(v. i.) To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
(v. i.) To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.
(v. t.) To lament; to bewail.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the ketamine group, 36% of the patients complained of unpleasant dreams.
(2) Sewel is also recorded complaining about the level of appearance allowances at the House of Lords .
(3) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
(4) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(5) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(6) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(7) The degree of discomfort was slightly greater in women who complained of breast tenderness within three days prior to the mammogram but was not strongly related to age, menstrual status, or week of the menstrual cycle.
(8) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
(9) TGI was present in high titres in all five patients who complained about recurrent goitre.
(10) Hyperprolactinemia, hypogonadotropinism, and subnormal plasma testosterone were found in a 65-year-old patient who had an enlarged sella turcica, complained of fatigue, and addmitted to decreased sexual interest and potency.
(11) Fairly frequently the patients complained about mucosal dryness and sporadically about dyspeptic symptoms, but these symptoms were not disturbing the course of the treatment.
(12) A forty-four-year-old woman with Takayasu's arteritis and involvement of the aortic arch and its main branches complained of precordial pain on effort.
(13) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
(14) That was what the earlier debate over “currency wars” – when emerging markets complained about being inundated by financial inflows from the US – was all about.
(15) These results are likely to underestimate the true number of complaints because participants may be withdrawn (e.g., deaths, losses to follow-up, and refusals) before they ever complain of an adverse effect.
(16) Hysterography and hysteroscopy have been compared in the diagnosis of endouterine benign pathology, in a group of 50 patients, complaining meno-metrorrhagia, sterility, infertility or amenorrhea.
(17) A 55-year-old Japanese man was admitted to our hospital in January 1985 complaining of epigastralgia.
(18) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(19) The force said reports from its directorate of professional standards (DPS) were not routinely disclosed to complainants or outsiders.
(20) Although 41% of the participants complained of dry mouth, neither serious adverse effects nor evidence of medication abuse appeared.
Nark
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Our clone also contained a previously unidentified gene, which we propose to designate as narX, as well as a portion of narK.
(2) The phosphorylation of phosphoinositides in the acetylcholine receptor (AChR)-rich membranes from the electroplax of the electric fish Narke japonica has been examined.
(3) A narK deletion mutant, under conditions for the induction of nitrate respiration, was unable to perform nitrate transport.
(4) Loss of transport activity was recovered by transforming the mutant with a narK+ plasmid.
(5) We have isolated a tyrosine-specific protein kinase from the acetylcholine receptor (AChR)-rich membranes of the electric ray Narke japonica.
(6) We could not find the active (Na,K)-ATPase lacking glycoprotein subunit for the enzymes from three different sources (outer medulla of dog kidney, electric organs of Narke japonica and larvae of Artemia salina).
(7) Primer extension analysis identified several transcripts for the narK gene expressed from plasmids.
(8) IHF and Fis proteins are also required for full activation of narK expression, and their roles in DNA bending are discussed.
(9) Unlike the narGHJI operon, the 5' untranslated region of the narK gene contains two putative Fnr-binding-site sequences and two putative NarL-binding-site sequences.
(10) The asymmetric forms of acetylcholinesterase were purified from the electric organs of the electric rays Narke japonica and Torpedo californica, and their properties were compared.
(11) The vast majority [of businesses] are doing the right thing and, frankly, they are as narked as we are about the fact there are some people and businesses who are not doing the right thing.
(12) A Cl- channel in electric organs of Narke japonica was reconfirmed, using a polyclonal antibody, to be a 180k protein composed of two identical 90k units.
(13) Finally, the availability of molybdate and iron ions is necessary for optimal narK expression, whereas the availability of nitrite is not.
(14) The ORFA-narZ intergenic region, however, is about 80 nucleotides long and does not contain the cis-acting elements, NarL and Fnr boxes, nor the terC4 terminator sequence present in the 500 nucleotide narK-narG intergenic region.
(15) A phi (narK-lacZ) operon fusion was induced by nitrate, and its expression was fully dependent on narL+ and fnr+.
(16) Cripps was merely a temporary repository for a public narked off with all politicians: Clegg will have to show that he is more than that if he really is going to rival Churchill.
(17) Although the specific activities of nitrate reductase and nitrite reductase were similar in the two strains, the parental strain accumulated nitrite in the medium in almost stoichiometric amounts before it was further reduced, while the narK mutant did not accumulate nitrite in the medium but apparently reduced it as rapidly as it was formed.
(18) Acetylcholine receptor from Narke japonica electroplax exhibits a fluorescence change upon binding of snake neurotoxins.
(19) The effect of both acetylcholine (ACh) and pancreozymin (CCK-Pz) on the pancreas in vivo as well as in vitro was to reduce both the acinar cell membrane potential and the input resistance narkedly.
(20) Although the role of the narK gene product in cell metabolism remains uncertain, the pattern of narK gene expression is consistent with a proposed role of NarK in nitrate uptake by the cell for nitrate-linked electron transport.