(v. t.) To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.
(n.) The attribute of being so much, and not more or less; the property of being measurable, or capable of increase and decrease, multiplication and division; greatness; and more concretely, that which answers the question "How much?"; measure in regard to bulk or amount; determinate or comparative dimensions; measure; amount; bulk; extent; size.
(n.) The extent or extension of a general conception, that is, the number of species or individuals to which it may be applied; also, its content or comprehension, that is, the number of its constituent qualities, attributes, or relations.
(n.) The measure of a syllable; that which determines the time in which it is pronounced; as, the long or short quantity of a vowel or syllable.
(n.) The relative duration of a tone.
(n.) That which can be increased, diminished, or measured; especially (Math.), anything to which mathematical processes are applicable.
(n.) A determinate or estimated amount; a sum or bulk; a certain portion or part; sometimes, a considerable amount; a large portion, bulk, or sum; as, a medicine taken in quantities, that is, in large quantities.
Example Sentences:
(1) By 24 hr, rough endoplasmic reticulum in thecal cells increased from 4.2 to 7% of cell volume, while the amount in granulosa cells increased from less than 3.5% to more than 10%; the quantity remained relatively constant in the theca but declined to prestimulation values in the granulosa layer.
(2) The amino acid pools in Chinese hamster lung V79 cells were measured as a function of time during hyperthermic exposure at 40.5 degrees and 45.0 degrees C. Sixteen of the 20 protein amino acids were present in sufficient quantity to measure accurately.
(3) The influence of calcium ions on the electrophoretic properties of phospholipid stabilized emulsions containing various quantities of the sodium salts of oleic acid (SO), phosphatidic acid (SPA), phosphatidylinositol (SPI), and phosphatidylserine (SPS) was examined.
(4) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
(5) It is an intriguing moment: the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, who was brought in to replace Maria Miller last month, is something of an unknown quantity.
(6) Lipoprotein electrophoresis on agarose gel has been modified to allow estimation of the absolute quantity of each fraction.
(7) Throughout the entire cultivation cytidyl derivatives occurred in trace quantities.
(8) However, in this last group, a significant negative relationship between the quantity of acetaldehyde bound to microsomal proteins and the monooxygenase-catalyzed transformation of butanol by liver microsomes was demonstrated (r = -0.79, P less than 0.01).
(9) With an increased quantity o blood per taking by blood bactericidia a decreased contamination rate is to be expected.
(10) The relative quantities of specific HLA-A and -B antigens on lymphocytes were also noted to be the same as those on platelets.
(11) Based on the economics of most countries in Africa, their Health Budgets can afford mostly the non-opioid and strong opioid drugs in more or less adequate quantities.
(12) On the other hand, the injection of minute quantities of endotoxin into PbAc(2)-sensitized rats invariably resulted in disseminated intravascular coagulation, apparently via a complete activation of the intrinsic pathway.
(13) The department of dietetics at a large teaching hospital has substantially reduced its food and labor costs through use of computerized systems that ensure efficient inventory management, recipe standardization, ingredient control, quantity and quality control, and identification of productive man-hours and appropriate staffing levels.
(14) The quantity of immunoreactive insulin found in the urine is believed to reflect the level of free insulin in the serum.
(15) At first Kupffer cells and liver fibroblasts were taken on the equal quantity.
(16) As monitored by in vivo near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR), no improvement was noted after 50% O2 whereas 50% O2-5% CO2 resulted in increased perfusion, an oxidation of cytochrome a,a3, an increase in oxyhemoglobin, and reduced quantities of de-oxyhemoglobin (p less than 0.01) despite a further increase in intracranial pressure.
(17) Measurable quantities of temefos were found in the snails within 1 day after the first treatment with a 2% granular formulation but 3 weeks elapsed before uptake occurred following treatment with a temefos emulsion.
(18) By contrast, SAP-35, the major surfactant-associated glycoprotein of molecular weight = 35,000, and other higher molecular weight proteins were not detected in significant quantities in the CLSE or surfactant-TA replacement surfactants, either by highly sensitive silver stain analysis or by immunoblot using monospecific antisera generated against bovine SAP-35.
(19) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(20) The fact that it is still used is regrettable yet unavoidable at present, but the average quantity is three times less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by burning the extra coal need to power equivalent incandescent bulbs.
Wheen
Definition:
(n.) A quantity; a goodly number.
Example Sentences:
(1) In hindsight it seemed inevitable that Wheen would gravitate to the Eye.
(2) But even Wheen didn't believe his long-cherished 70s project would ever capture the zeitgeist.
(3) Wheen says he immediately realised not all publications were like the late 70s Statesman.
(4) The Eye, as it likes to be known, still holds its legendary lunches at Soho's Coach and Horses pub, where fish pie or fish and chips is eaten, wine drunk and gossip shared with editor Ian Hislop , his deputy Francis Wheen, Hislop's predecessor Richard Ingrams and other Eye hacks.
(5) On another occasion the late Robert Maxwell went on a television chat show to announce that, "My lawyers have told me that I would win £1m in damages from Mr Wheen for what he has said about me - but I don't need £1m."
(6) Although Hislop was a keen student performer, and took a revue show to Edinburgh with Imogen Stubbs , he is not, says Wheen, "a great one for showbusiness".
(7) At the Statesman, Wheen didn't just proof the crossword.
(8) After prep school, Wheen was sent to Harrow which was "academically terrible.
(9) Sometime in the early 1980s, Francis Wheen first heard about a peculiar dinner that had taken place at the Rio Tinto-Zinc company flat in May 1975.
(10) " Wheen does not record any speeches by Hislop's enemies, though there are enough of them to fill several coaches.
(11) "He [Hislop] kept a story out of Private Eye recently," Wheen adds, "because he thought the person it was about was a bit mentally fragile, and he didn't want to be responsible for him doing any harm to himself.
(12) Although it is a grim time for print media, Private Eye has actually increased its circulation, and Wheen says that is partly due to what it does and how it is run.
(13) He is good friends with John Sessions and Harry Enfield from their time working together on Spitting Image but, Wheen says, "he does like to keep parts of his life separate from others.
(14) Wheen's partner since the mid 90s, and the mother of his two teenage sons, is the writer Julia Jones.
(15) Almost since arriving in Fleet Street Wheen had contributed to Private Eye, and when he took a break from full-time journalism in the mid 80s to write his book about Tom Driberg, the newly appointed editor, Ian Hislop, "conned him into coming in a few days a week.
(16) · This is an extract from the introduction to Francis Wheen's book, Hoo-Hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism 1991 -2001
(17) "Every 10 years he gets a bit drunk in the evening and wakes up with his contact lenses in," says Francis Wheen , one of the first people Hislop signed up when he became editor and now his de facto deputy.
(18) Allied to Wheen's belief that "amnesia is the handmaiden of hypocrisy" and you have what has been described as "a one-man Reuters".
(19) Christopher Hitchens was there, and Wheen shared an office with Duncan Campbell, who at the time was on trial at the Old Bailey under the Official Secrets Act.
(20) "He's always been terrifically nice to me," Wheen agrees.