(n.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the prayers are counted.
(n.) A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful thoughts or of literary selections.
(n.) A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spiny extrusions are present on many of the neurons, arranged either as varicosities giving a rosary feature or clumped in small groups over the dendritic processes; these are absent at the level of the soma.
(2) Adrenal insufficiency as a complication of antiphospholipid syndrome is reviewed, and a useful physical sign, the acromegalic rosary, rediscovered.
(3) When he wouldn't relent, she draped him with a white rosary for safe passage.
(4) During an operation 7 cm long string like rosary was removed.
(5) Volunteer, Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School, Bristol.
(6) Nineteen patients had repetitive, nonlumen-obliterating, nonperistaltic (tertiary) contractions, six had corkscrew esophagus, and 10 had forceful, lumen-obliterating simultaneous contractions (rosary bead esophagus).
(7) Their happiness is irrational and interesting, because it is twin to the fury some express, so personally, towards abortion that they loiter outside family planning clinics with rosaries, believing that the aborting mother is depriving the world of something that comforts it, even if they will never know it; a prayer, in fact.
(8) A new type of vesicles with a marginal, rosary-like arrangement of particles was observed associated with masses of electron-dense particles.
(9) The Vatican's daily newspaper reported that each diver descending to the ship was carrying a rosary blessed by Pope Francis.
(10) Abdullah addressed the press wearing a western suit with a purple tie and pocket square – in contrast to Ghani who wore a traditional white shalwar khameez and thumbed a rosary, a sartorial nod to his Pashtun supporters.
(11) While a rowdy, at times almost carnivalesque protest took place alongside them, the anti-abortion protesters stood or kneeled and prayed quietly, some clutching rosary beads.
(12) Symptoms were similar in the majority of them: irritability, skin haemorrhages, swollen gums, scorbutic rosary, swelling and tenderness lower limbs.
(13) Much has been made of their harassment techniques that range from the insidious (bursting into hymn as tearful women emerge from the clinics, giving out plastic rosary beads in powder pink or baby blue at the door) to the mendacious (leaflets disguised as NHS literature that address the reader as "Mum" and speak of "not being able to look your future children in the eye").
(14) In his autobiography, 14 Minutes – a reference to the time he was clinically dead in 2007 after a massive heart attack – he talks about how, when he ran, he would focus on the mystery of the rosary and Jesus’s life.
(15) We all know that content is king: if you want, say, Test Match Special or the latest grime, you will put up with mediocre sound quality rather than listen to Biber's Rosary Sonatas in stunning stereo, or (in my case) the reverse.
(16) It made a strange chorus: on the one side, a small crowd of Catholics, intoning the rosary and singing Ave Maria, while, a few metres away, a noisy gathering of campaigners banged drums, blew whistles and chanted slogans.
(17) A postcontrast CT scan at the level of the gallbladder body demonstrated the characteristic rosary sign.
(18) Images of the apartment interior show the bodies lying on floors covered in bullet shells and surrounded by rosaries and the images of Catholic saints.
(19) Get your rosaries off my ovaries, as we used to say.
(20) Chatsworth House is lending an object that bears witness to the religious upheaval of her father's reign, the rosary beads once owned by Henry - once ubiquitous objects, which in later years would come to be seen as dangerously heretical.
Rose
Definition:
(imp.) of Rise
() imp. of Rise.
(n.) A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere
(n.) A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe.
(n.) A rose window. See Rose window, below.
(n.) A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump.
(n.) The erysipelas.
(n.) The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.
(n.) The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.
(n.) A diamond. See Rose diamond, below.
(v. t.) To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush.
(v. t.) To perfume, as with roses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(2) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(3) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(4) With glucose and protein as intraduodenal stimulus (no pancreatin added), the plasma amino acids rose significantly less (by approximately 50% of the control experiment) and the increment in insulin (but not C-peptide) concentrations was significantly reduced by loxiglumide.
(5) LH and FSH levels in the group which were given low dose progesterone only, rose consistently after BSO and these patterns were similar to those seen in the control group.
(6) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
(7) The overall incidence in patients over 50 years of age was 8.5%; it was more than twice as high in women (11.5%) as in men (4.5%) and rose sharply with age.
(8) The volume of distribution is about 600 l. In almost every subject the plasma levels rose again after this distribution phase.
(9) Circulating acute phase protein concentrations rose in all subjects during a thirty hour period following injury but none of the subjects showed a detectable rise in circulating concentrations of TNF.
(10) However, coinciding with the height of inflammation and clinical signs at 12 dpi, the GFAP mRNA content dropped to approximately 50% of the level at 11 dpi but rose again at 13 dpi.
(11) In the water-loaded state, MAP rose significantly at the lowest rate of infusion in both pregnant and non-pregnant ewes.
(12) Blood pressure rose and heart rate fell in proportion to the dose of noradrenaline infused.
(13) In normovolemia, the hepatic arterial flow (HAF) increased as the systemic arterial pressure (SAP) rose up to 140 mmHg, and then decreased as SAP rose further.
(14) Testosterone was low until 68 weeks after which concentrations rose slowly to 80 weeks and increased rapidly to a plateau at 92 weeks.
(15) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(16) The percentages of bacteria phagocytized and intracellularly killed by macrophages rose to 60-80% and 85-95% respectively when the doubling time was longer, showing that S. mutans is particularly sensitive to nonspecific immune defence mechanisms when cultured under conditions similar to those of its natural ecosystem.
(17) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(18) After effective treatment the level fell and rose again 10 months prior to the conventional clinical diagnosis of relapse.
(19) The concentration of androstenedione and testosterone rose rapidly; reaching a peak after 10 minutes and returning to near baseline level by 30 minutes.
(20) Last week the labor bureau reported that the US added just 69,000 jobs in May as the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%, the first rise in nine months.