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Program


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Programme.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anesthesiology residency programs experienced unprecedented growth from 1980 to 1986.
  • (2) Sperm specimens were obtained from 13 men participating in our in vitro fertilization program.
  • (3) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
  • (4) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (5) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
  • (6) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
  • (7) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (8) Veterans admitted to a 90-day alcoholism treatment program were administered the MMPI, and those who completed the program were retested before discharge.
  • (9) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
  • (10) 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.
  • (11) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
  • (12) 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.
  • (13) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
  • (14) Infusion of vincristine may be safely incorporated into multiagent chemotherapy programs of the CHOP type for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  • (15) The programs are written in Fortran and are implemented on a Rank Xerox Sigma 6 computer.
  • (16) The lower limit (LL) of CBF autoregulation was calculated by a computerized program and tested for different factors for correction of the PaCO2-induced changes in CBF.
  • (17) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.
  • (18) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
  • (19) For this purpose, five queries may contribute to programming the most suitable surgery.
  • (20) A key component of a career program should be recognition of a nurse's needs and the program should be evaluated to determine if these needs are met.

Run


Definition:

  • (a.) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
  • () of Run
  • (p. p.) of Run
  • (a.) To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog.
  • (a.) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
  • (a.) To flee, as from fear or danger.
  • (a.) To steal off; to depart secretly.
  • (a.) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.
  • (a.) To pass from one state or condition to another; to come into a certain condition; -- often with in or into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt.
  • (a.) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle.
  • (a.) To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as, to run from one subject to another.
  • (a.) To discuss; to continue to think or speak about something; -- with on.
  • (a.) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; -- with on.
  • (a.) To creep, as serpents.
  • (a.) To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course; as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring; her blood ran cold.
  • (a.) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.
  • (a.) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
  • (a.) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.
  • (a.) To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago.
  • (a.) To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
  • (a.) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station.
  • (a.) To make progress; to proceed; to pass.
  • (a.) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week.
  • (a.) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.
  • (a.) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
  • (a.) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
  • (a.) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.
  • (a.) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
  • (a.) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.
  • (a.) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company; as, certain covenants run with the land.
  • (a.) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.
  • (a.) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
  • (a.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.
  • (a.) Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body.
  • (a.) To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic competition.
  • (v. t.) To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block.
  • (v. i.) To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
  • (v. i.) To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot.
  • (v. i.) To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
  • (v. i.) To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.
  • (v. i.) To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.
  • (v. i.) To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods.
  • (v. i.) To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.
  • (v. i.) To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress.
  • (v. i.) To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances, below.
  • (v. i.) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
  • (v. i.) To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.
  • (v. i.) To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.
  • (v. i.) To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel.
  • (v. i.) To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
  • (v. i.) To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
  • (v. i.) To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.
  • (n.) The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.
  • (n.) A small stream; a brook; a creek.
  • (n.) That which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard.
  • (n.) A course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck.
  • (n.) State of being current; currency; popularity.
  • (n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights.
  • (n.) A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.
  • (n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run.
  • (n.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter.
  • (n.) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles.
  • (n.) A voyage; as, a run to China.
  • (n.) A pleasure excursion; a trip.
  • (n.) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
  • (n.) A roulade, or series of running tones.
  • (n.) The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.
  • (n.) The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; -- said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
  • (n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs.
  • (n.) A pair or set of millstones.
  • (a.) Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.
  • (a.) Smuggled; as, run goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
  • (2) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
  • (3) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (4) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
  • (5) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
  • (6) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
  • (7) 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.
  • (8) These major departmental transformations are being run in isolation from each other.
  • (9) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
  • (10) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (11) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
  • (12) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
  • (13) This implementation reduced a formidable task to a relatively routine run.
  • (14) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
  • (15) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (16) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
  • (17) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
  • (18) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
  • (19) The American Red Cross said the aid organisation had already run out of medical supplies, with spokesman Eric Porterfield explaining that the small amount of medical equipment and medical supplies available in Haiti had been distributed.
  • (20) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.

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