(n.) A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
(v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
(v. t.) To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
(v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.
(v. t.) To take for granted; to assume without proof.
(v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
(v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
Example Sentences:
(1) I had to beg to stay in the apartment I was living in at the time for another night.
(2) She said: “Begging can cause considerable concern to residents, workers and visitors, particularly those who feel intimidated by this activity.” In Merseyside, Ch Insp Mark Morgan insisted his force did not prosecute vulnerable people unless they were aggressive, repeat offenders who had failed to engage in offers of support.
(3) The other day I had to BEG a meeting with [BBC1 controller] Jay Hunt, just so I could explain what we're spending all her money on in Doctor Who.
(4) x head "We have the begging bowl out to Europe in the hope of stabilising our economy.
(5) This begs the question of whether racism informed the way he was treated.
(6) The weakest free schools have ineffective leadership ... with little challenge to tackle poor performance.” The report said that the best leaders “understand inspection”, begging the question of whether schools are expected to lead for Ofsted?
(7) Since this dedicated unit was disbanded there has been a significant increase in the numbers of people who are begging, she told the council earlier this year.
(8) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
(9) Any Championship managers watching this will most definitely not be looking forward to next season’s meetings with Newcastle, which rather begs the question: how on earth did it come this?
(10) I begged them to take me to the toilet when we stopped but they refused.
(11) Two of them begged for a rescue mission in phone calls yesterday, as the battles raged through a powerful sandstorm that shrouded the city from journalists and anxious refugees who have been watching the fighting from the safety of Turkish soil, just a few hundred feet away.
(12) She said that although Unicef was doing all it could to protect Syrian children and to help them continue their education, it was a difficult task: some have taken to begging or working in fields or factories to help supplement their families' income, and many girls are getting married earlier without finishing their schooling.
(13) Trump responded by recalling Romney “begging” for his endorsement four years before.
(14) I had seen him begging in the city centre a few times and had slipped him a few bob from time to time.
(15) Some say they were trying to reach Algeria to beg on city streets, others that Europe was their destination.
(16) However this begs the question, if Spotify are not the enemy, who is?
(17) Then go beg the lady with the clipboard, while others swan past to join the cocktail-swilling vacationers swathed in white linen on the porch.
(18) However, providers, physicians and hospitals are begging for relief from the burden of uncompensated care.
(19) Instead, I made my way to Satis to beg Miss Havisham to secretly confer several thousand pounds on Herbert.
(20) It begs the question – were the comments he made after the Hillsborough panel report sincere or just sound bites?"
Prog
Definition:
(v. i.) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.
(v. i.) To steal; to rob; to filch.
(v. i.) To prick; to goad; to progue.
(n.) Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.
(n.) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
(n.) A goal; progue.
Example Sentences:
(1) The interaction with these lipids, the rotational conformations of the 17-acetyl group, and invertible conformations of the cyclohexenone of PROG were discussed on the basis of the elliptical strength of the Cotton effect and energy estimation of the preferred conformers.
(2) Simultaneous determination of unconjugated 16 alpha-hydroxypregnenolone (16 alphaOH-Preg), 16 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone (16 alphaOH-Prog) and 16 alpha-hydroxydehydroepiandrosterone (16 alphaOH-DHEA) in fetal and neonatal plasma was performed utilizing a newly developed radioimmunoassay.
(3) Before or at 1 month after each treatment, tumor response was evaluated according to the following categories: (1) complete response (CR) (no visible abnormality, and negative biopsy specimen and cytology); (2) partial response (PR) (degree of obstruction or size of tumor reduced more than 50%); (3) some response (SR) (degree of obstruction or size of tumor reduced 20% to 50%); and (4) progression (PROG) (degree of obstruction or size of tumor reduced by less than 20%).
(4) PROG (P less than 0.025) was lower and E2 (P less than 0.025) and E3 (P less than 0.05) were higher in PCO pregnancies than in HA pregnancies.
(5) Large-scale clinical trials have established that lowering blood pressure in patients with mild to moderate diastolic hypertension results in a decreased incidence of stroke and, to a lesser extent, a reduction in incidence of coronary heart disease [MacMahon SW, Cutler JA, Furberg CD, et al: Prog Cardiovasc Dis 1986; 29 (suppl 1): 99-118].
(6) Morphological evidence suggests that approximately two thirds of the bipolar cells and most amacrine cells are destroyed by the kainic acid lesion (Ingham and Morgan, Neuroscience, 9 (1983) 165-181), and pharmacological logic (Morgan, Prog.
(7) Earlier this year we wrote about Gnod , Salford's finest purveyors of ambient sludge, prog-metal and murky motorik psych-drone space-rock.
(8) The model was generated assuming a finite time-course of cross-bridge attachment [Huxley, Prog.
(9) The Michaelis constants were not different for the pro-val and progly substrates in control and prolidase deficient fibroblasts.
(10) We evaluated the direct effect of 17 beta-estradiol (E2) and of progesterone (Prog) on secretion of PTH from bovine parathyroid tissue in vitro.
(11) Statistically highly significant circadian rhythms were found in plasma testosterone, 17-OH Prog and DHEA-S, concentrations in men and women of all three age groups with a phase advance of over 2 hours in DHEA-S with advancing age.
(12) Plasma progesterone (PROG), testosterone (TEST), oestrone (E1) and 17 beta-oestradiole (E2) concentrations were determined in collared doves living under natural conditions in young as well as sexually inactive animals further in different phases of the reproduction cycle; measurements were made by radioimmunoassay following Sephadex LH 20 chromatography.
(13) If one of these alterations had appeared with the toxic, the Prog action would have diminished it gradually until its disappearance.
(14) The interaction between the A-ring and the 17-acetyl groups of progesterone (PROG) and various concentrations of distearoyl-, dipalmitoyl-, dioleoyl- and diarachidoyl-L-alpha-phosphatidylcholines, and dipalmitoyl-L-alpha-phosphatidyl-DL glycerol in methanol and chloroform solutions and its preferred conformational assignments in the presence of those lipids were examined qualitatively by circular dichroism on the basis of PROG spectra in the wavelength regions of 260-400 nm.
(15) The adrenal venous PROG concentration and secretory rate of female hamsters infused with 10% dextran while collecting adrenal venous blood did not differ significantly from those of the non-infused animals, suggesting that this amount of blood loss (1 ml) does not influence PROG secretion.
(16) There were no consistent changes of plasma 17 alpha,20B PROG during this period.
(17) Conclusive evidence for the relation between cell type and hormone content was found only in one type: in type 6, stromal glandular cells show an extremely intensive PROG synthesizing activity.
(18) The ovarian, endometrial and pituitary effects of 300 micrograms norethisterone (NET) and 30 micrograms levonorgestrel (L-NOG) administered orally on cycle days 7-10 were investigated in two groups of 10 women each, by daily analysis of plasma estradiol (E2), progesterone (PROG), immunoreactive luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) in a pretreatment control cycle and during NET or L-NOG administration.
(19) The present work tended to evaluate the effect of streptozotocin diabetes on estradiol (E2) stimulation of Prog.
(20) The amounts of 17 alpha-OH-Prog and F increased in all groups, especially in IL cells.