(1) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
(2) At 52, Stewart has the bouncy energy of a man half his age and, unlike most in the public eye, has an aversion to compliments.
(3) His casting marks a departure from Tennant and Matt Smith's bouncy young Doctors, which might be a risk considering Doctor Who relies on new generations of devotion.
(4) The Bouncy Knee concept has previously proved of value when fitted to stabilised knee units of active amputees.
(5) When bouncy spermatozoa were tested for sperm-vitelline membrane interaction at a low (10:1) sperm to egg ratio, they penetrated fewer zona-free hamster eggs.
(6) She was about my age, smiley, bouncy, expressive, and completely adorable.
(7) On the lawn outside, they had installed two big bouncy castles.
(8) Ukip's Nigel Farage has not been his usual bouncy self.
(9) As we left the intimate cocoon of the pub, my bouncy excitement became more of a trudge as, heart in mouth, I babbled and swore, and panicked that I couldn't do it, terrified that stage fright and nerves would overtake me, and that my tentative voice would abandon me altogether.
(10) A Bouncy Knee is a knee control device for use in above-knee prostheses, designed to give a natural flex-extend action during the stance phase of the walking cycle.
(11) 11) If you're Kanye West, you can rock a mullet and no one will say anything Of course, it's not like your crew will have much room to criticise, but if anyone was going to try to stop the party around the back of Kanye's bonce, it clearly didn't do any good, as it was there, bouncy, fresh, and mullety.
(12) Here, players wield a portal gun, a device that creates dimensional wormholes in walls, floors and ceilings – but they're only introduced to one facet of the gun at a time, and when it has been mastered, new items such as super-bouncy gels are introduced.
(13) We get something called Hotel Tent where you pay an outrageous sum of money and they basically set up a tent and give you bouncy mattresses and pillows and lots of lavvies."
(14) "It's a very modern stadium but the pitch looked not much cop, very sticky and bouncy.
(15) Terrific bouncy Chinese noodles that you can have in a variety of ways.
(16) It’s so hard to tell.” Abu Rumaysah once worked in Boots before running a business renting out bouncy castles to children’s parties.
(17) Spermatozoa from bouncy mutants also bound to eggs in lower numbers.
(18) Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi At the time, Brown was politically embattled and clearly much taken by the bouncy conviction of his single-minded transport secretary.
(19) These findings indicate that spermatozoa from the bouncy mutant have a severe defect in sperm-zona interaction.
(20) Tim Read, a young ecologist with a bouncy stride, took me on a tour of the wood.
Plump
Definition:
(adv.) Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.
(n.) A knot; a cluster; a group; a crowd; a flock; as, a plump of trees, fowls, or spears.
(a.) To grow plump; to swell out; as, her cheeks have plumped.
(a.) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
(a.) To give a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
(v. t.) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily; as, to plump a stone into water.
(v. t.) To give (a vote), as a plumper. See Plumper, 2.
(a. & v.) Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.
Example Sentences:
(1) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(2) Their current Westminster tally is strikingly close, too, to the 45% of the constituency vote that gave Alex Salmond his great Holyrood landslide in 2011, and indeed to the 44% who tell ICM in Friday’s survey that they would plump for the nationalists if there were a fresh ballot for their local Holyrood seat.
(3) Some plump for Your Love , with its distinctive keyboard figure that subsequently turned up both on Candi Staton and the Source's endlessly reissued and covered 1991 hit You Got The Love and, of all things, psychedelic rock band Animal Collective's My Girls.
(4) The company had originally plumped for the name Fox Group, but announced its change of mind in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
(5) Approximately 40% of the plump, spindle-shaped cells that formed the background stroma of these tumors possessed the antigen; however, it was not present on giant cells.
(6) For alkaline phosphatase and adenosine triphosphatase particularly, positive cells and negative cells coexisted, as in the large plump cells of synovial sarcoma.
(7) Sclerosed areas with scarce and plump villi as well as sometimes hyperplastic and polymorphous synovial cell layers could be demonstrated histologically in the tissue specimens of the needle biopsies in cases with gout.
(8) But soon Gontar would see the same plump women and the same injured men appearing in different newscasts, identified as different people.
(9) There are queues at communal water tanks and the irrigated fields plump with crops abruptly give way to hard-baked soil forced to sit fallow.
(10) More peripherally there is a cellular zone containing elongated or plump tumor cells embedded in a fibromyxoid stroma.
(11) The mediastinal milky spots were generally covered with plump mesothelial cells with hemidesmosome-like structures in small projections of the cytoplasm, and consisted mainly of clusters of lymphocytes, macrophages and fibroblasts.
(12) This Week host Andrew Neil predicted 12 million for the leaders' debate, while regular sofa sidekick Michael Portillo plumped for 6 million – so that one goes to Neil, narrowly.
(13) ('Bulkiness' is the average cross-sectional area, or 'plumpness', of a side-chain.)
(14) Melanocytomas are pigmented tumors of the uvea and optic nerve head composed of plump polyhedral melanocytes which have been regarded as nevus cells.
(15) It can snatch a creature as small as a beetle or as bulky as a duck, but its favourite food on high moors is a plump little bird greatly prized by game shooters: the red grouse.
(16) One reader chose Zoë Heller's The Believers, about the dysfunctional Litvinoff family, another plumped for Sue Miller's While I Was Gone, in which a woman is forced to confront the murder of her best friend 30 years ago, a third pointed readers towards Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, about an Indian boy growing up in America.
(17) Biopsy showed collagenous stroma containing spindle cells and irregular trabeculae of woven bone rimmed by plump osteoblasts.
(18) Of particular interest is a number of tumor cells with plump, bizarre nuclei which contain cross-striations of skeletal muscle pattern.
(19) The tumor cells were uniform in appearance, plump and polyhedral, with distinct finely granular eosinophilic cytoplasm, and were arranged in solid acinar groups.
(20) And here’s a statistic that should terrify anyone who leans to the left: nearly nine out of 10 Austrian manual workers plumped for the far right.