(a.) Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.
Example Sentences:
(1) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(2) On a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, a 29-year-old man with a gaunt, emaciated face stepped on to the vast expanse of Red Square.
(3) In fact the aim for many of those braving increasingly chilly nights inside the tents is to be here until Christmas at least.
(4) It’s going to be harder in Zurich, because there’s going to be a lot more eight-metre jumpers,” he says, citing the reigning champion, Christian Reif, who has jumped 8.49m this season, as his main opposition Rutherford won gold in Glasgow with a modest leap of 8.20m but, as he points out, the chilly conditions were hardly conducive to leaping far.
(5) Two litres is not big enough for most vegetables; perhaps windowsill chillies, but that is it.
(6) A chilly vision of the past and, maybe, the future too.
(7) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.
(8) Crystal Palace 0-1 Leicester City: Premier League – as it happened Read more On a chilly day both teams lined up in a new-school 4-4-2.
(9) Pour on to a large platter or individual plates, spoon the cauliflower and chickpeas on top, followed by the egg, tomatoes and chilli sauce.
(10) Bild’s deputy editor Bela Anda, wrote in an editorial to accompany the open letter: “They [the signatories] are saying no to xenophobia and yes to diversity and tolerance … We should not hand over our streets to hollow rallying cries.” Angela Merkel called for people to turn their backs on Pegida in her New Year’s speech, saying the group was “full of prejudice, a chilliness, even hatred”.
(11) 10.05pm GMT Ice Bowl So it's not as cold in GB today as it was in 1967, but Kaepernick looked a bit chilly out there without sleeves.
(12) Boiling the hand warmers redissolves the sodium acetate in the water in the water released from the crystals, recreating the supersaturated solution, so you are ready for another chilly evening walk.
(13) One of the sharing plates at Polpo in London sees moscardini (aka baby octopus) cooked for 10 minutes in stock, left to cool and then marinated for 24 hours in a powerful mixture of olive oil, red-wine vinegar, fennel seeds, shallots, fresh oregano, garlic and finely sliced chilli.
(14) Time being elastic on Culatra, lunch lasts long enough for me to floor plenty of chilly vinho verde and to make friends with just about everyone on the terrace.
(15) I make ful cobi with my cookery students: carrot, peas, cauliflower and sweetcorn, gently stir-fried with mustard seeds, ginger, garlic and green chillies, and they're amazed how tasty it is.
(16) However, Vitamin A levels do not seem to be linked causally with the effect on the eyes of chilli-treated hamsters, because these hamsters had circulating levels of Vitamin A comparable to those observed in untreated and alcohol-treated groups.
(17) The Spanish classic arroz negro pays homage to both old country and new: instead of the standard squid ink and fish stock, it’s made with crab bisque and chilmole (the blackened chilli sauce of the Yucatán) and crowned with calamari stuffed with pork scratchings.
(18) Only 6% of the samples namely maize and red chillies were found to be contaminated with aflatoxin B1 and B2 respectively.
(19) "I do a mean ceviche with it – coconut milk, lime juice and chilli.
(20) Davey said he was fully prepared to spend some of his time as a renewable energy consultant working abroad because the climate for investment in Britain had become so chilly.
Shiver
Definition:
(n.) One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.
(n.) A thin slice; a shive.
(n.) A variety of blue slate.
(n.) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
(n.) A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
(n.) A spindle.
(v. t.) To break into many small pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet.
(v. i.) To separate suddenly into many small pieces or parts; to be shattered.
(v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to quiver; to shake, as from cold or fear.
(v. t.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
(n.) The act of shivering or trembling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients in group A had smoother increases in oxygen uptake and core temperatures, greater cardiovascular stability as reflected by the rate-pressure product, and no visible shivering.
(2) Patients who had sustained shivering associated with lidocaine epidural anesthesia were given normal saline or butorphanol 1 mg.
(3) If a sparse crowd, shivering in suddenly chill conditions out of step with the warmth Edmonton had enjoyed in previous days, did not exactly help the atmosphere, the action remained intense.
(4) In conclusion, these results further differentiate mld from its allele shiverer, which shares with mld a dramatic reduction of MBP and absence of major dense line but, in contrast, presents other important biochemical differences in CNS myelin.
(5) The beach curved around us and the sun shone while the rest of the UK shivered under grey skies and sleet.
(6) Other onlookers shivered, recalling Iglesias’s praise for Venezuela’s late president Hugo Chávez and fearing an eruption of Latin American-style populism in a country gripped by debt, austerity and unemployment.
(7) It has been concluded that there is no non-shivering thermogenesis in the young calf.
(8) In addition, there is immunocytochemical evidence for abnormal accumulation of MAG in perikarya of oligodendroglial-like cells, suggesting the possibility of a transport block for myelin proteins in the shiverer mutant.
(9) Shivering may be a warning sign of brain stem anaesthesia and demands special care to anticipate life-threatening complications.
(10) The higher hypothalamic and spinal cord clamp temperatures were, the lower residual internal temperature fell before shivering occurred and heat production rose.
(11) The peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique was used for immunocytochemical localization of carbonic anhydrase in the mouse spinal cord to detect whether this antigen was normally present in myelinated fibers, in oligodendrocytes in both white and gray matter, and in astrocytes, and to determine where the carbonic anhydrase might be localized in the spinal cords of dysmyelinating mutant (shiverer) mice.
(12) Both drugs reduce metabolic heat production (about 35% at 9 and 20 degrees C, and about 15% at 35 degrees C) by inhibiting shivering or by reducing activity or both.
(13) Eight male subjects were cooled on three occasions in 22 degrees C water and rewarmed once by each of three procedures: spontaneous shivering, inhalation of heated (45 degrees C) and humidified air, and immersion up to the neck in 40 degrees C water.
(14) Pharmacological changes in chemoreceptor activity induced transient and opposite changes in ventilation and shivering intensity, confirming their role in the control of thermogenesis.
(15) The shiverer mouse mutation has been used as a model in this series of experiments.
(16) Muscular shivering activity (integrated EMG) of both species increased below thermoneutrality parallel with increasing oxygen uptake and heart rate.
(17) Pulmonary artery and urinary temperature were measured every 15 minutes, and shivering was evaluated electromyographically.
(18) These results obtained in wakefulness suggest that the absence of shivering previously shown in cats during PS without atonia cannot simply be the result of an overall increased threshold for heat-gain responses but, rather, are in keeping with the observation that thermoregulation is suppressed in PS.
(19) The effectiveness of intravenous meperidine and warm local anesthetic for prevention of postanesthetic shivering was evaluated in urology patients undergoing epidural blockade for extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy.
(20) Three days after NRM lesion the fall in core temperature evoked by an exposure to 14-15 degrees C was smaller than before lesion, furthermore the body temperature threshold for shivering increased.