(n.) A low or subdued tone or utterance; a tone less loud than usual.
Example Sentences:
(1) Donald Trump is fairly progressive about gay people but when you look at Mike Pence and the Republican party, the religious undertone threatens to roll back the tide of progress.
(2) When Johnson or Congressman Earl Blumenauer – who is pushing for extension and reform of the Siv programs – talk about the situation, their articulate exhortations carry undertones of angst.
(3) You see from those films, there’s a real sexual undertone of menace.
(4) Moir, who has won a British Press Award, made a statement defending her column late on Friday, saying it was not her intention to offend, blaming a "heavily orchestrated internet campaign" for the furore and adding that it was "mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones".
(5) In a world striving for equal rights, where the female still carries the burden of temporary contraception, the simplicity and popularity of vasectomy for permanent contraception add the desired undertones of social equilibrium.
(6) But Revolution, performed at the Regency in San Francisco in a church-like venue that evoked the Moscow cathedral, had repeated dark undertones.
(7) "There's an undertone of bad politics and corruption.
(8) Aside from such stirring political undertones, dramatic battles will be waged across the 82-award field.
(9) There are moments of comedy, but there are some unsettling undertones if you choose to look for them.
(10) Words matter and remembering that we were all once strangers in a strange land and that the US is made better in every generation by the arrival of New Americans is central to my campaign.” The Republican party is making a safe space for really racist undertones against undocumented immigrants Professor Jose Luis Benavides Vargas wants candidates to understand that their words matter – even more so in a campaign cycle so far dominated by the bombast of a billionaire businessman who began his campaign by describing Mexican immigrants as “rapists” who are “bringing crime”.
(11) But his anti-American undertone alienated Germany and the US from each other – and his rigorous refusal didn't help unify the European countries either.
(12) Even when Kerry speaks triumphantly, there is a defensive undertone, as if to anticipate and deflect the criticisms that decades in public life have taught him are headed his way.
(13) Adam Goodes has my full support and the full support of the AFL.” The booing Goodes receives from opposition fans has been the subject of much debate with his term as Australian of the year, the way he plays the game and racial undertones all put forward as reasons for the adverse reaction.
(14) The note of personal disillusion persists, as so often in Imlah, as an undertone rather than a subject.
(15) Lewis Jetta ... clearly believes this to be racist, and it obviously has a racist [undertone].
(16) But if Bisping's outlook seems relentlessly positive at times, there is also an undeniable undertone of vulnerability.
(17) National anthems: We all know them by now and Uruguay's remains more lovable - a sprightly number with menacing undertones.
(18) Now, obviously there is a question about what sort of evidence there is to back up claims that persistent technology use is detrimental to our lives, but it’s often intrigued me that we don’t really consider the undertone to the use of the word ‘zombie’.
(19) Realistically, for us to say there wasn’t some racial undertone would be frankly just untruthful.” Crawford also said that the 911 call about his son, which led to the shooting, would probably not have been made if a white man had been walking around the store with the BB rifle.
(20) First of all biological psychiatry, based on the methods of the natural sciences, has been the subject of denunciation and underevaluation with deep emotional undertones.
Volume
Definition:
(n.) A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
(n.) Hence, a collection of printed sheets bound together, whether containing a single work, or a part of a work, or more than one work; a book; a tome; especially, that part of an extended work which is bound up together in one cover; as, a work in four volumes.
(n.) Anything of a rounded or swelling form resembling a roll; a turn; a convolution; a coil.
(n.) Dimensions; compass; space occupied, as measured by cubic units, that is, cubic inches, feet, yards, etc.; mass; bulk; as, the volume of an elephant's body; a volume of gas.
(n.) Amount, fullness, quantity, or caliber of voice or tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(2) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, volumes, and temperatures of expired gas were measured from the tracheal and esophageal tubes.
(3) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(4) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(5) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
(6) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(7) By 24 hr, rough endoplasmic reticulum in thecal cells increased from 4.2 to 7% of cell volume, while the amount in granulosa cells increased from less than 3.5% to more than 10%; the quantity remained relatively constant in the theca but declined to prestimulation values in the granulosa layer.
(8) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(9) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(10) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(11) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
(12) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
(13) It is concluded the decrease in cellular volume associated with substitution of serosal gluconate for Cl results in a loss of highly specific Ba2+-sensitive K+ conductance channels from the basolateral plasma membrane.
(14) In 3 cases the volume changes in the sinus were measured.
(15) 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.
(16) Plasma fibrinogen decreased by approximately 7% due to hemodilution caused by plasma volume expansion.
(17) It reduced serum AP levels, increased serum Ca levels, increased bone ash weight, epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone volume, with a concomitant reduction in epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone marrow volume.
(18) Doppler sample volume was extended to about 1.2 X 1.6 X 4.0 mm.
(19) The addition of a cerebral blood volume (CBV) compartment in the [18F]2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) model produces estimates of local CBV simultaneously with glucose metabolic rates when kinetic FDG studies are performed.
(20) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.