(a.) Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
(a.) Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.
(v. t. & i.) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.
Example Sentences:
(1) Usually the focus driving the cell most briskly was located in one of the contralateral limbs and corresponded to the limb where muscle contraction was elicited by microstimulation with the same electrode.
(2) An increased mortality is recorded after its brisk rise (in particular after potent proton phenomena) and paradoxically also in case of very low density value.
(3) Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis are diseases which are characterized by a brisk acute phase response.
(4) For LH, basal levels were not different among each group, nor was there any difference in response to GnRH at any point in time after injection; however, there was a trend for the azoospermic group to respond more briskly.
(5) There was an improvement in body temperature within six hours of the first dose; this was accompanied by a brisk fall in serum CPK and cholesterol with a rapid rise of plasma T3 into the euthyroid range.
(6) The briskness of the response during tachycardia may also be a marker for underlying carotid sinus hypersensitivity.
(7) The identification of multiple receptor subtypes for 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) made by using radioligand binding techniques proliferated at a brisk rate in the 1980s.
(8) Add the broth to the pot and briskly simmer the mixture over medium to medium-low heat for about 2 hours for all the flavours to come together and mellow.
(9) Water immersion to the neck for 2 h caused a brisk diuresis, natriuresis and raised plasma ANP in 8 healthy subjects, suggesting that ANP is a mediator of diuresis and natriuresis during immersion.
(10) In adult humans the ventilatory response to sustained hypoxia (VRSH) is biphasic, characterized by an initial brisk increase, due to peripheral chemoreceptor (PC) stimulation, followed by a decline attributed to central depressant action of hypoxia.
(11) A brisk increase in plasma prolactin levels occurred in normal subjects during the administration of chlorpromazine and thyroid stimulating hormone releasing factor (TRH).
(12) These data indicate that an exercise intensity achievable by brisk walking (7.4 kph) is sufficient to evoke significant but short-term changes in serum HDL3-C concentrations in women.
(13) A brisk intraocular and systemic IgE antibody response followed the secondary intravitreal injection of either live or heat-killed larvae into animals systemically infected with A. suum.
(14) The effect of eyeball pressure on the heart rate was measured in 65 babies and was found to cause a brisk drop in heart rate in 32 babies.
(15) In the ferret, as in other species, two types of lateral geniculate neurone could be distinguished, and we have termed these X-cells and Y-cells; both groups responded briskly to visual stimulation but X-cells gave sustained and linear responses whereas Y-cells responded transiently and non-linearly.
(16) Of three methods studied, brisk shaking of samples in dilution blanks by hand and homogenization by a stomacher were compared relative to their capacity to recover the endotoxins and viable bacteria; blending with a Waring blender was compared with these two methods only on the recovery of viable cells.
(17) They discharged most briskly before visually guided eye movements, but also discharged before purposive eye movements made in darkness and responded to visual stimuli in the absence of saccades.
(18) But it is all merely worthless and meaningless froth while the city council permits a gateway to hell to do brisk business just a few streets away.
(19) Because it was 95 degrees and sunny, and because we were standing in a shadeless parking lot in the height of the afternoon, vendors selling bottled water were doing a brisk business.
(20) In the case presented, healing was brisk and complete, allowing early elbow mobilization.
Flying
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fly
(v. i.) Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(2) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
(3) This reduction is produced by medial displacement of the cerci, a movement the animal performs naturally during flying.
(4) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
(5) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(6) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
(7) Discovery of this vectorhost-parasite system in the Americas, and the localization of promastigote flagellates (leptomonads) in the hindgut of the vector, should assist in clarifying interpretative problems associated with infection of wild-caught flies in studies on leishmaniasis in the Americas and elsewhere.
(8) Meanwhile, in the US, Ellen DeGeneres , who is 56 and came out in the 90s, is still flying the lesbian flag on TV.
(9) It flies in the face of everything I believe and everything I stand for.” On a day of tension within the party, the former Labour leader Ed Miliband called for activists to stop abusing opposition MPs who were backing airstrikes.
(10) An international team led by Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University in Rome inferred the existence of the ocean after taking a series of exquisite measurements made during three fly-bys between April 2010 and May 2012, which brought the Cassini spacecraft within 100km of the surface of Enceladus.
(11) Histopathology examination from the margin of the ulcerative area confirmed the diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma, which was infested secondarily with larvae of flies.
(12) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(13) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(14) • Gaddafi's many eccentricities, including phobias about flying over water and staying above ground floor level.
(15) Police told him he had been placed on the US no-fly list, although he had never in his life been accused of breaking any law.
(16) Flies were observed to lack strong host specificity.
(17) It encodes a homeobox gene closely related to the developmentally regulated homeotic genes of flies and mammals.
(18) Photograph: Geektime The same developer’s Red Bouncing Ball Spikes game has also been doing well on the App Store, although as yet Flying Cyrus fever hasn’t spread to Android – the game has been installed less than 5,000 times according to its Google Play store page.
(19) "What I want to do is to fly 100% of the schedule and to remove any uncertainty.
(20) It is present throughout development and is as abundant in embryos as in larvae and adult flies.