(n.) The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added together; as, the sum of 5 and 7 is 12.
(n.) A quantity of money or currency; any amount, indefinitely; as, a sum of money; a small sum, or a large sum.
(n.) The principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium; as, this is the sum of all the evidence in the case; this is the sum and substance of his objections.
(n.) Height; completion; utmost degree.
(n.) A problem to be solved, or an example to be wrought out.
(v. t.) To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.
(v. t.) To bring or collect into a small compass; to comprise in a few words; to condense; -- usually with up.
(v. t.) To have (the feathers) full grown; to furnish with complete, or full-grown, plumage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(2) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.
(3) It is shown that, by comparison of a reacting mixture at chemical equilibrium with a non-reacting but equally composed one, the sum of the mean concentrations of the reaction products can immediately be taken from optical absorption or from interferometric measurements.
(4) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(5) The norms are reported as "Scaled Score Equivalents of Raw Scores" for each age group and as "IQ Equivalents of Sums of Scaled Scores."
(6) The molar refractivity has been shown to be a superior parameter for the description of the activity of sulphonamides than the sum of electronegativities of atoms making up a heterocyclic substituent in the sulphonamide molecule and molecular weight of the substituent.
(7) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(8) The length of the diaphragmatic wall of the heart in both the right and left ventricle was equal to the sum of the length of the inflow tract and the thickness of the ventricular wall at the apex.
(9) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
(10) This structure is further characterized by approaches of both the carbonyl and the furan O atoms to ring H atoms with separations which are slightly less than the sum of the relevant van der Waals radii.
(11) The amount of gallium in 'blood-free' tissues was measured by correcting for gallium in residual blood and an estimate of intestinal absorption was then made by summing the values for all tissues examined.
(12) Enzyme levels in strains with concurrent mutations in both regulatory genes are considerably higher than the sum of the levels in strains with a cytR or a deoR mutation alone, indicating a certain co-operativity between the two repressor proteins.
(13) Transfer of nonprofessional tasks out of nursing and reduction of tension arising from reduced responsibility of nurses for coordinating activities with ancillary departments are possible explanations for the positive relation between the presence of SUM and professional nurses' satisfaction.
(14) The Soret MCD of the reduced protein is interpreted as th sum of two MCD curves: an intense, asymmetric MCD band very similar to that exhibited by deoxymyoglobin which we assign to paramagnetic high spin cytochrome a3(2+) and a weaker, more symmetric MCD contribution, which is attributed to diamagnetic low spin cytochrome a2+.
(15) In sum, these studies demonstrate the novel phospholipid ceramide 1-phosphate in HL-60 cells and suggest the possibility that a path exists from sphingomyelin to ceramide 1-phosphate via the phosphorylation of ceramide.
(16) During bilateral displacements, the activity induced by the respective contralateral leg is linearly summed or subtracted, depending on whether the legs are displaced in the same or in opposite directions.
(17) Binaural difference waves (BDWs), obtained by subtracting the sum of two monaural BAEPs from a binaural BAEP, were obtained in 16- to 20-day-old jaundiced Gunn rats before and after injection of sulfadimethoxine, which produces bilirubin neurotoxicity by promoting net transfer of bilirubin out of the circulation into brain tissue.
(18) The index was calculated by dividing the sum of the count rates over both knees and both wrists by the dose of technetium given.
(19) A "peeling" technique was used to estimate the time constants (tau 0 and tau 1) and coefficients (a0 and a1) of the first two exponential terms of the series of exponential terms whose sum represented the slope of the voltage response.
(20) To determine the effectiveness of nitroglycerin, alone or with phenylephrine, during AMI in man, 12 patients (five or whom had left heart failure) were evaluated by summing ST-segment abnormalities (sigmaST) from 35 precordial electrodes.
Swum
Definition:
() of Swim
(p. p.) of Swim
() imp. & p. p. of Swim.
Example Sentences:
(1) Squid (Illex illecebrosus, Loligo pealei) were cannulated in the vena cava and swum in a Beamish-type respirometer.
(2) For the man who has swum through ice and hauled sledges for 1,200km it will surely be a walk in the park.
(3) The breaststroke is swum “head up” with a woolly hat on.
(4) In the Morris water maze, both distance swum and time to find the platform increased with age.
(5) At 4 months, lesioned and grafted groups were all impaired compared to the normal controls in their swim time and distance swum to find the platform, and they did not show any spatially focussed search strategy in the spatial probe trial when the platform was removed from the tank.
(6) Exercised animals were swum daily for 60 minutes on days 1-9.
(7) In model 1, rats were swum in a water bath at 33 degrees C for 30 min, which increased tidal volume (VT) approximately 300% and frequency 60%; they were then allowed to rest for up to 4 h. In model 2, rats were exposed to 5% CO2-13% O2-82% N2 for 24 h, which increased both VT and frequency approximately 200%; these rats were then rested for up to 24 h. In both models we harvested a tissue fraction (lamellar bodies, lb) and two alveolar fractions--tubular myelin rich (alv-1) and tubular myelin poor (alv-2).
(8) Top tip Once a year, on Pony Penning Day , the wild ponies are rounded up by the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Department and swum across the channel from Assateague Island to Chincoteague Island, where the foals are auctioned off to the public to raise money for managing the herd and keeping the pony population at sustainable numbers.
(9) Like Blatter, he has swum in the shark-infested waters of Fifa’s politics of patronage, favours and threats for far too long.
(10) In midcycle cervical mucus at 37 degrees C, beat frequencies and swimming speeds were greater than at 21 degrees C, but the trajectories were equally straight, and the distances swum per beat (kinetic efficiencies) did not differ.
(11) The opposite was true of acutely swum rats at 270 and 370 days of age.
(12) Groups of rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri, Richardson) were continuously swum at 20 cm s-1 (1.0 body lengths s-1) for 0, 3, 30, and 200 days.
(13) In SWUM, intracellular [Na+] increased significantly in the plantaris (PL), red gastrocnemius (RG), and WG, but not in SOL.
(14) Two weeks later the animals were tested in a circular water maze for time and distance swum to find a submerged platform.
(15) Animals were swum to exhaustion at either 0700 or 1900 h, after which samples of soleus, white vastus lateralis, and red vastus lateralis muscles as well as liver were excised and subsequently analyzed for glycogen content.
(16) In experiment 2, semen extended in egg yolk Tris was cooled to 5 degrees C or layered onto a solution of 6% BSA in extender at 37 degrees C, from which the sperm that had swum into the BSA solution were recovered 2 h later and cooled to 5 degrees C. Sperm in both treatments were cryopreserved.
(17) The Dutch team’s third leg was swum by Inge Dekker, taking part in her fourth Olympics, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in February and underwent surgery in March.
(18) Molecular sieving of plasma from rats which were swum repeatedly demonstrates that this N-acetyl beta-endorphin IR consists of both larger molecular weight N-acetyl beta-endorphin IR, e.g.
(19) In the nature of things there will have been some slippage: some voters will have died; and, as a result of normal political churn, some will have swum against the Ukip tide and departed for other parties.
(20) Japanese activists have swum ashore and raised flags on one of a group of islands at the centre of an escalating territorial dispute with China.