(n.) A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike.
(n.) A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds.
(n.) A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff.
(n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
(n.) The round of a ladder.
(n.) A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
(n.) The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; -- formerly called stave.
(n.) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
(n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
(n.) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See Etat Major.
(n.) Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
(2) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
(3) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(4) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(5) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(6) Strains isolated from the environment and staff were not implicated.
(7) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(8) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(9) Clinical pharmacists were required to clock in at 51 institutions (15.0%), staff pharmacists at 62 (18.2%), and pharmacy technicians at 144 (42.9%).
(10) This new protocol has increased the effectiveness of the toxicology laboratory and enhanced the efficiency of the house staff.
(11) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(12) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(13) All staff can participate in the plan but payouts for directors are capped at £3,000.
(14) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(15) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(16) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(17) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(18) Shop staff must be trained in the procedure and a record kept of the training.
(19) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
(20) Nursing staff can assist these clients in a therapeutic way by becoming familiar with the types of issues these clients present and the behaviors they manifest.
Vare
Definition:
(n.) A wand or staff of authority or justice.
(n.) A weasel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Varing the time of electrical stimulation of the carotid sinus nerve caused at most 5 mmHg change of blood pressure in the dog.
(2) The function of these genes was studied either by varying the proportion of the mutated and wild type alleles in the cell vy varing the growth conditions, or else by transforming the mutants into sigma-cytoplasmic petites.
(3) The pitch discriminability, i.e., the just noticeable difference (JND) at 75% threshold, in an environment with three acoustical parameters varing simultaneously is found to be 1.5%, about three times greater than the previously reported 0.5% DL when F0 varies alone.
(4) Varing the perfusion time from 0 to 120 min it has been observed that at any time the presence of the SAMe reduced by about 50% the loss of GOT.
(5) These results indicate that nonlaying and molting quail secrete calcium at a rate much lower than that of laying quail and that net uterine transfer of calcium exhibits varing degrees of dependence on bicarbonate ion in laying, nonlaying, and molting birds.
(6) By systematically varing environmental conditions, performance levels can be seen to vary with them.
(7) Histologically the tumor consists of undifferentiated mesenchymal cells with a myxomatous appearance; rhabdomyoblasts with varing degree of maturation are scattered here and there within the matrix.
(8) Arthrobacter M51 was the most resistant of the three isolates when frozen in sand or soil and when frozen at a high rate after growth at varing rates at 5 and 15 degrees C in carbon-or nitrogen-limited media.
(9) Varying doses of West Nile or Powassan viruses were inoculated by intraperitoneal or intramuscular routes into mice of varing ages; individual variables were manipulated to influence the outcome of infection.
(10) After studying two rural communities with varing endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis by total cross-sectional population survey, a stratified sample was obtained using defined criteria.
(11) The early degenerative changes were caused due to back pressure of testicular fluid (Vare et al, 1973).
(12) (3H)-Uridine uptake by these cells was suppressed by bromocriptine, at-ergocriptine or ergotamine at a concentration varing from 10(-6) M to 10(-5) M, but not 10(-5) M of lergotrile.
(13) Second, cells were exposed to 3AB for varing times prior to or after MNNG exposure.