chemical and enzymatic cleavage or the 125I-TID-labeled C9, were analyzed.
(15) It is proposed that caution should be applied in the interpretation of [125I]TID labeling patterns of the yeast plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase and that new and diverse approaches should be developed to provide a more definitive topology model.
(16) The captopril group was administered 25 mg tid and increased to 100 mg tid, while the enalapril group began with 5 mg bid and increased to 20 mg bid, depending on the patient's blood pressure (BP) response.
(17) Labeling of PI-PLC-resistant E DAF with 3-(trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[125I]-iodophenyl)-diazirine ([125I]TID) and TLC analysis of nitrous acid deamination anchor fragments showed a predominant phospholipid species with less polar migration than the 125I-TID-labeled PI.
(18) Patients were randomly assigned to receive either placebo or 10, 25 or 50 mg of encainide 3 times daily (tid) for 2 weeks.
(19) Of special interest is the observation that when complete adjuvant containing increasing amounts of mycobacterial components was administered in conjunction with antigen very early in the tolerance induction phase 5 days after TID, it appears to prevent tolerance production.
(20) After randomization 19 treated with L started with 20 or 40 mg at night according to baseline cholesterol under or above 300 respectively and 20 with B received 200 mg tid.