(a.) A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sculthorpe’s catalogue consists of more than 350 pieces ranging from solos to orchestral works and opera.
(2) A system to train nurses to be first and solo assistants of microsurgery has been practiced in our hospital for the past 13 years.
(3) "Over the 70-odd days I was there last time [for the solo trip], I would only think there was less than half a day when all things were good."
(4) We have identified the yeast histone locus HTB1-HTB1, encoding histones H2A and H2B, as a suppressor of solo delta insertion mutations that inhibit adjacent gene expression.
(5) Those starting in a self-employed solo practice are least likely to change practices, while those starting as HMO employees are most likely to change.
(6) The best advertisement for the format came four hours before the final even started, when, in ITV1's coverage of the FA Cup Final, the teenager Faryl Smith, a 2008 runner-up, sang the national anthem solo and faultlessly in front of a full crowd at Wembley.
(7) Peter Mayhew, who played Han Solo's wookiee sidekick Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, stood at an impressive 7 ft 2" and also had what might be described as broad facial features.
(8) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.
(9) has been topping download charts across Europe since its surprise release on Tuesday morning, and now could become his fourth solo No 1, and his first since Let's Dance in 1983.
(10) Drawing on several real cases, as well as the recent celebrity nude photo leak, the drama is mostly a solo performance.
(11) More from Behind the joke • James Acaster: 'Normal people perv solo' • Phil Wang: impossibly wise or offensively stupid • Holly Walsh: 'I build my comedy block-by-block like Lego'
(12) It was only ever worth around a quarter of a billion dollars annually in exports at its mid-noughties peak – less than most blockbuster US animations grossed solo.
(13) Mark Coyle, who co-produced Definitely Maybe, said that Gallagher’s second solo LP reminds him “in some respects of the spirit” of Oasis’s 1994 debut.
(14) That leap is The Desired Effect, his second solo album, out 18 May.
(15) Dad brought us up on Star Wars from when we were old enough to not be scared ... We grew up in our teenage years absolutely loving Star Wars,” said Michael Kidd, who came to see the film dressed as Chewbacca along with his Hans-Solo-costumed wife and Jedi-dressed family.
(16) Edge: Red Sox FIRST BASE At first base, Boston's Mike Napoli was a force in the ALCS, hitting a pair of solo home runs, including his blast off Detroit's Justin Verlander in Game Three which was just enough to beat the Tigers 1-0.
(17) Conversely, most optometric educational institutions have been unwilling or unable to develop training programs for student optometrists beyond the traditional solo concept.
(18) Since 1969, with the introduction of universal health insurance in Ontario, the cost and benefit differences between solo and group practice medical care have been eliminated.
(19) This article compares mothers' satisfaction with children's medical care in six widely varying settings: fee-for-service solo and group practices, prepaid group practice, public clinics, hospital outpatient departments, and emergency rooms.
(20) A longitudinal, controlled study of contraceptive compliance was undertaken in a solo family practice in which 240 high-risk women were allocated alternatively to Practice and Clinic Groups.
Solon
Definition:
(n.) A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.
Example Sentences:
(1) "My 2002 paper did not criticise the hypothesis that inequality and intergenerational immobility are related, but rather supported it," Solon added.
(2) In a separate submission to governments, Pablo Solon , Bolivia's ambassador to the UN, claimed that industrialised countries were filling all the available atmosphere with carbon pollution, and preventing poor countries from developing.
(3) "Important improvements have been made", said Pablo Solon, the Bolivian ambassador to the UN.
(4) Solon was a surprise choice – he was the first academic to question whether the US, a highly unequal society, was really a land of opportunity 20 years ago.
(5) "The new data shows a frightening chasm between what the science says, what the people have asked for and Earth needs, and what rich countries are saying they are willing to do," said Bolivian ambassador, Pablo Solon.
(6) But the government pointed to a 2002 paper by Gary Solon, a professor at Michigan State University, which it claimed had raised doubts over whether there was a link between high levels of income inequality and low levels of social mobility.
(7) Solon was also gastroprotective for the stomach as it reduced dose dependently the gastric necrotic lesions induced by absolute ethanol given orally.
(8) Solon, a synthetic isoprenyl flavonoid derived from sophoradin isolated from the root of an ancient Chinese plant, administered orally to rats, prevented, dose-dependently, the formation of acute gastric lesions produced by absolute ethanol given orally.
(9) Panel maker Solyndra, has sought protection from its creditors in the US despite receiving $500m of subsidies from the government, and Solon of Germany is filing for insolvency.
(10) "With the current pledges on the table, we have calculated that the Annex 1 (industrialised) nations are going to spend the whole [carbon] budget of the next 40 years in the next 10 years," Solon said.
(11) The effect of a new antiulcer drug, solon (sofalcone), on gastric mucus viscosity, permeability to hydrogen ion and degradation by pepsin was investigated using an in vitro system.
(12) We're running a strongly worded article from the Bolivian ambassador to the UN, Pablo Solon, tomorrow.
(13) Olivia Solon asks whether you have given Pokémon Go full access to everything in your Google account.
(14) Sounds like if I could have voted in the UK, I would not be voting for (Nick Clegg)," Solon said.
(15) It is not a base of negotiations," said Pablo Solon, Bolivia's ambassador to the UN.
(16) Pretreatment with indomethacin partly prevented the gastroprotective effects of Solon.
(17) The ulcer-healing action of Solon was probably related to the stimulation of mucus-alkaline secretion, increased mucosal blood flow and the formation of a protective barrier on the ulcer base.
(18) The results obtained here under in vitro conditions suggest that solon, by inhibiting peptic erosion of the mucus layer, increasing its viscosity and enhancing the ability to impede the hydrogen ion penetration, strengthens the gastric mucosal integrity and thus could aid in ulcer healing.
(19) Permeability measurements showed that 2.2 X 10(-2) M solon increased the retardation ability of mucus to hydrogen ion by 32%, while 43% increase was obtained with 2.2 X 10(-1) M solon.
(20) Both reports were severe in their criticism of a department which had unlawfully imprisoned an Australian, Cornelia Rau , for many months, and which had deported Vivian Solon , also Australian, to the Philippines.