(a.) Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
(a.) The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
(a.) Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a brief survey of applications of video in psychiatry, the author describes the original methodology elaborated by the French-speaking section of the AMDP under the direction of the Liège team: semi-structured interview, combination of a "clinical" analysis of the reasons for a poor interrater-reliability (through one or several "observers" of the discussions which follow a projection) and of a multivariate statistical analysis adapted to single cases (through a modification of the obverse factor analysis or Q-technique), "consensus" item scores and final "reference" rating of a patient.
(2) Testable inferences from this hypothesis are proposed, including the suggestion that clinically and neurophysiologically, schizophrenia and psychosomatic disorders are the obverse of one another.
(3) The enzyme is very thermostable; about 90% of activity remains after being heated at 70 degrees C for 10 min, and no effect of Ca-2's obversed.
(4) The only listing for a piece of paper reads: “1-white piece of paper with BREEZO & tel#329-4789 and unreadable printing on the obverse side.” When contacted by the Guardian, Boyd’s cousin Joe Kelly recalled the slip of paper with the FedEx stamp.
(5) We sought to verify whether the obverse was true, i.e.
(6) This was the obverse of the expected results if ATP4- were to be the sole form of ATP to effect channel closure.
(7) Because it is possible to argue that energetic dirt-digging is the obverse side of the uncovering of genuine scandals."
(8) Middle-class Swedes have more money and more choice than they used to have, yet the obverse of their greater choice is that others in Sweden have less in the way of life chances than before.
(9) Identification of participating genes and clarification of their mechanisms of action will help to elucidate the universal cellular decline of biological aging and an important obverse manifestation, the rare escape of cells from senescence leading to immortalization and oncogenesis.
(10) The obverse of these we called the hyporeactive immunologically deficient disorders resulting from defects of the cell or serum components of the immunological reactions, of which many examples have also been found.
(11) Where there was disagreement, combination of postiive inhalation test and a negative RAST was much more frequent (33.6%) than in the obverse (3%).
(12) Twenty-four male and female deaf and hearing adolescents learned lists of paired associates that were either high visual and low auditory imagery words or the obverse.
(13) The results are consistent with release rate of the drug from microspheres (obversely, rate of drug delivery to the tumour), being a determinant of potency in these systems.
(14) His Calvinist imagination, quick to conjure doom, and possibly the looming shadow of debt that would end in his expulsion from the paradise garden at Concord, provoked Hawthorne to create something very like its obverse: namely a garden of death.
(15) Thus these judgments are not equivalent obverse aspects of a unitary judgmental process.
(16) Reasons given for opposing blind review included the following: blinding not possible, identification will not influence judgment, and its obverse, identification assists judgment.
(17) A recent alternative asks the obverse; given a mass of tissue that may be developed and maintained at a particular cost, what predictions do physical principles permit about its placement.
(18) The synthesis of mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells has been examined during conjugation, in preconjugal conditions, and in control cultures that were not exposed to obverse diffusible sex factors.
(19) If you are continually rewarded for bad behaviour you will probably continue to do it but if the obverse is true you might consider changing behaviour.
Pegasus
Definition:
(n.) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.
(n.) A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus.
(n.) A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China.
Example Sentences:
(1) A survey of 788 patients on a specialty support surface, Pegasus Airwave System, in 119 hospitals or hospices in the United Kingdom during February and March 1991 provided the largest database on the current pattern of use of any pressure-relieving mattress.
(2) Heavy rain last Thursday marred the Pegasus Day parade that marks the opening of the annual Kentucky Derby festival.
(3) This study describes the current use and reported effectiveness of the Pegasus Airwave System in pressure sore prevention.
(4) On film, he showed up in The Remains of the Day (1993); Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday (2002), a harrowing documentary reconstruction of the protest and massacre in Derry in 1972; as Pegasus, head of MI7, in Rowan Atkinson’s Johnny English (2003) and the foreign secretary in the Bond movie Quantum of Solace (2008) .
(5) Three-dimensional structures were generated using the torsion angle space program PEGASUS.
(6) Three giant planets were snapped around a star known as HR 8799 in the constellation of Pegasus, 130 light years from Earth.