(v. t.) To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.
(v. t.) To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.
(a.) Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
(n.) A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.
(n.) A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
Example Sentences:
(1) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
(2) Prostitute visit is a main risk factor, irrespective of whether the husband had a history of sexually transmitted diseases or not.
(3) It focuses on the major areas of concern: HIV prevalence among drug injectors; sexual risk behaviour; the potential for heterosexual transmission; condom use; sexual risk and women; pregnancy; male homosexual activity and drug use; the effect of drugs on sexual behaviour and prostitution.
(4) Under Lynch, the eastern district is currently prosecuting at least five cases relating to the prostitution of US minors or sex trafficking – more active prosecutions than any other US attorney’s office in the country, according to knowledgeable observers.
(5) Seroprevalence in diverse Thai groups included 6% of men with sexually transmitted diseases, 15% of prostitutes, and 6% of army recruits.
(6) These results show that in Nairobi prostitutes are a readily identifiable group of high-frequency transmitters of gonococcal infection.
(7) Compared to cases in the previous year, infectious syphilis cases among prostitutes and seasonal farm workers decreased 51.3 per cent and 26.8 per cent, respectively.
(8) "Women who are forced to become prostitutes via trafficking are examples of modern-day slavery."
(9) The city, which only allows prostitution in certain areas, also plans to spend SFr700,000 a year to keep the sex boxes running.
(10) Window prostitutes are at higher risk than club prostitutes.
(11) Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R.
(12) Two seropositive prostitutes had IgM hepatitis B core antibody suggesting recent infection.
(13) Serological results were correlated with history of intravenous drug addiction, alcohol abuse, homosexuality or prostitution (high-risk groups), and duration and number of internments.
(14) Other media reports defined that as a place used for “lewdness, assignation or prostitution.” Norfolk police had arrested Ball and another Richmond man the night before Thanksgiving when they were found together in a parked car in a local park.
(15) He did so, the judges asserted, because he was facing related charges in another case involving accusations that he paid for sex with an underage prostitute who was also a "bunga bunga" guest.
(16) The difference in the incidence of ASA between controls (5%) and the prostitutes (43.1%) was highly significant (p less than 0.01).
(17) The increasing number of HIV infected patients in the Netherlands living outside of Amsterdam, would appear to urge more education of psychiatric and other health care professionals concerning specific aspects of HIV infection, homosexuality, prostitution and intravenous drug abuse.
(18) The teak-coloured wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers in a country where prostitution has been legal since 1942 on the outskirts of the Swiss city.
(19) The article first reviews the epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among prostitutes.
(20) These prostitutes represented a reservoir for STDs including HIV.
Slit
Definition:
() 3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.
(imp. & p. p.) of Slit
(n.) To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.
(n.) To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose.
(n.) To cut; to sever; to divide.
(n.) A long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no evidence for ocular trauma, disease, or vascular malformation by slit-lamp examination and gonioscopy.
(2) In normal kidneys fixed by perfusion with tannic acid and glutaraldehyde, glomerular slit diaphragms have been reported to consist of highly ordered and isoporous substructures with a zipper-like configuration.
(3) Neutral dextran clearances for radii greater than 30 A were elevated during the PEAK period, and, concurrently, there was extensive intraglomerular microthrombosis, obliteration of foot processes, and disruption of filtration slit diaphragms.
(4) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
(5) Only 5 or 6 patients could be examined per hour with the 60D slit-lamp compared with 30-35 examined by reading retinal photographs.
(6) This flap is formed by a triangle-shaped excision combined with cranial and caudal slitting of the periosteum.
(7) Negative slit smears for AFB from the nodules repeatedly and the histology of one on the skin nodules clinched the diagnosis of multicentric reticulohistiocytosis.
(8) Incisional slit grafting utilizes larger numbers of smaller grafts than does traditional punch grafting.
(9) After amputation of the closed tip, a cap from a syringe was inserted via a slit made at the base into one prong of a pair of nasal cannulae.
(10) The use of a standard 35 mm camera with a spot metering system to take slit-lamp photographs is described.
(11) Light scatter from epithelial cells in a slit-scan flow system is modeled using the Fraunhofer condition of scalar diffraction theory.
(12) Depending on the slit width of the illumination source, a typical endothelial photomicrograph contains three or four distinct zones.
(13) By using a slit plate, scanographic arterial studies can be performed with a tomographic attachment of an X-ray unit that is normally used for routine radiographic examinations.
(14) The present study, however, qualitatively evaluates the unsharpness of redundant shadows of the mandibular ramus, especially with reference to the effects of first-slit width.
(15) Microcirculation is clearly visible and can be observed on the conjunctival mucosa by means of any microscope and notably with the slit lamp microscope of ophtalmologists.
(16) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
(17) For the purpose of covering the demerits of the conventional sliding tube, a new slit sliding tube which is made up of three parts was devised by us.
(18) The optimal slit width in the ordinary roentgenokymographic device was found to equal 0.5+0.03 mm, and in the protected roentgenokymographic device the investigation of adults and children indicated 0.15+0.02 and 0.22+0.02 mm, respectively.
(19) Sequential photomicrographs of RBCs passing through interendothelial slits (IES) in walls of venous sinuses in rat spleen were obtained by video recording in vivo microscopic views.
(20) At both stages and with both dextran fractions the following results were obtained: (a) dextran was retained for up to 3 h (the longest interval studied) in the plasma at high concentration; (b) there was a sharp drop in the concentration of tracer between the inner, looser portions of the basement membrane (lamina rara interna) and its outer denser portions (lamina densa), (c) accumulation of dextran was seen in the mesangial areas with time; and (d) no accumulation of dextran was seen in the slits at any time.