(a.) Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.
(a.) Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress.
(a.) Mere; not other than; being only.
(a.) Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.
(a.) Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.
(a.) Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language.
(a.) Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly.
(a.) Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living.
(a.) Humble; lowly; undistinguished.
(a.) Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.
(a.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a.
(a.) Homogenous.
(a.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.
(a.) Something not mixed or compounded.
(a.) A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.
(a.) A drawloom.
(a.) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
(a.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
(v. i.) To gather simples, or medicinal plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
(2) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(3) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(4) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(5) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(6) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
(7) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
(8) A simple method of selective catheterization of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) following antegrade puncture of the common femoral artery is described.
(9) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(10) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(11) The method of sonicating L3 and Mf fragment antigens used in this study is simple, and its results are easy to observe.
(12) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
(13) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(14) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(15) Treatment was monitored by simple measurements, and it's toxicity proved to be scanty.
(16) The presence of a previously unreported dipeptide transport mechanism within blood leukocytes and the selective enrichment of the granule enzyme, DPPI, within cytotoxic effector cells of lymphoid or myeloid lineage appear to afford a unique mechanism for the targeting of immunotherapeutic reagents composed of simple dipeptide esters or amides.
(17) The design of a simple dynamic knee simulator is described.
(18) Simple interconversion cannot account for the changes in binding that occur upon adding GMP-PNP or removing magnesium, since the increase in [R2]t exceeds the decrease in [R1]t. Moreover, the apparent amount of high-affinity complex exhibits a biphasic dependence on the concentration of [3H]histamine; an increase at low concentrations is offset by a decrease that occurs at higher concentrations.
(19) A rapid and simple method has been developed for the nondestructive distinction between aflatoxin B1 and the feed antioxidant, ethoxyquin.
(20) The stimuli were two simple tones in experiment 1 and two tonal complexes in both experiments 2 and 3.
Simpler
Definition:
(n.) One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pattern of results in simpler tasks is more difficult to interpret.
(2) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(3) Incomplete penetrance of the simpler pattern suggests that this genetic locus interacts in a probabilistic manner with epigenetic mechanisms involved in morphogenesis of the cerebellum.
(4) Our results show that although kriging is a statistically optimal method, it is not markedly better than simpler interpolation algorithms, though it is considerably more complex to use.
(5) The relatively heavy computing effort required is emphasized, and contrasted with the rather simpler calculations associated with traditional statistical methods.
(6) The flanking segments also show homology to a simpler 30 nucleotide sequence from which they likely originated.
(7) Peter Travers, film critic at Rolling Stone, offered a simpler explanation: "Why is The Lone Ranger such a huge flop at the box office?"
(8) With k-valued characters and, especially, with large trees, the types of configuration sets (events) used in the simpler examples are too rare (i.e., their predicted frequencies are too low) to be useful, and the construction of meaningful pairs of independent events becomes an important and nontrivial task in designing invariants suited to testing specific hypotheses.
(9) Instead it said that the changing of the settings – which previously required users to navigate through up to 150 different settings to control who could see their data, to a simpler four-tiered version plus a "customise" option – was "merely a red herring".
(10) But once installed the couple must decide how to live their daily lives: surrounded by butlers, dressers, cooks and cleaners, or more akin to the simpler life they have so far enjoyed.
(11) HSBC sold around 7,000 of a simpler type of interest rate product.
(12) The method of plasma exchange we used was simpler and cheaper than the conventional method.
(13) An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is proposed which is simpler and less expensive than RIA.
(14) Thoresen said: "We think the system needs to be fairer, and needs to be simpler and easier for people to understand.
(15) For H(+) ion blockage, a simpler model, in which H(+) enters the channel only from the bathing medium, is found to be sufficient.
(16) In many biomedical applications, such as electronic implantable devices, these simpler techniques have greater utility because of the reduced requirements on power, logic complexity and sampling speed.
(17) This method is a more direct, simpler and more accurate one for the assessment of rehabilitation effectiveness in clinics than the more widely used direct measurement of energy cost by indirect calorimetry.
(18) Making data collection simpler creates added public health value: on one occasion, 12 overdose reversals were reported in one location during a 24-hour period.
(19) Enzymatic syntheses of nucleosides can be simpler and quicker than syntheses carried out by chemical methods.
(20) Cutting up carcasses is the simpler of the two techniques but there are circumstances in which beetle digestion would be advantageous.