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The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
Freda Adler

Meaning of "sterile" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STERILE

From Latin sterilis.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF STERILE

sterile  [ˈstɛraɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STERILE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sterile is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES STERILE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sterility

Sterile or sterility may refer to: ▪ Sterilization, a term referring to any process that eliminates or kills all forms of life from an item or field ▪ Sterility, an inability of a living organism to effect sexual reproduction ▪ Infertility, the condition of a person being unable to bear children, especially through natural means ▪ Asepsis, a state of being free from biological contaminants ▪ Sterile deposit, a geological strata free of archaeological materials ▪ Sterile Records, a record label formed in London in 1979 by Nigel Ayers and Caroline K of the post-industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions...

Definition of sterile in the English dictionary

The first definition of sterile in the dictionary is unable to produce offspring; infertile. Other definition of sterile is free from living, esp pathogenic, microorganisms; aseptic. Sterile is also not producing or bearing seeds, fruit, spores, stamens, or pistils.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STERILE


acrylonitrile
ˌækrɪləʊˈnaɪtraɪl
afebrile
æˈfiːbraɪl
antifebrile
ˌæntɪˈfiːbraɪl
butyryl
ˈbjuːtɪˌraɪl
febrile
ˈfiːbraɪl
intersterile
ˌɪntəˈsteraɪl
invirile
ɪnˈvɪraɪl
laetrile
ˈleɪəˌtraɪl
nonvirile
ˌnɒnˈvɪraɪl
puerile
ˈpjʊəraɪl
rile
raɪl
Ryle
raɪl
supervirile
ˌsuːpərˈvɪraɪl
ultravirile
ˌʌltrəˈvɪraɪl
unsterile
ʌnˈstɛraɪl
virile
ˈvɪraɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STERILE

stereotypically
stereotyping
stereotypist
stereotypy
stereovision
steric
sterical
sterically
sterigma
sterilant
sterilely
sterilisable
sterilisation
sterilise
steriliser
sterility
sterilizable
sterilization
sterilize
sterilizer

WORDS THAT END LIKE STERILE

acetonitrile
automobile
bile
chile
difficile
facile
hostile
isonitrile
juvenile
meanwhile
mile
mobile
nitrile
profile
scurrile
smile
textile
tile
utile
while

Synonyms and antonyms of sterile in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STERILE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sterile» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of sterile

Translation of «sterile» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STERILE

Find out the translation of sterile to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sterile from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sterile» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

贫脊的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

estéril
570 millions of speakers

English

sterile
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बाँझ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عَقِيمُ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

стерильный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

estéril
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাঁজা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

stérile
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Steril
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

steril
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

滅菌した
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

균이 없는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Steril
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô trùng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மலட்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निर्जंतुकीकरण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

steril
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sterile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sterylny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

стерильний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

steril
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στείρος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

steriele
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

steril
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

steril
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sterile

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STERILE»

The term «sterile» is very widely used and occupies the 19.814 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STERILE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sterile

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10 QUOTES WITH «STERILE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sterile.
1
Freda Adler
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
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Roone Arledge
I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile.
3
Hannibal Buress
I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.
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Harold H. Greene
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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Darell Hammond
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.
6
Graham Hawkes
Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.
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Thomas Heatherwick
I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.
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John Hersey
And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped.
9
Abbie Hoffman
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
10
Jonathan Katz
The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STERILE»

