(n.) A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
(n.) The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
(n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
(n.) A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
(n.) A parson; the parish priest.
(n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
(n.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.
(n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
(v. t.) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
(2) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
(3) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
(4) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(5) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
(6) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(7) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(8) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(9) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(10) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
(11) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(12) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
(13) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
(14) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
(15) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
(16) An additional 1.3% of the persons studied needed this operation, but were unfit for surgery.
(17) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
(18) Of 573 tests in 127 persons, a positive response occurred in 68 tests of 51 patients.
(19) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
(20) Fifteen patients of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) were detected out of 2500 persons of Maheshwari community surveyed.
Scut
Definition:
(n.) The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, sp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper describes a prototype system to maintain an electronic "scut" sheet.
(2) Similarly, performing intravenous cannulation at the request of ward staff was rated as scut by 94% of residents, whereas performing cannulation at another resident's request was rated as scut by 56% (P less than 0.01).
(3) Residents and faculty then completed a detailed questionnaire that included ratings of the educational value, "scut content," and residents' responsibility for 20 specific tasks.
(4) SCUT makes use of pen-input and background rule checking to enhance patient care.
(5) Scutting is shown to be the most dangerous pastime and is responsible for more deaths than any other type of road traffic accident involving children.
(6) A total of 38 children presented at the Accident and Emergency Department of The Children's Hospital, Temple Street during the period January 1985 to July 1987 with injuries sustained while scutting.
(7) Our results suggest that the characteristics of scutwork can be identified, that the perception of scut varies between faculty and residents, and that the context of a task often determines whether residents perceive it as scut.
(8) Scutting is a pastime which has taken place in Dublin for many years.
(9) GO Corporation's PenPoint Operating System is used to implement the SCUT project.
(10) Residents' ratings of tasks as scut varied according to the context of the task.
(11) Injuries sustained while scutting have never previously been reported.
(12) Twenty hours (22%) of nonconference waking hours were spent on so-called scut work.
(13) Night-time admission of a patient for an elective procedure was rated as scut by 75% of residents, whereas admission of such a patient after discussion with a faculty member was labeled scut by only 44% (P less than 0.01).
(14) A very low virus level was found for a short time in the blood of ducklings and goslings after experimental Lednice (Yaba 1) virus infection by subcutaneous (scut) and intranasal (inas) route and in blood of ducklings also after infection by intracerebral (icer) route.