(v. i.) To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
(v. i.) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
(v. i.) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
(v. i.) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
(v. i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
(v. t.) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
(v. t.) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(2) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(3) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(4) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(5) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(6) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(7) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(8) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(9) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(10) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(11) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
(12) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(13) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(14) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(15) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
(16) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
(17) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
(18) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(19) Six of the patients were operated using the McIndoe and Bannister technique while on the other two the Tobin and Day technique was used.
(20) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
Unwieldy
Definition:
(a.) Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he warned that the BBC’s in-house production department was an “unwieldy beast” and said it would have to adapt if it was going to compete head to head with independent producers.
(2) Critics describe it as unwieldy, unfocused and unlikely to achieve its aims – a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
(3) The shakeup comes after criticism that Ofsted’s current approach is debilitating for school leaders, while its unwieldy organisation has left it unable to spot damaging changes within schools involved in the Trojan horse affair, some of which Ofsted had judged to be outstanding.
(4) Its current crisis stems in part from it being too big, too unwieldy to control.
(5) Characterised by large, unwieldy, centralised organisations, the anti-war movement became complacent, overly reliant on rallies and petitions.
(6) The ultrasonic urologic probe is an unwieldy instrument for cardiac surgery, and we suggest the manufacture of a new probe for clinical use in our specialty.
(7) The results bring an end to an unwieldy four-year "grand coalition" between the CDU and the Social Democrats (SPD).
(8) Other milestones have already been reached: a draft text is in preparation , much slimmed down from previous unwieldy versions, and evidence has been produced that current pledges from rich countries to provide financial assistance to the developing world will reach required levels by 2020.
(9) Although that campaign had succeeded, its unwieldy federal model of multi-party cooperation was judged dysfunctional.
(10) Jeronimo said it would need to be priced close to its rivals, but the Apple brand would draw customers who either could not afford the larger iPad or considered it too unwieldy.
(11) The enormity of the denominator in contraceptive steroid usage is so unwieldy that mechanisms to measure accurately the difference in an extremely small numerator are still plaguing the epidemiologist, who at best can supply only estimates.
(12) Echoing fears among many MPs that Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King and his successors will control an unwieldy empire of regulatory committees that could challenge the Treasury's democratic mandate, Barker criticised government plans to create a financial policy committee (FPC) alongside the Bank's monetary policy committee (MPC), which sets interest rates.
(13) Last Thursday the CLP shut down an inquiry into the past two decades of political donations in the NT, as well as the nature of the Foundation 51 organisation – alleged to be a CLP slush fund – claiming it would be “unwieldy” and overly costly for the territory.
(14) Like many lymphocyte-monocyte products, this activity has been difficult to purify because of its low abundance in activated leukocyte cultures and the unwieldy bioassay required to detect biological activity.
(15) Sometimes he overcomplicates his work, to a point where the result is unwieldy.
(16) At the level of first contact, a primary health care centre, information management is an unwieldy task, therefore health information systems are reported to be inadequate and weak.
(17) The relevance of continuing education to clinical staff will be discussed in relation to the change in the content of nursing theory--from the unwieldy 'certainty-based' medical model, to a more flexible, thus perhaps 'uncertainty-based' medical model.
(18) While at the outset it can seem unwieldy, general consensus seems to be that it can work more effectively in challenging times.
(19) As Peter Kendall, then president of the National Farmers Union, put it to me at the time: while Clarke’s heart was clearly in the right place, “the company is an unwieldy tanker to turn around.
(20) The business minister Nick Boles said: “These changes will also simplify the law for businesses so they can spend less time worrying about unclear and unwieldy regulations.” Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?, said: “Consumer law was crying out to be brought up to date to cope with the requirements and demands of today’s shoppers.