(a.) Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
(2) Strikers, Hobblers, Conchies and Reds: A Radical History of Bristol 1880-1939 (2014) As the cultural consensus in British society moved further and further to the right, it seemed that the efforts to create a wider, more democratically inclusive history from below had bitten the dust.
(3) After hiding in bushes, where she was bitten by a snake, she decided to return to her family, only to find them being lined up next to one of the newly dug pits that had appeared near Tutsi homes.
(4) A 4-year-old girl was admitted 30 hours after being bitten by a black widow spider.
(5) From the mosquito catches and the results of their dissections for filarial larvae it could be estimated, that during the observation year a person in the savannah villages would be bitten annually by 18,165 and 36,450 vector mosquitoes respectively, and would receive 236 and 536 infective bites with 570 and 1211 infective larvae.
(6) There I got sunburnt, was bitten by a tick and chased by a sheep, and ran out of water, but I made it.
(7) Leather, who celebrated his seventh consecutive week at the top of the Amazon chart with his novella The Basement , about a serial killer in New York, also occupies fourth place with Hard Landing , another thriller, and 11th place with Once Bitten , a vampire novel.
(8) Last month, for example, the Daily Telegraph's Peter Oborne bemoaned their "devastating" fate, in a piece worth quoting at reasonable length, if only to prove that the idea of an out-of-touch elite blithely wreaking havoc is not the preserve of hard-bitten lefties.
(9) • This article was amended on 13 October 2014 to remove a statement that a two-year-old child in Meliandou, later identified as west Africa’s first case of Ebola, was bitten by a bat.
(10) "If we were to change that now because Luis Suárez has bitten someone then that would be a terrible message to send out.
(11) All the patients were bitten in the leg and the biopsy specimens were obtained from the contralateral gastrocnemius muscle in the middle of the lower leg.
(12) 100 consecutive patients whose finger had been bitten by another person, or who had cut it on a tooth in a fight, have been studied.
(13) The results demonstrate that meadow-mice, Columbian ground-squirrels, golden-mantled ground-squirrels, chipmunks and snowshoe hares (the latter to a lesser extent), when bitten by infected ticks, respond with rickettsiaemias of sufficient length and degree to infect normal larval D. andersoni.
(14) All were farm laborers and 35 of them were bitten in the lower limbs.
(15) None of the demographic characteristics available in this study distinguished between children who were bitten compared with those who were not bitten with the exception of number of days of enrollment.
(16) A young woman was bitten on the shoulder by a female Steatoda nobilis spider, in Worthing on the south coast of England.
(17) Twenty-one birds were bitten; chickens constituted 85.7%, turkeys 12% and ducks 4.8% of this number.
(18) The astute Rawling pointed out to Klitschko that his opponent was capable of anything – Chisora had bitten one opponent in the ring while kissing another at a press conference.
(19) The second patient, an inhabitant of northern Chile (fourth region), was allegedly bitten by Triatoma infestans and was an intravenous drug addict.
(20) Anticholinesterase did not improve paralysis in 2 patients bitten by kraits.
Mitten
Definition:
(n.) A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger.
(n.) A cover for the wrist and forearm.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report two children with finger tip ischaemia resulting from woollen mittens.
(2) Romney should totally come out with a ventriloquist's puppet called Mr Mittens and channel all answers through him.
(3) The majority of the toe and external genitalia cases were caused by hair, whereas the majority of finger strangulations were caused by thread from mittens.
(4) TGF-alpha interacts with the receptor as a mitten would grasp an object.
(5) The VHD is a circular fabric mitten, which is held easily by inserting the hand between the two surfaces.
(6) Neil Franklyn (Stoke and England) and Charlie Mitten (Man Utd), amongst others, took the money and ran.
(7) He missed the place: the cold, the skating rinks, the desperate need for mittens in winter.
(8) Although the mitten appeared largely to be clinically separated from the underlying fixed digits, histology showed mostly normal keratinocytes beneath a thickened stratum corneum.
(9) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
(10) Anderson made the “safe” sign after landing her final jump and flipped her right mitten in the air before exchanging hugs with Rukajarvi, Jones and Switzerland’s Sina Candrian.
(11) Light and electron microscopy and indirect immunofluorescence techniques were used to study the nature of the mitten deformity in five adult patients with severe generalized recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa undergoing release of hand and finger contractures.
(12) A substantial portion of the mitten, however, consisted of necrotic keratinocytes without an intact basement membrane.
(13) Re-analyses of mitten incidence in schizophrenics and nonschizophrenics suggests needed modification of our earlier B-Mitten-schizophrenia formulation.
(14) Warner’s broadcast was called The Gloves Are Off , leading to Oliver, who has been a staunch and witty critic of Fifa for some time, largely in his role as presenter of the US show Last Week Tonight , to call his The Mittens of Disapproval Are On.
(15) That the mitten pattern possibly suggests as yet unclarified subcortical dysfunction associated with symptoms of affective disturbance is a tentative hypothesis offered for consideration.
(16) As to the apple, the eating was tricky, since my hands were tied to my waist and I wore mittens.
(17) Top tip Be sure to get out of the car and experience some this wide-open landscape on foot via the 3.2-mile Wildcat trail, around the West Mitten butte.
(18) As several of you pointed out, Ronaldo is the highest-profile player to have matched Mitten's achievement.
(19) Real Madrid attempted to entice Mitten, Di Stefano and Rial to the Bernabéu in 1951, but Mitten's wife was homesick, so they headed home.
(20) We found a possible relationship between the subcortical B-mitten EEG pattern and TD.