(a.) In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for.
(a.) To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor.
(a.) To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution.
(a.) To free from doubt, suspense, or uncertainty; to give assurance to; to set at rest the mind of; to convince; as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry.
(v. i.) To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.
(v. i.) To make payment or atonement; to atone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
(2) Follow-up for half of the cases operated extended up to 2 years, the longest being up to 5 years, showed that 96% of the patients were satisfied.
(3) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
(4) It is suggested that children may learn enough to satisfy their parents' expectations by this age or grade.
(5) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(6) Most respondents (46, 95%) were satisfied with life in general.
(7) Although 95% of the patients are satisfied, 60% have some impairment of sensation in the lower lip.
(8) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
(9) Twenty-two of them could be shown to satisfy the Poisson law.
(10) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
(11) Epidemiological criteria for a causal association between snoring and vascular disease have not been satisfied.
(12) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(13) Whereas on the Self-Cathexis Scale, 45% (N = 9) were satisfied and 55% (N = 11) were dissatisfied with self.
(14) Response latency has been shown to satisfy the first two of these conditions.
(15) He was also satisfied he had joined in racist chanting.
(16) If you can't give them everything at once, you may be able to satisfy at least some of the items on their wish list.
(17) Thus, despite the apparently higher level of pyruvate production in the NPC, exogenous pyruvate is necessary to satisfy the metabolic needs of NPC.
(18) Pain relief was very good, and the patients were generally satisfied.
(19) A method was developed for the preparation of a standard source to satisfy the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirement for calibration of wipe-assay procedures used in nuclear medicine laboratories.
(20) The most important basis for evaluating an assistive device is whether it satisfies the needs of the disabled consumer.
Slake
Definition:
(a.) To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
(a.) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime.
(v. i.) To go out; to become extinct.
(v. i.) To abate; to become less decided.
(v. i.) To slacken; to become relaxed.
(v. i.) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
(2) Photograph: Nerissa Sparkman This being Dublin, visitors to Stoneybatter will find no shortage of opportunities to slake their thirst.
(3) A link between the generation of areca nut-related N-nitrosamines in the saliva, the induction of genotoxic damage in the oral mucosa, as judged by an increase in micronucleated exfoliated cells (MEC), and a low incidence of oral cancer was studied in 2 population groups characterized by their habit of chewing quids without tobacco: Guamanians, who chew areca nuts (Areca catechu) with or without the addition of betel leaf (Piper betle); Taiwanese, who use areca nut, betel leaf or inference and slaked lime.
(4) Watering crops, slaking thirst in expanding cities, cooling power plants, fracking oil and gas wells – all take water from the same diminishing supply.
(5) "Reverse"-cigar smokers (who hold the burning end of cigars within the mouth), dippers (who place a mixture of Khaini-tobacco and slaked lime into the lower gingival groove) and users of tobacco-containing toothpaste (gudakhu) in Orissa, India, were examined for precancerous oral lesions, the frequency of micronucleated cells at 3 different intra-oral sites, and levels of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNA) in the saliva.
(6) I have come to the conclusion that the smoked tobacco and the slaked lime in the Indian "Pan" are the two important carcinogenic agents.
(7) Then, they report on the three main basic components: Piper betle L. leaf, Areca catechu nut, and slaked lime.
(8) This illness will be caused by longterm exposure in viniculture against "Bordeaux mixture" a solution of copper sulphate and slaked lime.
(9) The restaurateur Leonid Shutnov will soon open Biblioteka in St James, where he will offer 100 vintages of Château d'Yquem and 80 of Château Mouton Rothschild, should 79 of Château Mouton Rothschild not be enough to slake the thirst of London's rich.
(10) Finally, some exasperated nutritionist will pop up and say, to be honest: "This is all sugar that doesn't fill you up and doesn't even slake your thirst particularly well."
(11) Not even a majority Conservative government in 2015 will slake the thirst for EU departure of the Eurosceptics.
(12) In the case of many oropharyngeal cancers in Asia and Africa it is the alkaline slaked lime in the betel quid which is responsible; in the case of gastric cancers it is the reflux of the alkaline duodenal contents into the stomach; in the case of colon it is the absence of roughage, cellulose and vegetable fibres from the diet; in the case of the cervix uteri it is the frequency of coitus which gives rise to a highly alkaline seminal fluid; and in the case of cancer lung it is the alkaline cigarette smoke.
(13) Europeans slaked their need for labour in the colonies – in the mines and on the plantations – not only by enslaving indigenous Americans but also by shipping slaves across the Atlantic from Africa.
(14) Different strategies will be required in the administration of chemopreventive agents in order to trap ROS formed in the alkaline (due to the addition of slaked lime) chewing mixture within the saliva of a chewer, to scavenge ROS within mucosal cells exposed to an array of tobacco- or areca nut-related carcinogens or tumour promoters, and to inhibit the action of ROS released from ROS-generating white cells during lymphocytic infiltration of the oral mucosa at a precancerous stage.
(15) The frequency of MEC did not increase in the oral mucosa of areca nut chewers who do not use slaked lime, but showed a small but significant elevation in individuals using lime-containing quids.
(16) Zero Dark Thirty slakes a thirst for vengeance and leaves an aftertaste of gall.
(17) Here’s Tom Jenkins’s match gallery from Craven Cottage Updated at 4.17pm GMT 4.10pm GMT More goals in the Championship ... Leicester have taken a two-goal lead against Charlton at the King Power Stadium, courtesy of Danny Drinkwater, who has slaked his thirst for liquid finishing to make it 2-0.
(18) And still it wasn’t enough to slake the insatiable thirst of the financial markets for more and more stimulus.
(19) A giant cross made of wooden slakes was erected on the grassy slope near the Washington Monument.
(20) Andy Murray’s thirst for making history could not be denied here on Sunday – even by lingering but passing pain in his back – and will be further slaked when Great Britain contest their first Davis Cup final in 37 years.