(n.) A long four-wheeled carriage, having seats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances.
(n.) A sheet-iron cover for articles in a leer or annealing arch, to protect them from drafts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distribution analysis of CBF change images (outlier detection by gamma-2 statistic) was assessed as an omnibus test for state-dependent changes in regional neuronal activity.
(2) The opposition said the government’s approach towards the budget debate in this critical parliamentary sitting week was to stack separate proposals into single bills to avoid scrutiny, particularly in the welfare omnibus bills, and to crowd out the agenda with renewed parliamentary debates on carbon- and mining-tax repeals.
(3) In particular, we recommend the avoidance of omnibus significance tests in favor of specific planned comparisons whenever hypotheses more specific than the omnibus null hypothesis may be formulated a priori.
(4) The participants belong to the Omnibus panel of GPs run by Doctors.net.uk , a professional networking site to which almost all of the UK's 250,000 doctors of all types belong.
(5) 55 freshmen were administered a measure of formal operations consisting of eight suboperations and a complete score, the Omnibus Personality Inventory, and the conceptual complexity measure.
(6) There are causes for both celebration and reflection when viewing the results of the 1989 Omnibus Survey.
(7) ITV1's FA Cup highlights programme between 9.25am and 10.55am and its Coronation Street omnibus, between 10.55am and 1.10pm, each had 400,000 viewers.
(8) "I believe that the governor was recommending that it be de-coupled form the omnibus bill and if it's rewritten as a stand alone bill it will pass."
(9) This article briefly describes the legislative history of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) and supplemental security income (SSI) provisions, as well as related Medicare and Medicaid provisions, of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-272).
(10) The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987 expands the covered limit to $2,200 (from the $500 set in 1966) but retains the 50% coinsurance requirement for beneficiaries.
(11) Democrats in the House of Representatives have rallied around Senator Elizabeth Warren to oppose the plan, hatched with support from corporate lobbyists, which buries the clause deep in the 1,600-page omnibus spending bill and could extend future public bailouts to riskier trading activities.
(12) The omnibus bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks gestation, force clinics to meet standards of surgical centers (rules that could close 37 of the state's 42 abortion clinics) and require abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles, a problem for anyone in rural Texas.
(13) Many of the task force's recommendations became part of the Omnibus AIDS Bill filed in the 71st Legislature.
(14) I don’t think this Senate is going to approve in the omnibus bill any language that could open any door to the Green Climate Fund,” she said.
(15) Idle No More began with First Nations’ opposition to the Harper government’s omnibus Bill C-45, which violated indigenous rights and weakened environmental protections to benefit natural resource corporations.
(16) Under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, the United States Congress has called for a study of the quality of care of Medicare beneficiaries and a strategy to assure it.
(17) 2005) and the development of other social security related legislation resulting in proposals that ultimately combined in the overall Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985.
(18) BBC2's World Snooker coverage averaged 700,000 viewers between 2.30pm and 5.30pm on BBC2; while the EastEnders omnibus pulled in 1.1 million between 3.05pm and 5pm on BBC1.
(19) The I-view Omnibus poll reveals raising the pension age to be highly unpopular: it is opposed by 69% of those polled and supported by only 18%, with the remainder uncertain.
(20) Soon after the November 2008 election, as he began his second minority government, Harper launched an “omnibus bill”, which contained so many provocative proposals that he united the previously divided opposition parties, which decided not just to vote against the bill but to form a coalition that could replace his government.
Serial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication.
(a.) Of or pertaining to rows.
(n.) A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
(2) Serially sectioned rabbit foliate taste buds were examined with high voltage electron microscopy (HVEM) and computer-assisted, three-dimensional reconstruction.
(3) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
(4) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
(5) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(6) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
(7) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(8) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(9) Serial measurements demonstrated a good correlation between enolase and NSE serum levels and the progression of the disease.
(10) Serial antepartum platelet alloantibody quantitation by an enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay revealed rising antibody titers during advancing gestation.
(11) The serial changes in EF during exercise was divided into 5 types, including continuous increase (type A), initial increase but return to the baseline (type B), no change (type C), initial increase but later decrease below the baseline (type D), and continuous decrease (type E).
(12) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
(13) The lack of tumor specificity of sialyl Lewis-Xi antigen limits its diagnostic value for gynecologic malignancies, but serial measurement of this antigen may be useful in evaluating therapy and monitoring patients.
(14) Acute isovolemic anemia was produced in anesthetized chickens by serial exchanges of 6% dextran 70 equal to 1% of body weight to quantitate cardiovascular and metabolic parameters.
(15) The cells have been maintained through 23 serial passages, and the modal number of chromosomes was calculated to be 55.
(16) In 5 of the 7 patients with an initially abnormal pituitary fossa, serial radiological studies revealed remodelling in 3.
(17) Using serial-sectioning techniques for conventional transmission and high-voltage electron microscopy, we characterized the ultrastructural features and synaptic contacts of the sensory cell in tentacles of Hydra.
(18) Special techniques such as serial macroscopic sectioning (SMS) or immunohistochemical staining (IH) improve the detection rate of micrometastases but this detection is of value only if it improves the prediction of recurrence and survival.
(19) Liver cells, however, cultured in this way, can also be used for experiments in the early stage of serial cultivation.
(20) Serial sections from over a hundred such structures show that these are tubular structures and that the 'test-tube and ring-shaped' forms described in the literature are no more than profiles one expects to see when a tubular structure is sectioned.