(n.) The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.
(n.) Meditation; serious consideration.
(n.) That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention.
(n.) Solicitude; anxious care; concern.
(n.) A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(2) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
(3) Blood pressure control was marginally improved during the study and it is thought possible that better patient compliance might explain this.
(4) The amino-terminal region of a 70 kDa mitochondrial outer membrane protein of yeast and the presequence of cytochrome c1, an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space, are thought to be responsible for localizing the proteins in their final destinations after synthesis in the cytosol.
(5) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
(6) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
(7) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(8) Adding a layer of private pensions, it was thought, does not involve Government mechanisms and keeps the money in the private sector.
(9) Until recently, the control was thought to be governed by single, dominant genes, located within the I region of the H-2 complex.
(10) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
(11) Likewise, they had little or no effects on the fluorescence anisotropy of TMA-DPH, which is also thought to be located in the interfacial region of the lipid bilayer, either when the probe was located in the outer layer of the plasma membrane or when the probe was located in the inner membrane compartment.
(12) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
(13) My thoughts are with all those who have lost loved ones or been injured in this barbaric attack.
(14) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
(15) So we concluded that duplications and accessories should be thought to have similar meanings with the ordinary branching patterns of MCA in the occurrence of aneurysms.
(16) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
(17) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
(18) Although histologic proof of regression is not available, this experience suggests a more favorable prognosis than previously thought possible.
(19) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(20) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
Vacuous
Definition:
(a.) Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.
Example Sentences:
(1) A different pattern was observed in the open cage test, where both neuroleptic groups showed significant increases in vacuous OMs during drug administration which rapidly became attenuated upon drug withdrawal.
(2) Vacuous chewing movements in rats may be an animal analogue of the human motor disorder, tardive dyskinesia.
(3) Buckman will also accuse the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, of responding to growing problems in the NHS with "cheap soundbites and vacuous political point scoring", such as wrongly blaming GPs and out-of-hours services for rising attendances at A&E units.
(4) This criticism can be extended of course to other forms of online communities, such as Facebook, where contact-less friendships are reduced to pokes, LOLs, and vacuous innuendos.
(5) Previous studies have shown that the emergence of spontaneous dyskinetic behaviors, such as vacuous chewing movements, following several months of neuroleptic treatment in the rat, is correlated with depletion of nigral GABA.
(6) Vacuous jaw movements that resemble chewing were produced by dopamine depletion in the ventrolateral striatum, but not the anteroventromedial or dorsolateral striatum.
(7) And one might nod as one hears banal and vacuous philosophical themes such as "change begins with you" or "every little thing helps".
(8) A dose-related increase in vacuous chewing was induced by injections of pilocarpine in the ventrolateral but not the ventromedial striatum.
(9) The announcement was dismissed as window dressing by the shadow home office minister Lady Smith, and as "vacuous and cynical posturing" by Steven Woolfe, a Ukip immigration spokesman.
(10) Hedonistic, vacuous, self-important and delusional.
(11) The Guardian's Charlie Brooker created the character of Nathan Barley , a vacuous media playboy, back in 1999, around the same time the east London fanzine The Shoreditch Twat began published its first edition.
(12) The crest of mitochondria was blur, coalescent and vacuous.
(13) I suspect a lot of people will write Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood off as a vacuous game about a vacuous person, using a cynical business model that preys on stupid players who wouldn’t know a “proper game” if it snogged them on the pillion.
(14) In contrast, bilateral microinfusions of muscimol into the nigrocollicular target region, in the deep layers of superior colliculus, blocked elicitation of gnawing by intranigral muscimol, but completely spared elicitation of vacuous chewing movements by intranigral isoniazid.
(15) In an era when art has increasingly become a vacuous wealth statement or part of an investment portfolio, Banksy continues to be seen by many as a pomposity-pricking man of the people.
(16) The influence of stressful experiences on the development of vacuous chewing movements (VCM) was investigated in non-medicated rats.
(17) Intranigral infusion of GABA agonists causes stereotyped licking and gnawing in rats, while intranigral GABA antagonists produce vacuous chewing movements.
(18) The ECC report: "DECC's stated objectives for reforming the electricity market are uncontentious but vacuous.
(19) Almost as vacuous as Clegg's contribution to the leadership debates, you might think.
(20) The development of vacuous chewing movements (VCMs), and changes in glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activities in extrapyramidal nuclei were examined in rats treated chronically with neuroleptics.