(v. t.) To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.
(v. t.) To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.
(v. t.) To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.
(v. i.) To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.
(v. i.) To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.
(n.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
(2) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(3) Any MP who claims this is not statutory regulation is a liar, and should be forced to retract and apologise, or face a million pound fine.
(4) During the first 15 to 20 min of metamorphosis the larval arms are retracted and resorbed into the aboral surface of the juvenile.
(5) • Written, oral and video statements of self-incrimination and self-renunciation by the detainees, apparently induced by the authorities, have been released through official media channels (for example, lawyer Zhang Kai was induced to make such a statement, which he later retracted).
(6) Duane's retraction syndrome is a congenital eye movement disorder characterized by a deficiency of abduction, mild limitation of adduction, with retraction and narrowing of the palpebral fissure on attempted adduction.
(7) Axonal trees display differential growth during development or regeneration; that is, some branches stop growing and often retract while other branches continue to grow and form stable synaptic connections.
(8) She said she was not worried by Rubio’s one-time position on his immigration bill, later retracted, that he could not support reform if it included citizenship for gay couples.
(9) Useful differential morphological criteria can be: star-like or transverse ring-shaped profile of isolated ulcerations, tubular ileocolic junction with retracted cecum and open valve, and uniformity of lesion in the comprehensive picture of the clinical case.
(10) Both require more brain retraction and have greater risk to the facial nerve than the translabyrinthine approach.
(11) Unlike posterior tympanoplasty, this technique makes it possible to meticulously remove the osteitic bone invariably found in the facial recess when there is infection of the retraction pocket.
(12) In the third patient laparotomy was applied owing to the bleeding from the retracted, cut uterine artery.
(13) Because of laboratory and clinical observation that recurrent nerve paralysis retracts the involved vocal cord from the midline, it was proposed that deliberate section of the recurrent nerve would improve the vocal quality of patients with spastic dysphonia.
(14) Seven to 30 days following axotomy the volume of the hypoglossal nucleus was significantly diminished, undoubtedly reflecting dendritic retraction (P less than 0.05).
(15) Contacts resulting in collapse and retraction were often accompanied by a rapid and transient burst of lamellipodial activity along the neurite 30-50 microns proximal to the retracting growth cone.
(16) At three, six, and twelve months after the first operation the development of retraction pockets was also studied.
(17) The anchoring wire can also be retracted and repositioned.
(18) The right occipital lobe is retracted laterally from the falx cerebri.
(19) These experiments demonstrated that accessory abducens is a primary controller of eye retraction through its axons to retractor bulbi.
(20) A commercial system for producing retracted compensators has been adapted to suit local needs, and is evaluated here.
Tact
Definition:
(n.) The sense of touch; feeling.
(n.) The stroke in beating time.
(n.) Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tactful management of difficult situations can avoid the risks of violence.
(2) Species with alternative reproductive tacts are good models to investigate the poorly understood question of whether individual variation within sexes results from the same physiological mechanisms that control variation between sexes.
(3) Transfer from tact to mand contingencies was investigated in two adults with severe mental retardation.
(4) Results are discussed in terms of tacting and manding.
(5) Two thyroidectomized calves excreted 44% more radioiodine in urine and 38% less in feces than two thyroid-tact calves.
(6) This is why the indigenous claim for plurinationality has been seen as a threat to the unity (or centrality) of the state, instead of being tactfully addressed in accordance with the constitution.
(7) In tact with an increasing number of pathologica-NSTs and with worsening CTG pathology score, a significant increase was found for cesarean section rate, acute operative delivery, low Apgar score, low umbilical cord artery pH and infants born small for gestational age or clinically dysmature.
(8) In the resulting book, Public Faces, he described his character Jane Campbell as “a woman of tact, gaiety, and determination … a confident woman.
(9) Iran's president Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that its "rights to enrichment" of uranium were "red lines" that would not be crossed and that the Islamic Republic had acted rationally and tactfully during the negotiations, according to Iranian media reports quoted by Reuters.
(10) It is emphasized that prompt diagnosis, full support and responsible and tactful handling are essential in dealing with a condition as delicate as pseudocyesis.
(11) Andy Elvin is chief executive of fostering and adoption charity Tact
(12) Lo-Tact-1 mAb directed at the IL2 binding site of the IL2R alpha chain had only a marginal effect.
(13) Mands for two of three utensils emerged following tact intervention.
(14) Interviewers must be tactful.” They need to try to clarify discrepancies and if they’re not convinced or the stories don’t add up, and the client has the right to explain anything that may have been misconstrued.
(15) These face-to-face approaches emphasize a tactful, supportive and facilitative role; in some cases, emphasis is put on helping physicians overcome barriers to appropriate prescribing (e.g.
(16) A seminar like this can provide students, and thus future therapists and student supervisors, with a solid background in dealing more tactfully with a variety of conflict-ridden situations in the workplace.
(17) Vandals have left none of the mall’s glass storefronts in tact – “kids coming in and breaking shit,” Lawless explains.
(18) In fact, the combination of force and tact that enables her to disagree firmly but without heat or hostility is one that shines through her career.
(19) Tactfully, his captain, Stanley Cullis, responded that having passed he should move into the middle.
(20) The present study investigated procedures for developing mands and tacts in three learners with severe disabilities.