(v. i.) To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
(v. i.) To fly off; to turn aside.
(v. t.) To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
(v. t.) To draw back from; to deny from fear.
(n.) A looking aside or askance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four peptides were synthesized that correspond to relatively hydrophilic segments of the human HepG2 glucose transporter (Mueckler, M., Caruso, C., Baldwin, S.A., Panico, M., Blench, I., Morris, H.R., Allard, W. J., Lienhard, G.E., and Lodish, H.F. (1985) Science 229, 941-945), including a C-terminal segment.
(2) The word still makes me blench – Orangemen marching, Gazza playing an imaginary flute to Rangers fans, sectarian hatreds.
(3) Antibodies were raised against synthetic peptides corresponding to most of the regions of the human erythrocyte glucose transporter predicted to be extramembranous in the model of Mueckler, Caruso, Baldwin, Panico, Blench, Morris, Lienhard, Allard & Lodish [(1985) Science 229, 941-945].
(4) That's why no one blenched when Hollande said in 2006: "I don't like the rich.
(5) Western blots of whole membrane extracts revealed that the polyclonal antibody to band 4.5 used to isolate cDNA clones presumed to code for the transporter (Mueckler, M., Caruso, C., Baldwin, C.A., Pancio, M., Blench, J., Morris, H.B., Allard, W.J., Lienhard, G.E.
Sidelong
Definition:
(adv.) Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
(adv.) On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong.
(a.) Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.
Example Sentences:
(1) With such knowledge comes a predictable illusion of power, though this is all too regularly punctured by the indignity of being kicked out of shiny receptions and told to use an entrance more befitting of our lowly status – or of having my pronunciation of “Southwark Street” incorrectly corrected by a receptionist, who gives her colleague a sidelong smirk, commiserating over my supposed ignorance.
(2) For the record, British people have been doing this sort of thing naturally and without the aid of technology for centuries – that is, issuing a sidelong response during an awkward encounter, a protocol that escalates, in times of outright conflict, to the tangential screw-you.
(3) Fitzgerald gives me a sidelong glance and adds: "I have to stop being quoted there.
(4) A few months later, the Eid video’s sidelong references to fighting and jihad were placed in a much starker contrast, in a release that again focused on Isis’s substantial foreign fighter contingent.
(5) But apart from the odd sidelong glance, she didn't seem to make the connection.
(6) After a while I felt my mind wandering and enviously glanced sidelong at my fellow members, most of whom appeared positively riveted.
(7) RT @chucktodd : Only reason Senate GOP isn't meeting tonight to look over potential deal, not all senators are back in DC right now October 14, 2013 • Sidelong glances already are being thrown in the direction of House speaker John Boehner.
(8) Stares, sidelong looks, peeping out from behind columns, that kind of thing.