(v. t.) Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.
(v. t.) Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
(2) Concern for the future and belief in scientific progress provided the motive for the foundation of the Prize which, in our time, is one of the most coveted of honours.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Video: The many faces of Jürgen Klopp The deal represents a significant coup for FSG, which has convinced the coveted Klopp to abandon his sabbatical from the game after four months despite Liverpool having no Champions League football to offer.
(4) He might not be the hard-drinking rockstar of old but classically-trained pianist James Blake proved that cerebral compositions on a keyboard are no barrier to success after he was crowned winner of the coveted Barclaycard Mercury prize .
(5) It was a hat-trick of sex scandals involving Beckham, Eriksson and David Blunkett that landed the paper the coveted newspaper of the year award at last year's British Press Awards.
(6) Over the years the Oscars have been variously coveted and sneered at, have increasingly brought box-office value and personal prestige, become a media obsession, a gauge of industrial morale and a way of taking the national pulse.
(7) Their titles, like Jesse In Mexico and Hank In Pursuit, point to their primary use as emotional catalysts for the show rather than standalone pieces of music, though diehard fans will likely still covet it alongside their Breaking Bad cufflinks and Converse trainers .
(8) China says it has launched the world’s first quantum satellite, a project Beijing hopes will enable it to build a coveted “hack-proof” communications system with potentially significant military and commercial applications.
(9) Sometimes I wonder if, 20 years hence, we as a society will decide that it doesn't make sense to grant women coveted spots in advanced programmes in business, law, science or medicine.
(10) The coveted stars of modern football do not want to work like that.
(11) Its use of the internet to carry voice calls threatened to undermine the world’s biggest telecoms companies, from AT&T to Vodafone, and made it one of the most coveted up-starts in the tech world.
(12) The most coveted seats line the sidewalk, but the cavernous indoor space, lined with vintage beer posters and well-worn wooden alcoves, is an easy spot to settle in for the long haul.
(13) The Spanish champions are seeking to renegotiate with the much-coveted pair, whose deals include buy-out clauses set at around £43m.
(14) There are no jobs currently in existence that we covet."
(15) In the latest sign that McDonald’s is trying to consolidate its control of the coveted breakfast market, the fast food chain has applied to trademark a new word that could appeal to late morning risers everywhere: “McBrunch.” The application, which the maker of the Egg McMuffin filed on 23 July, signals at the very least an interest in expanding what has been one of the company’s fastest-growing and most profitable day segments.
(16) It is ubiquitous, yet coveted, pricey yet just about affordable.
(17) On the edge of Scholar’s Piece, the strip of farmland just behind King’s College, lies a granite stone which has become arguably Cambridge’s most coveted tourist attraction.
(18) In the movie, Peter Quill forms an uneasy alliance with a group of misfits who are on the run after stealing a coveted orb.
(19) When Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye receives a coveted Human Rights Defenders award in Geneva , his role as a fearless chronicler of his country's US-led drone war will have come full circle.
(20) Arsenal know that the Catalan club already covet two of their key players, the captain, Cesc Fábregas, and the full-back Gaël Clichy, but Arsène Wenger, the manager, has come to view Arshavin's pronouncements in the Russian media with a degree of amusement.
Ogle
Definition:
(v. t.) To view or look at with side glances, as in fondness, or with a design to attract notice.
(n.) An amorous side glance or look.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prism fixation disparity curves were determined in three different experimental situations: the routine method according to Ogle, a method to stimulate the synkinetic convergence (Experiment I, with one fixation point as sole binocular stimulus) and a method to stimulate the fusion mechanism (Experiment II, with random dot stereograms).
(2) The ogl mutation was biochemically characterized and localized near the trp his markers on the E. chrysanthemi chromosomal map.
(3) The suit also accuses Ailes of “ogling” Carlson in his office, making her turn around “so he could view her posterior”.
(4) We used a conventional, Ogle-type, subjective fixation disparity apparatus to measure vergence error at near over a full range of horizontal head-rotation frequencies.
(5) The originality of this apparatus for aniseikonia lies in its use of a battery of Ogle's spatial test stereograms, having incorporated vertical and horizontal magnifications ranging from 0 to 15% by 1% increments.
(6) Pectate lyase, polygalacturonase, and ketodeoxyuronate dehydrogenase were induced in an Ogl- strain by 3-deoxy-D-glycero-2,5-hexodiulosonate and by the enzymatic products of unsaturated digalacturonate but not by the digalacturonates.
(7) Experiment 5: a 40 g OGL was conducted while AP-controlled insulin and glucose infusions were administered to make the plasma insulin level lower than in experiment 2 ('hypoinsulinemia') and to mimic the normoglycemic profile observed in experiment 2, respectively.
(8) "Flaunting one's curves" means, simply, that you have a female body and to have a female body means, obviously, that you want to be ogled and quite possibly more.
(9) Still, she was asked to leave – thanks to a group of ogling dads perched on a balcony above the dance floor.
(10) Ogle proposed two measures of oculomotor balance, called associated and disassociated phorias, which he assumed were equivalent.
(11) It is widely believed that in the postprandial period both insulin and glucose increase GU by increasing the AVGd; however, a role for increments in BF in the disposal and tolerance of an OGL has not been established.
(12) The pattern of infestations of Ixodes dammini on white-tailed deer in Ogle County in Illinois was studied through examinations of hunted deer from 1988 to 1990.
(13) We found proportionately more esophores with exo fixation disparity who require base-in prism to neutralize the fixation disparity than Ogle's studies found.
(14) This approach allowed us to isolate lacZ fusions with the genes pelC, pelD, ogl and pem, encoding pectate lyases PLc and PLd, oligogalacturonate lyase and pectin methylesterase, respectively.
(15) Genetic and physical evidence indicated that the Ogl- mutants and a KduD- recombinant contained a single copy of Tn5 and that Tn5 (Kmr) was linked to the mutant phenotypes.
(16) The nucleotide sequences of the coding and regulatory regions of the genes encoding oligoglacturonate lyase (OGL) and pectate lyase e isoenzyme (PLe) from Erwinia chrysanthemi 3937 were determined.
(17) CRSP is apparently the only important source of tick infestations in Ogle County.
(18) Analysis of Mud(Aplac) insertions, which generate polar mutations, revealed that oligogalacturonate lyase was the only affected enzyme in the pectin catabolic pathway, indicating that the ogl gene probably forms a separate transcriptional unit.
(19) Experiment 2: a 100 g OGL was done and blood glucose was normalized by AP-controlled insulin infusion.
(20) In the Ogl+ parents, basal levels of oligogalacturonate lyase were present in glycerol-grown cells and induced levels were present with saturated or unsaturated digalacturonate, while oligogalacturonate lyase was undetectable under similar conditions in Ogl- strains.