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Buss


Definition:

  • (n.) A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.
  • (v. t.) To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.
  • (n.) A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To assess physiological and psychological states accompanying anabolic-androgenic steroid use, male weight lifters 1) were interviewed regarding their physical training and the patterns and effects of any drug use; 2) completed a written physical and medical history questionnaire, a Profile of Mood States questionnaire, and the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory; and 3) were physically examined, including a blood sample and urinalysis.
  • (2) Aggression was measured in terms of number of shocks given, shock intensity, and shock duration in a modified version of the Buss' aggression machine.
  • (3) If there's one thing this current Lakers squad, mostly assembled by Jerry Buss's son Jim while his father was ailing, has proven, it's that simply acquiring the best available players isn't enough to create a winning team, let alone a championship-caliber one.
  • (4) Some of these measures appeared to be lifted over the weekend, but as thousands trudged or bussed their way towards Austria and then Germany, the dismal scenes in Hungary will stain one administration’s human rights record – and perhaps the reputation of a nation.
  • (5) But as with the December vote, independent election monitors and opposition activists presented evidence of widespread falsifications, including ballot stuffing and "carousel voting" – packing vans with voters and bussing them to several polling sites to cast numerous votes.
  • (6) An experiment was performed to test whether thwarting close to the goal leads to higher levels of frustration and higher levels of aggression than thwarting far from the goal in a slightly modified version of the Buss' "aggression machine."
  • (7) He has also enlisted in an imaginative scheme, pioneered by the National, in which groups of in-patients are lodged in a specially designed hotel and bussed back each day for treatment.
  • (8) At one point, a group bussed in by the government smashed plastic chairs and overturned food trays as the campaigners sang and prayed.
  • (9) Jerry Buss always courted the best players, the big names who could shine in big games, no matter how much money it took to sign them, he transformed cheerleaders into " Lakers Girls " and made the courtisde seats the go-to place for all of the beautiful people to be seen.
  • (10) They were bussed to a medical centre to undergo treatment, NTV television said.
  • (11) Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted refugees on Saturday, bussed to the Hungarian border by a rightwing government that had tried to stop them but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers reaching Europe’s frontiers.
  • (12) Three hundred seventy-one male substance-abusing volunteers for drug studies were administered the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory (B-D).
  • (13) By the time Austria awoke on Saturday the first refugees had arrived, bussed out of the country overnight by Hungarian authorities happy to be rid of them the minute the Austrian and German governments took the momentous decision to throw open their borders.
  • (14) The volunteer group arrived early, at 3am, and were de-bussed by the coach company who had estimated a 5am time of arrival.
  • (15) Civilians were being steadily bussed to regime-held west Aleppo on Wednesday, with hundreds more displaced by fighting that has already driven thousands out of their homes in recent weeks.
  • (16) [LA Lakers owner] Jerry Buss takes money out of his club.
  • (17) There were reports, too, that Sunni insurgents have attempted to target convoys of Shia volunteers being bussed to the front lines north of the capital.
  • (18) Another solution suggested by the OFT is limiting services on certain routes to prevent "over bussing" where bus companies deluge a route with vehicles to shut out competitors.
  • (19) Twelve manipulation tactics were identified through separate factor analyses of two instruments based on different data sources: Charm, Reason, Coercion, Silent Treatment, Debasement, and Regression (replicating Buss et al., 1987), and Responsibility Invocation, Reciprocity, Monetary Reward, Pleasure Induction, Social Comparison, and Hardball (an amalgam of threats, lies, and violence).
  • (20) Of course, none of these added attractions would have mattered if the team didn't win, but under Buss's direction, the Lakers were one of the most successful franchises not just in the NBA, but in all of professional sports.

Shallow


Definition:

  • (superl.) Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
  • (superl.) Not deep in tone.
  • (superl.) Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
  • (n.) A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
  • (n.) The rudd.
  • (v. t.) To make shallow.
  • (v. i.) To become shallow, as water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intestinal glands are not observed until 8.5cm, and are shallow in depth even in the adult.
  • (2) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
  • (3) Those with shallow roots are least likely to mourn change.
  • (4) In comparison gradients of transcript levels are more shallow in either lytically or persistently infected cultured cells, where the transcripts of the fifth MV gene are only about five times less abundant than those of the first.
  • (5) With commonly used experimental procedures, it is difficult to know whether a shallow psychometric function slope is a true reflection of the sensory process, or is a result of "averaging" a highly variable underlying function.
  • (6) The lesions varied in length from 0.5 to 2 cm and were very shallow, generally 1 mm deep.
  • (7) Further purification of the fraction by equilibrium centrifugation on shallow sucrose gradients reduces further the contaminating activities and results in a PA distribution that closely parallels the distribution of the membrane enzyme, 5'-nucleotidase.
  • (8) A case of acute angle-closure glaucoma precipitated by oculomotor nerve palsy in a patient with shallow anterior chambers is reported.
  • (9) From the shallow pool of talent to the lack of a definable playing style and questions over whether they can handle the step up from qualification to tournament football, this is now England.
  • (10) In Experiment 1, it was found that deviations of observed recognition failure from predictions of the Tulving-Wiseman function (Tulving & Wiseman, 1975) were produced by shallow, nonsemantic encoding.
  • (11) Recordings from single neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex of the monkey during force regulation between the fingers showed following characteristics: the existence of classes of discharge patterns similar to those in motor cortex, but with differences in their distribution, a late onset of activity changes in relation to force increase and a linear relation to force, but with shallow mean rate-force slope.
  • (12) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
  • (13) Angiotensin II induced a weak secretion of both adrenaline and noradrenaline, with a threshold of 10-100 pM and a shallow concentration-dependence up to 10 microM.
  • (14) The threshold of instantaneous change of stage 2 to shallower stages due to the sound of a passing truck was at the peak level at less than 55 dB (A), and that of stage REM to other stages at 55 to 60 dB (A).
  • (15) Maybe this is symptomatic of how the possibilities of social media have just made our friendships shallower, an economy of “likes” and thoughtless “adds”.
  • (16) In addition, it was a shallow event with a source that was only 11km below ground.
  • (17) Some of the stomata overlie a deep pit; others overlie a shallower pit in which the surface of another cell can be seen beneath the opening.
  • (18) Initially each primordium forms a shallow depression in the ectodermal surface.
  • (19) Under the scanning electron microscope, the clear dentine tubules in the resorption lacuna, the shallow, unclear resorption lacuna with deposition of the hard tissue and the various steps between them were observed.
  • (20) We found shallow serpiginous, longitudinal ulcerations in the descending colon at the first examination of a 17-year-old female patient with Crohn's disease.

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