(a.) Growing, or having the power of growing, as plants; capable of vegetating.
(a.) Having the power to produce growth in plants; as, the vegetative properties of soil.
(a.) Having relation to growth or nutrition; partaking of simple growth and enlargement of the systems of nutrition, apart from the sensorial or distinctively animal functions; vegetal.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(3) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(4) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
(5) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(6) An sdh-specific transcript of about 3,450 nucleotides was detected in vegetative bacteria.
(7) In addition, spontaneous platelet aggregation is increased when vegetations are present on cardiac valves.
(8) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
(9) The patients had a high AP, consumed more alcohol, were more well-fed, older and consumed more refined carbohydrates per 1 kg bw and less cholesterol and vegetable protein.
(10) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(11) We have used two monoclonal antibodies to demonstrate the presence and localization of actin in interphase and mitotic vegetative cells of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
(12) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(13) Using morhological, neurohistological and histochemical methods the author studied different areas and anatomical structures of the central and peripheral somatic and vegetative nervous system in 4 patients who had died during different periods of rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 27, 48, 51, and 60.
(14) The Xenopus Vg1 gene encodes a maternal mRNA that is localized to the vegetal hemisphere of both oocytes and embryos and encodes a protein related to the TGF-beta family of small secreted growth factors.
(15) This site is present in both vegetative cells and postaggregation cells.
(16) Sterile vegetations were produced in rabbits by placing catheters in the inferior vena cava, tricuspid or aortic valves, and thoracic or abdominal aorta and then were infected by the intravenous inoculation of Streptococcus sanguis.
(17) In the third part, the practical application of this knowledge to processed foods is shown using milk and vegetable protein as examples.
(18) Strong positive associations were found in both sexes for low fruit and vegetable consumption, high intake of salted meat and "mate" ingestion.
(19) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
(20) Headache, vegetative und neurological symptoms are frequent but not necessary companions.
Voluntary
Definition:
(v. t.) Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.
(v. t.) Unconstrained by the interference of another; unimpelled by the influence of another; not prompted or persuaded by another; done of his or its own accord; spontaneous; acting of one's self, or of itself; free.
(v. t.) Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
(v. t.) Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle fibers, which are the agents in voluntary motion.
(v. t.) Endowed with the power of willing; as, man is a voluntary agent.
(v. t.) Free; without compulsion; according to the will, consent, or agreement, of a party; without consideration; gratuitous; without valuable consideration.
(v. t.) Of or pertaining to voluntaryism; as, a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church.
(n.) One who engages in any affair of his own free will; a volunteer.
(n.) A piece played by a musician, often extemporarily, according to his fancy; specifically, an organ solo played before, during, or after divine service.
(n.) One who advocates voluntaryism.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
(2) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
(3) During ischaemia M1 stretch responses showed a more rapid and pronounced decline than did M2 responses and were abolished before voluntary power was appreciably affected.
(4) Decreased maximal voluntary squeeze pressures were less severe in continent patients with multiple sclerosis than in incontinent patients with multiple sclerosis.
(5) He got away with a lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter and served five years.
(6) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
(7) Surface EMGs at rest and at voluntary eyelid opening after eyelid closing were investigated.
(8) Voluntary entropion, which has been reported only once before, was photographically documented in a 12-year-old girl.
(9) Criteria for evaluating the data were scanning pattern (voluntary preferred reading direction) and reading performance.
(10) The atrophies of motor cortex seemed to be responsible for the disorder of voluntary movement.
(11) The Coalition has also been warned about the costs of voluntary grants schemes.
(12) Lloyds said it would achieve many of the job cuts through making less use of contractors and voluntary severance but admitted that some compulsory redundancies may be inevitable.
(13) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
(14) The "size principle" is known to dictate the sequence of recruitment of motor neurons during voluntary or reflex activation of muscles.
(15) It is suggested that contracting extrafusal muscle fibres can modulate the discharge pattern of spindle endings and contribute to the variability of discharge during a voluntary contraction.
(16) In erect subjects, voluntary changes of shape at FRC did not change regional volume distribution.
(17) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.
(18) Both the extensor indicis and the abductor pollicis longus are functional synergists and are under voluntary control of the brain.
(19) So far there have been 50 voluntary redundancies from editorial and a further 82 commercial jobs have been cut.
(20) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.