(v. i.) To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
(v. i.) To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.
(v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.
(v. t.) To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.
(v. t.) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
(v. t.) To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.
(v. t.) to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
(v. i.) A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
(v. i.) Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.
(v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.
(v. i.) Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
(v. i.) Importunate supplication.
(v. i.) Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.
(v. i.) Common report; fame.
(v. i.) A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.
(v. i.) A pack of hounds.
(v. i.) A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.
(v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.
Example Sentences:
(1) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(2) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(3) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
(4) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
(5) Postoperatively, an independent observer assessed conscious level, crying, posture and facial expression using a simple numerical scoring system, and also recorded heart and respiratory rates over a 2-h period.
(6) Antibodies with the CRI can be isolated by isoelectric focusing from selected mice that have produced a high concentration of the CRI.
(7) My mother told me not to cry.” He has since witnessed the transformation of Hagere Selam.
(8) Three infants reached pulse pressure values less than 1% of control when cries were sustained for nine cardiac cycles.
(9) One is to shoot them in the head and cry about the bloody aftermath.
(10) When the CTL nonresponder adult mice received CRI producer B lymphocytes, the nonresponder phenotype was not changed into the responder phenotype.
(11) At one point, shortly after Suárez had given them a 3-0 lead, a loud cry had gone up from the Liverpool end of "We're going to win the league".
(12) He made me laugh and cry, and his courage in writing about what he was going through was sometimes quite overwhelming.
(13) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
(14) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
(15) He'd thought: I can't ring, 'cos Harry's probably crying, and I can't quite deal with him crying on the phone."
(16) Studies of the stability of P1 plasmid in a P1 cry Escherichia coli lysogen have suggested a model for equipartition of plasmid copies.
(17) Kester said her daughter came and cried in her lap.
(18) With the Tories enjoying a persistent lead in the polls, the prime minister launched Labour's "Blair-plus" manifesto with a rallying cry to the party.
(19) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(20) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
Weet
Definition:
(a. & n.) Wet.
(v. i.) To know; to wit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Akers also spoke of the progress of the Weeting phone-hacking inquiry, agreeing with the characterisation put to her by Robert Jay QC, counsel to the inquiry, that she was "closer to the finishing line than the starting gun".
(2) Most of the evidence that officers of the Yard's Operation Weeting are studying deals with the News of the World's activity during 2005 and 2006, by which time Brooks had left the paper to edit the Sun.
(3) The arrests represent the third alleged phone hacking conspiracy identified by Scotland Yard since Operation Weeting began in 2010.
(4) A similar review by Durham Police was carried out into the phone hacking investigation, Operation Weeting, which identified a lack of coordination in the way victims were being approached and spoken to.
(5) "The arrests were made at approximately 0600 hours by officers from Operation Elveden which is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and is being run in conjunction with Operation Weeting, the MPS inquiry into the phone-hacking of voicemail boxes.
(6) The police argued in court that, although there had been some failures, Operation Weeting had provided an adequate remedy and there was no case for a judicial review.
(7) Akers also said there were a total of 6,349 potential victims in various evidence collated by the Weeting team, although only a small proportion of these could be identified as likely phone-hacking victims.
(8) Operation Weeting, they say, is specific to the activities of disgraced private investigator Glenn Mulcaire and his attempts to access voicemail messages, and therefore a new inquiry may be required.
(9) He is the sixth person to be arrested by the Weeting team.
(10) Operation Weeting, which is responsible for Tuesday's arrests, is the third investigation into hacking run by Scotland Yard.
(11) This step came after executives who had joined NI more recently discovered its existence and sent it to the Operation Weeting team investigating News of the World phone hacking.
(12) Operation Elveden, which runs alongside the Met's Operation Weeting team, was launched as the phone-hacking scandal deepened last July.
(13) Foskett explained that he was reversing the earlier refusal to allow the claimants to pursue a judicial review because the fresh police investigation into the scandal, Operation Weeting, had produced significant new evidence to support their claims.
(14) In July this year, deputy assistant commissioner Sue Akers, the senior detective in charge of the Operating Weeting inquiry into phone hacking said there were just under 4,000 victims identified at that time by officers.
(15) It is running in parallel with the Met's phone-hacking investigation, Operation Weeting.
(16) Operation Weeting is focused on the activities of Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator jailed for hacking voicemail in January 2007.
(17) In lumbar case a two ways procedure in 3 weetes space permitted complete removal, a monoparesia and sphincters troubles, regressive spontaneously in 5 months, complicated first performed laminectomy.
(18) The four were all arrested by detectives from Scotland Yard's Operation Weeting inquiry into alleged phone-hacking.
(19) Morgan was interviewed under caution in December 2013 officers working on Operation Weeting.
(20) The Metropolitan police confirmed on Friday: “On 23 July following an investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World, detectives from Op Weeting submitted a file to the CPS for their consideration.” The CPS did not specify under which law it would consider charges.