(n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.
(n.) A hole made by boring.
(n.) The chips or fragments made by boring.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scaphoid silicone implant bore significant, although less, load than the normal scaphoid.
(2) Paparella type II tubes had a prolonged period of intubation and a decreased reintubation rate when compared with the smaller bore tubes.
(3) He says the next step will be moving to bore water, which will require people to boil water to drink.
(4) By the time the bud was half the diameter of the mother cell, it almost always bore a vacuole.
(5) Rather, there is evidence that students find these courses 'waffly' and boring.
(6) (2) E. granulosus, which includes two geographical groups: (a) Northern group, with two sub-species E. g borelis and E. g. canadensis, the life-cycle of which is sylvatic and that are agents of a pulmonary hydatidosis which may affect Man.
(7) Adult mongrel dogs were instrumented and placed in the bore of a Bruker Biospec 1.89 tesla superconducting magnet system.
(8) But the president said that the rest of the country had relied for too long on police to do the “dirty work” of containing urban violence and bore responsibility for the violent spectacle in Baltimore.
(9) It was shown by double staining that most of the Ia-bearing T cells also bore the T8 marker.
(10) Neither the peak serum E2 level attained nor the number of days of stimulation required bore a relationship to the BMI or the total body weight of these women.
(11) Experts and activists have said the murder bore all the hallmarks of Egypt’s notorious secret service, but Egyptian officials have consistently put forward alternative theories, including that Regeni was killed by a criminal gang and that his death was an isolated incident.
(12) The selectivity, efficiency and lifetime of normal- and narrow-bore columns for high-performance liquid chromatography were investigated for the separation and quantification of amino acids and the amino acid-like antibiotics phosphinothricin and phosphinothricylalanylalanine in biological samples.
(13) Soon my pillowcases bore rusty coins of nasal drippage.
(14) On 1 January 1832, he reports that: "The new year to my jaundiced senses bore a most gloomy appearance.
(15) The use of soft catheter materials in large-bore veins has allowed safe long-term venous access in human patients.
(16) The lesson for the international community, fatigued or bored by competing stories of Middle Eastern carnage, is that problems that are left to fester only get worse – and always take a terrible human toll.
(17) While Cropley talked to a member of staff, her daughter got a bit bored.
(18) Sometimes my press conferences are boring because I’m very polite or political.
(19) It was found that the emphasis in the reporting of adolescence bore little relationship to the importance or relevance of each area of study.
(20) And until recently, they bore children for foreigners who never even saw this place.
Yawn
Definition:
(v. i.) To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate.
(v. i.) To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit of anything.
(v. i.) To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
(v. i.) To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings.
(n.) An involuntary act, excited by drowsiness, etc., consisting of a deep and long inspiration following several successive attempts at inspiration, the mouth, fauces, etc., being wide open.
(n.) The act of opening wide, or of gaping.
(n.) A chasm, mouth, or passageway.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We believe BAE's earnings could stagnate until the middle of this decade," said Goldman, which was also worried that performance fees on a joint fighter programme in America had been withheld by the Pentagon, and the company still had a yawning pension deficit.
(2) Morphine (0.1 to 5 micrograms), but not U-69,593 (5 micrograms), injected into the PVN 10 minutes before oxytocin or apomorphine, was found to be able to prevent penile erection and yawning induced by the unilateral PVN microinjection of oxytocin (10 ng) or apomorphine (50 ng).
(3) Apomorphine (Apo), a short acting dopamine (DA) receptor agonist, stimulates growth hormone (GH) secretion, decreases prolactin secretion, induces yawning, penile erections and other physiological effects in man.
(4) The present results demonstrate that either the presurgical drug treatment (desmethylimipramine and pentobarbital) or 7 days isolation was alone sufficient to reduce the yawning response to physostigmine and abolish its potentiation by nifedipine.
(5) It is tempting to visualise the yawning gap between the real-life equivalents of the fictional Chatsworth Estate, where Shameless is set, and Green Templeton College, Oxford, where Walker works.
(6) The yawning response was also assessed in normal young (less than 30 yrs; N = 16) and elderly (greater than 60 yrs; N = 12) volunteers.
(7) The present results suggest that calcium might be the second messenger which mediates the expression of penile erection and yawning induced by oxytocin.
(8) The occipital belly is also active during smiling and yawning, and can be active during the movements of the auricula.
(9) Very abruptly, he yawns, looks bored, and examines his sweatshirt.
(10) As well as being present in all mammals, yawning occurs, at least in its mandibular component, in all vertebrates.
(11) The difference between rats and monkeys in their yawning response to dopaminergic compounds is discussed.
(12) The pre-synaptical receptor's role had been suggested for a long time but actually yawning seems to be linked with a D1-D2 cooperation.
(13) In fact, the gender pay gap remains a yawning chasm.
(14) After pretreatment with mecamylamine, the apomorphine- and physostigmine-induced tongue protruding was inhibited and the duration of the yawning induced by the both drugs was shortened.
(15) Central administration of ACTH in rats induces yawning and stretching.
(16) The specific D-2 agonist LY 171555 elicited yawning, genital grooming, exploratory behavior, downward sniffing and licking but failed to induce gnawing even at high doses.
(17) The behavior categories included grooming, yawning, turning, nodding and gnawing, as well as snout contact and nonsnout contact variants of locomoting, rearing and sitting.
(18) As the dihydropyridine compounds affected apomorphine-induced yawning but not penile erection, and did not affect amphetamine-induced rotation or drug discrimination, it seems unlikely that they are affecting dopamine release in vivo.
(19) Since oxytocin is present not only in the neurohypophysis but also in other brain areas, our results suggest that oxytocin is implicated in the regulation of penile erection and yawning, and provide further evidence that oxytocin acts as a neuropeptide in the central nervous system.
(20) In the lesioned animals (in which the mean striatal dopamine depletion was 67%), the maximum yawning response rate was greatly attenuated with no evidence that the dose response curve was shifted in either direction.