(v. t.) To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.
(v. t.) To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
(v. t.) To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
(v. t.) To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
(v. i.) To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
(v. i.) To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
(n.) Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(2) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(3) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(4) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
(5) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(6) Hypercalcitoninemia was the most pronounced in patients with cardiac rhythm disorders and a simultaneous reduction in total serum calcium.
(7) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
(8) This phenomenon is age dependent and more pronounced in animals with sever autoimmune disease.
(9) Comparison of the 50% binding concentrations of the compounds for the various PBPs of the five strains with their antibacterial activity indicates that the different antibiotics are excluded to a greater or lesser degree by the outer membrane permeability barrier and that the exclusion is most pronounced in P. aeruginosa.
(10) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
(11) Inhibition of binding of [3H]TPA to the receptor preparation by tigliane and ingenane DTE correlates with irritant activity in vivo, while some daphnane and 1 alpha-alkyldaphnane DTE inhibit binding of [3H]TPA in a less pronounced manner but still are very irritant.
(12) There were pronounced differences from the fine structural aspects in late infantile cases.
(13) A more pronounced and significant inhibition was observed in chicks given BCG subcutaneously 8 weeks before the start of the dietary regimen.
(14) There were pronounced interspecies differences in binding affinity and binding capacity which were the highest in guinea pig and human species, respectively.
(15) When propofol and fentanyl were used together, the cardiovascular effects were more pronounced than when they were used alone.
(16) In the synovia, size and number of the multinuclear giant cells are less pronounced.
(17) The concomitant reduction in aortic pressure and increase in heart rate following total occlusion of the portal vein were most pronounced during the first weeks after stenosis, and were probably due to diminished venous return to the heart.
(18) The sensitivity of the Limulus lateral eye exhibits a pronounced circadian rhythm.
(19) This early elevation in IOP was significantly more pronounced in bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomized (BG) rabbits.
(20) The ligands bind at discrete sites in the minor groove of DNA, and analysis on DNA sequencing gels show pronounced protection at the ligand binding sites, as well as more generalized protection.
Pronunciation
Definition:
(n.) The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.
(n.) The mode of uttering words or sentences.
(n.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Significant improvements in word comprehension, word usage in writing, pronunciation, and in auditory discrimination were achieved as a result of training.
(2) The standard normal deviates corresponding to probability of correct recall were linear in pronunciation time.
(3) This tape was then 'scored' for accuracy of pronunciation by 10 experienced clinical psychologists who use the NART in their routine clinical practice.
(4) Both young and older adults participated in a delayed pronunciation task to trace the time course of lexical access and a semantic priming task to trace the time course of spreading activation.
(5) If phonologically ambiguous, either both pronunciations were real words or only one was, the other being a nonword.
(6) Of the seven functional exercises used, the pronunciation of the words "phone," "mom," and "church" and the exercise of swallowing were replicable over time.
(7) These results suggest that mastery of pronunciation seems to be a crucial factor in producing a shift of visual field advantage.
(8) The longitudinal data suggest that early processes applied to polysyllabic words may be predictive of later pronunciation skill for the production of continuous speech.
(9) Native English listeners gave significantly higher (i.e., more authentic) pronunciation scores to native speakers of English than to Chinese adults who began learning English at an average age of 7.6 years.
(10) A study of 11 Chinese neurological patients with reading disorders indicates that reading aloud a non-alphabetic script, like reading alphabetic scripts, can be accomplished using two distinct routines: one that associates a whole written word with its complete pronunciation, and one that utilizes parts of the written word.
(11) 's experiments, analyses, and theoretical perspective do not result in conclusions about the role of word frequency in category verification, lexical decision, and pronunciation that differ from those of Balota and Chumbley.
(12) With such knowledge comes a predictable illusion of power, though this is all too regularly punctured by the indignity of being kicked out of shiny receptions and told to use an entrance more befitting of our lowly status – or of having my pronunciation of “Southwark Street” incorrectly corrected by a receptionist, who gives her colleague a sidelong smirk, commiserating over my supposed ignorance.
(13) Rendering these pronunciations on paper gives Riddley Walker the physical intimacy of throat and mouth working, but there's depth and allusion to it to.
(14) Printed words were either phonologically ambiguous (two possible pronunciations) or unambiguous.
(15) If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others – a received pronunciation.
(16) The method is based on the use of the stressed ("accentuated") syllable as a therapeutic tool to develop pronunciation and a natural attractive voice.
(17) Balota and Chumbley's studies led them to conclude that category verification, lexical decision, and pronunciation tasks involve combinations of processes that cause them to produce differing estimates of the relation between word frequency and ease of lexical identification.
(18) For the purpose of clarifying the influence of the insertion of denture on the duration of speech sound and the articulatory functions before pronunciation and on the self-compensation of these organs.
(19) When sounds disappear English spelling can be a pain, but it's also a repository of information about the history of pronunciation.
(20) If rapidly growing children lose their deciduous teeth very early in life, their language and pronunciation functions may be seriously affected.