(superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.
(v. t.) The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
(v. t.) The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
(v. t.) Fig.: The post of management or direction.
(v. t.) The hinder part of anything.
(v. t.) The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
(a.) Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
(2) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(3) Quenching of intrinsic fluorescence of (Ca2+-Mg2+)-ATPase by acrylamide, performed in the presence of Ca2+, gave evidence for a single class of tryptophan residues with Stern-Volmer constant (KSV) of 10 M-1.
(4) The death of your battery is now one of the factors that will push you to upgrade.” As Joanna Stern put it in her review of the iPhone 6s in the Wall Street Journal: “The No 1 thing people want in a smartphone is better battery life.
(5) Before we meet, I have to have a stern talk with myself about not mentioning the game last August in which all Arsenal fans will contend that Barton got new signing Gervinho sent off on his debut; he's had similarly abrasive encounters since with fellow midfielders, Karl Henry from Wolves and Norwich's Bradley Johnson, the latter earning him a three-match ban.
(6) Heshel Melamed, a stern rabbinical paterfamilias, was his maternal grandfather.
(7) Professor Lord Stern of the London School of Economics, the author of the influential Stern Report into the economics of climate change for the Treasury in 2006, warned that if the pattern continued, the results would be dire.
(8) The influential economist, Lord Nicholas Stern, welcomed the proposal as "strong and reasonable" and "with the interests of developing countries at its heart".
(9) Tryptophanyl fluorescence of the lipoprotein assembly was quenched as indicated by a reduction in the effective Stern-Volmer constant.
(10) "There's funding that was agreed to as part of the Copenhagen accord, and as a general matter, the US is going to use its funds to go to countries that have indicated an interest to be part of the accord," the state department envoy, Todd Stern, told the Washington Post.
(11) 3.43am BST Spurs 57-56 Heat - 6:15 remaining, 3rd quarter And some thoughts via email from Daniel Vazquez-Paluch: I can't help wondering if LeBron is a victim of Stern's rule changes more than his own tendency to disappear.
(12) It "failed to recognise the significance" of damage to a gas fracking well in 2011 and did not report it to government officials for six months, leading to a stern reprimand by the energy minister, papers released under the Freedom of Information Act show.
(13) Treatment with chymotrypsin to block the E1 to E2 transition results in a new set of quenching parameters which are unchanged with Na or K. Even after detergent denaturation (1% sodium dodecyl sulfate for 30 min), Stern-Volmer plots are nonlinear, and a significant fraction of tryptophan residues remain inaccessible to quencher.
(14) (At the time, he told shockjock Howard Stern on the record that he approved of it.)
(15) The local undertakers were pleased to discover the great Henty to be the man they had always imagined - a full-bearded giant, stern and wise, dressed like a warrior hero or - much the same thing - a Victorian gentleman with the whiff of gunpowder and the clash of sabres about him.
(16) At low quencher concentrations, the quenching follows the classical Stern-Volmer law.
(17) A couple of times I’ve raised my voice, been stern and they’ve responded.
(18) Quenching of pyrene fluorescence emission of labeled ATPase by acrylamide and cesium chloride gave linear Stern-Volmer plots.
(19) In a wide-ranging news conference at the end of the G7 summit in the Wetterstein Mountains in Germany, Obama issued a stern warning against Russia, accepted praise for the work of US prosecutors at confronting corruption in world soccer, gave the US supreme court advice on how to rule in an upcoming healthcare case and defended his immigration policies.
(20) Orthodontic treatment in those days, like life in general, was simple and stern.
Stroke
Definition:
(imp.) Struck.
(v. t.) The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.
(v. t.) The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
(v. t.) The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
(v. t.) A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.
(v. t.) A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.
(v. t.) Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.
(v. t.) A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.
(v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart.
(v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.
(v. t.) The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.
(v. t.) The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.
(v. t.) The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.
(v. t.) A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.
(v. t.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.
(v. t.) Power; influence.
(v. t.) Appetite.
(v. t.) To strike.
(v. t.) To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.
(v. t.) To make smooth by rubbing.
(v. t.) To give a finely fluted surface to.
(v. t.) To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The major treatable risk factors in thromboembolic stroke are hypertension and transient ischemic attacks (TIA).
(2) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
(3) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(4) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
(5) Cardiovascular disease event rates will be assessed through continuous community surveillance of fatal and nonfatal myocardial infarction and stroke.
(6) Five late strokes were ipsilateral (1.8%) and six were contralateral (2.1%) to the operated carotid artery.
(7) Diabetic retinopathy (an index of microangiopathy) and absence of peripheral pulses, amputation, or history of myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischemic attacks (as evidence of macroangiopathy) caused surprisingly little increase in relative risk for cardiovascular death.
(8) Urinary incontinence present between 7 and 10 days after stroke was the most important adverse prognostic factor both for survival and for recovery of function.
(9) Acetylsalicylic acid has been shown to reduce significantly stroke, death and stroke-related death in men, with no detectable benefit for women.
(10) Atrophy was present in 44% of TIA patients, 68% of PRIND patients and 82% of completed stroke patients.
(11) On the basis of clinical symptoms and CT scan findings, 66 patients were categorized as having sustained a RIND and 187 a stroke.
(12) Recognised risk factors for stroke were found equally in those patients with and without severe events before onset, except that hypertension was rather less common in the patients who had experienced a severe event.
(13) These are risk factors for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke.
(14) Stroke was the cause of 2 and congestive heart failure the cause of 4 deaths.
(15) Combined clinical observations, stroke volume measured by impedance cardiography, and ejection fractions calculated from systolic time intervals, all showed significant improvement in parallel with CoQ10 administration.
(16) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
(17) During surgical stimulation cardiac index increased in group A due to an increase in heart rate but remained below control in group B, while stroke volume index was reduced in both groups throughout the whole procedure.
(18) In 2001 Sorensen suffered a stroke, which seriously damaged his eyesight, but he continued to be involved in a number of organisations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and other charitable and public bodies, until a second stroke in October 2010.
(19) Two hundred and forty-one residents were examined for carotid bruits and signs of previous stroke.
(20) One hundred ten atherosclerotic occlusions of the internal carotid artery (ICA) were found in 106 patients in group I. Fifty-one percent of these patients had a history of stroke before arteriography, 24% had transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) or amaurosis fugax (AF), and 12% had nonhemispheric symptoms.