(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.
Spot
Definition:
(n.) A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
(n.) A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
(n.) A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card.
(n.) A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
(n.) A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
(n.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife.
(n.) The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish.
(n.) Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
(v. t.) To make visible marks upon with some foreign matter; to discolor in or with spots; to stain; to cover with spots or figures; as, to spot a garnment; to spot paper.
(v. t.) To mark or note so as to insure recognition; to recognize; to detect; as, to spot a criminal.
(v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse.
(v. i.) To become stained with spots.
Example Sentences:
(1) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.
(2) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(3) The effect of the mutation for white belly spot controlled by the dominant gene W on spermatogenesis in mice was examined by experimental cryptorchidism and its surgical reversal.
(4) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(5) Our findings: (1) both forms, LC1 and LC3, migrate in the two species with rather similar electrophoretic constants (both in terms of pI and Mr); (2) the LC2 forms of rabbit and humans exhibit the same Mr but quite different pI values, the rabbit forms being more acidic; (3) the chain LC2Sb is resolved into two spots in both rabbit and humans.
(6) You just have to be the first person to spot a coach.
(7) The overall effect achieved with LTS was less than that with LTP, but it is possible to reduce IOP by selecting more reasonable parameters, e.g., a laser setting of 200mW, a 50 microns spot size and a 0.5 to 1-sec duration.
(8) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.
(9) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(10) Detection limits were then calculated for the different sizes of cold spots.
(11) These complications were believed to be caused by the use of a small spot size with high energy.
(12) In the brownish skin and in the black spots of the dorsal region all types of chromatophores are found.
(13) I can always spot something for my sisters Gretchen and Amy.
(14) Debeaking had no effect on the incidence of blood-spotting in the eggs.
(15) Six abnormal colonoscopic appearances were documented, namely mucosal edema, ulcers, friability, punctate spots, erythematous areas and luminal exudate.
(16) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
(17) This appears to be a newly described entity, although it resembles a Becker's nevus without hypertrichosis or an typical café au lait spot.
(18) A £100,000 bronze statue of an ordinary family, the Joneses, will be unveiled in a prime spot outside the city’s library which opened last year.
(19) When delta phi was enlarged, first saccades were either directed near the green or the red spot (bistable response mode).
(20) Join us for a spot of future gazing as we discuss: The challenges and opportunities colleges and training providers will face over the next five years International expansion The role of FE in higher education New ways to diversify New technology – the possibilities and risks.