(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.
Vociferous
Definition:
(a.) Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds.
Example Sentences:
(1) But now they have a bullish and vociferous spokesperson in Guatemala's president, Otto Pérez Molina.
(2) Mourinho has been vociferous in his complaints about the scheduling of key domestic fixtures around European ties this season and reiterated his dissatisfaction after Tuesday's goalless draw in Madrid, claiming to be baffled as to why the match at Anfield could not be played on Friday or Saturday to assist the last English club involved in European competition.
(3) "For us he is persona non grata," said Panos Kammenos, leader of the vociferously anti-austerity Independent Greeks party as the 300-seat house debated the job losses.
(4) The cardinal consistently condemned homosexuality during his reign, vociferously opposing gay adoption and same-sex marriage.
(5) Her husband would also have been "outrageous and vociferous" in resisting it, she said. "
(6) In the three months since the 14 December shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, the NRA has been lobbying vociferously against President Obama's attempt to tighten gun controls.
(7) The PLA would be reinforcing recent Chinese foreign ministry warnings against North Korea conducting a fourth nuclear test and “causing turmoil at China’s doorstep” – but in a way that the foreign ministry can still vociferously deny the existence of such documents.
(8) On the ground in Crimea, meanwhile, what is particularly odd is that the most vociferous defenders of Russian bases against supposed fascists appear to hold far-right views themselves.
(9) Thirdly, Pakistan at present has – thanks in part to reforms effected by the previous military dictator Musharraf – an extremely vociferous media.
(10) Tearing up US deal with Iran would be disastrous, says CIA chief Read more Trump’s transition so far has not been encouraging to Tehran: Michael Flynn, named as his national security adviser, and Mike Pompeo, his choice for the head of the CIA, have been vociferous in their opposition to Iran .
(11) So, I hope this doesn’t preside some kind of understanding about preferences in House of Representatives elections between the Coalition and the Greens.” On Tuesday Labor’s leader in the senate, Penny Wong, spoke vociferously against the changes.
(12) The sort of person who, despite having a framed Keep Calm and Carry On poster on their wall, gets vociferously morally outraged by 25 different things over the course of the average morning on Twitter, eg Daily Mail headlines, anything Jeremy Clarkson says, people who post Homeland spoilers, Parcelforce delivery slots, etc.
(13) Twenty-year-old Jasmin Stone of Focus E15, who continues to campaign vociferously on housing issues , is disillusioned by the lot.
(14) The "Holyland affair" forced Olmert to resign as prime minister in 2009, although he vociferously denied any wrongdoing.
(15) Glaring by virtue of its almost complete omission is digital piracy , a topic of vociferous debate during the debate about the digital economy bill just weeks ago – it gets just seven words, to "take further action to tackle online piracy", in Labour's manifesto.
(16) However, you want to describe it, the affair (by which I mean "matter", I've been advised by a lawyer, these words are all filtered and combed before you are allowed to see them) supposed to have caused Murdoch to give his former blood-brother the cold shoulder, hardly surprising after he got Blair elected and supported his unpopular, illegal war so vociferously.
(17) There was a much warmer welcome from John Sauven, executive director of the vociferous anti-coal campaign group Greenpeace: "In the last decade it was coal that posed the great threat to our CO 2 emissions targets.
(18) Threadneedle Street got quite sniffy when it was suggested that the FLS would be a bung to the high street banks benefiting only Britain's vociferous and overblown housing lobby?
(19) Patel, vociferous about his recent treatment by England, in particular bemoaning his exclusion from recent one-day sides, gave a hint of his much debated fitness after every dismissal.
(20) Here is the Daily Mail : "The Guardian continues to be vociferous in its demands for police to pursue tabloid journalists suspected of acting illegally.