(v. i.) To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain.
(v. i.) To hum or sing in a low tone; to murmur softly.
(v. t.) To sing in a low tone, as if to one's self; to hum.
(v. t.) To soothe by singing softly.
(n.) A low, continued moan; a murmur.
(n.) A low singing; a plain, artless melody.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cue that familiar gloating refrain from Stoke fans when Arsenal are in town: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” they crooned.
(2) "Never gonna say goodbye," he crooned in his surprisingly basso voice - and who knew how right he was.
(3) You're innocently browsing an apparently useful website and see a link to something else that might be of interest, but when you click through to that destination you instead find yourself confronted with Astley's boyish smile , his manly croon, his awkward 1987 dance-moves.
(4) The two meet at the weekend in their world heavyweight title bout in Düsseldorf and Fury may consider himself already ahead on points after crooning: “You are the one with all the glory, I’m the one with all the strength,” to the holder of the IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO belts.
(5) In 2014, he even appeared in a fashion ad himself, crooning seductively to the model Arizona Muse for Louis Vuitton .
(6) Italians were subjected to a media diet of parading models and Berlusconi crooning, with his political opponents sidelined in comparison.
(7) But, of course, that catchy La La Land song City of Stars made the title impossible to read without mentally crooning like Ryan Gosling.
(8) I don't care if we're simply waiting for The X Factor results to see if the nation has finally cauterized the crooning urinary tract infection that is Frankie Cocozza.
(9) Malcolm McDowell lookalike and honey-larynxed frontman Ian croons his way through these late 80's teen time love anthems.
(10) When Jonathon Porritt – official government green adviser – this week left his Whitehall office after nine years trying to crash the gears of the machine of state, his staff of 60 in the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) didn't just say cheerio; they hired an old ship on the Thames, formed a blues band and sang him out to a Muddy Waters tune: For nine long years this green guru reigned Watching over Whitehall, his eye keenly trained Tree-hugger-in-chief or simply JP However you know him you should start to see He's a true ninja of sustainability Porritt stood to one side of the crooning SDC backing singers, delighted but emotional at his send off.
(11) You won’t find any swing or crooning standards here: just Missy, Kanye, Biggie and Foxy, while some rather good MCs-in-training keep pace on the stage.
(12) She'd snarl like an angry Dylan or croon with tenderness, punctuating Lenny Kaye's guitar work with murmured incantations.
(13) His favourite recent film is Lost in Translation, in which Bill Murray shows his own 50-quid tendencies by crooning a karaoke version of the Roxy Music song More Than This.
(14) According to Oliver Alexander, they also sang together: "Both made a foray into the German pop charts in 1974 as "The Kremers", crooning romantically about the 'girl of my dream'."
(15) After rallying for his 21st professional win, Fury wrested the mic from an in-ring interviewer and crooned country singer Ricky Van Shelton’s Keep it Between the Lines to the bewildered New York city crowd.
(16) "It's been a long time coming," a soul singer crooned, "but change is going to come!"
(17) As he has said elsewhere: "For my generation in the 70s, [Hall] was one of the few people of colour we saw on television who wasn't crooning, dancing or running.
(18) As the chancellor huskily crooned national living wage , uncontrollable tidal waves of ecstasy swept through the Tories.
(19) "London is the place for me," he crooned, "London, this lovely city …" He had yet to experience smog-bound austerity Brixton, whose labour exchange was first port of call for many of Kitchener's 500 fellow travellers.
(20) One can't help but walk away from Paisley's crooning "I'm just a white man comin' to you from a south land" and LL's proclamations that "it's real, it's real, it's truth" without feeling they are earnest.
Croton
Definition:
(n.) A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cyclic AMP was more effective in inhibiting tumor development when injected at the same as promotion with croton oil.
(2) The anti-inflammatory activity of three benzo-pyrones with prevalent lipooxigenase-inhibitory activity was studied using the Croton oil ear test in mice, in comparison with nordihydroguaieretic acid (NDGA) and indomethacin.
(3) Assays of steroidal and non-steroidal drugs in an experimental model of dermatitis induced in the ear of the rabbit by the application of a solution of croton oil revealed clearly differentiable inhibitory effects on the rise in skin temperature, the oedema and the increase in tissue mass due to the inflammatory process.
(4) Phospholipid metabolism in inflamed tissue of the mouse skin which had been induced by the application of 1-chloro-2, 4-dinitrobenzene (DNCB), croton oil, or irradiation of ultraviolet rays was examined, and it was found that phospholipid levels had increased in theinflamed tissues.
(5) Lyngbya majuscula and Croton cuneatus were used as prototypes for the dereplication of phorbol ester receptor binding activity using a combination of hplc-uv and online phorbol dibutyrate (PDBu) receptor binding and batch fractionation over either Si gel or diolbonded Si gel.
(6) Experiments carried out with mice of CFLP strain have shown that antihistaminics (chloropyramine, cyproheptadine and dimethindene maleate) significantly inhibit the extents of ear oedema induced by croton oil, dithranol or capsaicin.
(7) B given locally also produced stronger antiinflammatory effects than BV on carrageenin edema, cotton pellet granuloma, croton oil edema and contact hypersensitivity.
(8) Polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride surfaces were grafted with crotonic acid and characterized with ESCA.
(9) A series of 9 alpha-halo-12 beta-hydroxy and 12 beta-acyloxy analogues of betamethasone 17,21-dipropionate were synthesized and tested for topical antiinflammatory potency in the croton oil ear assay.
(10) Parathyroid hormone fragment 1-34 significantly reduced the increase in vascular permeability produced in mice by local croton oil injection, as well as the serotonin-induced paw edema in the rat.
(11) Cyclosporine had no effect on the toxic contact reaction in normal animals either to croton oil or to DNCB in high concentration.
(12) Aloe vera preparations were evaluated for topical anti-inflammatory activity using the croton oil-induced edema assay.
(13) These findings suggest that tumor promoters of the phorbol ester type, ingested through the widespread and frequent use of Croton flavens according to local habits, may be causally related to the well recognized high rate of esophageal cancer on Curaçao.
(14) The phlogistic response elicited by a single topical application of croton oil (1, 2, 5 and 10%) was increased in a dose-dependent manner, and croton oil, 5%, induced 63.2% increase of ear weight and was the optimal concentration for the experiment.
(15) A 5-lipoxygenase inhibitor (5-LPI) and a platelet-activating factor antagonist (PAF-A) were studied in dinitrofluorobenzene (DNFB)-induced allergic and croton-oil-induced irritant murine contact dermatitis.
(16) The inflammatory exudate, collected on 6th day after croton oil administration, was found to be substantially less in intracerebroventricular (icv) cannulated and artificial cerebrospinal fluid administered rats as compared to their uncannulated saline (ip) administered counterparts.
(17) Mouse skin initiated with 7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene and then exposed to multiple treatments of acetic acid, shows a decreased papilloma yield on subsequent promotion with croton oil.
(18) The crude protein from both seeds and peaks I and II from Croton and peak I from Jatropha were toxic to mice, to different extents.
(19) In an indirect assay the corresponding acids were also found to be substrates; however, DL-lactate, DL-2-hydroxybutyrate, DL-3-hydroxybutyrate, crotonate, and various dicarboxylates were not.
(20) The patterns could be divided into papular (hydrochloric acid, croton oil) and non-papular (sodium lauryl sulphate, sapo kalinus, sodium hydroxide) types.