(v. t.) To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.
(v. t.) To essay or attempt of one's own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.
(n.) An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.
(n.) Essay; attempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although declining in popularity, this treatment modality proffers survival advantage for appropriately chosen individuals.
(2) A system of ordering the relative toxicity of these (and other) drugs is proffered using the exposure-case fatality rate (ECFR) as a crude measure of clinical toxicity (while delineating its shortcomings).
(3) The reason for this were cursorily highlighted and suggestions for speedier trials proffered.
(4) This report deals with the proffered reasons why these men did not take the screening examination.
(5) For Cromitie, he proffered $250,000: a staggering sum.
(6) We also demonstrated immunocytochemical evidence of the persistence of adult slow myosin in denervated mature human skeletal muscle despite the reputed necessity of innervation for maintenance of expression of this myosin isoform proffered by others.
(7) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
(8) Since the age-related recommendations of the algorithm are controversial, a discussion of renal cell carcinoma and intrinsic glomerular diseases is proffered.
(9) In recent years, the maharishi, who broadcasts on a private satellite channel from a converted monastery in Vlodrop, in Holland, has proffered opinions on everything from crime to the Israel-Palestine conflict to how countries can best foster military defence.
(10) The Labour mayoral candidate proffered an olive branch as he paid tribute to the way Jewish people have shaped London .
(11) Many sources, including the American Medical Association, have proffered radical changes, but most of these changes will cost more than physicians and hospitals can afford.
(12) In the circumstances, you do have to marvel at that mulishly self-regarding "for any offence caused" – the classic non-apology apology typically proffered by those with a belief in their own absolute probity, which is as unshakeable as it is misplaced.
(13) Back at the bar of the Imperial hotel, he made himself busy introducing Tory's trousers to various Conservative party grandees, insisting they shake a proffered leg by way of greeting.
(14) If the British X Factor carries on without Cowell and Cole, we'll be left with Dannii Minogue trying not to look utterly insulted that the US invitation was never proffered to her, Louis Walsh looking as happy as ever, unaware that anything is actually going on, and who?
(15) It accuses Roberts’s lawyers of including the names of prominent individuals, which it says were irrelevant to the lawsuit, in an attempt to generate publicity with a motion that “simply proffers various salacious allegations as quotable tabloid fodder”.
(16) The guideline begins with a list of problems, verified via an adversarial review, as to why the child(ren) entered foster care or is at risk of doing so, followed by the establishment of the relevance of proffered services to those problems, followed by documentation of a sustained effort to facilitate the use of those services.
(17) The role of the psychiatrist is to proffer a relevant opinion while nevertheless realizing that the inexact nature of the science limits the use such an opinion may have.
(18) If this government has its way, anyone nearing working age today has 60 years of work to look forward to at which stage, if they have any decency, they’ll die to save the country expense and it takes the likes of Owen Jones to ask why and proffer an alternative.
(19) Eckert’s summary also criticised attempts by England and Australia to curry favour with Fifa executive committee members but failed to mention the Spain and Portugal bid at all because they proffered little information.
(20) That proffered need is purely speculative and does not satisfy the requirements of the law.” The case stemmed from a grand jury decision not to indict Pantaleo, who was seen on video placing Garner, 43, in a chokehold as Garner gasped: “I can’t breathe.” Garner died of injuries sustained during the 17 June arrest.
Suggestion
Definition:
(n.) The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.
(n.) That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation.
(n.) Charge; complaint; accusation.
(n.) Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.
(n.) The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; -- a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.
Example Sentences:
(1) The evidence suggests a multifactorial etiology for this problem.
(2) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
(3) Our results suggest that the peripheral sensitivity to hypoxia declined more than that to CO2, implying a peripheral chemoreceptor origin for hypoxic ventilatory decline.
(4) These data suggest that the hybrid is formed by the same mechanism in the absence and presence of the urea step.
(5) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(6) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(7) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(8) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
(9) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(10) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(11) The low affinity of several N1-alkylpyrroleethylamines suggests that the benzene portion of the alpha-methyltryptamines is necessary for significant affinity.
(12) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
(13) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(14) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(15) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
(16) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(17) 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.
(18) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
(19) It has recently been suggested that procaine penicillin existed in solution in vitro and in vivo as a "procaine - penicillin" complex rather than as dissociated ions.
(20) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.