(n.) Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
(n.) Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute; as, a man steady in his principles, in his purpose, or in the pursuit of an object.
(n.) Regular; constant; undeviating; uniform; as, the steady course of the sun; a steady breeze of wind.
(v. t.) To make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute.
(v. i.) To become steady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
(2) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
(3) In the cannulated group, significant decreases (P less than 0.05) in the area under the elimination curve (AUC), the volume of distribution at steady-state (Vdss) and the mean residence time (MRT) were observed.
(4) At the steady state the intracellular concentration of PteGlu was 120-fold higher from that of the medium.
(5) In a steady-state exercise test this difference developed gradually during the first 10 min of exercise.
(6) An electrogenic sodium-potassium pump appears to contribute materially to the steady-state potential and to certain of the transient potential responses of vascular smooth muscle.
(7) This 520-nm change can be used for the continuous measurement of pH changes in thylakoids during steady-state illumination.
(8) Steady state levels of chloroplast mRNA encoding the core PSII polypeptides remain nearly constant in the light or the dark and are not affected by the developmental stage of the plastid.
(9) The changes in muscle activity had the same pattern and similar phase-frequency properties to those observed under analogous vestibular stimulation during the maintenance of steady posture.
(10) Indeed, the nationalist and religious right bloc merely held steady , gaining just one seat.
(11) In all cases studied, the presence of a translation termination codon correlates with a decrease in the steady-state level of mRNA.
(12) We measured the steady-state volumes of distribution for radioactive chloride, sucrose, and albumin in the lung of six anesthetized, spen-thorax sheep.
(13) As many as 25 turnovers of the transport cycle per monomer can occur prior to attainment of steady state.
(14) For these augmented breaths, tidal volume, inspiratory time, and expiratory time were not different from the next augmented breath occurring in the same run in the steady state.
(15) Carotid nerves block provoked transient ventilatory depression, decreasing VT by 46% and fR by 26%, followed by recovery to steady-state values in VT, fR and PETCO2.
(16) Use 3-ml Luer-Lok syringes and 30-gauge needles and thread the needle carefully into the vessel while using slow and steady injection with light pressure.
(17) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(18) Rates for homicide have remained steady and have a distinct profile.
(19) A method is described for the accurate, rapid measurement of the unbound fractions of estradiol and of progesterone in small volumes of plasma or serum at 37 degrees C by a miniature method of steady-state gel filtration.
(20) The possibility that S. mutans was capable of aciduric adaptation during a biologically-generated pH reduction was examined by mixing cultures of both organisms after each had been grown to steady state at pH 5.5 in separate chemostats.
Sweetie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
(2) The society has taken another step to protect the pandas' value to the zoo by trademarking their popular, anglicised names, Sunshine and Sweetie, to prevent pirate merchandising.
(3) And when Tian Tian (Sweetie) is seated and eating, she seems very human in her movements.
(4) "[Then] he goes along and says, 'I've done a great deal for Europe, I've wrecked the nuclear deterrent, the Americans will be even more angry with the small contribution we make to Nato and now I would like these special sweeties kept for me.'
(5) On Apple's App Store it was Candy Crush Saga , the sweetie-themed match-three puzzle game that has stuck to the upper reaches of the top-grossing chart since its release in November 2012.
(6) Grandparents have long been treasured for their contribution to pocket money and the sweetie jar – but the extent of the reliance on their generosity has been revealed in a new report.
(7) Mandelson could better understand that the New Labour project, like sweeties at the check-out counter, was a catchy little number for a while but insufficiently nourishing or robust in ideas to feed the political appetite for very long.
(8) Britain, too, has stepped back from support so unequivocal that Clare Short, then Labour's international development secretary, called Kagame "a sweetie" and Tony Blair established a foundation to help the man he calls a "visionary leader" to govern.
(9) Tian Tian (Sweetie) and Yang Guang (Sunshine) will fly out from Chengdu on Sunday on a jet emblazoned with a panda portrait.
(10) 12.46am BST Ann Romney was asked what advice she gave her husband to prepare for tonight's debate, and she said she told Mitt: You know what sweetie, you had five boys.
(11) The guns are more pumped, the giggle less nervous, but Hoult is still a genuine sweetie.
(12) A BBC spokesperson said: "Including Sweetie as one for the annual headline makers was a light-hearted addition to the list, and this isn't the first time it has featured a non-human.
(13) "Do they genuinely believe that the crofters will capitulate if a big enough financial sweetie is dangled in front of them?
(14) A German police officer told me, 'You're crazy sweetie, you can't do that, you cannot prohibit men from buying sex, it's totally impossible.'
(15) Sweetie and Sunlight were born in 2003 and lived at the Ya'an reserve in Chengdu, China.
(16) Thousands of women tweeted that this was "sexist" because Sweetie hadn't achieved anything significant and, anyway, pandas weren't women.
(17) A fairly badly drawn stick-puppet girl and gorilla throw each other a chocolate sweetie covered in hundreds and thousands.
(18) Impulsivity is a characteristic of sweety bulimics, dysphoria and affective lability characterise salty ones.
(19) However much you rationally accept that TV channels and sweetie manufacturers are profit-driven entities, it's still tough to break the emotional conviction that they couldn't possibly be invested in anything that might cause harm to your child.
(20) A post-1994 outpouring of western guilt has, many argue, allowed Kagame to escape criticism for running an authoritarian regime that ruthlessly crushes dissent, including the alleged assassination of opponents abroad .Clinton has described him "one of the greatest leaders of our time", Tony Blair called him a "visionary leader" and former international development secretary Clare Short infamously said of him: "Such a sweetie."