(n.) The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect; -- sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. In a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence."
(n.) The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.
(n.) The leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.
(n.) Energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.
(n.) A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.
(n.) A pure or disembodied spirit.
(v. t.) To indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(2) When the election comes, we won’t be campaigning for a coalition... ...we will be fighting heart and soul for a majority Conservative Government – because that is what our country needs.
(3) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
(4) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(5) "They are soul-less creatures pandering to the NRA ."
(6) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(7) This week, after much soul-searching, she is packing up her house to move to Shropshire so that “my mum can look after me”.
(8) It rips at our souls every single time we look the results,” said Winters, who was paid $12.8m, including a $10m buy-out award .
(9) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
(10) His collection of poems Beware Soul Brother (1971) and the volume of short stories Girls at War and Other Stories (1972) drew on the experiences of the war.
(11) London's future-soul act Jungle are new at No 7, with another big chart entry for the classic metal act Judas Priest.
(12) Civilised yet unsubdued, it serves as a visual analogy for the soul of man under socialism.
(13) Her work has taught her not only about people’s capacity for survival, she says, but also about the darkness of the human soul.
(14) The 32 dead souls ringing the Dr Strangelove war room of the NFL ownership meeting interrupt their Randroid tongue-bathing only to squeal like scalded truffle pigs at the thought of any power devolving to the actual people whose ability, knowledge and gameplay make the NFL worth watching in the first place.
(15) I was astonished as politics had never played a part in my time as a governor, but after some soul searching over the weekend and not wishing to cause the school any further issues I tendered my resignation, which she accepted.” Eskdale School said it did not wish to comment on the matter, but the remaining governors are investigating the circumstances surrounding Ward’s resignation.
(16) Saying Robinson’s death made him heartsick, Reverend Alexander Gee Jr, pastor of the Fountain of Life church, recommended a soul-searching analysis.
(17) Warm words from Obama for Biden leave door open for support for 2016 run Read more The US vice-president, in a conference call with Democratic National Committee members, said he was trying to decide whether he could give “my whole heart and my whole soul” to a run for the White House, but also alluded to the burden that had been placed on his family by the death of his son, Beau Biden .
(18) She said she was sorry that she would not see the “great lives” her children would make for themselves, adding: “But if you have a little spirituality you must believe I will be watching.” Bellingham continued: “Hopefully, I have taught you to aspire to things in life and it isn’t all about money - it is what is in your soul.” Referring to her decision end chemotherapy, Bellingham said: “I know you boys will feel upset and probably cross and go through a cross part with me but you have to respect my decision.
(19) It’s all well and good standing in a gallery and stroking your chin, but if you cast your eyes to the left and summon the concentration it takes to read the little rectangle of artistic blurb next to it, all of that context and explanation really helps transform that weird bit of twisted wire your kid could make into something deep and primal pulled from the soul.
(20) In some fundamental way, the company believed she held the keys to their soul.
Transmigration
Definition:
(n.) The act of passing from one country to another; migration.
(n.) The passing of the soul at death into another mortal body; metempsychosis.
Example Sentences:
(1) After having analysed the most frequent etiological factors of mandibular canine impaction, the authors present their considerations concerning the probable pathogenetic mechanism of transmigration.
(2) The actual size of the population requiring institutional care, however, remains stable forcing individuals to transmigrate from one system to the other in order to obtain institutional support.
(3) In conclusion it is important, also from a therapeutical point of view, to keep under control, by periodical panoramic radiographs, all those clinical situations considered at risk due to their possible evolution in transmigration and which are characterized by: 1) an unerupted canine which can be palpated in a mesial position in the labial sulcus; 2) an enlarged symphyseal cross-sectional area; 3) an obstacle to normal eruption (cysts, odontomas, ecc.
(4) The initial decrease in resistance, maximal 5-13 min after initiation of transmigration, occurs despite inhibition of transmigration by an antibody to the common beta subunit of neutrophil beta 2 integrins, and is paralleled by an increase in transepithelial short-circuit current.
(5) Here we show that detailed time course studies of the transmigration-elicited decline in resistance has two components, one of which is unrelated to junctional permeability.
(6) Adhesion of lymphocytes to endothelial cells (EC) is the requisite first element in the multistep process of transmigration from blood across the postcapillary venules.
(7) During gastrostomy closure and performance of a feeding jejunostomy, inadvertent transmigration of the gastrostomy tube was found to be the etiology of the small intestinal obstruction.
(8) In contrast, eosinophils from allergic asthma patients showed an increased adherence and transmigration capacity.
(9) The patient explained his anxiety and his symptoms as stemming from violent death in his former life and subsequent transmigration.
(10) This response was dependent on the size of the FMLP gradient and the density of PMN transmigration.
(11) Three cases in whom transmigrated IUDs were removed with operative laparoscope are presented.
(12) Thus, permeability alterations accompanying PMN transmigration can be specifically attributed to altered permeability of the rate limiting barrier of the paracellular pathway, the intercellular tight junction.
(13) Chi-square analysis shows that there is no statistical difference between the tendency to right or left transmigration.
(14) We have previously reported that abdominal irradiation of mice inhibited lung metastases of a weakly immunogenic fibrosarcoma, and that transmigration after the irradiation of Enterobacter cloacae into mesenteric lymph nodes coincided with this phenomenon.
(15) Using this model, we demonstrate that neutrophil transmigration in a plasma milieu was associated with a significant disruption of the retentive properties of the basement membrane in the absence of discernable morphologic changes.
(16) 13 cases of transmigration of impacted mandibular cuspids are presented, 3 of which occurred in pairs, raising the total number of teeth to 16.
(17) In such cases the heterotopic tube should be removed to reduce the risk of ectopic pregnancy and to eliminate competition between the tubes for the transmigrating sperm and oocyte.
(18) Furthermore, in ampullary operated oviducts peritoneal transmigration of ova was frequently observed.
(19) Lungs from rIL-2-treated (but not controls) animals displayed marked ultrastructural changes by electron microscopy in the arteriolar segment to include intracellular and subcellular blebs throughout the arteriole with separation of endothelial cells from basement membrane, interstitial edema, endothelial adhesion, and transmigration of lymphocytes into interstitium.
(20) Both IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha caused sustained increased transmigration with IFN-gamma having the greater effect.