(v. t.) To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
(v. t.) To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.
Example Sentences:
(1) It followed an unusually wet August, which gave Next and other clothes retailers a good start to the new season but sales of coats and other winter goods have been tough since as many parts of the country have basked in warm sunshine.
(2) For Hague, basking in unaccustomed praise for his "decisive action" in the Commons, this was the successful conclusion of a piece of unorthodox diplomacy – which subtly avoided the use of gunboats.
(3) Instead, he headed to City Hall, attending Mayor's Question Time to watch Johnson bask in the sunshine to which he himself had been accustomed.
(4) On such occasions, one has the distinct sense of a festival simultaneously basking in the limelight while wearing a clothes peg on its nose.
(5) Port Gaverne , a little cove near Port Isaac always described as "quaint", is a good place to watch seals (and occasional basking sharks, dolphins and porpoises), go fishing or rummage in rock pools.
(6) In the bask of the incandescent, you are prone to believe that human beings are essentially good, that tomorrow will be a better day, that love will triumph.
(7) Polysaccharide aminoaryl ethers capable of binding to proteins by azocoupling present special interest in view of their utilization as modifying baskings.
(8) Just as Brown was basking in a rare upturn in the polls following Barack Obama's visit, he has been derailed.
(9) I wish that I could just bask in the knowledge that the pope and the people in the pews share many of my views for a transformed church.
(10) When Vladimir Putin stepped into the ring at Olimpisky stadium in Moscow after a martial arts fight at the weekend, he might have been expecting to bask in the glory of the Russian Fedor Emelianenko's victory over the American Jeff Monson.
(11) "Colleagues at the trust took the decision to conduct it last summer, when the corporation was basking in the Olympic afterglow – that was before the events of last autumn about which much has been written.
(12) Thus Page 3 was able to bask, for the briefest of moments, in its almost accidental association with hippie culture and the sexual revolution.
(13) There are Rumpole societies of lawyers basking undeservedly in his popularity from Los Angeles to Perth.
(14) The size of the telencephalon, 34% of the total brain, equals that in some other sharks, whereas the cerebellum, 30% of the total brain in the basking shark, is significantly larger than in any other shark investigated.
(15) De Bruyne’s finish was immaculate, picking out the bottom corner after Fernandinho’s layoff, and City were left to bask in the warm afterglow of their finest European night of the modern era.
(16) On a clear day, the Firth of Clyde looks resplendent from here, basking “gaily in the sunny beam”.
(17) Spring is a great time to visit – Chengdu is basking in a balmy 20C, and everywhere trees are in blossom.
(18) These high-octane bangers were among the show's strongest moments, allowing both performers to bask in their own unapologetic confidence.
(19) The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) only covers three shark species: whale shark, basking shark and great white shark.
(20) With incredible complacency, politicians from both sides of parliament basked in the glory and reacted smugly when the US and the eurozone hit a brick wall.
Bath
Definition:
(n.) The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.
(n.) Water or other liquid for bathing.
(n.) A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.
(n.) A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.
(n.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.
(n.) A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.
(n.) A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.
(n.) A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.
Example Sentences:
(1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(2) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
(3) Circular muscle strips from the opossum esophageal body obtained 3-5 cm above the esophagogastric junction were suspended in organ baths for measurement of isometric tension.
(4) The design of a small, inexpensive temperature controlled bath (0.25 ml volume) for electrophysiological studies of isolated cells is described.
(5) A much less romantic example, but one that exists across the country, is being given a bath by a careworker.
(6) The tissue and an aliquot of bathing medium were counted for 3H and 14C content and the values entered into the Wadell and Butler equation.
(7) The effects of drugs applied in the bathing medium on the peristaltic responses were examined.
(8) The brief (3 ms) afterhyperpolarizations that followed such spikes were blocked by intracellular injections of Cs+ or by bath applications of tetraethylammonium.
(9) Replacement of bath Na+ by choline decreased the PD of tracheas by 85% but did not change alveolar PD in the presence or absence of bumetanide.
(10) Antibiotics, X-537A and A23187, were added in micromolar concentrations to selected bathing solutions of skinned frog muscle fibers, and they were shown to affect the production of tension in the skinned fibers.
(11) Similar organisms were found in the water at the site of the accident in Boston, and at ocean bathing beaches on nearby Martha's Vineyard.
(12) We therefore investigated the influence of different carbon dioxide tensions and bicarbonate concentrations on directly measured pH of organ baths aerated with mass-spectrometric analyzed O2-CO2 gases.
(13) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
(14) However, when Na+ in the bath was returned to the control level, pHi recovered completely Amiloride (1 mM) in the bath completely inhibited the Na(-)-dependent pHi recovery.
(15) Bath-applied N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), glutamate or quisqualate elicited transient enhancement in these field potentials, followed by a sustained depression reversible on washout.
(16) Fibres bathing in 60 mm-MgCl(2) sea water, free of Ca, did not develop tension with sudden displacements of the membrane potential towards more positive values.
(17) The preparation was mounted in an organ bath and superfused with Tyrode solution containing hemicholinium-3 and eserine.
(18) Cells were then placed in a bath on a microscope stage, superfused and electrically stimulated.
(19) With magnesium-Ringer as external bathing solutions, amiloride and ouabain failed to stimulate oxygen consumption.
(20) Elevation of bath [K] reduced Vm and Vs by 30.3 and 44.5 mV, respectively.