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Record


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
  • (v. t.) To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.
  • (v. t.) To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.
  • (v. i.) To reflect; to ponder.
  • (v. i.) To sing or repeat a tune.
  • (v. t.) A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.
  • (v. t.) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.
  • (v. t.) An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law.
  • (v. t.) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
  • (v. t.) The various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record.
  • (v. t.) Testimony; witness; attestation.
  • (v. t.) That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.
  • (v. t.) That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.
  • (v. t.) That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
  • (2) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
  • (3) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
  • (4) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
  • (5) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
  • (6) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
  • (7) Subjects then rested supine until 10.00 h when blood was again taken, and blood pressure recorded.
  • (8) Sewel is also recorded complaining about the level of appearance allowances at the House of Lords .
  • (9) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
  • (10) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
  • (11) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
  • (12) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
  • (13) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (14) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (15) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (16) The records of 148 geriatric patients discharged from the Royal Ottawa Hospital over an 18-month period were studied.
  • (17) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
  • (18) The records of all patients treated for thymoma in the Department of Radiotherapy of the University of Torino between 1970 and 1988 were reviewed.
  • (19) Both of these species belong to the serotype B. MCAs T11 and T15, the first recorded with a specificity for only sub-serotype A2 EF, were tested further against 28 sub-serotype A2 and three sub-serotype A2B2EFs from L. tropica strains.
  • (20) The time to make the decision and the total time are automatically recorded.

Wax


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
  • (v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
  • (n.) A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.
  • (n.) Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.
  • (n.) Cerumen, or earwax.
  • (n.) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.
  • (n.) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
  • (n.) A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.
  • (n.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.
  • (n.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.
  • (n.) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.
  • (v. t.) To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
  • (2) This study shows that the sensitivity and specificity of in situ hybridisation for the detection of EBV genomes in AIDS related lymphomas approaches that of Southern blotting, even when using routinely processed archival, paraffin wax embedded material.
  • (3) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
  • (4) These were not observed in area 5, although here the distribution of callosal neurons waxed and waned in the tangential cortical plane.
  • (5) The equations of best fit of log(wax esters) vs age suggested that sebum secretion declines about 23% per decade in men and 32% per decade in women.
  • (6) Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI) can utilize paraffin wax as the sole carbon source in basal media.
  • (7) The separation of the defect margins from the reacting material by wax inhibited the bone regeneration.
  • (8) Wax D also induced small accumulations of macrophages.
  • (9) In all these cuticles the tubular filaments arise from the plasma membrane of the epidermal cells and they contain argentaffin material, regarded as sclerotin precursors, and lipid-staining material, regarded as wax precursors.
  • (10) The probe tip was a gold-plated pin, insulated from the saliva by soft wax.
  • (11) The new Poles are generally optimistic and open-minded, believing their destiny to be in their own hands, that Poland shouldn't be prisoner to its past and that the future waxes bright for their country.
  • (12) It is recommended to apply cast fillings with a replacement of the occlusive area as quickly after the wax mould as possible because of the diminished gap due to the motion of the teeth.
  • (13) Acrolein-fixed, polyester wax-embedded tissue sections showed excellent preservation of light microscopic architecture and, when stained with toluidine blue, intense color contrast between DNA, which stained orthochromatically, and RNA, which stained metachromatically.
  • (14) The use of the technique of wax-plate serial section-reconstruction, based on contiguous axial plane CT images of the upper thorax, to prepare a replica of the central air-way (trachea and major bronchi) of an infant with sling left pulmonary artery type 2B, with bridging bronchus, abortive right main bronchus, and tracheal stenosis due to absence of the tracheal pars membranacea with "ring" tracheal cartilages is described.
  • (15) When David Tennant was waxing eloquent in that legal drama The Escape Artist, no one yelled out from the jury that his watch looked bloody expensive.
  • (16) We describe a simple technique of inflation and wax impregnation for the permanent proof of congenital heart defects that can be used in routine perinatal necropsies.
  • (17) Nasopharyngeal biopsy specimens, formalin fixed and paraffin wax embedded, from 24 patients, eight with undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma, eight with well differentiated squamous carcinoma, and eight showing normal tissue histology, were analysed for the presence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA by slot-blot hybridisation on extracted unamplified DNA, and also after amplification of EBV specific sequences by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
  • (18) The wax contains a wide range of organic compounds.
  • (19) "There are plenty of things she can wax lyrical about without getting into tricky areas: the upcoming first world war centenary, the need for a more global outlook in the economy, the inspiring achievements of British parliamentary democracy."
  • (20) Free sterols, sterol esters, triglycerides, phospholipids were major components of cercarial lipids, triglycerides, wax esters, free fatty acids, squalen were major components of skin surface lipids.