(v. t.) To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively.
(v. i.) To think; to deliberate; to muse; -- usually followed by on or over.
Example Sentences:
(1) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
(2) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
(3) For Argyle the result confirmed their relegation to League One, with the rival fans left to ponder wildly differing prospects next season.
(4) The results indicated significant negative correlations between maternal plasma zinc and albumin-bound zinc concentrations and plasma copper concentration in the third trimester of pregnancy and mid-arm circumference and ponderal index.
(5) A comparison of outcome was made between infants whose birth-weight for gestational age was below the tenth percentile and infants who had a low ponderal index from 37 weeks' gestation.
(6) Some epidemiological data have been collected, among which: the importance of ponderal overload in patients studied and the prevalence of the right joints diseases on the left one's.
(7) Nor do most of its users – as they check out the capital of Georgia or guiltily plagiarise the entry on Marx – ponder how this Eden is sustained in its spotless state of nature.
(8) Sting – a man who had split the Police to pursue a more adult-oriented career, and who would in the following year ponder such poptastic issues as how much Russians loved their children and the plight of miners – took that job in 1984, while this year it falls to Guy Garvey, who may as well just change his middle name to 6Music.
(9) The air was sampled daily by glass fiber's filters; a ponderal determination of total particulate was made; PAH was dosed by gas-chromatography and by mass spectrometry, metals was determined by atomic absorption spectrometry.
(10) In these six pairs a normal ponderal index in the lighter twin members was associated with poorer growth than a low ponderal index.
(11) The ponderal quantity of 140 S antigens and their peptide distribution are controlled in concentrated virulent and inactivated preparations proir to their being transformed into vaccines.
(12) There was still time for Saborio to try an audacious lob from distance to steal the game, but Nielsen, who'd looked ponderous in his movements all game, was able to watch this one safely over.
(13) Objective identification of infants with significant intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) was done using the ponderal index (PI).
(14) Plasma lipid levels were significantly lower when the animals received the diets containing milk instead of the diet without milk: cholesterol, triacylglycerol, and LDL-cholesterol were reduced by 5.6, 5.8 and 10% respectively (pondered means) while HDL-cholesterol remained unaffected.
(15) I pondered the scene once or twice last week, with the news dominated by Lord Rennard and ongoing allegations of his having groped women .
(16) The mean fetal ponderal index of the controls was 8.60 (SD 0.84) and in the risk group 7.72.
(17) Correlation analysis revealed that longer average initial fixation time was associated with male sex, shorter birth length, and larger ponderal index.
(18) Manning and Snowden cannot have been the only US officials to have pondered blowing a whistle on data abuse.
(19) Ponder this as you take in mountain views through floor-to-ceiling windows or from the secluded patio.
(20) At birth, 14 normal babies had average ponderal indices, 14 were overweight for length (high ponderal index), 18 were underweight for length (low ponderal index), and 15 had short crown-heel lengths for dates and normal ponderal indices.
Wander
Definition:
(v. i.) To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
(v. i.) To go away; to depart; to stray off; to deviate; to go astray; as, a writer wanders from his subject.
(v. i.) To be delirious; not to be under the guidance of reason; to rave; as, the mind wanders.
(v. t.) To travel over without a certain course; to traverse; to stroll through.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) lyase activity was determined by the recently described spectrophotometric method of Wanders et al.
(2) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(3) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
(4) Wandering is movement changing over time and, thus, is a nonlinear ultradian rhythm, with locomoting and nonlocomoting phases.
(5) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
(6) I would like to place on record our sincere thanks to Owen, Sandy Stewart [Coyle's assistant] and Steve Davis [coach] for all their hard work during their time at Bolton Wanderers."
(7) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
(9) Boy, a new play by Leo Butler , follows Liam, a 17-year-old Neet (not in education, employment or training) for 24 hours as he wanders the capital, trying to find friends, connect with a family who have given up on him and with community services that communicate so differently from the way Liam does, it seems like they are speaking another language.
(10) An electronic security system can improve the quality of life for alert, oriented patients (and their families) who share a unit with confused, wandering patients.
(11) Hagere Selam remains a modest place of mudwalled shops with corrugated roofs, cows, donkeys and sheep wandering unpaved streets and children idling away an afternoon at table football – a generation with no memory of the famine that killed hundreds of thousands and woke up the world.
(12) He's fouled out on the right, and takes the free kick very quickly, taking advantage of a wandering Krol, but the referee deems the kick was not take from the right place, and was probably moving as well.
(13) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."
(14) Larry Page, Google's chief executive, believes self-driving cars have enormous economic and health implications: they should cut the number of road deaths, either through drivers' attention wandering, or through driving too close to other cars and being unable to react.
(15) After scarfing platefuls of seafood on the terrace, we wandered down to the harbour where two fishermen, kitted out in wetsuits, were setting out by boat across the clear turquoise water to collect goose barnacles.
(16) Distribution of the recurrence was different: some previous sites had apparently become refractory and remained clear, some involvement had recurred in the same site, and new areas of involvement had appeared, causing the eruption to "wander," as is often seen in acute fixed drug eruption due to acetaminophen.
(17) She manifested not only episodic bulimia, impulsive self-injury, suicidal attempt, and obvious depressive emotion; but also self-provoked-vomiting, wandering, stealing and lying.
(18) Baseline wander and muscle artifact are particularly troublesome sources of interference.
(19) O’Malley, the only candidate to wander into the spin room, was asked if he thought he had broken through.
(20) Individuals have shown transient AV block, irregular sinus rhythm, wandering pacemaker, and inverted T waves.