(n.) A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.
(n.) Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
(n.) Figuratively, one who protects or defends.
(n.) In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
(n.) The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. See Illust. of Escutcheon.
(n.) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
(n.) A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield.
(n.) A coin, the old French crown, or ecu, having on one side the figure of a shield.
(n.) To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury.
(n.) To ward off; to keep off or out.
(n.) To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!
Example Sentences:
(1) 11 patients with a postoperative classification of stage D had additional external beam radiation to the pelvic and paraaortic lymph nodes with shielding of the implanted prostatic region.
(2) An effective gonadal shield should reduce the gonadal dose to a level low enough to preserve spermatogenesis in most patients.
(3) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(4) Fred had to be substituted to shield him from the crowd’s disdain.
(5) Was the Dalkon Shield so harmful in the nulliparous woman?
(6) Physicians need to prescribe the lowest possible dose of hormones in these women and counsel them to shield their face from sunlight.
(7) Moulton said his colleagues were preparing to table an offer next week that will shield 50% of the council's staff from a pay cut.
(8) Adult males acclimated to an LD 14:10 photoperiod were distributed in five experimental groups: intact controls (NO), sham-pinealectomized (S), sham-pinealectomized with black plastic shielding of the pineal region, pinealectomized (PX), and pinealectomized with the operated region shielded.
(9) In order to evaluate long-term as well as short-term effects, blood loss was measured at postinsertion levels of 6, 12, and 18 months in 72 women wearing the Lippes loop, in 73 wearing the Dalkon shield, and in 82 with TCu 300.
(10) Using the outer 2 mm of the skin-fold, and shielding the rest of the hand with a lead plate, cutaneous blood flow rate could be monitored separately.
(11) Shielded marrow self renewal capacity, a measurement reflecting primitive hematopoietic stem cell function, remained depressed and did not recover with time.
(12) We believe the shield makes the patient more comfortable and decreases the likelihood of dislodgement of the adhesive.
(13) He lost contact with his father, a lorry driver, for several years, but says that his mother - aided by his uncle - made it her mission to shield him from the crime and disorder around them.
(14) The lead shield encloses only the testes, allowing its use with nearly any radiation field that does not include the testes.
(15) "Let us arm ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness," Malala said.
(16) I’m not satisfied until I collect everything' … EFL Cup Europa League International Champions Cup Community Shield Which competition was Ian Rush talking about when he said: 'This is why cup finals are so special, because anyone can beat anyone.
(17) Nemanja Matic, more normally such a man-mountain of a midfield shield, is diminished and was beaten too easily in the air by James Morrison for the home side’s second.
(18) The results indicate that collagen shields can slowly release cyclosporin A and increase the penetration time for the drug.
(19) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.
(20) Some Coalition MPs raised concerns earlier this year that transparency could expose wealthy business owners to security risks, including kidnapping , and the government prepared legislation to shield private Australian companies.
Target
Definition:
(n.) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
(n.) A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
(n.) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.
(n.) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
(n.) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(2) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(3) The fraction of the viral dose which became cell associated was independent of the incubation temperature and increased with increasing target membrane concentration.
(4) The binding properties of formalin-fixed amelanotic melanoma cells were not identical to those of endothelial or unfixed target cells.
(5) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(6) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(7) After midazolam infusion, there was a 50% decrease in amplitude of P3 in response to target tones (P less than 0.006), whereas N3 latency increased by 40 ms (P less than 0.05).
(8) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
(9) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(10) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(11) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
(12) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(13) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(14) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
(15) Three effector: target ratios (6.2:1, 25:1, and 50:1) were studied in quadruplicate using 3, 4 and 5-h incubations.
(16) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(17) However, since these levels were unaltered by reducing the antiandrogen dosage, the main action of the therapy is probably that of the antiandrogen within the target cells.
(18) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(19) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(20) This article describes a method of selecting a potentially successful strategy using a combination of two factors: change target and level of change willingness and ability.