(n.) The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.
(n.) The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts.
(n.) Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold.
(n.) Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth.
(n.) The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom.
(v. t.) To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
(v. t.) To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is now time for laparoscopy to return to the bosom of general surgery from where it was conceived almost a century ago.
(2) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.
(3) For nearly 20 years he was one of the most flamboyant figures on the British rock scene, once appearing with 50 sets of false bosoms as he sang I Want To Break Free.
(4) And after taking in the landscape, there’s no better way to feel a part of it than to sleep in its bosom, in your very own cave hotel.
(5) There is no lingering on bloodied bosoms or fnaaring over imperilled co–eds in barely–there victimwear.
(6) But," he Hanks-ishly adds, "shop can be good, too …" After college, he was cast in the TV show Bosom Buddies and caught the eye of Ron Howard, who cast him in his breakthrough role in Splash, a ridiculous but, thanks to Hanks, charming modern-day update on The Little Mermaid.
(7) But Joanna Page heaving-bosomed and bareback with David Tennant will do.
(8) No visit from Dr Freud is needed to recognise that the devouring snake lurking deep in the body of the hysteric in "The Bosom Serpent" is not just the "egotism" of the longer title of the story, but guilt for auto-erotic naughtiness.
(9) They long for the institution of supplementary structures of little dimensions in the bosom of the family, well integrated with the school, the working milieu, and the local community and wish the structures of restoration for anti-social disadaptations to stop from being static Institutions far from the real social problems of a democratic life, in order to become centers of social democratic life and places of comparison, according to a dialectic method of knowledge, between subculture as deviation (which is not always negative) and the dominating culture with its needs and rules.
(10) "Do not be quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
(11) Therapeutic collaboration can be defined as the practical application of a common work in the bosom of the hospital staff in order to obtain, at a collective degree, a "therapeutic alliance" between the patient, his family and the crew.
(12) We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.''
(13) Emmanuelle Riva is now 85, Jean-Louis Trintignant is 81; because films from the 1950s preserve their nubile youth – Riva in bed with her Japanese lover in Hiroshima Mon Amour , Trintignant worshipping the bosom of Bardot in And God Created Woman – it's alarming to see them now with stiff but fragile limbs and worn, sagging faces.
(14) The duchess's return to the bosom of her family comes after a testing few weeks for Kate, who was forced to announce her pregnancy earlier than planned when she was admitted to King Edward VII's hospital in London following a bout of severe morning sickness.
(15) We have become neurotic wondering if we should leave our babies to cry it out in their cots or clutch them to our bosom at all times.
(16) When, at the end of the show, Roxane Gay said she loved being a woman because – and casually lifted her bosom with a wry smirk – she seemed to be saying, “I’ve got jokes but I’m too bored to make them.” How insulting to ask this fascinating woman onto Australia’s pre-eminent politics shows and then limit so severely what she was allowed to talk about.
(17) "I've got [voice lowered, bosom hoisted to nostrils] … the gift ."
(18) King was brought into the stadium on the shoulders of male athletes, while Riggs was wheeled in by the female models he called his "bosom buddies".
(19) As with most protagonists caught up in decisive historical moments, he is a man divided, torn between years of work on behalf of genuine reform that at times put him at risk, and the pull of clan and familial loyalties that drew him back into the bosom of a family defined by political tyranny and the rule of an autocratic leader and father.
(20) You must prepare your bosom for his knife, said Portia to Antonio in which of Shakespeare's Comedies?
Boson
Definition:
(n.) See Boatswain.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the late 1970s the challenge was to discover the missing pieces of the Standard Model: the W and Z bosons (which carry the weak nuclear force), the top quark and the tau neutrino.
(2) A predecessor to the LHC, a machine called the Large Electron Positron collider at Cern , the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, ruled out the existence of the Higgs boson up to a mass of 114GeV, but saw what might have been hints of the particle before it shut down in 2000 to make way for the LHC.
(3) "There is no doubt that something very much like the Higgs boson has been discovered.
(4) For now, work centres on gathering more and more data from Higgs bosons inside the LHC.
(5) Evidence for the Higgs boson has risen sharply in the past seven months.
(6) Jim Baggott, author of Farewell to Reality: How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Scientific Truth The discovery of the Higgs boson was a triumph for the standard model of particle physics.
(7) "I had a nightmare which is that Cern would discover the Higgs boson and then nothing else.
(8) The report suggests that "finding the Higgs boson, exactly as postulated in the Standard Model, would be a triumph.
(9) To spot the boson, the scientists have to look for unusual excesses of the particles it decays into, which appear as bumps in their data.
(10) The present one is nice and cosy, but it is embarrassing and sad to see many distinguished colleagues queueing up at five in the morning knowing that they have a slim chance to get a seat, after working for 20 years on finding the Higgs boson," said Dorigo.
(11) From previous work, the Higgs boson was thought to have a mass somewhere between 114 and 185GeV (gigaelectronvolts) – one GeV is roughly equivalent to the mass of a proton, a subatomic particle found in atomic nuclei.
(12) "It's going to be the Higgs boson of the brain, a Noah's archive of the mind," he says.
(13) For original approaches to outstanding problems in particle physics, including the proposal of large extra dimensions, new theories for the Higgs boson, novel realisations of supersymmetry, theories for dark matter, and the exploration of new mathematical structures in gauge theory scattering amplitudes.
(14) Ripples of excitement swept through the physics community last month when Cern scientists reported what looked like glimpses of the long-sought Higgs boson .
(15) That moment came today for physicists at Cern , near Geneva, home of the Large Hadron Collider, who announced overwhelming evidence for the obscure but profoundly important Higgs boson, the particle that sparked the greatest hunt in modern science.
(16) Without doubt, CERN has delivered us a new particle that looks every bit like the long-sought-after Higgs boson, which is absolutely central to our understanding of how the universe works at its most elemental level.
(17) These microscopic fireballs of energy condense into well known subatomic particles, but scientists hope that among them they will see other more exotic particles, including the Higgs boson .
(18) Following examples like the Human Genome Project and the Large Hadron Collider (where Higgs' elusive boson was finally discovered), the idea is that a large investment will deliver significant results.
(19) But the Standard Model of particle physics – of which the Higgs boson is part and which describes fundamental particles and forces of nature – hides a terrifying secret: a theoretical composite particle that is so stable it can transform any other particle of matter into a copy of itself.
(20) On Monday, scientists at the Tevatron, which was shut down by the US government last year , fired a parting shot, releasing a fresh analysis that showed their strongest evidence yet for the Higgs boson .