(v. t.) To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
(v. i.) To lean or incline; as, to recline against a wall.
(v. i.) To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch.
(v. t.) Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining.
Example Sentences:
(1) All examinations were performed during winter on reclined relaxed subjects present for at least 10 min in a test room with controlled temperature and relative humidity (t degrees: 19.5-20.7 degrees C and RH: 47.3-60.3%).
(2) 50 min after each subject had consumed an amount of water equal to 1% of his body weight, he reclined on a cot.
(3) Surface electrodes measured electromyographic activity of the low-back extensor, hip adductor and ankle plantar-flexor muscles when the body was at 0 degree (upright) and 30 degrees (recline) relative to the vertical.
(4) The short-term antiorthostatic position was associated with a disordered hormonal control, reduced plasma aldosterone and enhanced plasma renin activity, as compared to the respective parameters of the reclining position.
(5) Patients scoring high on the Pain Control and Rational Thinking factor of the CSQ were much less functionally impaired, walked a 5 m course more rapidly and moved from a standing to a sitting or reclining position more quickly than patients scoring low on this factor.
(6) There are smaller innovations whose simplicity prompts the question of why they weren't introduced earlier: holders for cups separate from the pull-down meal trays, and a reclining function that pushes your backside and legs forward rather than thrusting the back of your chair into the face of the person behind.
(7) The Cat reclined on a pile of mattresses in his tent.
(8) I would recline back and listen to music, and read the paper or a book I thought would impress her.
(9) The patients were examined in reclined position, the head retroflected.
(10) In contrast, a backrest-only recline of 20 degrees causes a 25% increase in the surface shear force.
(11) The scapular region is from 1 to 2 deg F hotter than the sacral region for subjects reclining on Mylar.
(12) Specific changes were detected in the gel patterns which could be correlated with the loss of muscle function as measured by the exhaustion score (the ability of chicks to rise from a reclining position) in three experimental groups (exhaustion scores: less than 3, 10-20, greater than 30).
(13) The enormous amounts of activity in the subjects required the detector to be positioned at a height of 2.05 m. Subjects were required to wear disposable clothing and lie on a reclining, fiberglass chair.
(14) Small amounts of water and taste solutions were applied to the posterior tongue of the subject as he reclined on a dental chair.
(15) Within the limitations of the study (no counterbalancing of order and twice as many ABPM measures as watch measures), we found significant differences in frequency of being at home or in miscellaneous settings, in standing and reclining positions, and in mental, physical and miscellaneous activities between the two occasions.
(16) Subjects were seated reclining 30 degrees from upright, and respiratory muscle weakness was produced by pancuronium bromide until RC inspiratory capacity was decreased to 60% of control.
(17) To determine whether the left space that is neglected after right hemisphere lesions is body centered or environment centered, we asked patients with right hemisphere stroke and normal controls to report the contents of spatial arrays of objects or words, either while seated or while reclining on their side.
(18) Six young males, resting in a dorsal reclining position, were exposed successively to a thermoneutral environment (30 min), a cold environment (1 degrees C; cold) or thermoneutrality (control) for 120 min, and during a 60-min recovery period in thermoneutral conditions.
(19) Then, they exercised using a bicycle ergometer in a semi-reclining position for 45 min at 40% of maximal oxygen uptake.
(20) However, Rupert Murdoch was sitting in the editor’s chair while Larry reclined on the settee the other side of the room.
Tilt
Definition:
(n.) A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
(n.) The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.
(n.) A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended over the sternsheets of a boat.
(v. t.) To cover with a tilt, or awning.
(v. t.) To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel.
(v. t.) To point or thrust, as a lance.
(v. t.) To point or thrust a weapon at.
(v. t.) To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel in order to render it more ductile.
(v. i.) To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances.
(v. i.) To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
(n.) A thrust, as with a lance.
(n.) A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants attacked each other with lances; a tournament.
(n.) See Tilt hammer, in the Vocabulary.
(n.) Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tilt was reproduced with a typical spread of about 10 degrees.
(2) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(3) Moreover, the majority of the 'out of phase' units showed an increased discharge during side-up animal tilt and side-down neck rotation.
(4) It appears impossible to define a "positive" tilt test that would adequately identify patients with clinically significant dehydration or blood loss; this is due to the large variance in patients' orthostatic measurements both in a healthy and in an ill state and the lack of a significant correlation of orthostatic measurements to a level of dehydration.
(5) The most frequently occurring signs were: tilting of the disc (89%), oblique direction of the vessels (89%) and myopic astigmatism (96%).
(6) Patellar subluxation may improve substantially following either lateral release or anteromedial tibial tubercle transfer, but this study suggests that correction of subluxation is less consistent than reduction of abnormal tilt with tibial tubercle transfer or lateral release alone.
(7) The calculated separation between the centers of these two pigments (using an extended version of the exciton theory) is about 10 A, the pigments' molecular planes are tilted by about 20 degrees, and their N1-N3 axes are rotated by 150 degrees relative to each other.
(8) The diagnostic criterion was a difference in talar tilt of 6 or more degrees between the injured and uninjured foot on inversion stress radiographs.
(9) Failure was more likely with a subluxated, tilted, or excessively thick patella or flexed femoral component.
(10) Past measurements have shown that the intensity range is reduced at the extremes of the F0 range, that there is a gradual upward tilt of the high- and low-intensity boundaries with increasing F0, and that a ripple exists at the boundaries.
(11) Pulmonary ventilation parameters (breathing depth, frequency and minute volume, and alveolar ventilation) of 5 healthy male test subjects who performed a 20-minute tilt test were analyzed.
(12) Nonspecific baroreflex loading maneuvers such as head-down tilt readily suppress stimulated arginine vasopressin levels in normal humans.
(13) Meanwhile, among hepatic and systemic hemodynamics, wedged hepatic venous pressure, hepatic venous pressure gradient, free hepatic venous pressure, cardiac index, systolic blood pressure, systemic vascular resistance, and stroke volume were found to have changed significantly after tilting.
(14) Among the implications of the less-than-impressive substantive results of the MWTA is the lesson that while a crisis can tilt the political balance in favor of regulatory legislation, it cannot as readily produce the consensus required to sustain that regulation at the levels promised in the legislation.
(15) Whole body tilt from supine to 45 degrees head-up was associated with increased heart rate and an insignificant rise in MABP in both groups, although a rise in plasma AVP occurred in control subjects only.
(16) During tilt, both systolic (S) blood pressure (BP) (p less than 0.01) and diastolic (D) BP (p less than 0.05) increased in HT, but not in NT.
(17) Three trials on the tilting plane significantly elevated the corticosterone concentration in saline-treated ANT rats, but produced no additional increase in drug-treated ANT rats.
(18) The transition moment either tilts further into the membrane or loses some of its axial orientation, or both.
(19) All initially positive patients were rendered tilt negative by therapy.
(20) Midodrine significantly increased the basal rate of cardiac output and attenuated the decrease in cardiac output induced by the tilt.