(a.) To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.
(a.) To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed.
(a.) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced.
(v. i.) To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb.
(v. i.) To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.
Example Sentences:
(1) And so I would stare at a discarded popcorn box, a spilled drink or simply the darkness that disappeared into the seat ahead of me – listening carefully to quickening breaths – allowing the film’s soundscape to caress me.
(2) The resultant kinetic model can produce a response that overshoots, quickens, and eventually saturates as the input intensity is increased.
(3) Psychophysiological observations, especially PETCO2 and EEG, during relaxation training with deep-diaphragmatic breathing and mental imagery, suggest that the addition of certain types of music "deepens" breathing and quickens relaxation: PETCO2 "normalizes" with decreased respiration rate, and EEG shows decreased average theta and increased alpha.
(4) Interest in the problem of anteroposterior specification has quickened because of our near understanding of the mechanism in Drosophila and because of the homology of Antennapedia-like homeobox gene expression patterns in Drosophila and vertebrates.
(5) Restriction endonuclease analysis and DNA hybridization techniques create new potentials for old methods, and the human gene map is becoming more dense with mapped loci at an ever quickening pace.
(6) While he had beefed up his staff and hoped to quicken the speed of his work, he insisted it was not his problem to worry ultimately about delays.
(7) There has been pointed out that long-lasting intake of ethanol quickens the metabolism of testosterone in the liver.
(8) They showed GDP growth quickened to 6.8% for October-December, the first quarterly acceleration for two years and ahead of economists’ forecasts for growth to hold at 6.7%.
(9) The scoring, of singles at least, has quickened since Prior arrived at the wicket - I wonder whether, if, the rate is still roughly four, with 20 to go and with these two still in, they too might start to wonder.
(10) Guns will not be allowed into the convention itself, which is being held inside the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland and policed by the secret service, or inside a tight perimeter immediately surrounding the venue.
(11) Yet in cruising through qualifying, occasionally offering a glimpse of hope through Kane or Sterling but more often failing to quicken the pulse, Hodgson has quelled any talk of mutiny but will likely go into another major tournament with the usual nagging concerns.
(12) They had been in title contention until the visit to Chelsea on 22 March and so in one sense, the top-four place – the bare minimum requirement of the season – has failed to quicken the pulses.
(13) There is a quickening of excitement around the place.
(14) Robson then earns himself four, easing a punch through cover - the afternoon sun has quickly quickened the outfield.
(15) English and Scottish common law held that abortion after quickening was illegal.
(16) We love you Ivanka!” a male voice from the floor cried as the 34-year-old businesswoman and former model stepped up to the GOP convention podium at the Quicken Loans arena.
(17) Quickened the pace in midfield with some snappy passing and clever movement.
(18) To be sure, a number of sports venues have indeed helped revitalise surrounding neighbourhoods – take Progressive Field and Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Coors Field in Denver, or Petco Park in San Diego, all of them squeezed into dense, walkable areas.
(19) In some respects, he is a controversial choice, even if he is one to quicken the pulse, with Sir Alex Ferguson, Keane's former manager at Manchester United, being heavily critical of him in his recently published autobiography.
(20) We determined the gestational age at the time of initial auscultation of fetal heart tones with an ordinary fetoscope, and its relationship to quickening, parity, and placenta location.
Radius
Definition:
(n.) A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere.
(n.) The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
(n.) A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2.
(n.) The barbs of a perfect feather.
(n.) Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates.
(n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(2) The radius is estimated to be around 1.7 nm, which shows a moderate degree of hydration.
(3) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
(4) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(5) Modifications in quaternary structure induced by variation of these physicochemical parameters were followed by means of X-ray and quasi-elastic light-scattering and quantified in terms of weight average molecular weight (M), radius of gyration (Rg) and hydrodynamic radius (Rh).
(6) From the different shapes of the scattering curves of the native phosphofructokinase at pH 7.5 in the presence of 15 mM ATP and of the cross-linked tetramer or octamer, it can be inferred that the shapes of the protomers are different: in the presence of ATP the protomers are elongated, having an axial ratio of 1.8 to 2.0; the cross-linked state reveals a spherical protomer of radius 33.0 A, similar to that of the native enzyme at pH 7.5 in the presence of fructose 6-phosphate or fructose 1,6-bisphosphate.
(7) The radius of curvature was shorter in the former than in the latter.
(8) Fluid flow increased approximately 50% for each gauge catheter when the height was raised from 0.91 to 1.75 m. Flow rates increased linearly with increasing catheter radius.
(9) The effect of increasing acetylcholine concentration can best be explained by postulating an increase in the effective channel radius of the water secretion pathway from 0.40 nm to 0.45 nm together with a small increase in the fraction of the total water flow passing through larger non-selective pores.
(10) Recently recovered hominid postcrania from Member 1, Swartkrans Formation include the proximal and distal ends of a right radius attributed to a single individual of Paranthropus robustus.
(11) The binding protein has a Stokes radius of 2.49 nm when saturated with cobalamin and 2.61 nm when unsaturated.
(12) The brace extended from the proximal radius and ulna to the level of the radial styloid and allowed a full range of movement at the radiocarpal joint.
(13) During a period of almost ten years with 280 cases, experience has been gathered in connection with the immobilisation of radius fractures, in the vicinity of the wrist, by means of the fixateur externe.
(14) A report is given on a small-for-date male infant showing the following symptoms: bilateral aplasia of humerus, radius, and ulna, shortened femora, bilateral cleft lip and cleft palate, stigmata of dysmorphism, and notably; simple helix formation of the ear, simian crease, clinodactylia, bilateral clubfoot deformity, hypospadia, thrombocytopenia, micrognathia, and contractures in the knee joints.
(15) The radius of the spheres depends upon the suspending medium and the hematocrit.
(16) The modulus of elasticity was derived by combining the velocity of ultrasound measurements and photon absorption (Norland-Cameron method) in human cortical bone (proximal radius) in vivo.
(17) The particle exhibits a Stokes radius of 43 A, which, together with the calculated particle volume, indicates an axial ratio close to 1.
(18) A single pore radius of 40 A and a pore density of 600 cm-2 were satisfactory.
(19) We have compared BUA in 24 female subjects with the separate measurement of trabecular and cortical bone in the distal radius using quantitative computed tomography (QCT).
(20) The proximal radius grew 3.5 cm, and the ulna grew 3.4 cm.