(n.) A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.
(n.) A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard.
(a.) Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull.
(v. t.) To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
(v. i.) To tipple to stupidity.
Example Sentences:
(1) AES in all three concentrations produced the least clinical necrosis, no histologic necrosis, and resolved faster than SOT or HS.
(2) After addition of ouabain (1 microM) the after potentials, after contractions, and SOP and SOT amplitude were significantly increased.
(3) Right atrial (RA), left atrial (LA), and aortic pressures, mixed venous (SmvO2) and aortic (SaO2) oxygen saturation, and whole-body oxygen consumption (VO2) were measured, and systemic blood flow (Qs), systemic oxygen transport (SOT), and oxygen extraction were calculated before and after occlusion.
(4) These data suggest that: O2 saturation cannot be predicted or calculated accurately from measured Po2, but must be measured directly, 2,3-DPG, hemoglobin concentration, and P50 fluctuate to stabilize arterial oxygen content, SOT is determined primarily by cardiac output in subjects who are adapted chronically, O2 extraction rises, due to a fall in venous O2 content, to maintain VO2 as transport falls, below a critical level of SOT, O2 extraction ceases to rise and VO2 falls with further reduction in transport.
(5) The decreased firing rate during the reward period was greatly attenuated in the no-reward tasks (n = 29) and was blocked by electrophoretic application of a beta-adrenoceptive antagonist [sotalol (SOT), n = 26].
(6) From 1981 through 1986, BW, hip height, and scrotal circumference (SC) measurements were obtained on 329 bulls at the start of a 140-d gain test (SOT) and every 28 d to the end of test (EOT).
(7) Its massive $5bn battery factory in partnership with Panasonic is expected to cut the sots of cells for its car by 30%.
(8) A study was conducted to determine the effect of preventive educational efforts among 621 female prostitutes in Mae Sot, Tak Province, in 1989.
(9) Four interexaminer and one intraexaminer agreement studies were performed on specific diagnostic tests commonly employed within sacro-occipital technique (SOT).
(10) A survey of 15-34 year old men in Mae Sot, Tak, was conducted in December 1989 to determine their knowledge about AIDS, HIV transmission, and sexual behavior to guide future AIDS prevention programs.
(11) The effects of ryanodine on (1) ventricular arrhythmias in guinea-pigs in vivo, (2) delayed afterpotentials and aftercontractions and (3) spontaneous oscillations of the membrane potential (SOP) and of resting tension (SOT) of guinea-pig papillary muscle under ouabain intoxication have been studied.
(12) Analysis of covariance was used to evaluate the SOT scores (by group, vision, and surface condition) and the GUGT scores.
(13) Only one patient did not undergo definitive closure of his defect because of a marked decrease in Qs and SOT with a significant rise in RA pressure.
(14) A survey of persons aged 60 years and over in Mae Sot in Tak Province, Thailand was conducted in 1989 to determine the prevalence of socio-economic, functional and medical problems.
(15) The SOT and GUGT may be useful in the field to establish criteria for screening elders in a fall-prevention program.
(16) A new, not previously reported, characteristic case of SOT is presented in connection with a review of the literature.
(17) The symposium was sponsored by the Inhalation Toxicology Specialty Section of SOT, and was organized to integrate evidence from various disciplines concerning health effects from acid aerosols in ambient air.
(18) This is the seventeenth case of SOT to be reported and the first reported case related to a lower unerupted canine.
(19) It also stimulates the frequency with which linear plasmid DNA transforms Escherichia coli to antibiotic resistance (Sot function).
(20) Conversely, the microscopic characteristics of SOT are clearly defined: numerous islands of benign squamous epithelium scattered in an apparently mature connective tissue, absence of peripheral columnar cells with palisading nuclei, and absence of stellate reticulum.
Sottish
Definition:
(a.) Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.
Example Sentences:
(1) The IFS told the Guardian that key Sottish National party pledges, including freezing the state retirement age, increasing universal credit payments, scrapping the bedroom tax and retaining child benefit, are not covered in the Scottish first minister’s proposal to raise public spending across the UK by 0.5% a year.
(2) He planted a vineyard, not the most useful of things with which to restart civilisation, and then lay sottish and naked in his tent.