(adv.) Sidelong; on the side; laterally; also, obliquely; askew.
(a.) Inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite the acknowledged importance of the VHW role, the question of whether the PHC model, with the VHW as the cornerstone can be effectively implemented without a "fundamental shift of wealth and power" (Sidel) continues to be asked.
(2) Tavon Austin initially stepped away from a punt that landed inside the St Louis 10-yard line, but after the lone Colts player in the vicinity over-ran the ball, Austin gobbled up the bouncing ball and ran it back 98 yards down the sideling for the touchdown.
Toward
Definition:
(prep.) Alt. of Towards
(adv.) Alt. of Towards
(prep.) Approaching; coming near.
(prep.) Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.
(prep.) Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(2) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
(3) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(4) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(5) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
(6) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(7) Normal and tumor cell cultures exhibited increased sensitivity toward TNF in the presence of mifepristone.
(8) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(9) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
(10) After several months, a temporal discrimination was well established, as shown by maximum suppression toward the end of the signal period.
(11) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(12) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(13) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
(14) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
(15) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
(16) An N-acetylation polymorphism is described that is expressed toward arylamine carcinogens in tumor target organs of an inbred rat model.
(17) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
(18) It was then determined whether reducing the PA wedge pressure during exercise with prazosin (9 patients) or dobutamine (6 patients) reduced ventilatory levels toward normal.
(19) The toluene group were more approving in their attitudes towards taking other drugs.
(20) The inhibition by DCMU of palmitoylcarnitine oxidation by isolated liver mitochondria was used to calculate a flux control coefficient of the respiratory chain towards gluconeogenesis.