(n.) The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additional analysis in which a normal ogive was fitted to the sample VC data distributions suggests that statistically significant predictions of the probability of eventral flap necrosis can be made using VC measurements obtained immediately postoperatively.
(2) Similar to the endogenous data, exogenous insulin removal followed an ogival pattern during fasting.
(3) Cumulative distributions may be plotted as sigmoidal ogives or can be transformed into discrete probabilities (linear probits), which are then linear, and amenable to regression analysis.
(4) Data were also expressed as cumulative frequencies (ogives) and subjected to statistical analysis by the non-parametric Kolmogorov-Smirnov test.
(5) The cells occur chiefly as pairs within chains and elongate to ogive-shaped cells during growth.
(6) There was a curvilinear relationship (rising ogive) between mean GTT and age.
(7) Additional analysis in which a normal ogive was fitted to the sample VC data distributions suggests that statistically significant predictions of the probability of eventual flap necrosis can be made using VC measurements obtained immediately postoperatively.
(8) This led to a psychophysical function in which the probability of a long response was related to signal duration in an ogival manner.
(9) Three children, two females and one male, born from unrelated parents show brachycephaly, ogival palate, blindness from 5-6 months and progressive piramidal symptoms.
(10) In our pediatric out-patient clinic, most of the patients suffering severe recurrent ENT problems show variable malformations: abnormal implantation or shape of the external ear, a microretrognathism, cervical or facial branchial fistulae, high or ogival palate with anomalies of the dental occlusion or a bifid uvula.
(11) Calibration curves, such as the commonly adopted logistic ogive in relation to log dose, are fitted by weighted least squares to observed counts directly using empirical weights proportional to the reciprocal of estimated counting variance.
(12) Analysis of 140 cortisol assays, all with two replicates of each of 50 sources (9 standard doses, 3 quality control preps, and 38 unknowns), led to an asymmetric rising ogive relating variances to means of counting rates.
(13) Frequency, length, and intensity of the habit generate as a consequence: anterior open bite, retrusion of the mandible, protrusion of the maxilla, excessive overjet, labial version of the upper incisors, uprighting of the lower incisors, posterior cross bites, sometimes associated to a ogival palate, diastema between the upper incisors, and any others facial characteristics.
(14) None of these distributions differed significantly from normal, and they were well fitted by normal ogives.
(15) All had a facial abnormality: one woman had a complete Pierre Robin syndrome with mandibular hypoplasia, glossoptos and cleft palate; in the other cases, minor forms were observed, with micrognathia and ogival palate.
(16) The two technics gave comparable mean values, ogives, equivalent points, and overlap for patients with cystic fibrosis and healthy subjects.
(17) As expected, weighting the lever with 0, 15, 30, or 45 g produced progressive decreases in maximal rates, but it also caused a weight-related shift to the right of the rate-frequency ogives in each of the 7 rats.
Olive
Definition:
(n.) A tree (Olea Europaea) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.
(n.) The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.
(n.) Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; -- so called from the form. See Oliva.
(n.) The oyster catcher.
(n.) The color of the olive, a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
(n.) One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion.
(n.) An olivary body. See under Olivary.
(n.) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.
(a.) Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
(2) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(3) Hypertrophy is restricted to subdivisions of the inferior olive included in recurrent cerebello-mesencephalic-olivary circuits.
(4) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(5) It's of her and Barack Obama planting an olive tree in Uhuru park in the city centre in October 2006.
(6) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(7) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
(8) McVeigh's brother Oliver said nothing had been found there and the organisation set up to locate him and other IRA victims – the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims – needed more information.
(9) Dali Tambo [son of exiled ANC president Oliver] approached me to form a British wing of Artists Against Apartheid, and we did loads of concerts, leading up to a huge event on Clapham Common in 1986 that attracted a quarter of a million people.
(10) A strong EBV activation activity was observed in aqueous extracts of some Cantonese salted dried fish from China, harissa (a spice mixture) and to a lesser extent qaddid (dry mutton preserved in olive oil) from Tunisia.
(11) The present study compares the atherogenicity of a standard diet and diets with 10% olive oil or 10% margarine added, in rabbits maintained at a mean plasma cholesterol level of about 20 mM for 13 weeks.
(12) But she did back moves advocated by the Solicitor-General, Oliver Heald, to place a duty on parents to protect their children and make it illegal to permit their daughters to be mutilated.
(13) The postnatal maturation of the GABAergic innervation of the rat inferior olive was studied with an antiserum to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), the GABA-synthesizing enzyme.
(14) Downing Street explained on Thursday night that Oliver and Michel shared the cost of the bill, and so no hospitality was extended and nothing need be declared.
(15) Administered to rats by stomach tubing oxythioquinox (Morestan) toxicity is very strongly increased after solubilisation in olive oil.
(16) Among the fats, olive oil is recommended more than other vegetable oils (64%).
(17) In the investigation, the neocortex was represented by the frontal cortex (field 10), the old cortex by the hippocamp, the midbrain by black substance, and medulla oblongata by the inferior olive.
(18) "If you don't want my gear [on TV], I've got plenty of other places to take it," Jamie Oliver told advertisers last autumn, brazenly and a tad cheekily, at a Channel 4 "upfront" preview presentation of its 2014 schedule.
(19) 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.
(20) The changes in both molecules were also observed in animals in which the inferior olive was destroyed by electrocoagulation, ruling out the possibility of a direct action of 3-acetylpyridine on dendritic microtubular proteins.