(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.
Stretcher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, stretches.
(n.) A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
(n.) A piece of timber used in building.
(n.) A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
(n.) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
(n.) A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
(n.) An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
(n.) One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
(n.) An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
(n.) The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lovren was carried off on a stretcher following a tackle by Craig Gardner but has been unable to undergo a scan because of swelling around the knee.
(2) A waiter grabbed a table cloth to use as a stretcher, but a photographer took the boy in his arms to carry him to the ambulance.
(3) The patient is placed in the supine position on a stretcher of adjustable height with his head in a foam rubber conformer.
(4) Shawcross, who will join Fabio Capello's England squad for Wednesday's friendly against Egypt, was shown a straight red card before Ramsey was carried off the pitch on a stretcher and taken to a local hospital, where his double break was set today.
(5) This procedure can be successfully applied to ureteral stones providing appropriate preoperative cystoscopic manipulations and a correct positioning of the patient on the stretcher of the lithotripter.
(6) Green prayer-mats were beds, tables were used as stretchers, while those already treated – blood drenching their shirts – sprawled against the walls at the side.
(7) 7.25pm BST 108 mins: Medel can't even walk off the pitch, sitting up on the stretcher as he's taken off and Jose Rojas comes on.
(8) They will take with them more than 11 tonnes of kit, including torches, axes, rope, search cameras, stretchers and tents.
(9) Photos posted on Sina Weibo showed security forces on rooftops with rifles and a man being carried through the streets on a stretcher.
(10) Already missing Michael Carrick, Ángel Di María and Robin van Persie, Luke Shaw was taken off on a stretcher after James McArthur caught him in the face with a stray elbow.
(11) Television footage showed women on stretchers being rushed into hospital with anxious relatives by their side.
(12) Nepal earthquake: two rescued after five days in Kathmandu building wreckage Read more The dust-covered teenager, who had been trapped in a small gap behind a bike under 6.5ft (two metres) of rubble, was eventually lifted blinking into the sunlight and placed on a stretcher, with a blue brace around his neck and a drip in his arm.
(13) Sturridge, who set up Frank Lampard's equalising goal on his first start for his country to cancel out Shane Long's opener, was hurt in a challenge by Glenn Whelan and having fallen to the ground on the touchline, had to be carried to the dressing room on a stretcher.
(14) In contrast, routine anesthetic reversal allowed operating room extubation, patient self-transfer to the stretcher, and ambulation on the day of surgery in Hospital B where patients had a 1.7 hour recovery room stay and a 9.6 day postoperative stay.
(15) Elderly patients were removed quickly from the stretcher area of the accident and emergency department to the quieter surroundings of the short-stay ward, where their immediate nursing requirements could be readily met.
(16) Recent findings reviewed in this paper suggest that in fact all reptants share the same three inhibitory axons: one is a universal common inhibitor, making synaptic connections within all leg muscles; the other two are specific (single-target) inhibitors of the opener and stretcher muscles, respectively (muscles which share a single excitatory axon as their sole source of activation even though they act on different joints).
(17) We decided to go forward anyway with two others – Catherine Stacpole, whose son was a well-known monk and writer and a man called Francis Whigham, a stockbroker who had done a great deal of work at Lourdes as a stretcher carrier and helper with the disabled.
(18) Augustine Eguavoen was actually stretchered off after this incident, though unsurprisingly he managed to play on after a little "treatment".
(19) It showed courage and determination to make sure we got at least a draw – and we actually went down the other end to try to get a winner, and were thankfully able to do that through a great ball from Glen Johnson and good finish by Mame Diouf.” Bournemouth suffered a significant early blow when their top scorer Callum Wilson was carried off on a stretcher in the 17th minute having sustained what appeared to be a serious knee injury.
(20) As part of the development of a life support stretcher for transportation of critically ill patients, a portable ventilation system was developed.