(n.) The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.
Example Sentences:
(1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(2) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
(3) Speaking at a press conference following the preview of his latest film, Melancholia, von Trier expressed sympathy for Hitler, remarked that Israel was "a pain in the arse" and jokingly confessed to being a Nazi .
(4) "Shave your beard if you're brown, and you best salute the crown, or they'll do you like Brazilians and shoot your arse down."
(5) With Veep , rather than striving young idealists, you have cowardly egomaniacs and bunglers who are involved in endless arse-covering exercises.
(6) Matilda, he says, plays to "the classic kids' fantasy that one day they just turn up and kick everyone's arse".
(7) New Zealand 0-1 McMillan c Harbhajan b Zaheer 0 A half-arsed shout for lbw first ball, and then this: McMillan clips the ball lazily off his legs to square leg, and it's an easy catch for Singh.
(8) For many, fantasy is typified by The Lord of the Rings ; Miéville worked up a righteous fury against Tolkien's "cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos", calling him "the wen on the arse of fantasy literature" and setting out to "lance the boil".
(9) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
(10) "Hiddink should stop sticking his head up other players' arses," opined Davids to one foreign journalist afterwards.
(11) The ball gone, he connects with Armero's arse instead!
(12) A mysterious form of ill-fortune, it seems – possibly a "condition" but not needful of medicalisation, and certainly not of funding; just pity, maybe, or sometimes giggling, or a judicious kick in the arse.
(13) Ester Percivati, a young Turkish woman, recalled guards calling her a whore as she was marched to the toilet, where a woman officer forced her head down into the bowl and a male jeered "Nice arse!
(14) My dear) and that Solange piled in on her sister's behalf, all the better to persuade him to get his sorry arse home.
(15) Aside from the sheer filth factor, not washing your jeans means they will lose their shape (two words: baggy arse), smell and look dirty, because they are dirty.
(16) Certainly not Sean DeLoughry, Steven Smith and Seamus McCann, all of whom correctly recalled how, after blazing his way through Germany (Stuttgart), Italy (AC Milan), and Spain (Espanyol), Raducioiu blasted three goals in West Ham colours before half-arsing his way back to Espanyol, and eventually on to Monaco in France.
(17) It was very difficult, because I fundamentally believe that we have a problem with representation that needs to be tackled and feminism needs to be for everyone, but having a platform means that people without one direct their anger at you, at your face and at your writing, and, as a half-arsed feminist, I'm still learning how to cope with the pressure to represent everyone, all the time.
(18) Can't make it all out, but it does include the charming line 'He slipped on his fucking arse.'
(19) "Both my Mum and my Dad, who began having contact again, made it clear I wouldn't be allowed to just sit on my arse."
(20) Maloney goes over in the box under heat from Asatiani, but he knows full well there's nothing in the challenge and his appeals for a penalty are nearly as half-arsed as Scotland's overall performance.
Rase
Definition:
(v. t.) To rub along the surface of; to graze.
(v. t.) To rub or scratch out; to erase.
(v. t.) To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze.
(v. i.) To be leveled with the ground; to fall; to suffer overthrow.
(n.) A scratching out, or erasure.
(n.) A slight wound; a scratch.
(n.) A way of measuring in which the commodity measured was made even with the top of the measuring vessel by rasing, or striking off, all that was above it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Randomized, blinded review of RASE and SE sequences from 20 patients was conducted to evaluate qualitative performance.
(2) A complete labour physiology and psychology laboratory has been designed and set up for the purpose of unifying the methods of physiological and psychological investigations, standardizing measurements procedures and rasing the effectiveness of examinations.
(3) Since nonlinear stress-strain properties were not included, subglottal pressure did not produce a pronounced effect upon fundamental frequency under these somewhat edealized conditions F0 rasing correlated strongly with increased tension in the ligament, and somewhat with increasing tension in the vocalis.
(4) The dynamic contrast-enhanced RASE technique resulted in contrast-to-noise and contrast-to-artifact values and time efficiency measures significantly greater (P less than .05) than those obtained with use of conventional T1- and T2-weighted pulse sequences, indicating a higher likelihood for lesion detectability.
(5) Accordingly, the authors compared four breath-hold T2 or T2* weighted sequences comprising T2*-weighted FLASH, T2*-weighted PSIF, T2-weighted rapid spin echo (RASE), and T2-weighted Turbo-FLASH (Turbo) in 20 different healthy volunteers, 10 at 1.0 T and 10 at 1.5 T with reference to regular T2-weighted spin echo.
(6) The RASE sequence was implemented in conjunction with rapid intravenous injection of gadopentetate dimeglumine to enable performance of dynamic contrast material-enhanced MR imaging of the liver.
(7) We have investigated this protein by using a synthetic peptide corresponding to the 11 amino acids adjacent to the amino-terminal methionine and rasing antisera in rabbits.
(8) There is no reason to accept an ince rase of urinary tract infections by oral contraception.
(9) RASE is an easily implemented imaging technique that utilizes widely available existing technology.
(10) In the cases with intralesional resections the tumors were diligently curatted and the resulting bone cavity was shaved with a rase.
(11) In the 70s, however, Kennard’s simpler, starker imagery sought to rase awareness of human rights violations in Chile and Northern Ireland.
(12) Excellent to good performances for phase-encoding artifact reduction, edge sharpness, and overall image quality were recorded for 89%, 88%, and 86% of RASE examinations, respectively, versus 41%, 59%, and 47% of conventional SE examinations, respectively.
(13) In steroidogenic tissues of the developing hen, specially in the right ovary, 5 beta reductase (Rase) increases after hatching.
(14) The rapid acquisition spin-echo (RASE) technique combines a short repetition time, a short echo time, and a single excitation pulse sequence with half-Fourier data sampling.
(15) Measurements obtained from volunteers and with phantoms reveal that RASE images have a lower signal-to-noise ratio and contrast-to-noise ratio than do conventional multiacquisition spin-echo (SE) images due to reduced data acquisition.
(16) Images obtained with RASE were devoid of respiratory-related ghost artifacts or edge blurring.
(17) Rapid acquisition spin-echo (RASE) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging allows for coverage of the entire liver with highly T1-weighted SE images during a single 23-second breath-holding period.
(18) A relationship between ALAs and Rase curves during embryonic development of the left ovary and the adrenal suggests that 5 beta pregnanedione is a natural inducer of ALAs in these functional endocrine glands, at least during their embryonic stages.