(n.) That which is vapid, insipid, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under study was the efficacy of heart unloading in different variants of asynchronous peripheral veno-arterial perfusion (VAP).
(2) At pH 5.5 and 5.0, the Vap of the mutant strains was higher than the Vap of the parent strain, whereas at pH 4.5 no significant differences were observed between the Vap of the 3 strains.
(3) The objective of this work was to compare the sensitivity of non-invasive tests used for the diagnosis of variant angina pectoris (VAP).
(4) Elevating pHi at constant Pco2 (and consequently [HCO3]i) by the addition of apical NH4 (20 mM) produced an immediate depolarization of Vap.
(5) Visual analogue pain scores (VAPS), sedation rating scores (SRS), blood samples for the determination of fentanyl concentration, blood pressure, pulse and respiratory rate were determined hourly for 48 h from the time of TTS system application.
(6) Jugular vein Vascular-Access-Ports (VAP) were implanted in four animals.
(7) The VAPS was most efficient in predicting physical activities, thermal discriminability related best to pain relief, and pain report criterion to social and hobby activities as well as drug intake.
(8) Mean onset of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) due to H influenzae was 10.8 days after intubation.
(9) Twenty-nine consecutive extensive-stage SCLC patients received 6 weeks of cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and lomustine (CMC) induction therapy, followed by 6 weeks of vincristine, doxorubicin, and procarbazine (VAP).
(10) In most cases, acetazolamide on the basal side hyperpolarized both Vap and Vba to almost equal degrees and hardly changed the TEP.
(11) The most economical products for use were Del-Tox, Lintox-D, and Ra-Vap.
(12) We conclude that VAP is an effective, well tolerated chemotherapy combination in patients with advanced breast cancer which deserves further clinical trials.
(13) A tenfold higher throughput was achieved using the VaP-220.
(14) The subjects included 31 patients with anteroseptal infarction (ANT), 23 with inferior or inferoposterior infarction (INF + POS), 27 with effort angina pectoris (EAP) and 15 with vasospastic angina pectoris (VAP).
(15) Among all 29 patients, there were six CRs (21%) and no 2-year survivors, compared with a CR rate of 36% and 10% 2-year survivors in 78 extensive-stage patients previously treated with CMC plus VAP without LICMRX.
(16) This modified VAP has been used for 6 mo and in 25 dogs to date without any failure to determine arterial blood pressure and cardiac output.
(17) VAP-1 helps to elucidate the complex heterotypic cell interactions that direct tissue-selective lymphocyte migration in man.
(18) The voltage dependence of the transporter was assessed by altering Vap with transepithelial current and then measuring the DIDS-induced change in Vap.
(19) Blood opioid concentration, visual analogue pain scores (VAPS) and end-tidal percent carbon dioxide were measured before and after both an intravenous and oral dose of either methadone or morphine.
(20) Finally, less than 10 Hz can only give values for VSL and, perhaps, VAP.
Vapid
Definition:
(a.) Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beyond that, MSNBC devotes three hours each morning to a show hosted by a former rightwing GOP congressman and his cavalcade of vapid "centrist" establishment journalists such as Mark Halperin (then again, Fox features the idiosyncratic and unpredictable Shepard Smith each night).
(2) She comes across as vapid and totally uncouth without a bit of finesse about her.
(3) Greece Aligned to Eurovision's Balkan Bloc Not only is Saki Rouvas's This is Our Night marvellously, teeth-grindingly, competition-winningly vapid, but more importantly, Greece is the epicentre of the many-tentacled Balkan Bloc.
(4) The exhibition content is, in the main, as vapid as the architecture is extravagant.
(5) "I used to think that focusing on the visual aspect was really vapid and ridiculous too," she admits, "but I've come to realise it's actually one of the most powerful tools I have to work with.
(6) Since then, while some mainstream rap has veered to the materialistic and misogynistic, there have always been successful rappers who have rallied against the vapid.
(7) For while humanists work hard to create new ceremonies, many find them vapid.
(8) She zeited the geist of the mid-90s superbly, but Bridget, never trying be too strident (offputting to men) was for me the epitome of post-feminism – vapid, consumerist and self-obsessed.
(9) Vapid and sexless, pop was little more than a Smash Hits remake of American Bandstand three decades earlier.
(10) He may look vapid sometimes for Chelsea but he has scored nine goals in Europe and there are only two players, Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Lewandowski, with more this season.
(11) For the majority, however, the primary concern is not vapid rhetoric, nor even resentment about expenses fiddling, which parts of the media have now elevated above substantive policy arguments for years.
(12) For Brazil, there was also the added satisfaction of seeing Fred, who has been the subject of so much criticism following his vapid displays against Croatia and Mexico, get on the scoresheet.
(13) In his thoughtful demeanour seems to be an implicit criticism of the vapidity of today's world.
(14) Nobody has been subjected to these vapid discrediting techniques more than Noam Chomsky.
(15) It's said by a really vapid character who we're not meant to like.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Game of Thrones: spectacular but vapid.
(17) As one of their champions, Bono, recently put it in the New York Times , their music "contains all the big themes and ideas that make all around them seem so vapid".
(18) And indeed, see what happened in 2008 when Politico's own Mike Allen interviewed George Bush with questions so vapid and reverent that it would have shamed his profession if it were capable of that.
(19) United did not play anywhere close to their top level but they did not have to when their opponents were so vapid.
(20) Vapid passages can be forgiven if they are followed by substance.