Discover the use of sterile in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sterile and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Compounding Sterile Preparations: Ashp's Video Guide to ...
To maximize the value of the video all program participants should have a copy of this guide. The Companion Guide and Assessment Record is available at quantity discounts.
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, 2009
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Getting Started in Non-Sterile Compounding Workbook
Introduces the most fundamental concepts, equipment, and principles of compounding.
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, 2008
3
The Sterile Cuckoo
A college freshman meets an irrepressible young girl and becomes involved in a bittersweet, ill-fated love affair with her
John Treadwell Nichols, 1965
4
Sterile Insect Technique: Principles and Practice in ...
A first of its kind, this book takes a generic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT.
Victor Arnold Dyck, Jorge Hendrichs, A. S. Robinson, 2006
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Sterile Pharmaceutical Products: Process Engineering ...
From water systems to clean-in-place systems, to sterile powder handling and robotic applications in sterile production environments, this book addresses the issues of system implementation, integration, and operations.
Kenneth E. Avis, 1995
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Sterile Product Facility Design and Project Management, ...
Unlike other books that cover design, technology, and validation in general terms, this book addresses the industry specific issues that make biotech facilities so costly and difficult to deliver.
Jeffrey N. Odum, 2004
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Compounding Sterile Preparations
Comprehensive documentation for the guidelines is included in the appendices.Chapters new to this edition focus on: Gap analysis and action plans Safe use of automatic compounding devices Cleaning and disinfecting Radiopharmaceuticals as ...
E. Clyde Buchanan, Phillip J. Schneider, 2009
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Design of a Single Well Bioreactor-Incubator System with ...
The addition of perfusion to the system results in the manual feeding process with modified F12 nutrient media being unnecessary. The perfusion and perfusion rate are user controllable up to 8ml/h.
Manuel Kohlmann, 2011
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Recurrent Selection in Rice, Using a Male-sterile Gene
Improving rice populations; Methodologies for managing recurrent selection; Developing populations of recombinant genotypes; Active maintenance of populations; Population improvement; Selecting genotypes for line development; Using ...
Marc Châtel, Elcio Perpetuo Guimarães, 1997
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Clinical Psychomotor Skills: Assessment Tools for Nursing ...
Giving a good explanation for the procedure, the positioning and the expectations there are of the patient will ensure his cooperation, reduce the risk that he will touch something sterile and contaminate it and reduce the necessity of talking ...
Joanne Tollefson, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STERILE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sterile is used in the context of the following news items.
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United States Sterile Medical Packaging Market 2015-2019 - Key …
Drugs/pharma products hold a major share in the Sterile Medical market. The packaging of medical products is a complex process because of their molecular ... «PR Newswire, Apr 15»
2
Turns Out Urine Isn't Actually Sterile
A new study has shown that despite the common belief that urine is sterile, it isn't at all. In fact, the new research shows bacteria in the urine of healthy ... «Smithsonian, Mar 15»
3
Specialty Compounding to halt production, sale of sterile drugs
The FDA filed a complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in February, alleging that one of Specialty Compounding's sterile injectable ... «Reuters, Mar 15»
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FDA says one dead, many ill after receiving non-sterile solution
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday that many people have been sickened and one has died after receiving intravenous fluids that were ... «Fox News, Jan 15»
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Fagron Sterile Services to expand with major new facility
Netherlands-based Fagron Sterile Services, which acquired Wichita's JCB Laboratories in January, is planning a major expansion on the east side. «Kansas.com, Dec 14»
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Experts suggest releasing millions of sterile male mosquitoes to …
SINGAPORE - Expertsengaged by the National Environment Agency (NEA) have suggested Singapore release millions of sterile male mosquitoes to combat the ... «The Straits Times, Oct 14»
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Daya Bay places new limit on sterile neutrinos
Sterile neutrinos have yet to be discovered, possibly because they interact with matter less than any other type of neutrino—a characteristic that has made them ... «Symmetry magazine, Oct 14»
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FDA reminds health care professionals and consumers not to use …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reminding health care professionals and consumers about safety concerns with all sterile-use drug products made ... «FDA.gov, Sep 14»
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FDA announces voluntary nationwide recall of all non-expired sterile
Health care professionals should immediately check their medical supplies, quarantine any sterile drug products from Unique Pharmaceuticals, and not ... «FDA.gov, Jul 14»
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Pfizer and Sun snatch up sterile injectable companies to boost …
The sterile injectables business holds a lot of promise for drugmakers with the manufacturing capabilities to produce the difficult-to-make drugs, so a lot of ... «FiercePharma Manufacturing, Jul 14»

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