(a.) Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation.
(a.) Making amends, indemnification, or recompense; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; compensating; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology.
Example Sentences:
(1) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
(2) Moreover, one may expect satisfactory results in most cases.
(3) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.
(4) The first experiment gave good results, although only one participant had any previous experience of hinge axis location, and it is debatable whether or not this experience is necessary before satisfactory results can be obtained.
(5) It is clear that before general release of a new living feline infectious enteritis vaccine, there must be satisfactory evidence that concurrent infection will not affect the safety of the modified antigen.In cats infected with feline infectious enteritis there appears to be a short period, coinciding with the onset of leucopaenia, during which they are highly infectious.
(6) Most of our adults with myelomeningocele had satisfactory sexual function.
(7) The isolation procedure leads to enzymes with high specific activities in satisfactory yields.
(8) Hospitalisation time was short and satisfactory alimentation was achieved.
(9) Generally the course of symptoms was more favorable, when people found a satisfactory job.
(10) Group 1 (n = 19) had mean HbA1 during months 3-48 in the normal range of less than 7.8% (near-normoglycaemic control), Group 2 (n = 18) showed moderately elevated mean HbA1 between 7.8 and 8.5% (satisfactory control), and Group 3 (n = 18) had clearly elevated mean HbA1 of greater than or equal to 8.6% (poor control).
(11) Combining data on cows with productive and salvaged outcomes as satisfactory outcome, and terminal as unsatisfactory outcome, total correct classification was 90.7% for the admission model and 93.2% for the surgical model.
(12) Mean VCF (sens 83 percent, spec 80 percent), %S (sens 50 percent, spec 96 percent), EFC (senc 58 percent, spec 96 percent), and EFQ (sens 58 percent, spec 92 percent) were less satisfactory.
(13) Furthermore, this system can be satisfactory handled by technical personnel after short periods of training.
(14) The large number of pancreas tests recommended today shows that no single method is satisfactory.
(15) In the remaining 122, the system worked well and the majority of patients obtained satisfactory analgesia.
(16) Long-term results of treatment of gunshot wounds of the liver are not considered to be satisfactory.
(17) A satisfactory antisialogogue effect was seen in 83-90% of each group.
(18) As liquid medium gave satisfactory and quicker results the subsequent 1904 samples were cultured only on liquid medium to determine its usefulness in routine work.
(19) The technique has proved satisfactory in 2 patients.
(20) Fetal outcome was, however, satisfactory in all cases.
Snug
Definition:
(superl.) Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.
(superl.) Close; concealed; not exposed to notice.
(superl.) Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.
(n.) Same as Lug, n., 3.
(v. i.) To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother.
(v. t.) To place snugly.
(v. t.) To rub, as twine or rope, so as to make it smooth and improve the finish.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you make a small diagonal snip in each corner of the paper, it will help fit the paper snugly into the corners of the tin.
(2) The backpack was held snugly in place by shoulder and body straps.
(3) They protect against (most) rain, and keep your toes snug.
(4) The netropsin molecule displaces the spine of hydration and fits snugly within the minor groove in the A-A-T-T center.
(5) This excellent 19th-century boozer has private mahogany snugs, with etched-glass partitions, so you can hide from the shoppers and enjoy a quiet pint (or cheeky gin, a house speciality).
(6) Discovery of antiviral agents of this type will, therefore, depend on designing compounds that can enter and fit snugly into the hydrophobic pocket of a particular viral capsid protein.
(7) Only gut, polyglycolic acid, and polydioxanone granny knots were as secure as square knots; no loosely tied (500 g tension) asymmetric square knots were as secure as snug square knots, and only polydioxanone and polypropylene loose square knots were as secure as snug square knots.
(8) The fryingpan should be large enough to hold the pork and rhubarb fairly snugly.
(9) The fibrous and lipomatous tissue snugly surrounds the fascicles and cannot be separated from them without damaging them, even if the finest microsurgical techniques are used.
(10) In these a portion of the superior surface of S1 is removed in such a way that the body of S1 fits snugly against the under surface of the repositioned body of L5.
(11) The buttons are more flush against its surface, the twin sticks fit more snugly against the player's thumbs and both the shoulder buttons and the D-pad respond to the slightest pressure.
(12) The wheels on our bikes had barely stopped turning by the time we'd drained the first pint of Guinness in front of a log fire in one of its many snug alcoves.
(13) Certainly, many of his acting projects fit snugly with his social views, if not overtly.
(14) The anticodon stem is extended by two non-Watson-Crick base pairs, leaving the three anti-codon bases unpaired and splayed out to bind snugly into three separate complementary pockets in the protein.
(15) In fact, he's more like the sort of fellow you'd find in the snug of a West Country pub.
(16) Each helmet is designed to fit snugly against the prominent aspects of the infants' cranium and to be loose fitting where the head is shallow.
(17) "There's a lady in the snug who wants to give you a thousand pounds."
(18) He liked Somerset because it was "less cleaned-up" than the home counties: as Whitfield writes, he had a hatred for "English gentility … 'snug cottages with roses around the door'".
(19) He shows me a large, hard, hollow ball of mud with a snug entrance hole carved into it.
(20) A small hole is drilled in the distal shaft to allow the placement of a spiral wire, allowing a snug fit even in older, well used electrosurgical handles.