(n.) A New Zealand forest tree (Metrosideros robusta), also, its hard dark red wood, used by the Maoris for paddles and war clubs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment appeared to have a suppressive effect on RATA, but not on ATA titers, in hypothroid patients with clinical thyroiditis.
(2) Using preselected screening criteria, 663 with specific occlusal features were selected and an additional 355 children with nonspecific features were randomly allocated on a pro-rata basis.
(3) Medical utilization has been risen with the level of services offered more than pro rata to population increase.
(4) City's punishment for breaching Uefa's financial fair-play regulations means they will be restricted to a 21-man Champions League squad next season and it is possible that could mean a pro-rata reduction in the number of home-grown players they must include.
(5) By the time I reached the Laban Rata rest house, I had been climbing for about six hours, seen three different species of rare pitcher plants , but decided that climbing mountains was definitely not something I would be making a habit of.
(6) We redesign the National Insurance (NI) system so that the state can limit the supply of new NI numbers in one category: private sector job offers on less than a certain wage (for example £18,000 a year pro-rata).
(7) Surely it should be pro-rata to the size of what you're doing?"
(8) However, Yentob's salary was described as the "full-time equivalent of his pro rata salary for reduced hours".
(9) Addition of sodium nitrite to BRP extracts increases acid-activatable vasodilator activity pro rata.
(10) Institution of therapy was associated with a fall in copper excretion pro rata with time.
(11) The National Trust , which employs many of its seasonal workers on zero-hours contracts, said it offered the same pay and benefits to those workers, pro rata, as full-time staff, but needed some workers to be on a more flexible arrangement.
(12) No patient who had initially negative serum for RATA subsequently had positive tests during follow-up of five to 24 months, whereas eight of 31 patients with initially negative serum for ATA later developed positive tests.
(13) "[We will] account to artists a good-faith pro rata share of any revenues and other compensation from digital services that stem from the monetisation of recordings but are not attributed to specific recordings or performances," they wrote.
(14) The comparison for any given metabolite is made, keeping the same level of predicted intracellular concentration as in traditional Kiil treatments, and it is found that the number of treatment hours per week may be reduced pro rata as the dialyzer clearance is increased.
(15) He was handed 1.5m shares in 2012 under the 10-year share plan and will receive a portion of his award on a pro-rata basis.
(16) Taken together, these results showed lung burdens rising pro rata with exposure concentration and exposure time.
(17) They could guarantee the losses in the same way as they underwrite the World Bank: each government would provide a modest pro-rata capital infusion and commit the rest in the form of callable capital that would be available if and when losses are actually paid out.
(18) Neo natal oestrogenisation of the male rata provoke at 3 months : 1) a reduction of the insulin secretion at the glucose loading with all the diets 2) hypercholesterolemia with the diet rich in saturated fats 3) hypertriglyceridemia with diets rich in M.C.T.
(19) If there is any money left over for the creditors, they need to work out what they can afford to pay and contact creditors making 'pro rata' offers.
(20) Patients with symptomatic Wilson's disease had by far the highest excretion of radiocopper in all three time periods which fell after treatment, pro rata with time, as had been found for stable copper.
Rate
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.
(n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
(n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.
(n.) Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
(n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.
(n.) Order; arrangement.
(n.) Ratification; approval.
(n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
(n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.
(n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.
(v. t.) To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
(v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
(v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
(v. t.) To ratify.
(v. i.) To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.
(v. i.) To make an estimate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Child benefit has already been withdrawn from higher rate taxpayers.
(2) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(3) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(4) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(5) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
(6) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(7) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(8) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(9) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(10) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
(11) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
(12) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(13) The second amino acid residue influences not only the rate of reaction but also the extent of formation of the product of the Amadori rearrangement, the ketoamine.
(14) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
(15) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(16) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(17) This difference is probably secondary to the different rates of delivery of furosemide into urine.
(18) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(19) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(20) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.