(subj. 3d pers. sing.) Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.
(v. t.) To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maximum tetanic stiffness (Stet) was related to Ftet according to the following regression (both variables expressed as percentage of their control values): Stet = 0.369 Ftet + 62.91 (correlation coefficient, 0.95; P less than 0.001).
(2) In a two group-study of patients with and without postoperative haemorrhagic diathesis after ECC tests were undertaken to ascertain whether a postoperative haemorrhagic diathesis after neutralization of Heparin is due to the use of protamine-chloride or stet to a preoperative existing disturbance of the coagulation system.
(3) Then the case is going to get called to court and a prosecutor's going to sign his overtime slip for two, three hours to show up for a case that's probably going to be stetted [dropped] because it's unconstitutional.
(4) Of them, sinusotrabeculectomy (STET) was made in 49 eyes, sinusotrabeculotomy (STT)--in 50, a new, proposed by the authors, operation--a "cap peak" sinusotrabeculotomy (CPSTT)--in 66 eyes; the latter excludes direct fistulization of the anterior chamber under the superficial scleral flap.
(5) In remote terms (3 years after the operations), stabilization of visual acuity and visual field was recorded after STET in 69.3% and 85.7%, after STT--in 82.0% and 90.0%, and after CPSTT--in 87.9% and 92.4%, respectively.
(6) Iridocyclitis, flat anterior chamber and detachment of the choroid were observed after STET in 32.6%, 24.5% and 26.5%, after STT--in 22.0%, 14.0% and 16.0%, and after CPSTT--in 6.0%, 4.5% and 1.5%, respectively.
(7) Groups receiving no iron showed a fall in mean stet concentration.
(8) After STET and STT, hypotony was recorded in 28.5% and 18.0%, respectively, and after CPSTT--in none of the cases.
(9) Even the counselor's background can be counterproductive, especially when the teen chooses STET unlikely to succeed.
(10) Hyphema and anterior chamber emptying were recorded at the time of STET in 22.4% and 16.3%, of STT--in 8.0% and 10.0%, while at the time of CPSTT--only in 3.0% and 1.5%, respectively.
(11) 3) There were significant correlation coefficients (p less than 0.05) between some stets, e.g.
(12) Stable normalization of intraocular pressure took place after STET in 93.8%, after STT--in 98.0%, and after CPSTT--in 96.9%.
Stew
Definition:
(n.) A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
(n.) An artificial bed of oysters.
(v. t.) To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.
(v. i.) To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
(v. t.) A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
(v. t.) A brothel; -- usually in the plural.
(v. t.) A prostitute.
(v. t.) A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
(v. t.) A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(2) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
(3) Four University of the Free State students filmed themselves drinking in a bar and then one of them urinating into a stew before feeding it to five black staff members, four of them women, at their dormitory on the Bloemfontein campus accompanied by shouts of "take it, take it".
(4) We have included pig’s trotters in our recipe to give the stew a gelatinous richness, and you can also throw in some ears for the same effect.
(5) 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.
(6) By any measure Poland’s recent history is one of triumph It was a war that was as much personal as it was political, with enmities that had been stewing for a decade erupting as the lid of communist rule was lifted.
(7) But rather than stew in bitterness, Hodgson's departure seems to have focused the band in much the same way as getting dropped in their early days (in their incarnation as Parva) did.
(8) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
(9) Readers may recall the Burl Ives record about a poor, cold, tired hobo who sings about the fantastical land with "the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees, where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings …" Yup, that's where we're living now, although the chancellor might have ruled out "the lake of stew and of whiskey too", since whisky is up 36p a bottle, while stew tax remains unchanged.
(10) However often its members drop elderly patients or leave them to stew in their own pee, the RCN gracefully embraces the public's image of them as the National Union of Angels.
(11) GCSE results are a thin gruel to feed developing minds when what is needed is a rich stew Jeremy Cushing We won’t see real progress until politicians treat education more like medicine, supporting a coherent programme of gradual research-based improvements, creatively designed and carefully developed until they work well.
(12) The muscle and fatty tissue of 101 deep-frozen fattened stewing chickens was tested for Hg content.
(13) ID7720613 Restaurante da Praia, Praia da Arrifana, Algarve Stewed octopus with sweet potato is the speciality at this restaurant, which sits alone at the bottom of the steep access road that winds down to one of Portugal’s most beautiful and geologically interesting beaches.
(14) Gastric emptying and small bowel transit were measured by computer analysis of data from a scintillation camera using technetium Tc 99m-tagged chicken liver mixed with beef stew and were compared with the results in five control subjects.
(15) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
(16) The study provides data which suggest that the consumption of red meat, savoury meals (pizza, pies, stew, etc.)
(17) It was found that boiling in water and frying decreased twofold the ammonia content in meat, while stewing produced no effect.
(18) Over my week in the Netherlands, I’d tried other delicacies: locust tabbouleh; chicken crumbed in buffalo worms; bee larvae ceviche; tempura-fried crickets; rose beetle larvae stew; soy grasshoppers; chargrilled sticky rice with wasp paste; buffalo worm, avocado and tomato salad; a cucumber, basil and locust drink; and a fermented, Asian-style dipping sauce made from grasshoppers and mealworms.
(19) There must be something to marry with the richness of the stew, and nothing beats the fluffy inside of a camp-baked potato.
(20) GB Burlotto Barolo Monvigliero, Piedmont, Italy 2008 (£28, The Wine Society ) This has the classic barolo paradox of power (14.5% alcohol) and ethereal fragrance (rose floral and subtle earthiness), but there's a ripeness and generosity of fruit here that you don't always find in nebbiolo at this age: a treat for wild mushroom risotto or pulse-based stews.