(v.) A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.
(v.) A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.
(v. i.) To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.
(v. t.) To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) They remain organised by ethnicity, but unlike in Raffles’ day, the PAP’s idea wasn’t to separate the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and the rest, but to carefully integrate them – so the demographics of each block reflect the demographics of Singapore as a whole, in theory preventing the formation of volatile ethnic enclaves.
(2) The vascular mantles of the endochondral layer of labyrinthine bone in dog (Canis f. intermedius Woldrich) and monkey (Pithecus fascicularis Raffl.)
(3) Raffles hitch-hiked ahead of the troupe, often sleeping rough, to busk for new bookings.
(4) On transforming from their original round shape, the induced cells displayed the well-developed microvilli, spindles, or raffles that are characteristic of macrophages or dendrocytes.
(5) Well I am being uber-careful but there are SO many secrets around that it is quite hard to keep track, Oik says to forget the Black & White Ball even happened, especially the peerage raffle & I think it is still secret about Chope and Bone, because Bone has not told Mrs Bone they are in love yet & it is deffo a total secret about my shop party because of the whole not-being-allowed-to-capitalise thing?
(6) The response rate in the 1762 who were told about the raffle was no higher than for 950 subjects who served as controls.
(7) The event included a barbecue, drinks and a raffle, with prizes of vodka, champagne and a biography of Vladimir Putin .
(8) TO CELEBRATE THAT DEAL The classic Singapore Sling cocktail at the Raffles hotel.
(9) "Mildly ischaemic" cells featured raffled and invaginated cell surfaces, reduced matrix density, disorientated mitochondrial cristae due to swelling, and giant mitochondria.
(10) At a 2003 charity gala for the Florida-based Unicorn Children’s Foundation a misunderstanding over a raffle prize announcement resulted in a police investigation that lasted nearly a month.
(11) Then, in February 1953, Littlewood and Raffles rented the Theatre Royal, Angel Lane, E15, for £20 a week, a dilapidated palace of varieties reeking of cat urine.
(12) Today’s Singapore is far more precisely the result of Lee Kuan Yew’s vision than the Manchester of the East ever was of Sir Stamford Raffles’,” wrote science fiction author William Gibson in Wired magazine in 1993, three years after Yew stepped down.
(13) Exhausted and miserable, she walked out at the crowning moment when she and Raffles had managed to buy the theatre.
(14) But the second world war intervened and he had to go to the local Raffles College instead, where he acquired some basic economics, and met his future wife, Kwa Geok Choo.
(15) Obama had made an impromptu visit to Stonehenge , just a mile from Janice and James Raffle's home.
(16) Fashion parades, balls, raffles, and weekly deductions from thousands of workers' pay packets were integral to success of the Cancer Appeal-a-thon in the Illawarra region.
(17) We ran a letter-writing campaign, a big fundraising effort; coffee mornings, raffles, a black-tie ball.
(18) Her relationship with McColl was over and Gerry Raffles, handsome and nine years younger, had to her amazement, fallen wholeheartedly in love with her: their bond was to last more than 30 years.
(19) The gastric mucosa changes induced by enterogastric reflux remain to interest, thus, 20 patients with surgical duodenal ulcer disease were studied, and after raffle, they consisted in 2 groups of 10 patients each, in which were performed antrectomy and truncal vagotomy, with reestablishment of the gastrointestinal continuity, in the group I, through a Billroth II gastrojejunostomy, and, in the group II, by a Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy.
(20) Janice Raffle took to Twitter, saying: "I can see president Obama!
Transit
Definition:
(n.) The act of passing; passage through or over.
(n.) The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.
(n.) A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.
(n.) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.
(n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary.
(n.) An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; -- called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.
(v. t.) To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(2) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(3) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(4) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(5) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
(6) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
(7) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(8) Biotin-avidin immunoperoxidase analysis for hCG was performed on all paraffin blocks containing carcinoma-in-situ, grade I, grade II, and grade III transitional cell carcinoma.
(9) The growth of transitional epithelial cells with different growth media and growth supports was examined.
(10) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
(11) The B cell epitopes included regions of transition between the more hydropathic (including the N-terminal end of the F1 and F2 protein) and hydrophilic sequences.
(12) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(13) In addition, transitional macrophages with both positive granules and positive RER, nuclear envelope, negative Golgi apparatus (as in exudate- resident macrophages in vivo), and mature macrophages with peroxidatic activity only in the RER and nuclear envelope (as in resident macrophages in vivo) were found.
(14) Interphase death thus involves a discrete, abrupt transition from the normal state and is not merely the consequence of progressive and degenerative changes.
(15) Sialosyl-Tn antigen expression also was observed in intestinal metaplasia of the stomach and in transitional mucosa adjacent to the colorectal carcinoma, which are considered to be cancer-related lesions.
(16) Refolding was observed by injection of denatured protein into columns having isocratic concentrations in the transition and native base-line zones.
(17) The mutant ribosomes prepared from the transition-phase cells have much lower activity (below 60%) for poly(U)-directed polyphenylalanine synthesis than those in exponentially growing or resting stationary-phase cells.
(18) Aside from typical nuclear spheroids, irregularly shaped nuclei were frequently seen, associated with increased nuclear folds, transitional stages between nuclear folds and nuclear spheroids were also present.
(19) The surface film transition is especially noted in the pressure-area curve of the surfactant and approximates in two dimensions the broad thermotropic phase transition of the bulk phase surfactant.
(20) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.