(v. t.) To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
(v. t.) To move or actuate.
(v. t.) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
(v. t.) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
(v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sensitive, specific procedure was developed for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7 in food in less than 20 h. The procedure involves enrichment of 25 g of food in 225 ml of a selective enrichment medium for 16 to 18 h at 37 degrees C with agitation (150 rpm).
(2) The authors report 6 cases of acute respiratory failure complicating chronic bronchial and lung disease admitted to hospital with the diagnosis of: heart disease, 3 cases, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, atrial flutter; status asthmaticus : one case; neuro-psychiatric disease : 2 cases (toxic coma and agitation).
(3) But what is happening in the UK now has not been seen for decades and has rarely been seen at all since the Chartist agitations of the 1840s.
(4) The effects of chronic use seem to be twofold: severe depression with suicidal thoughts and numerous violent, agitated behavioral patterns.
(5) From about 1891 to 1905 home rule seemed to go off the boil in Ireland; people agitated instead over land reform and Irish universities.
(6) The effect of tiapride on the various manifestations of agitation was also spectacular and rapid, and the authors confirm the excellent tolerance of the product.
(7) Therefore, the CDS controlling procollagen production and the CDS controlling the inhibition of growth seemed to be linked because the signaling mechanism is disrupted in a parallel manner by agitation.
(8) The echo intensity produced by this agent was compared with that of agitated saline solution, indocyanine green and SHU-454 (another experimental saccharide agent for right-sided contrast) during 136 injections in eight dogs.
(9) The two groups examined comprise 'hyperactive' mentally handicapped children and senile dementia patients, all of whom showed moderate to severe agitation.
(10) But the outspoken journalist and human rights activist has long been a thorn in Ali Abdullah Saleh's side, agitating for press freedoms and staging weekly sit-ins to demand the release of political prisoners from jail – a place she has been several times herself.
(11) I honestly think so many Americans are scrambling so fast just to keep up that: a) they're not aware of what they're missing; b) they don't have time to agitate."
(12) Ultrasonic preparation with 0.25% sodium hypochlorite solution and final agitation with 50% citric acid solution were found to produce a very clean canal wall, free of smear layer in coronal and middle parts.
(13) Photoreceptors were dissociated from retinas by mechanical agitation after mild protease treatment and characterized by light and electron microscopy.
(14) Two of the targets we tested (SV-COL and SV-COL-E8) both highly sensitive to lysis, stimulated macrophage movement, inducing an "agitated" response.
(15) The cells can be defimbriated by sonication, high-speed agitation, or centrifugation through a 40% sucrose solution.
(16) In its infancy, the movement against censorship agitated on behalf of artists, iconoclasts, talented blasphemers; against repressive forces whose unpleasantness only confirmed which side was in the right.
(17) Blot and give 2 fast changes in absolute ethanol with agitation before transferring to xylene.
(18) Distractibility, inappropriate sexual behavior, agitation or seizures were lacking.
(19) The successful use of midazolam to treat psychomotor agitation in this patient is also reported.
(20) The same brush was then agitated in a SBW vial, which was centrifuged, the cell pellet being smeared over a predetermined area of a slide.
Firebrand
Definition:
(n.) A piece of burning wood.
(n.) One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Briefly imprisoned for his firebrand politicking, he later joined a group of exiles in Libya, where Muamar Gadafy was eagerly spreading his crackpot revolutionary ideas among West African dissidents.
(2) Instead, Foot fell under the spell of the shipyard firebrands.
(3) He has no wish to go down in history as a Jew-baiting, race-hating firebrand, as many now think of him, who led a separatist movement to one great march.
(4) On Monday I posted a video interview with the Labour MP Jess Phillips , the latest in a series of relaxed conversations with political figures, recent examples being the colourful Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg and the rightwing firebrand Peter Hitchens.
(5) Nonetheless, the incumbent has faced stiff competition, especially from firebrand opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, who has been able to attract crowds of over 100,000 people.
(6) Cruz has long been known in Washington as a partisan firebrand, but he boasted about his bipartisan record on pro-Israel legislation.
(7) Yet it was Edmonds, the former public-sector boss, who was the private-sector firebrand.
(8) Since I arrived, few here doubted that the incumbent firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad would win.
(9) Masuku also rejected the firebrand leftist Julius Malema and his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF): "I read the EFF manifesto and I found some pretty good darned stuff there but they are so radical and so violent, they actually sound racist.
(10) It was the day of the funeral of Jimmy Reid – the firebrand union leader who had kept the docks open by occupying them in the 1970s – and Ed joined the dockworkers who lined the streets as the cortege passed.
(11) But one House Democrat at the Baltimore retreat questioned whether the firebrand from Massachusetts was the answer to the party’s problems.
(12) But an international landscape increasingly dominated by nationalist firebrands, conservative zealots and policy makers in thrall to austerity economics is always apt to waste opportunities.
(13) A firebrand youth leader seen as a threat to Jacob Zuma's hopes of re-election as South African president faces possible expulsion from the governing African National Congress (ANC).
(14) On camera, in This Is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi does not look like your obvious firebrand.
(15) Through the 1990s, he went to jail as part of a poll tax non-payment campaign and for civil disobedience at Faslane nuclear submarine base near Glasgow, leading from the front on picket lines, and relishing the title of "socialist firebrand".
(16) Its chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, is a firebrand political outsider and one of the most powerful women in India.
(17) The cover of Various Voices is a portrait of Pinter by Justin Mortimer, which is in the National Portrait Gallery (Pinter the political firebrand is also Pinter the establishment man, though he did turn down John Major's offer of a knighthood).
(18) The firebrand critic of the Communist party has been repeatedly detained by public security agents and has testified that he was tortured and threatened with death.
(19) Billy Hayes, general secretary of the CWU Rightwing detractors decry him as an anachronistic firebrand cast in the Scargill mould.
(20) (The former First Daughter was eight when she entered the White House, grew into a student firebrand and is now a stay-at-home mother in Atlanta: Rosalynn shows me a photo of Amy's elder son holding a baby and says, "I just love that photo.