(n.) A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
(n.) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
(n.) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
(n.) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.
(n.) To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
(n.) To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.
(v. i.) To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cultures of these isolants were inoculated experimentally into turkeys and produced lesions of chlamydiosis that were indistinguishable from those caused by the strain originally recovered from diseases turkeys on the premises.
(2) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
(3) There are far too many fast-food premises near schools.
(4) Each case must be assessed on its own premises: the substitution need, the availability of a transplant, the long-term prognosis, and the advantages and disadvantages of a solution with autotransplantation versus solutions without autotransplantation.
(5) Neuronal models in temperature regulation are primarily considered explicit statements of assumptions and premises used in design of experiments and development of descriptive equations concerning the relationships between thermal inputs and control actions.
(6) The effects on gas exchange and hemodynamics were compared with those of CPPV with PEEP, with the premise that CNPV might sustain venous return and improve QT.
(7) The starting premise of the remain campaign was that elections in Britain are settled in a centre-ground defined by aversion to economic risk and swung by a core of liberal middle-class voters who are allergic to radical lurches towards political uncertainty.
(8) The authors note that poison center callers seem to constitute a pool of significantly suicidal persons and reaffirm the premise that poison centers and suicide centers should coordinate their efforts.
(9) To test this premise, 14 healthy, untrained men trained four days per week for 20 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for endurance (END Group, n = 4), on an isokinetic device for increased torque production (ITP Group, n = 5), or on both devices (COMBO Group, n = 5).
(10) If that premise is accepted, there is much that academic institutions can do to foster utilization of their biotechnological discoveries.
(11) Archer, which Reed originally pitched to the FX channel as "James Bond meets Arrested Development" takes this premise – the comedy of displacement activity – and runs with it.
(12) As a smaller, weaker, standalone company, it would struggle to invest as much as it does currently.” The company said the UK was repeatedly ranked the best for broadband speeds in the EU and claimed 90% of UK premises had access to fibre optic connections.
(13) "We regret that Congress was forced to waste its time voting on a foolish bill that was premised entirely on false claims and ignorance," David Jenkins, an REP official, said in a statement.
(14) The higher-cost practices were those that maintained donors on the premises specifically for blood donation purposes.
(15) This paper concentrates on the applications of the Project used in Health Centres, where General Practitioners share premises with District Nurses, Health Visitors, Social Workers and other members of the Community Health Care Team.
(16) As Nick Bostrom, the head of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and a leading transhumanist thinker puts it, transhumanism "challenges the premise that the human condition is and will remain essentially unalterable".
(17) The BBC will then work with the developers Stanhope on a three-year project to turn TV Centre into a new creative hub where the corporation will retain a studio presence alongside planned residential, office and leisure premises.
(18) Alexander Mackendrick's 1955 comedy is Ealing's neatest, and its trippiest; the product of lurid new colour stock (including some alarming back-projection ) and a hallucinatory premise.
(19) Further study is needed to verify this latter premise.
(20) Mr Clarke said tonight that the premises will "now be thoroughly searched, and that is a process that will take some time".
Premiss
Definition:
(n.) Premise.
Example Sentences:
(1) When infected cells are shifted from the nonpermissive temperature to the premissive temperature, the uptake of 2-deoxyglucose increases from a rate equal to that of uninfected cells to a rate equal to that of cells infected by the wild-type Schmidt-Ruppin Rous sarcoma virus.
(2) This was well received by residents and staff and reduced the call out rate for the general practitioners.In some parts of the UK, special medical centres for the single homeless have been established on the premiss that it is unrealistic to expect general practitioners to provide an adequate service.
(3) Already at the premissive temperature, all mutants, particularly the pbpB and ftsQ mutants, showed an increased average cell length and cell mass.
(4) A short account of chronic alcoholism as a social and individual disease, and of the difficulties associated with its treatment, particularly as far as disaddiction is concerned, is followed by the description of a new method of psychotherapy, using psychofilms for the application of group hypnosis therapy covering a wide spectrum, based on reflexological premisses associated with behaviour therapy, backed up by techniques leading to reinforcement of the Ego.
(5) Althought McLaughlin and Hartwell reported previously that the thermosensitivity and the defect in the methionyl-tRNA synthetase were due to the same genetic lesion (1969), no diffenence could be found in the methionyl-tRNA synthetase activity or in the pattern of repressibility of methionine biosynthetic pathway after growth at the premissive and at a semipermissive temperature.
(6) Between A.D. 950 and 1300 this population underwent a transition from hunting and gathering (PreMississippian: PreMiss.)
(7) A study of His potentials as the premiss for using Verapamil in subjects with stimulus conductivity changes, including W.P.W.
(8) Our ethical premisses, particularly the absolute value of each human being, and the integrity of the ecosystem, conflict.
(9) Reference is made to diagnostic tests (E-UFA and MEM tests), whose premisses are based on lipid metabolism.
(10) These are attributed to modifications of lung and systemic haemodynamics, resulting in diminished reflux to the heart and a consequent increase in capillary hydrostatic pressure; the latter provides the premisses for inspissation of the blood due to displacement of water towards the interstitial space.
(11) Conflicts and negotiations are linked to strategies which seek explicitly to integrate health premisses into sectors outside the health services itself.
(12) Concerning DSC's two points are emphasized: Whether we, as psychiatrists, are conscious of it or not--one of our premisses for classifying a state as a pathological DSC is an evaluation of the client's ability to change the state voluntarily.
(13) While the campaign is premissed on the assumption that most people can express their sexual needs and desires openly and without inhibitions, the survey shows that this is far from the case.
(14) The results indicate that the pineal gland in rats kept on a 14 h light: 10 h darkness schedule does not play an active or premissive role in the timing or magnitude of LH, FSH or prolactin release at pro-oestrus, the length of the oestrous cycle, or LH release in ovariectomized rats.
(15) A cold-sensitive mutant of CHO cells has features of "reverse transformation" at the non-premissive temperature of 33 degrees C. Cells accumulate at G1 with altered morphology and remain viable and quiescent for more than 40 d. Such cultures are synchronised by a temperature shift back to the permissive 39 degrees C.
(16) The physiopathological premisses underlying vagotomy and its use in the treatment of gastroduodenal ulcer are examined.
(17) Experiments to rescue virus from the T-antigen-positive meningioma cells were performed: fusion of cells pretreated with 8-azaguanine with cells premissive for SV40 led to a low percentage (0.01-0.05%) of V-antigen-positive nuclei in heterokaryon cultures.
(18) The use of computed tomography in mediastinal staging of lung cancer relies on the premiss that malignant lymph nodes are larger than benign ones.
(19) The main premisses on which the treatment of anaemia of uraemic patients is based are discussed.
(20) Until certain questions are answered about the particle problem, it will not be possible to set a satisfactory maximum permissible body burden for 239Pu based on lung as the critical organ, but in the meantime some studies suggest that the present maximum premissible body burden based on bone should be reduced at least by a factor of 200.