(n.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
(n.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
(n.) The shaft of a column.
(n.) The apophyge of a shaft.
(v. t. & i.) To escape.
(n.) An escape.
(n.) Means of escape; evasion.
(n.) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
(n.) Loose act of vice or lewdness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pertinent themes in the history of responses to epidemic disease in the United States in the past two hundred years include an initial underestimation of the severity of the epidemic; the prevalence of fear and anxiety; flight, denial, and scape-goating as a result of fear; efforts to quarantine and isolate carriers and the sick; the assertion of rational policies by coalitions of business, government, and medical leaders; the recruitment of a special cadre of physicians to treat the sick; the similarity of responses to both epidemic and endemic infectious diseases; and the high cost of epidemics, which is shared by government, philanthropy, and private individuals.
(2) Mycobacterium paratuberculosis was cultured from 9 (8.7%) of the 103 bovine fecal samples and from 4 (3.9%) of the 103 bovine rectal mucosa scapings tested.
(3) Within the scape of a comparative long-term study between conservative and operative therapy of Perthes'-disease the effort was made to estimate the dimension of the psychic and social detraction in addiction to the method of treatment by a detailed inquiry of 116 patients as well as of their accompanying parents.
(4) The Böhm bristles of Lepidoptera occur in precise areas of the scape and pedicel of the antenna.
(5) Perú doesn't scape of that situation and for this reason, it is necessary that health professionals should have clinical therapeutical and epidemiological acknowledgements in order to be applied efficiently in benefit of the community.
(6) The most productive tissues for propagation were inverted scapes and peduncles, cultured in a modified Murashige and Skoog salt solution with added organic constituents and 1 mg per 1 (4.5 micron) 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 1 mg per 1 (4.4 micrometer) 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP).
(7) Leaf bases, scapes, peduncles, inner bulb scales and ovaries were cultured successfully in vitro and plantlets were induced readily at various concentrations of growth regulators.
(8) Longitudinal peripheral meniscus tears were fixed by the scape in inside-out technique.
(9) If you can handle the monotony of the vast ice-scape that unfolds, it is possible to navigate a ship with a strong hull and a good lookout nearly to the north pole at this time of year.
(10) Your way of encouraging people to make their own music with your new app, Scape , is a good example of a different sort of approach to working.
(11) The results also suggest that segments of the typically three-segmented larval antenna of Holometabola are not scape, pedicel, and one-segmented flagellum; at least segments 2 and 3 are of flagellar origin.
(12) Best immediate results were obtained in vipomas and insulinomas but a scape phenomenon was frequently observed.
(13) Therefore, it seems that the delinquent adolescent is the scape-goat of the family.
(14) Within the scape of his life-history the attempt is made to portray a man in his time and to waken his importance as ophthalmologist a significant still in our days.
(15) Inevitably, the discussion, which takes place in Eno's office in Notting Hill, London, barely touches on the record, Lux ; instead, it ranges over another of his new creations (an app called Scape), the value of art, and why numbers are like sausages.
(16) An average of 10 rooted plantlets was obtained from each scape or peduncle explant on the shoot-propagating medium.
(17) But blaming the BBC is just scape-goating, since in every other country with no BBC, newspapers are in equally dire straights.
(18) Mechanosensory organs in the scape and pedicel, the Böhm bristles and Johnston's organ, are innervated by AChE-positive neurons.
(19) Ventricular scapes were not seen at the end of the sinus pauses.
Scope
Definition:
(n.) That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object.
(n.) Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent; liberty; range of view, intent, or action.
(n.) Extended area.
(n.) Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.
(v. t.) To look at for the purpose of evaluation; usually with out; as, to scope out the area as a camping site.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(2) The scope and limitations of the procedure and its complications should be carefully explained to the parents, as should the risk of the detectable genetic disorder compared with the risk of the diagnostic procedure.
(3) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(4) In the scope of our research about the antimicrobial activity of aldehyde-amin-condensates a number of partly new unsymmetrically substituted animals was synthesized by reaction of formaldehyde with different secondary amines.
(5) Absent English-language material tends to be ephemeral or otherwise out of scope for the resource libraries.
(6) The use of different theoretical models is discussed, taking into consideration their specific scope and drawbacks.
(7) Our discussion has dealt with the nature of our field as a science and also as a discipline, the nature of the training for it, the nature of its research, and the nature and scope of its professional practice.
(8) But even away from this disaster, facts about the industry's cost and scope to meet Europe's energy needs should be enough to give nuclear supporters pause.
(9) The particular problems of reference methods for the determination of the catalytic activity concentration of enzymes are outside the scope of this review.
(10) Obama permitted them to operate with minimal restriction, proliferating the physical scope of the global war on terrorism to Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Mali and Niger and the digital scope around the world.
(11) These results extend the scope of immunologic circadian rhythms to the reticuloendothelial system as a feature of a bioperiodic defense mechanism, most active during the habitual rest light span of nocturnally active mice.
(12) While the results reflect antiandrogenic and antispermatogenic action of V. rosea, the selective retention of the spermatogonia provides scope for the much desired revival of spermatogenesis on cessation of the treatment.
(13) Also, longer term interest rates in the eurozone are already very low, which reduces the scope for QE to influence financial markets by pushing down bond yields.
(14) It would also be likely to lend scope to ill-conceived prosecutions jeopardising ordinary free speech rights, such as the notorious Twitter Joke Trial .
(15) Successful applicants will carry out further scoping work to decide where exactly to build the farms before submitting planning applications.
(16) Until we can effectively prevent vertical transmission of HIV, the scope of the AIDS epidemic in children will reflect that of HIV infection in women of childbearing age.
(17) As I outlined during our meeting, I believe we can strengthen both of our companies by bringing them together, enhancing their worldwide scale and scope, and capitalizing on significant opportunities, building on the position of Kraft Foods Inc. ("Kraft Foods") as a global powerhouse in snacks, confectionery and quick meals for the benefit of all of our respective stakeholders.
(18) The nurse executive's role can be viewed from many perspectives: its scope, its value, its structure, its content.
(19) This program engages more medical professions and represents an integral part of multilateral medical measures with the purpose of realizing health policy and its main scope, i.e.
(20) Bates also rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of a major collection program for the third time in three years.