(n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
(n.) A soothing remedy or antidote.
(n.) To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.
(n.) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.
(v. t. & i.) To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Complete atrio-ventricular block, and salves of ventricular premature beats were the most serious rhythm disturbances.
(2) They include chemical methods, such as suppositories, gels, salves, or foams which contain spermicidal substances, but these can be used only as long as there is no injury to the vagina.
(3) This is not merely too little too late, but it is also a slap in the face of all those who were hoping for some kind of salve on their wounds," said Nitiyanand Jayaraman, of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal.
(4) But if you will stay and listen to the story, then together we may find salve for our wounded souls.
(5) Lagophthalmos and exposure keratitis resolved or were significantly improved in all patients, and most were able to dispense with eyedrops and salves.
(6) 97 per cent of the patients were discharged from the hospital with a salved limb, the one year patency was 76 per cent and one year limb survival 90 per cent.
(7) A cable car runs from Hopfgarten to the top of the Hohe Salve in the SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental ski area.
(8) In a family of 9 persons over 3 generations, 6 had incessant polymorphic ventricular extrasystoles, often in salves, resembling unsustained bidirectional ventricular tachycardia.
(9) Top-rate Isas pay only 3%, so switching means savers lose little to salve their conscience.
(10) She believed that only total victory would salve her reputation, and no compromise that rewarded aggression could be tolerated.
(11) Though urea creams provided relief from itching in neurodermatitis, their use after treatment of eczema with fat-containing salves caused burning sensations.
(12) They’re actually so beautiful, the kind of movement from one note to the next; they’re like salves,” he says.
(13) Chinese patients preferred external agents (salves, oils, massage, etc.)
(14) For the older customer – sorry, patient – with a less sweet tooth, there are sprays, topical salves and even bath salts.
(15) Larvae were held in either 24-well culture plates with media plus penicillin, streptomycin sulfate, nystatin, and chloramphenicol or in small salve jars on Perlite and media plus the same antibiotics.
(16) The most dangerous player in all of this is Ivanka herself – poised, polished, telegenic and continually trotted out as salve for her father’s explicit sexism.
(17) It has previously been reported as a contact sensitizer from its use as a sun screen in a lip salve.
(18) Use of these salves repeated every second enabled the authors to demonstrate two types of changes in cortical excitability after intermittent photic stimulation: 1. responses which were more frequent and of greater amplitude appearing in the first 3 or 4 seconds after IPS; after paralysis of the animal amplitude and frequency of the responses are augmented.
(19) Wounded in spirit, South Sudan's people need the salve of mutual forgiveness | Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala Read more The council’s 15 members demanded Kiir and Machar “genuinely commit themselves to the full and immediate implementation of the peace agreement, including the permanent ceasefire and redeployment of military forces from Juba”.
(20) Apple however has little reason to salve these complaints.
Salvo
Definition:
(n.) An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
(n.) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
(n.) A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
(2) Recently, we described a bovine aortic phosphatase which we called PCM-phosphatase (polycation modulable) because its activity in vitro can be modulated by polycations such as polylysine and histone-H1 (Di Salvo J, Gifford D, Kokkinakis A. Modulation of aortic protein phosphatase activity by polylysine.
(3) Look, these are opening salvos,” she told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme.
(4) Imagine the intimidating message it sends to smaller organisations in the provinces.” In line with his attacks on Soros, Orbán launched yet another anti-EU salvo this month in the form of a government-backed consultation exercise – provocatively titled “Let’s Stop Brussels!” – which asked voters to respond to what critics say are six deliberately loaded questions presented as binary choices.
(5) Lee's case is the "opening salvo in a campaign to remove progressive forces from the political scene," Gregory Elich, a member of the advisory board at the Korea Policy Institute, wrote just before the trial. "
(6) The minimal cycle length of salvos of TA was not modified by these parameters.
(7) "The squabbles will be bitter and vicious if the first salvoes in this war are anything to go by.
(8) The latter theory may be given weight by one ear-catching phrase from the prosecution's opening salvo: "No soldier, no matter what his experience or what unit he is attached to is above the law."
(9) But she saved a special salvo for Walker for failing to support student loan refinancing options – just as the rightwing stalwart showed signs of weakness in the first formal polls since the first Republican debate last week.
(10) Three major factors responsible for the repetitive activity could be disclosed: The heart rate preceding isolated ventricular extrasystoles was lower than that preceding the salvos of VT (p less than 0.01) the duration of which increased in a linear way with the sinus rate; Duration of the cycle preceding the last sinus beat before the bursts (long duration in 77% in group A and in 57% in group B).
(11) In patients of NYHA class 3 there was a higher spontaneous variability of VPCs, couplets and salvos than in patients of NYHA class 2, but the differences could not be ensured statistically.
(12) Klein dismissed the idea that acquiring Dos Santos provided the opening salvo in the upcoming battle for the area’s soccer fans.
(13) The arrival of the G1 is the latest salvo in a fight to control the software that will power the next generation of mobile phones, which can access the internet.
(14) Sanader was clearly upset by the allegations , which he said were the opening salvo in what he predicted would be a "very dirty" opposition campaign to discredit his government over the Pliva sale.
(15) The attack that killed Sardar Ahmad and his family was the opening salvo in a string of complex assaults, including on two election offices, battering Kabul with a level of violence normally spread out over weeks or months.
(16) Donald Trump takes bait and responds to Clinton’s DNC speech with Twitter salvo Pope Francis enters Auschwitz death camp in silence The pontiff walked slowly and alone beneath the infamous gates to Auschwitz-Birkenau emblazoned with the words Arbeit Macht Frei.
(17) The combination of sotalol with mexiletine or tocainide reduced ventricular ectopic beats by 79% and complex ventricular arrhythmias (pairs and salvoes) by 85%.
(18) It opened with the salvo: "Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalisation of consumption simply haven't worked … The revision of US-inspired drug policies is urgent in the light of the rising levels of violence and corruption associated with narcotics."
(19) The coupling intervals between preceding normal sinus beats and beats which led to repetitive ventricular discharge were clustered between the shortest and the longest coupling intervals which did not lead to salvoes and tachycardia.
(20) With this latest salvo, I am afraid that we must consign Dawkins to this very same pile of the irrational and the dishonest.