(n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
(n.) Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
(n.) Not pungent or acrid.
(n.) Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
(n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
(n.) Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
(n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
(n.) Not sensitive; not acute.
(n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
(n.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
(n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth.
(n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
(n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
(v. i.) To become cold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
(2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(3) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(4) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
(5) These data suggest that submaximal exercise and cold air exposure enhance nonspecific bronchial reactivity in asthmatic but not in normal subjects.
(6) The relationship between cold-insoluble complexes, or cryoglobulins, and renal disease was studied in rabbits with acute serum sickness produced with BSA.
(7) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1983, pp.
(8) Changes in pain tolerance after administration of differently labelled placebos were studied by measuring the reaction time after a cold stimulus.
(9) The quality of liver grafts was evaluated using an original, blood-free isolated perfusion model, after 8 h cold storage, or after 15 min warm ischemia performed prior to harvesting.
(10) Lymphocytes of inbred mice immunized with allogenic tumour cells were labelled in vitro or in vivo by 3H-thymidine, washed out and incubated with target cells in the presence of "cold" thymidine.
(11) The binding of 125I-labeled core protein to immobilized fibronectin was inhibited by soluble fibronectin and by soluble cold core protein but not by albumin or gelatin.
(12) "The government should be doing all it can to put the UK at the forefront of this energy revolution not blowing hot and cold on the issue.
(13) 1, diarrhea lowered the piglet's ability to maintain body temperature during the cold test.
(14) 3H-uridine or 3H-uracil with cold uridine and uracil, respectively, in amounts corresponding to therapeutic doses of these two pyrimidines as fluoro compounds, were administered with or without microspheres.
(15) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(16) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(17) A comparison is made between these results and those of other authors who observed microtubule disaggregation by cold with the electron microscope.
(18) Raised cold agglutinin titres were observed in 16 patients with atypical pneumonia.
(19) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
(20) Detection limits were then calculated for the different sizes of cold spots.
Unready
Definition:
(a.) Not ready or prepared; not prompt; slow; awkward; clumsy.
(a.) Not dressed; undressed.
(v. t.) To undress.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adolescents males reported that initially they either were definitely unready for paternity (75%) or were undecided about readiness for fatherhood (21%).
(2) But with just 10 days to go, only 20 countries out of 192 have signed up, with many clearly unready or unwilling to put their name to the document.
(3) I have standards and I expect the same from customers: do not come and see me in a state of unreadiness.
(4) But he needs to start making his presence felt or run the risk that he instead becomes stamped with other labels which can be just as corrosive, labels like "Vague Ed" or "Unready Eddie".
(5) Harlow's Robert Halfon called Labour's approach "more Ethelred the Unready than Nixon in China" – one of the day's more enigmatic remarks.
(6) If the polls are right, Britain seems unready to trigger this act of creative destruction and it will be left to Varoufakis to do out of office what he could not do in power: prove a different Europe is possible.
(7) Cu(II) inhibited the active hydrogenase, prepared by treatment with hydrogen, but had little effect on the 'unready' enzyme unless a reductant such as ascorbate was present, in which case inactivation took place either in air or under argon.
(8) The membrane-bound hydrogenase of D. desulfuricans, Norway strain, the periplasmic hydrogenase of D. gigas and the membrane-bound hydrogenase of Alcaligenes eutrophus can be isolated in a state (termed "Unready") which requires up to several hours for full activation by hydrogen.
(9) This process is interpreted as the conversion of the hydrogenase from an inactive 'unready' state to an 'active' state.
(10) This process is interpreted in terms of conversion of the enzyme from a relatively inactive Unready state to the Active state.
(11) Thus, the nickel environment of the active protein is different from that in the oxidized or unready state.
(12) The nickel centre of hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio gigas was studied by electron spin echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) spectroscopy in the oxidized, unready (Ni-A) and H2-reduced active (Ni-C) states, both in H2O and 2H2O solutions.
(13) He said: "The economic situation has become even more strained and internal factors have been exacerbated by a high level of uncertainty on currency and financial markets, serious capital flight, an unreadiness by investors to take decisions in this acute international situation which has taken shape in the last two months."
(14) Personal unreadiness and treatment program waiting lists were the most frequently reported obstacles to treatment.
(15) The adolescent males reported that initially they either were definitely unready for paternity (75%) or were undecided about readiness for fatherhood (21%).
(16) Hg(II) also inactivated the enzyme irreversible in the 'unready' state without the requirement for reductants.
(17) At pH 6.0 and 2 degrees C reduction of Ni(III) in ready enzyme was completely irreversible, whereas at pH 8.0 and 30 degrees C Ni(III) in both ready and unready enzyme titrated with E0' = -115 mV (n = 1).
(18) Punk came along but, as Cabaret Voltaire found to their cost when supporting the likes of the Buzzcocks, punk audiences were aggressively unready for them.
(19) Several elements combine to change the readiness of a group through four phases - unready, ready, mature, and professional.
(20) Acta 883, 145-154), the C. vinosum enzyme can also exist in two forms: the 'unready' form (EPR characteristics of Ni(III): gx,y,z = 2.32, 2.24, 2.01) and the 'ready' form (EPR characteristics Ni(III): gx,y,z = 2.34, 2.16, 2.01).