(n.) A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.
(n.) The sagebrush.
(superl.) Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.
(superl.) Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose.
(superl.) Grave; serious; solemn.
(n.) A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.
Example Sentences:
(1) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
(2) Sage did not suffer fools gladly, and often the world seemed increasingly full of them.
(3) "The economy has lost X billion pounds", pronounces some sage.
(4) Jeremy Corbyn is the main reason I’m not sure about the whole thing anymore,” said Sage, a freelance illustrator.
(5) Sage Kotsenburg loves snowboarding for all its unexpected surprises.
(6) Eleven women patients completed the SAGE on two occasions, three months apart.
(7) The Shakespearian critic and scholar, Nicholas Brooke, who had taught Sage at Durham, was also there, as was the writer, Jonathan Raban.
(8) When this happens, it is tempting to nod sagely and feign comprehension.
(9) Reconstructions with 53 organism-antimicrobial combinations were performed at 0, 4, 8, and 24 h in which the FLORA-STAT system was compared with two boric acid-based systems (Urine C&S Transport Kit [Becton Dickinson VACUTAINER Systems, Rutherford, N.J.]; Sage Urine Collection Kit for Culture [Sage Products, Inc., Cary, Ill.]) and untreated urine.
(10) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
(11) Hobsbawm, being a sage member of the Communist Party, warned against their utopianism, but I took to them like a fish to water.
(12) The geranyl and linalyl precursors were shown to be mutually competitive substrates (inhibitors) of the relevant cyclization enzymes isolated from Salvia officinalis (sage) and Tanacetum vulgare (tansy) by the mixed substrate analysis method, demonstrating that isomerization and cyclization take place at the same active site.
(13) Sage Gateshead, 4–7 July Troilus and Cressida Multimedia magician Elizabeth LeCompte from New York's the Wooster Group takes on this most problematic of problem comedies.
(14) 800g veal shoulder, cut into 4cm dice 1 tbsp plain flour Salt and black pepper 30g unsalted butter 60ml olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped 200ml dry white wine 8 large sage leaves Shaved skin of 1 lemon, plus 3 tbsp lemon juice 1 550g head puntarelle (or 2 heads white chicory, cut widthways into 3cm-long segments) 1 small celeriac, peeled and chopped into 2cm dice (500g net weight) 200g pancetta, cut into 1cm dice 20g capers For the salad 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed 1 anchovy fillet, finely chopped 2 tsp red-wine vinegar 2 tbsp olive oil 1 white chicory, cut in half lengthways and then into long, 0.5cm thick wedges (or the rest of the puntarelle, if using) 80g rocket Toss the veal in flour seasoned with a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of pepper, until evenly coated, then tap off any excess.
(15) If an Orthodox teacher or social worker were to follows the sages' ruling, they would be breaking the law.
(16) At its meeting in July 1988, the Scientific Advisory Group of Experts of the Programme for Vaccine Development (SAGE) concluded that it was appropriate to discuss the general topic of live vectors and proceeded to arrange a meeting to discuss the present position and to prepare a report on the following key issues: requirements for safety and efficacy; immunological factors which may influence efficacy; medical constraints on use.
(17) As panic spread, and Britain's own financial institutions came under massive pressure, the man who had for 12 consecutive months been warning of just this sort of crisis turned overnight from lonely maverick into sage with the crystal ball.
(18) So I'm treating you, in this situation, like a sage, like you have all the answers.
(19) As with so much of her work, Sage's engagement with women's writing combined passion with intelligence.
(20) All these ideas occur in Sage's dense, but not especially long, first paragraph.
Swage
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) See Assuage.
(n.) A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge.
(v. t.) To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The best processing schedule is casting small ingots while avoiding oxidation, followed by swaging, drawing, and homogenization.
(2) The swaged metal matrix provides a method for rapidly making a metal substructure for ceramic crowns.
(3) Those differences between swaged and cast specimens were seemed to depend on the casting porosities.
(4) 4 wt.% Si were chosen for this study because they have Curie temperatures in the desired range of 45-60 degrees C. The thermoseeds were prepared by using either a special casting technique or casting and swaging followed by homogenization.
(5) 1) The tensile strength and elongation of swaged specimen showed highest value at 30 wt% Au but in case of casted specimen, tensile strength was highest as 20 wt% and elongation was minimum at 30 wt% Au.
(6) A new double-armed microsuture using 70-mu micro-edge taper-point (M.E.T., Sharpoint, Reading, PA) needles swaged onto 10-0 (22 mu) monofilament nylon has been developed by us primarily to allow precision intraluminal suture placement.
(7) The purpose of this study is to evaluate the biomechanical performance of laser-drilled and channel needle swages.
(8) In this experiment, an uniform-moment bending load method was employed to simulate the occlusal situation, and the distribution of strain in epoxy resin, stainless swaged and Co-Cr alloy cast dentures were measured and analyzed.
(9) Malleting or swaging a beveled margin is a more sucessful technique of adapting cast gold to the cavosurface angles.
(10) This study determined the vertical and horizontal marginal fidelity of swaged metal substrate crowns made with four methods.
(11) The anastomoses were performed with an operating microscope with monofilament nylon 10-0 (Ethilon) and polyglactin 910 (Vicryl) 10-0 (0.2 m) swaged to a BV-6 taper-point needle.
(12) These benefits of laser-drilled swages indicate that they should replace all channel needles.
(13) Parham bands and swage-lock titanium cables were found to exhibit the greatest fixation potential and highest ultimate strengths.
(14) The laser-drilled swages have a more uniform circumference that encounters lower drag forces than the channel needle swages.
(15) Microsurgical ureteroureterostomy was performed in 100 rats with Nylon and Vicryl 10-0 and 11-0 swaged on a BV-6 and BV-8 needle.
(16) Swaged PVC foil used for packing pharmaceuticals, also known here as strip packing or press-through packing for pills and dragees was employed as plates for the cultures.