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In pharmacology the elimination or excretion of a drug is understood to be any one of a number of processes by which a drug is eliminated from an organism either in an unaltered form (unbound molecules) or modified as a metabolite. The kidney is the main ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "a casting out," noun of action from eliminate . Meaning "expulsion of waste matter" is from 1855.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of removing or getting rid of something [syn: riddance ] the bodily process of discharging waste matter [syn: evacuation , excretion , excreting , voiding ] analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off. 2 The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition. 3 (context television English) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television ...
Usage examples of elimination.
Standard procedures calls for elimination of airborne enemy patrol to prevent relay of cyborg unit location or other data.
Recently, the NRF has lobbied for the elimination of the estate tax, for bankruptcy reform, for free trade with China, against new ergonomics standards for the workplace, and against increases in the minimum wage.
As Chatterton heard it, tri mix offered a fantasyland of advantages over breathing air in deep water: widened peripheral vision sharpened motor skills and coordination longer bottom times shorter decompression times reduced risk of oxygen toxicity and deep-water blackout elimination of narcosis Chatterton believed that any one of these benefits could revolutionize wreck diving in the Northeast.
Langton campaign can be reduced to three - elimination of Lady Rosnay, elimination of Osmond, elimination of me.
Harley for Osmond - the various attempts to make scandal of his affair with Alix - the elimination of the other rival, Molly Marne.
The GOP rescissions included the elimination of 15,000 AmeriCorps positions, 1.
If becoming a Christian means the elimination of all virility from the character, the substitution of soft soap and sawder for strength and diligence, religion cannot be regarded as a help in business.
Distinctions, rightly awarded, are an aid, not a hindrance to sexual selection, and effort should be directed, from the eugenic point of view, no less to the proper recognition of true superiority than to the elimination of unjustified differentiations of reputability.
The elimination of carbonic acid through the lungs has already been described on page 66, and the excretory function of the skin on page 70.
The elimination of the beavers and over-grazing, especially of the riparian habitats, altered the hydrology of the continent.
The two dozen embryos arrayed upon the counter, each one no more than a few millimeters long and each suspended in a sterile dish containing an artificial growth medium of her own invention, were the end of a long and meticulous process of elimination and experimentation, expressly designed to create human embryos genetically superior to those created through the random genetic shuffling of ordinary reproduction.
What ensues is a well documented account of the elimination of sectarianism from the American school system which is reinterpreted as a fight for the secularization of public supported education.
The only games scheduled are in celebration of Libernalia, and Sertes is planning an elimination match.
The elimination of noise, Soli said, was the real problem in transmitting information.
Rather than testifying to the reality and existence of God and a superterrestrial world, it will mark their final elimination from human consciousness.