(n.) That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage.
(n.) The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.
Example Sentences:
(1) We propose that this dependence on coexpression reflects the association between the LTA::STa hybrids and LTB subunits.
(2) Experiments are proposed by which to test these and related hypotheses.
(3) 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.
(4) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(5) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(6) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(7) A sensitive color reaction after two-dimensional TLC described earlier for zeranol determination in veal samples is proposed for the detection of the zeranol metabolite zearalanone and the mycotoxin zearalenone.
(8) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
(9) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(10) Gardner proposed that anomalies at the exit of the fourth ventricle produce a communicating syringomyelia.
(11) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(12) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
(13) The schedule proposed is easy to use and reproducible.
(14) The proposed method appears to offer a more consistently accurate means of measuring EDV than previously suggested ultrasound methods.
(15) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
(16) It is proposed that in A. brasilense, the PII protein and glutamine synthetase are involved in a post-translational modification of NifA.
(17) It is proposed that this "zipper-like" mechanism represents the normal cutting process of the septum during cell separation.
(18) We propose that during the detergent solubilization the acidic phospholipids protect the transport systems against denaturation by preventing delipidation.
(19) However, it does not and we therefore propose the presence of an unusual DNA conformation in these regions.
(20) We propose that, for a GC base pair in B conformation, there are two amino proton exchangeable states--a cytosine amino proton exchangeable state and a guanine amino proton exchangeable state; both require the disruption of only the corresponding interbase H bond.
Tender
Definition:
(n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
(n.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
(n.) A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
(v. t.) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.
(v. t.) To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
(n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.
(n.) Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
(n.) The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
(superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
(superl.) Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
(superl.) Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
(superl.) Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
(superl.) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
(superl.) Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.
(superl.) Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
(superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
(superl.) Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
(superl.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.
(n.) Regard; care; kind concern.
(v. t.) To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(2) The degree of discomfort was slightly greater in women who complained of breast tenderness within three days prior to the mammogram but was not strongly related to age, menstrual status, or week of the menstrual cycle.
(3) Xu, the ABP chairman, disputed any claims of impropriety, and said his company went through a “robust and thorough” tender process.
(4) These data suggest that d 7 MFI could be used as a single predictor of d 14 longissimus muscle tenderness; however, CDP inhibitor d 1 activity (a biological event) also may be useful in predicting tenderness.
(5) Eight of 47 LSNs overlying the posterior superior iliac spines (PSIS) were tender.
(6) If LTP is to be effective, thorough coagulation with tender blanching effects is mandatory.
(7) The remaining patients had vague pains, tender abdomen, constitutional symptoms or a mass in the abdomen.
(8) Seventy-nine percent of all subjects were skin-test positive to inhalant allergens, but positive skin tests alone did not correlate with the number of tender points or criteria for fibromyalgia.
(9) Permanent relief of tenderness in the needled structure was obtained for 92 structures; relief for several months in 58; for several weeks in 63; and for several days in 32 out of 288 pain sites followed up.
(10) Three infants presented with acute scrotal swelling, erythema, and a tender irreducible firm mass within the scrotum.
(11) Before and one, two, three, and seven days after the experiment, the following measures were made: (1) superficial masseter and anterior temporalis muscle tenderness (pain threshold), (2) jaw movement (opening and lateral excursion), and (3) current pain level for the right and left sides of the jaw.
(12) Increasing slaughter weight from 60 to 90% was associated with an increase in panel tenderness scores for loin steaks.
(13) Pericranial muscle tenderness and elevated EMG activity may index different aspects of abnormal muscle function.
(14) The results showed significant relief of spontaneous pain, significant reduction in tenderness on pressure and in swelling on days 2, 4 and 6 of the trial, and a significant reduction in functional impairment on days 4 and 6, in the patients who had received the 3% benzydamine cream.
(15) They showed symmetric weakness and tenderness of the proximal muscles, peripheral hypoesthesia and hypo even areflexia.
(16) Lamb leg and rib roasts were more tender when cooked from the thawed state.
(17) In the sensitized state, nociceptors can be activated by low-intensity stimulation; this is probably one of the mechanisms producing deep tenderness.
(18) The abdomen was tender with guarding and a palpable globular mass in the same region.
(19) A 25-year-old man on hemodialysis developed arthritis of 2 right metacarpophalangeal joints and a 65-year-old man on chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis suffered from pain and tenderness in the left buttock.
(20) Among 23 patients with daily headache a correlation was found between headache intensity and Total Tenderness Score.