(v. t.) To guide and manage, or restrain, as with a curb; to bend to one's will; to subject; to subdue; to restrain; to confine; to keep in check.
(v. t.) To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
(v. i.) To bend; to crouch; to cringe.
(n.) That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse.
(n.) An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the integrity of that opening; also, a ring of stone serving a similar purpose, as at the eye of a dome.
(n.) A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.
(n.) A curbstone.
(n.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Preemployment screening methods have been ineffective in predicting those at risk, and in curbing the impact of back problems in industry.
(2) Nick Nuttall, a spokesman for UNEP, said the latest findings should encourage more governments to follow moves by some politicians to invest billions of dollars in clean energy and efficiency as a way of curbing greenhouse gases.
(3) "I want to talk about Curb Your Enthusiasm instead, and the paintings of Chagall, the music of Amy Winehouse and Woody Allen films."
(4) If all households curbed their expenditures, total consumption would fall, and so, too, would demand for labour.
(5) But Frank argues the disastrous attempt at curbing markets through currency reform in 2009 has shown the cost of turning back from change.
(6) Most of the world's leading economies have set out pledges to curb their emissions, but these pledges fall far short of the action the IPCC has said is needed.
(7) Iran has vowed to retaliate against the ISA extension, passed unanimously on Thursday, saying it violated last year’s agreement with six major powers to curb its nuclear programme in return for lifting of international financial sanctions.
(8) The two men appear to be discussing Tusk's fallout with Cameron over the latter's proposals to curb access to benefits: "What the fuck are they on about with these benefits?"
(9) The debut of the film – before an audience of business journalists, film critics and a smattering of Wonga customers – comes before a grilling by MPs in Westminster on Tuesday as calls grow for tighter curbs on payday lenders.
(10) Even before the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had put climate change on the international political map with a landmark speech in 1988, the company was doing ground-breaking work into photovoltaic solar panels, wave power and domestic energy efficiency as part of a wider drive to understand how greenhouse gas emissions could be curbed.
(11) More than 30 state and city legislatures, from Hawaii to New York, have discussed or proposed curbs on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) ranging from bans in schools to cuts in portion sizes and a sales tax.
(12) Also in the Lords amongst the phalanx of red leather benches is a solitary seat curbed by an armrest provided for a perpetually drunken Lord (hence the saying?)
(13) Curb them, now | Owen Jones Read more The inquiry followed findings by the education charity the Sutton Trust in 2016, which showed that the UK’s most high-profile jobs – from the entertainment industry to politics and journalism – were disproportionately populated by alumni of private schools and Oxbridge .
(14) He said the use of “overwhelming force” he witnessed was counterproductive and at odds with a new approach to policing football fans that had largely succeeded in curbing violence.
(15) The factors responsible for curbing the infection have not yet been specifically defined.
(16) An equimolar mixture of D-glucose and 3-OMG (5.55 mM each) was more effective than 11.1 mM D-glucose or 3-OMG alone in curbing hexose transport or reversing hexose starvation induced increases in transport.
(17) In Brusselson Tuesday, there was talk of imposing restrictions on capital movements from Russia and of curbs on exports of defence and energy technology.
(18) Opponents of action to curb climate change have cited the pause as a reason to reject urgent cuts in carbon emissions.
(19) A system of identity checks for all, including British citizens, would have to be introduced to enforce the government's moves to curb access for illegal migrants to privately rented housing and to tackle alleged health tourists, leading immigration lawyers have told the home secretary.
(20) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
Curr
Definition:
(v. i.) To coo.
Example Sentences:
(1) (c) the NH2NH2-induced transformation S0----'S-2' [Renger, Messinger and Hanssum (1990) in: Curr.'
(2) Pamela Curr, campaign coordinator for the asylum seeker resources centre, said the Shev scheme would create extra processing work unnecessarily.
(3) The theory of dual radiation action (A. M. Kellerer and H. H. Rossi, Curr.
(4) Confirming the previous report by Machicao and Wieland [(1985) Curr.
(5) It has been proposed that regulatory multienzyme complex formation between yeast ornithine transcarbamoylase (OTCase) and arginase is triggered by a conformational change promoted by the binding of ornithine to a regulatory site in OTCase (Wiame, J.-M. (1971) Curr.
(6) (1978) 25, 923; McGrath and Weissman, Cell (1979) 17, 65; Weissman and McGrath, Curr.
(7) A theoretical relative biologic effectiveness, based upon the dual radiation action model of Kellerer and Rossi [Curr.
(8) U.S.A. 82, 4578-4581; Hohman, R. J., Veron, M., & Guitton, M. C. (1985) Curr.
(9) Curr said she had heard from staff that the refugee applications had been processed, but the decisions were yet to be conveyed to people because of the lack of accommodation on the island.
(10) The CDC25 Start gene whose product appears to be required for traversing the Go phase of the cell cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has been previously cloned (J. Daniel and G. Simchen (1986), Curr Genet 10:643-646).
(11) Instead they’re being left languishing in an environment that is clearly unsafe for women and children.” Pamela Curr, a refugee rights advocate from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, said the move from heavy security to an open policy was probably related to the pending high court hearings.
(12) 265 (1990) 10857-10864; Schweingruber et al., Curr.
(13) Pamela Curr, from Australian Women in Support of Women on Nauru, which recently released their own report into the treatment of women on the island, said the situation was so dire “only a royal commission could get to the bottom of the systemic abuse experienced by women, children and men in these camps”.
(14) By expressing the ceuIR gene in the Escherichia coli vectors pKK233-2 and pTRC-99A, we recently demonstrated that the endonuclease is highly toxic to E. coli [Gauthier et al., Curr.
(15) The sites of linkage investigated in this study with respect to their transcriptional activities were those previously cloned and sequenced (W. Doerfler, R. Gahlmann, S. Stabel, R. Deuring, U. Lichtenberg, M. Schulz, D. Eick, and R. Leisten, Curr.
(16) To assess the superiority of indirect calorimetry (IC)-based enteral nutrition in burned patients, 49 adults with mean burns of 47% TBSA received feedings based either on the Curreri formula (CURR), or on IC, using enteral formulas with nonprotein calorie:nitrogen ratios of either 86:1, or 125:1.
(17) Under the current system there’s nothing to stop people going out in the regions and working,” Curr told Guardian Australia.
(18) ADK1 was found to be identical to an adenylate kinase gene recently isolated by an approach entirely different from ours (Magdolen, V., Oechsner, U., and Bandlow, W. (1987) Curr.
(19) Curr stressed the danger of violence aimed at unaccompanied women on Nauru after numerous allegations , including some of sexual assault.
(20) The rationale for determining these limits is developed from both a simple kinetic model and from a linear nonequilibrium thermodynamic treatment of coupled fluxes, using the mechanistic approach [Westerhoff, H. V. & van Dam, K. (1979) Curr.