Sentence examples for retain the form from inspiring English sources

Some retain the form of the basic type but do not split open when ripe (indehiscent), as with Robinia (locusts) and Cercis (redbud).

You should retain the form with your tax records.

As they fly rapidly away from their source, the simulacra initially retain the form of the surface of the object from which they have come, and, if they enter our eyes fairly soon after being emitted, they cause our visual experience of the object (Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Bk. IV lns. 54-238; Epicurus, Letter to Herodotus).

We retain the form of the equation as published: with insulin measured in mU/l and AST and ALT in U/L.

Specifically, if the measurement scale employed in the variance to mean relationship is increased by a factor c then a·[ c·E(Z)] p = (ac p )·[E(Z)] p, and this relationship would retain the form of a power function with exponent p. In fact, this variance to mean power function is the only possible scale invariant relationship that could exist between the variance and the mean [ 5].

His frame retains the form of a football halfback.

For now, the city retains the form it has held for so long, "frozen in the tropics" and time.

Mr. Cloepfil retained the form of the building, with its gently concave facade, but wrapped it in a new skin of glazed terra-cotta tiles.

Mr. Tatsumi's art is more sophisticated, retaining the form's strange sparkle even at gloomy moments; he definitely does write manga that isn't quite manga.

Even when schools shifted from having predominantly white student bodies to being predominantly black, they retained the form and culture of white schools.

The rite of confession in the Euchologion retains the form of a prayer, or invocation, said by the priest for the remission of the penitent's sins.