(a.) Coarsely ground or broken; as, cracked wheat.
(a.) Crack-brained.
Example Sentences:
(1) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
(2) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
(3) However, we have observed cracks on the Dacron fibers, fiber fracture, fiber protrusion, and poor attachment to the diaphragm, which can cause potentially disastrous complications.
(4) But instead, he is going to crack under public anger over the huge amounts senior bankers have been paying themselves.
(5) It is found that, in contrast to most metallic materials yet in keeping with many ceramics, there are no distinct fracture morphologies in pyro-carbons which are characteristic of a specific mode of loading; fracture surfaces appear to be identical for both catastrophic and subcritical crack growth under either sustained or cyclic loading.
(6) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
(7) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(8) On second impacts, the GSI rose considerably because the shell and liner of the DH-151 cracked and the suspension of the "141" stretched during the first blow.
(9) 9.18pm: The Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich has a crack, and he's taking no prisoners: "We've heard Mr Toyoda say that Toyota grew to fast.
(10) Here come the Dodgers for another crack at it in the second.
(11) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
(12) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
(13) SEM of the resulting surface showed rounded fragments of enamel rods, enamel melting, cracks, and smooth-edged voids.
(14) According to the NYPD commissioner, Bill Bratton, whose voice almost cracked with emotion as he addressed the media on Saturday evening , the “digital warning poster” featuring a picture of Brinsley and his whereabouts arrived at the data centre at 2.47pm.
(15) As subcritical crack velocities under cyclic loading were found to be many orders of magnitude faster than those measured under equivalent monotonic loads and to occur at typically 45% lower stress-intensity levels, cyclic fatigue in pyrolytic carbon-coated graphite is reasoned to be a vital consideration in the design and life-prediction procedures of prosthetic devices manufactured from this material.
(16) It is hence impossible to wiretap, intercept or crack the information transmitted through it,” Xinhua reported after Tuesday’s launch.
(17) He just never dreamed it would be life without parole.” Obama reduces sentences of 46 inmates convicted of nonviolent drug crimes Read more As his sister put it, Bennett “got caught up” in a five-man drug ring run by an old friend, John Hansley, to pay for his addiction to crack.
(18) Spencer has now heard that Andy, who got the boat remember, has been cracking on to Louise, even though Jamie warned him it would be like jumping into a polar bear's nest.
(19) "I urge both the monks and the lay Tibetans of the area not to do anything that might be used as a pretext by the local authorities to massively crack down on them.
(20) Of 26 patients treated to date, 16 have been crack cocaine users.
Dissonant
Definition:
(a.) Sounding harshly; discordant; unharmonious.
(a.) Disagreeing; incongruous; discrepant, -- with from or to.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
(2) A former ministerial colleague of Iain Duncan Smith once put it to me that he was a striking example of cognitive dissonance: that is, of holding two or more contradictory beliefs in his head at any given moment.
(3) The paper proposes that in post-behaviouristic and post-phenomenological times an integration of frames of reference, designs and methodologies ought to be attempted, notwithstanding serious dissonances, disagreements, and professions-bound interests.
(4) The effects of exposure to racially dissonant residential environments on depressive psychopathology are explored.
(5) So you’re left with a problem that is one of the most widely studied concepts in social psychology - cognitive dissonance .
(6) An adequate interpretation of the findings required an integration of Festinger's (1954, 1957) social comparisons and cognitive-dissonance theories, Cooley's (1902) notions of reflected appraisal, and Newman and Newman's (1976) extrapolations from ego-identity theory.
(7) This dissonance should be explored, as effect of zero g might be different on blood flow in vivo and in vitro.
(8) When an individual acts contrary to personal values, then there is dissonance, with consequences of guilt, anxiety, despair, or alienation.
(9) The result is a weird kind of dissonance: blogs and op-ed pieces written in London salivate over "the most important byelection in 30 years" and claim – with some justification – that its outcome will have profound consequences for the two coalition parties, while most locals view it all with a sullen detachment.
(10) Dissonant stimuli are detectable at the cortical level in man (Finkenzeller, Keidel).
(11) Smokers may experience cognitive dissonance as a result of using tobacco despite its well-publicised ill-effects, and it may be that interventions targeting rationalisations for smoking will be useful in smoking cessation.
(12) Study 3 concerned the effects of laterally presented sound on scanning spatially consonant or dissonant vertical bars.
(13) I think a lot of people might think his work is stridently dissonant or painful on the ears.
(14) Nicholas Brady's text updated the science a bit, and Purcell created some gloriously crunchy dissonances resolving to broad, bright harmony as he praised Cecilia, the embodiment of music, and her role in creating cosmic harmony out of atomic chaos: "Soul of the World!
(15) Perhaps Jones indicated an unease with the sometimes abrasively dissonant music of the later Coltrane bands that preceded the Ali signing, because his own subsequent groups - following a brief stint with Duke Ellington for a European tour - leaned much closer toward a relaxed and accessible hard bop.
(16) We have a lot of green blind spots – moments where acute cognitive dissonance consolidates rather than changing a rather unsustainable behaviour.
(17) The continuing dissonance inside the educational environment and between education and clinical practice are proposed as contributory factors in the processes that can lead to student frustration and disenchantment.
(18) It is a tensile, highly dissonant combination of lines, etched in primary colours, with absolutely no harmonic or colouristic padding to ingratiate the listener.
(19) It's not like listening to feedback, and it's not dissonant.
(20) A prevention technique based on cognitive dissonance theory proposes verbal inoculations to establish or strengthen beliefs and attitudes, helping a young person to resist drinking, which may be in conflict with another, more desirable goal.