(v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal.
(v. t.) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider.
(v. t.) To know or learn with certainty.
(v. t.) To anticipate; esp., to anticipate with anxiety, dread, or fear; to fear.
(v. i.) To think, believe, or be of opinion; to understand; to suppose.
(v. i.) To be apprehensive; to fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unable to provide valid identification, he was apprehended under the SB1070 law.
(2) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
(3) It also said that night that the suspect had been unarmed — an assertion that was revealed to be false the next day when officials acknowledged Gonzalez had a knife with him when he was apprehended.
(4) The GGT activities of the repeating offenders indicated that the percentage of heavy drinkers in this group was approximately the same as in the total population of apprehended drunken drivers.
(5) Didier Enrique “Electric” Ramirez was apprehended for his alleged role in the killing of Nelson García , 39, who was shot dead earlier this month by at least two assailants following a dispute with local landowners, authorities said in a statement.
(6) The method is easy to apprehend and has a low complication rate.
(7) The National Institute of Forensic Toxicology, Oslo, receives blood and urine samples from all Norwegian drivers apprehended on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
(8) The prime minister’s comments suggest the government is prepared to consider appointing a replacement if Heydon accepts requests from unions to recuse himself on the grounds of apprehended bias.
(9) If Gleeson could be the guest speaker, how then could it be described as a “Liberal party event?” Even if it was a party occasion, the commissioner asks: “how does that demonstrate that the speaker has an affinity with a partiality for or a persuasion or allegiance or alignment to the Liberal party or lent it support?” If the fair minded lay observer (FMLO), who in this instance is the judge of apprehended bias, had an idea of Heydon’s record on the high court they might get a whiff of partiality to a particular world view, or philosophy.
(10) • 57,000 unaccompanied children have been apprehended at the border in 2014, and between 1,300 and 1,500 have been repatriated so far.
(11) The ACTU, in its submission to the commission, cited a precedent from a previous case that “a judge is disqualified if a fair-minded lay observer might reasonably apprehend that the judge might not bring an impartial mind to the resolution of the question the judge is required to decide”.
(12) The proper way for dealing with any question of bias, including apprehended bias, is to make an application for the commissioner to recuse himself, and for the commissioner to consider and rule on the application.” The clerk of the Senate, Rosemary Laing, has provided advice to Wong about the upper house’s power to address the governor general.
(13) The London mayor, who has previously stated that anyone who swears at police should be apprehended, said an officer's decision to warn Mitchell was correct.
(14) It is exemplified for me most admirably in Goethe's interest in Islam generally, and the 14th-century Persian Sufi poet Hafiz in particular, a consuming passion which led to the composition of the West-östlicher Diwan, and it inflected Goethe's later ideas about Weltliteratur, the study of all the literatures of the world as a symphonic whole which could be apprehended theoretically as having preserved the individuality of each work without losing sight of the whole.
(15) The former high court judge rejected submissions from unions that his agreement to deliver the Sir Garfield Barwick address met the legal test of apprehended bias.
(16) You downplay the fact that 97 people implicated in the case have been apprehended, proving that these tragic events have been met with decisive action.
(17) With numbers of unaccompanied children and families apprehended at the south-west border on the rise again, sparking worries of a major influx of the kind seen in the summer of 2014 that overwhelmed facilities andthe legal system , the government is hoping the raids will act as a deterrent.
(18) In NSW, police now have the power to provide more immediate protection to victims via police-issued apprehended domestic violence orders.
(19) The Washington Post revealed on Tuesday that Omar Gonzalez, a military veteran armed with a knife, who scaled the White House fence in September, was not apprehended until he had run through the main hall , past the staircase that leads to the president’s private quarters and all the way through the East Room.
(20) This article is a review of Swedish and international literature concerning children apprehended for drunkenness.
Dig
Definition:
(v. t.) To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
(v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
(v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
(v. t.) To thrust; to poke.
(v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
(v. i.) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
(v. i.) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
(n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
(v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its few remaining mines involve people digging coal out of hillsides.
(2) The satellite component is not found when digging up from the tube bottom.
(3) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
(4) Who shot you in the back as you drove on your motorbike to dig your children out of the rubble?
(5) Things like digging in the garden often cause low back pain, and exercises will be good treatment for this.
(6) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
(7) "In high-value areas like London it can be worthwhile digging under the house to add a basement, but in other parts of the country it won't be worth it," says Helen Brunskill of Brunskill Design Architects.
(8) The conditions for the incorporation of digoxigenin-11-dUTP (dig-11-dUTP) during polymerization were optimized to generate strand specific DNA hybridization probes up to a length of 5000 nt.
(9) Dig-ASO testing correctly reclassified 10 individuals who had tested inconclusively on analysis for leukocyte beta-hexosaminidase A activity; 3 were identified as carriers and 7 as noncarriers.
(10) Before digging into the problems with this latest solution, one big acknowledgment must be made: this is about as big a step as the ECB could have taken.
(11) It tells you everything you need to know about a Russia digging in for another 12 years of Putin.
(12) Merkl says the plan is to “really dig into the economics of collection and recycling so that people will find it profitable to collect and to separate.
(13) The judge noted the “seriousness of these offences and impact on road traffic, particularly given the number of fines previously issued against BT by TfL for similar offences.” Firms undertaking work anywhere in London need a permit before digging up the roads, allowing highway authorities to coordinate work to minimise disruption.
(14) Fracking for shale gas involves digging, often as deep as a kilometre down, and pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals into surrounding rock to fracture it and release the gas.
(15) This has been a really fascinating half of football: the favourites finally showing some real class up front, the minnows digging deep in defence and occasionally breaking forward.
(16) Dig deeper into the funding numbers – the real story of national politics in the post Citizens United age – and the Tea Party realignment of the GOP stands out yet more starkly.
(17) Welbeck's goal drought came to an end when Rafael da Silva wriggled clear on the right and managed to dig out a deep cross that the unmarked Adnan Januzaj, whom Moyes felt came in for some rough treatment, headed against the far post.
(18) Stephen Fisher, one of the archaeologists recording the site, says digging the trenches would also have been training for the men, who would soon have to do it for real, and the little slit trenches scattered across the site, just big enough for one man to cower in, might represent their first efforts.
(19) We do not need parliamentary inquiries or royal commissions to dig into this."
(20) "Landlords have a duty to give assured shorthold tenants at least two months' notice when evicting them," says Heather Kennedy of Digs.