Library / English Dictionary

INITIALLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

At the beginning

Example:

at first he didn't notice anything strange

Synonyms:

ab initio; initially

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

initial (occurring at the beginning)

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 Context examples: 

The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.

(Dementia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Double coded data and samples are initially labelled with a single code and do not carry any personal identifiers.

(Double Coded Genomic Data and Samples, NCI Thesaurus)

The astronomers initially selected this galaxy to validate accepted models about lower-luminosity active galaxies—those with black holes that are on a meager diet of material.

(Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn't Exist, NASA)

Initially used as a research tool, immunocytochemistry has become routine in diagnostic work-up of diseases in pathology. — 2004

(Immunocytochemistry, NCI Thesaurus)

Neuregulin-1 was first cloned as "heregulin" and "neu differentiation factor" and was initially thought to be a ligand for ErbB2, which is overexpressed in about 25% of women with breast cancer.

(Neuregulin 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Initially, ovarian granulosa cells create a single layer surrounding an oocyte.

(Ovarian Granulosa Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

It is an aromatic sulfonamide hydroxamate initially found in a screen for inhibitors of the tumorigenic phenotype of K-ras-transformed NIH3T3 cells.

(Oxamflatin, NCI Thesaurus)

National Institutes of Health’s Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) initially enabled scientists to compare the effects of standard versus intensive blood pressure control on cardiovascular health and mortality.

(Intensive blood pressure control may slow age-related brain damage, National Institutes of Health)

The film camera is initially intended to be used by researchers who literally want to gain better insight into many of the extremely rapid processes that occur in nature.

(World's Fastest Film Camera, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It was initially described in colonic adenocarcinomas, but it has also been observed in adenocarcinomas that arise in other anatomic sites, including lungs and ovaries.

(Dirty Necrosis, NCI Thesaurus)