(a.) Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bearish 44-year-old chief executive seems about as pleased to have an interview in the diary as a boy faced with a plate of broccoli.
(2) Gallo writes: We have been bearish on Spain and Spanish banks since March, and we see new reasons to be short today: increasing macro pressures, new policy mistakes from the central government and increasing capital flight and balkanisation of Spain's financial markets.
(3) Interestingly, a closer look at Japan's performance over the past decade suggests little reason for persistent bearish sentiment.
(4) Gotbaum and others sought to persuade the teachers’ union boss Shanker to stack the nearly half-billion dollars of teachers’ pension funds behind the city’s bonds, too (there were rumours that the bearish Gotbaum had threatened to throw him out of an eighth-storey window if he didn’t go along).
(5) A third factor is that currencies are being debased in the developed world, where sovereign debt is at record levels and bearish commentators fear the dollar could slump 20% in the next two years.
(6) While some analysts criticised the design of the circuit breaker, saying it inadvertently encouraged bearish sentiment, the regulator said the mechanism had helped calm markets and protect investors – although it said the mechanism needed to be further improved.
(7) We believe the net commodity market effects are bearish,” it said.
(8) But others remained bearish on the group's longer-term prospects.
(9) We're like sovereign and supplicant, but Perlman, at once bearish and boyish, remains a plain-spoken kid from the northern end of Manhattan, not anxious to lord it up or sound too clever.
(10) The bank has been one of the most bearish voices in the City about sterling.
(11) It will become obvious in the next recession that many of these debts will never be serviced or repaid, and this will be uncomfortable for a lot of people who think they own assets that are worth something.” Tom Porcelli, chief US economist at RBC Capital Markets, noted that polls of investors showed investors were more bearish on Wall Street than at any time since mid-1987.
(12) However, similar calls in the past have had little impact in fending off bearish pressure against the currency, with international investors such as George Soros publicly arguing that the currency is set to decline further .
(13) The real Jonathan is warm and bearish, with a mohican, chic specs, a scarlet fleece, hippyish brown leather shoes – loads of visual flair.
(14) Hence, we remain bearish, even after the notable downward move already.” The stock market in China opened the week with fresh falls in share prices , which dropped 5% to their lowest level since last September.
(15) One leading investor, George Soros, has sounded a bearish note, however, describing the steep climb of gold as " the ultimate bubble ".
(16) In private, Cable is said to be bearish about the economy's prospects and anxious about the impact of the fiscal squeeze.
(17) Trading volumes are still rather low, with bearish investors pushing shares lower ( see 10.03am ).
(18) During his time at JP Morgan, Iksil is reported to have generated $100m, and is usually known for his bearish stances, performing particularly well during downturns.
(19) For every bearish analyst who warns that the sugar-fuelled optimism will end in tears there's a bull convinced that the markets have further to climb.
(20) As VTB Capital put it: Overall sentiment remains bearish, and much will still depend on macro data with bearish implications for gold into 2014 as currency yields gain ground and players turn away from gold in favour of better returns, with little need for inflation or safe-haven hedging in the next year.
Rough
Definition:
(n.) Having inequalities, small ridges, or points, on the surface; not smooth or plain; as, a rough board; a rough stone; rough cloth.
(n.) Not level; having a broken surface; uneven; -- said of a piece of land, or of a road.
(n.) Not polished; uncut; -- said of a gem; as, a rough diamond.
(n.) Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water.
(n.) Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat.
(n.) Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
(n.) Not courteous or kind; harsh; rude; uncivil; as, a rough temper.
(n.) Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions.
(n.) Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating; -- said of sound, voice, and the like; as, a rough tone; rough numbers.
(n.) Austere; harsh to the taste; as, rough wine.
(n.) Tempestuous; boisterous; stormy; as, rough weather; a rough day.
(n.) Hastily or carelessly done; wanting finish; incomplete; as, a rough estimate; a rough draught.
(n.) Produced offhand.
(n.) Boisterous weather.
(n.) A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
(adv.) In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
(v. t.) To render rough; to roughen.
(v. t.) To break in, as a horse, especially for military purposes.
(v. t.) To cut or make in a hasty, rough manner; -- with out; as, to rough out a carving, a sketch.
Example Sentences:
(1) By 24 hr, rough endoplasmic reticulum in thecal cells increased from 4.2 to 7% of cell volume, while the amount in granulosa cells increased from less than 3.5% to more than 10%; the quantity remained relatively constant in the theca but declined to prestimulation values in the granulosa layer.
(2) Thus, it appears that neuronal loss may account for up to roughly half of the striatal D2 receptor loss during aging.
(3) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
(4) The results indicated that roughly 25% of patients treated in this way will become hypothyroid after 5 years and that 85% are cured (need no further therapy during the follow-up period) using a single dose of iodine-131.
(5) This heretogeneity occurred mainly as a progressive, decreasing gradient in the first half of this pathway, between the rough endoplasmic reticulum and the mi-cisternae of the Golgi apparatus.
(6) Electron microscopy revealed a well-developed rough endoplasmic reticulum, an enlarged Golgi apparatus and many highly electron-dense secretory granules resembling those of Clara cells.
(7) Four fractions enriched, respectively, in plasma membrane (PM), smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER), rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), and mitochondria were isolated from estrogen-dominated rat myometrium.
(8) For trials in which the target was present in the array, RT functions were roughly symmetric, the shortest RTs being for extreme distractor ratios, and the longest RTs being for arrays in which there were an equal number of each distractor type.
(9) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
(10) Electron microscopic evaluation of microsomal fractions showed elements of the plasma membrane, including cilia and microvilli, as well as rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum.
(11) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
(12) It's the roughly $2bn in revenue grossed by his blockbuster movies, some of which he had to be talked into making.
(13) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
(14) Ultracentrifugally separated HDL2 and HDL3 roughly corresponded to HDL2e and HDL3e, respectively.
(15) The locations of these 15 insertion sites correlate well with the roughly estimated locations of five of the DNase I-hypersensitive subregions.
(16) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
(17) The unique structure we describe is a cytoplasmic organelle which, like annulate lamellae, is closely associated with the endoplasmic reticulum and is presumed to be related to the genesis of rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum in tumor cells.
(18) Besides the rough, wrinkled, and brown or black surface of the fingertips, microwrinkles of the epidermis occur on the skin ridges, which have so far not been described.
(19) Ultrastructural examination of noncartilaginous regions of the tumor demonstrated mesenchymal cells with features suggestive of cartilaginous differentiation, viz, scalloped cell membranes, sac-like distension of abundant rough endoplasmic reticulum, and a matrix containing fibrillary and finely granular material.
(20) That, roughly, was the theme of the Wednesday Play, Cathy Come Home, (BBC1) directed by Kenneth Loach, produced by Tony Garnett.