Synonym: above all, especially, mainly, mostly. Similar words: briefly, chief, chiefdom, mischief, handkerchief, chief of state, commander in chief, chief executive. Meaning: ['tʃiːflɪ] adv. for the most part.
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241. In a quick, lively tempo, usually considered to be faster than allegretto but slower than presto. Used chiefly as a direction.
242. We purchase your technology chiefly in order to renovate our old equipment.
243. Any of numerous small fishes of the family Cyprinodontidae, including the guppy and mosquito fish, inhabiting chiefly fresh and brackish waters in warm regions.
244. Color of the space is chiefly white. Grayness of the floor and the ceiling accentuates the main shade of white and the special rhythm.
245. Any of various small sharks chiefly of the family Squalidae, of Atlantic and Pacific coastal waters.
246. Any of numerous chiefly tropical, often brightly colored marine fishes of the family Labridae, having spiny fins, thick lips, and powerful jaws, and often valued for food.
247. The author chiefly expounds the relation between sustainable development and human environment relation system control.
248. The early equipment management, which is chiefly the breakdown maintenance, is a passive equipment management style.
249. During multi-factor analysis about age, smoking, drinking, diabetes, hypertension, CHD CVO, and hypercholesterolemia, the factors chiefly selected were age, smoking, diabetes, and hypertension.
250. This paper chiefly discusses the method of elastoplastic motive power response analysis of shear-bending structure and analyzes the dynamic equation of structure.
251. The effectiveness of money policy of one country chiefly onthe transmission mechanism in the financial fields.
252. Any of various ducks, chiefly of the genus Anas, including the mallards, teals, and shovelers ,[www.Sentencedict.com] that feed by dabbling in shallow water and are favored as game birds.
253. Diatoms biological functions on subaerial Karst sedimentation are studied chiefly in this paper, including assimilation, tapping and felting effects, encrustation, cementation.
254. The thesis chiefly analyzes technological innovation project choice decision-making model, time selection model and project stop model based on the real options approaches.
255. A word, phrase, or manner of expression used chiefly by uneducated people.
256. The hardware design of GPIB's controller chip is chiefly divided into the realizing of state machine , data channel and the design of microprocessing interface .
257. A yellowish, oily, aromatic substance, C7H 8O 2, derived from guaiacum or wood creosote and used chiefly as an expectorant, a local anesthetic, and an antiseptic.
258. North American deciduous tree (Ulmus americana) having double serrate leaves and winged fruits. It is grown chiefly as an ornamental shade tree but often dies from Dutch elm disease.
259. Although known chiefly for his violin miniatures, he also wrote an operetta, Apple Blossoms, a string quartet(sentencedict.com), and cadenzas to the Beethoven and Brahms concertos .
260. The job of the Treasury Secretary is chiefly that of a horse whisperer, to tame skittish financial markets by talking sweetly, if sometimes obliquely, into their ears.
261. The results showed that the first-feeding occurred on 2 DAH, and preyed mainly on copepod nauplius , larval copepod and cladocera, the recipe was chiefly composed of copepod, and large zooplanktons.
262. "In two volumes, " they write, "Hall has given us an epoch-making study, chiefly from the psychological point of view, of the greatest moral genius of all time."
263. Any of several terrestrial, saprophytic, chiefly New World orchids of the genus Corallorhiza having yellowish-green to purplish-brown leafless stems and small flowers.
264. Any of various small, principally nocturnal mammals of the order Insectivora, characteristically feeding chiefly on insects and including the shrews, moles, and hedgehogs.
265. They drew the material of their plays chiefly from myths and legends.
266. With a bow. Used chiefly as a direction to indicate the resumption of bowing after a pizzicato passage.
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