(v. i.) To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels.
(v. t.) To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially.
Example Sentences:
(1) She urges officers to watch out for "late-night carousing, long sessions, yet another bottle of wine at lunch – they are all longstanding media tactics to get you to spill the beans.
(2) Late-night carousing, long sessions, yet another bottle of wine at lunch – these are longstanding media tactics to get you spill the beans.
(3) The secret service's reputation for rowdy behaviour was reinforced in April 2012 in the runup to Obama's visit to the Caribbean resort of Cartagena in Colombia, where 13 agents and officers were accused of carousing with female foreign nationals at a hotel where they were staying before the president's arrival.
(4) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
(5) Tom is a heavy metal fan who, as Matt says in the film, thinks indie rock is "pretentious bullshit"; the National are all around 40 with their carousing days behind them, so Tom brought the party himself, getting wasted on his own and filming himself for kicks.
(6) No doubt he would look back on that evening, what he remembers of it anyway, with a wistful remembrance of the luxury of anonymity, the ability to carouse mostly unmolested from pub to pub on one of the busiest neighbourhoods in the world.
(7) But even then people pointed out that Munich’s heavy autumnal rainfall wasn’t conducive to excessive carousing.
(8) We expected some light-hearted carousing appropriate to this time of year, but didn’t expect to stumble upon these rabble-rousers and police in riot gear.” Among the groups taking part, according to the police, were two soccer hooligan organisations already known to the police called “Faust des Ostens” (Fist of the East) and Hooligans Elbflorenz (Florence of the Elbe Hooligans), as well as members of the National Democratic Party (NPD).
(9) An average of 8.2 carious teeth with 14.0 carous surfaces required treatment.
(10) They were accused of carousing with female foreign nationals at a hotel where they were staying before Obama’s arrival.
(11) The problem is that pirates are such poor role models, drinking rum and carousing with women, cutting people’s throats and making them walk the plank and so on.
(12) The Mancunian has a loyal and diverse array of friends who delight in his love of karaoke and late-night carousing at the Groucho.
(13) In December secret policemen spent the evening carousing with Mr Putin, not at their Lubyanka headquarters in Moscow but in the Kremlin, to celebrate the foundation in December 1917 of the Cheka, the Bolshevik forerunner of the KGB which developed into the key instrument of the Great Terror.
(14) The Lapin is atmospheric: a two-room cabin from the 1860s where generations of artists and ne’er-do-wells have caroused, from the impressionists onwards.
Social
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties.
(a.) Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person.
(a.) Consisting in union or mutual intercourse.
(a.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species.
(a.) Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees.
(a.) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(2) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(3) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(4) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
(5) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(6) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(7) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
(8) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(9) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(10) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(11) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(12) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
(13) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(14) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
(15) There was a 35% decrease in the number of patients seeking emergency treatment and one study put the savings in economic and social costs at just under £7m a year .
(16) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
(17) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
(18) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
(19) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
(20) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.