(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.
Soly
Definition:
(adv.) Solely.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study examines the extent to which household size is related to nutritional status in school-age children in the Solis Valley in highland Mexico.
(2) It therefore appears that the resources available to households in the Solis Valley are inadequate to buffer children in even more advantaged households from the stresses of maintaining large families.
(3) Our former European business editor, David Gow, was there and tweeted the highlights: David Gow (@gowdav) #euco France needs to master deficit to control debt which is burden for future generations, says Hollande blaming his predecessors for prob June 28, 2013 David Gow (@gowdav) #euco Sharp differences btw Merkel Hollande over Ez soli-fund.
(4) On his own he’s nothing.” Friends of the Earth, though, said that they were disappointed at the appointment, citing a potential conflict of interests as Cañete had been replaced as chairman of the two companies by his brother-in-law, Miguel Domecq Solis.
(5) Bacillus circulans WL-12 when grown in a mineral medium with yeast cell walls or yeast glucan as the soli carbon source, produced five beta-glucanases.
(6) Climent flew in, Caneo caught the bus from Santiago and they were joined by another team-mate, Diego Solis.
(7) "I'm insulted when I hear that because we have a very professional civil service," Solis told CNBC.
(8) Its patrons include the Liberal Democrat Lord Lester, Lord Woolf, the former lord chief justice, Sir Shridath Ramphal, the former secretary general of the Commonwealth, Soli J Sorabjee, the former attorney general for India, and Arthur Chaskalson, the former chief justice of South Africa.
(9) That blog was written by a man, Odin Soli, who now calls himself a writer of "online fiction".
(10) Obama did not show any symptoms, and the White House has confirmed that the president is fit and well after he shook hands with Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist at the National Anthropological Museum, earlier this month.
(11) This was enshrined in its immigration law, based on jus sanguinis (the right of blood) rather than jus soli (the right of soil): only those with German parents could become German, leaving the children and grandchildren of immigrants, who were born in Germany, foreigners in the only country they knew.
(12) "There was that sense that the first woman president was within our grasp, and we were losing it," said Patti Solis Doyle, who was removed as Clinton's campaign manager in February 2008.
(13) The results reported in the companion paper (Ostrosky-Solis, Efron, & Yund, 1991) indicated that literacy did not affect overall performance levels but did influence scanning behavior: "...reading, or learning to read, caused the scanning mechanisms of literate subjects to adopt more consistent scan paths, from subject to subject, than they would have adopted without this reading experience."
(14) Soli Ozel, an analyst at Bilgi University in Istanbul, said Obama had pressed "all the right buttons".
(15) "Well … to make a long story short Plain Layne turned out to be this middle-aged guy named Odin Soli who had also won blog awards years before as Acanit, a young lesbian Muslim girl with a Jewish girlfriend."
(16) Labor secretary Hilda Solis immediately hit back at claims that the Obama administration might have skewed the jobs numbers.
(17) The T. fusca cellulase genes are expressed at a low level in Escherichia soli, but at a high level in Streptomyces lividans.
(18) Solis died shortly afterwards just as the first deaths from swine flu were being reported.