(v. t.) To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.
(v. t.) To supply; to afford; to contribute.
(v. t.) To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.
(v. t.) To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.
(v. t.) To foresee.
(v. t.) To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.
(v. i.) To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.
(v. i.) To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.
Example Sentences:
(1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(4) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(5) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(6) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
(7) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
(8) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
(9) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(10) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
(11) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(12) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(13) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(14) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
(15) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(16) Determination of the primary structure for factor V has provided the basis for examination of structure-function relationships.
(17) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
(18) Providers used the tests significantly more often to evaluate patients with cancer risk factors or for new patients.
(19) These results provide evidence that trait selection can change gonadotrophin receptor concentration and the dynamics of hormone secretion during the oestrous cycle of the mouse.
(20) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
Steam
Definition:
(n.) The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.
(n.) The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage.
(n.) Any exhalation.
(v. i.) To emit steam or vapor.
(v. i.) To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.
(v. i.) To move or travel by the agency of steam.
(v. i.) To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.
(v. t.) To exhale.
(v. t.) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) During periods of wet steam it was impossible to maintain consistent sterility of the mouse pellets even using a cycle of 126 degrees C for 60 minutes.
(2) It could perhaps be used in natural gas stations, where a synthetic gas is first produced by reacting the methane with steam to produce carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
(3) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
(4) 3) In all age groups the foods most ingested were: steamed rice, wakame, tofu, bread, scallions, Japanese omelette, and tomatoes.
(5) The LMA exacerbated the issue on Thursday night with a statement of its own, in which Mackay apologised for sending texts that “were disrespectful to other cultures” but he “was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter”.
(6) Yet they seem ignorant of what's steaming down the track towards them.
(7) But Soriot sounds like a boss who would prefer to succeed under his own steam.
(8) Beans were steamed-blanched at 100 degrees C for 2 minutes, and then canned and autoclaved at 121 degrees C for 10 minutes.
(9) Both those models are running out of steam," he said.
(10) But Spurs built up a final head of steam and after Gomes punched clear Trippier’s initial cross, a second fell to Son at the near post and he back-heeled the ball past Gomes.
(11) Do not write a steaming novella to the chair of governors complaining that your son’s civil rights have been denied.
(12) Building CHP stations near industrial sites means that the heat can be piped into factories or buildings as high pressure steam or hot water.
(13) Acid hydrolysis followed by steam distillation released more than 95% of the acetyl groups from the two major nucleoproteins.
(14) "For example, making use of more rigorous testing methodologies pre-launch to improve game quality and prevent SimCity-style launch debacles; engaging with, listening to and rewarding its games' communities more readily; learning from, rather than dismissing, the successful practices of competitors such as Steam, etc."
(15) The meat preserves had been prepared in a butcher's shop and heated in a "cooking pot", the steam holes of which had been stopped up and the lid of which had been made heavier in order to reach a temperature above 100 degrees C. Inadequate sterilization and errors in processing are suggested as possible causes.
(16) It added: "These were two text messages sent in private at a time Malky felt under great pressure and when he was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter."
(17) Data are presented which show the potential for release of viable microorganisms into the atmosphere from high-vacuum steam sterilizers during the evacuation cycle preceding application of steam under pressure.
(18) 2 Drop in the camomile flowers (or a camomile teabag) and keep at a steeping temperature – no bubbles, just gentle steaming.
(19) He steamed with anger and, although it was encouraging to see him stand up to the rough stuff, there may yet be an anxious wait on scan results.
(20) The excessive heat and sweating was related to the use of a hot tub, a hot water bottle, a steam bath, an electric blanket, the prolonged wearing of a polyester suit, and postoperative bed confinement.