(v. i.) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up; hence, to assist in overcoming obstacles, or in making advancement.
(n.) A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) A previous study, on grade IV astrocytomas, compared a combination of photons and fast neutron boost to photons only, both treatments being delivered following a concentrated irradiation schedule.
(3) Oligospermic status interspersed with azoospermia was maintained by periodic boosting.
(4) Several studies have found that pollution and climate change disproportionately affect the poor , which means boosting clean energy generation and cutting pollution could also simultaneously reduce global inequality .
(5) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
(6) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
(7) Different possible combinations between neutrons and photons (boost, mixed schedule) are discussed.
(8) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
(9) "Businesses will be ecstatic at today's decision because the Games will bring a colossal one-off commercial boost to the entire country," said the group's president, Michael Cassidy.
(10) Japan's 2% growth this year would be boosted by a construction boom after the tsunami in 2011 , while China would expand by 8.2% in 2012 and 9.3% in 2013.
(11) Every vote for the SNP in May is another boost for David Cameron, and makes it more likely the Tories will be the largest party across the UK after the election.
(12) Officials at the ONS said it was hard to assess the full impact of June's additional public holiday on GDP in the second quarter, but officials expect a bounce back from the loss of production in the third quarter, when the London Olympics should also provide a boost to activity.
(13) However, from the results of the second study, which included a control group, it was clearly seen that the quantum of boosting or sensitizing effect of the first test as well as that of new sensitization was small over a period of 3-6 months.
(14) Tesco uniforms can be bought through the supermarket's Clubcard Boost scheme, where £5 in Clubcard vouchers equals a £10 spend on clothing, while Asda is offering free delivery on uniform purchases of over £25.
(15) Culture dishes precoated with thin layers of acid soluble rat tail collagen simplify conditions necessary to obtain in vitro high IgG anti-DNP responses from primed and boosted mice.
(16) Britain's national interest demands that we maximise our influence and use that influence to boost growth, trade and jobs.
(17) Buffett’s fortune was briefly boosted by another $5.7bn purely on his personal stake in Kraft Heinz, whose shares rose 10%, while Unilever shares rose 13.4% to a record high.
(18) The effectiveness of these drugs was also reduced when boosted mice were challenged with 10 micrograms antigen, where meclizine and cyproheptadine inhibited edema by 31 and 59%, respectively.
(19) Repeating his conference speech , he said he’d step in to boost growth, which was weaker than many commentators had depicted.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cream (1991) was Prince’s fifth US No 1 hit single His profile boosted by Sinéad O’Connor’s version of his song Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince embarked on another film and music project with Graffiti Bridge.
Turbocharger
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) By allowing corporates to make unlimited donations of this kind, the court gave birth to the so-called Super Pacs, which are turbocharged fundraising " political action committees " that support a candidate while remaining nominally independent of his or her campaign.
(2) There's been a turbocharged masculinity at the heart of British newspaper culture for decades.
(3) Whoever comes next will have to take this on in a very significant way.” A game-changer would be if the leader of a developed country came out firmly against prohibition, something that would turbocharge the drive for reform.
(4) The reason they fought so hard to move from Upton Park after 112 years was because they believe it will turbocharge their prospects.
(5) In IT planned obsolescence has been turbocharged by must-have software which is only upwardly compatible.
(6) Cohen’s recommendations show how to take that appeal and turbocharge it.
(7) Prime minister David Cameron said on Monday that an EU-US pact would "turbocharge the transatlantic economy" by delivering up to £10bn a year to the UK, or £380 to every British household.
(8) Football, the great and simple game played by clubs with working-class roots and deep local attachments, has been turbocharged by pay-TV into a globally expanding and increasingly consumerist sport, viewed by many of those who now work in it as a branch of the entertainment industry.
(9) The successful candidate will be expected to turbocharge not just the city but an entire region.
(10) I dip the stick in a glass of Cobra, the vibrations turbocharge its carbonation, and within two seconds I have Brad Pitt, ie a perfect head.
(11) The fact of the matter is that it’s not like [1999] or 2000, where we had a major budget surplus which allowed us to turbocharge income tax cuts as we were making a major tax mix switch,” he told the ABC’s Insiders program.
(12) Greg Clark from the Conservatives and Andrew Adonis from Labour are both doing some good thinking about how to turbocharge urban centres.
(13) The company halted sales of the diesel turbocharged direct injection (TDI) models affected after the scandal broke.
(14) It was this fight for freedom that directly led to a turbocharging of the decolonisation movement across Asia and Africa.
(15) Photograph: Tom Phillips for the Guardian Rosa is the latest addition to China’s rapidly growing squad of Brazilian footballers – a group Chinese managers hope will turbocharge their clubs’ rise to glory and boost President Xi Jinping’s bid to transform his country into a footballing superpower.
(16) Joining up with Salazar, and splitting with his long-time coach Alan Storey, in 2011 turbocharged an already impressive career.
(17) By chastising his colleagues and suggesting gender may be motivating their attacks Abbott has only turbocharged that resentment and the public discussion of the government’s disunity.
(18) For a long time, Sarah Lucas, who also has a show on in the capital, seemed like the bad girl of British sculpture, although her career was never turbocharged by market success like Altmejd's was.