(v. i.) To act foolishly; to be foolish or sportive; to toy.
(v. t.) To daunt.
Example Sentences:
(1) This bomb hit Daff al-Shouk square, where families were celebrating Eid, on the southern outskirts of the capital.
Raff
Definition:
(v. t.) To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep.
(n.) A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse.
(n.) The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff.
(n.) A low fellow; a churl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whole-cells and single-channel patch-clamp techniques were used to study these cell types in postnatal rat optic nerve cultures prepared according to the procedures of Raff et al.
(2) Mixed astrocyte-oligodendroglial clones were observed when cells cultivated in the presence of 1% FCS were switched to a 10% FCS-containing medium, confirming the bipotentiality of glial progenitor cells (Temple and Raff Nature 313:223, 1985).
(3) This study compared 30 patients with major head and neck cancer-related defects who underwent reconstruction with a rectus abdominis free flap (RAFF) with 39 patients with similar defects who underwent reconstruction with the PMMF.
(4) After facing significant backlash against the post on Twitter, Keller appended an apology for his use of the term “riff-raff”, writing that the word choice was “insensitive and counterproductive”.
(5) The US Bureau of Reclamation , for example, manages 337 reservoirs, and a science advisor to the agency, Dave Raff, says the bureau is taking on the emissions accounting task.
(6) S phase can be inhibited in wild-type Drosophila embryos by injecting aphidicolin, in which case not only do centrosomes replicate, but chromosomes continue to condense and decondense, the nuclear envelope undergoes cycles of breakdown and reformation, and cycles of budding activity continue at the cortex of the embryo (Raff and Glover, 1988).
(7) These results are consistent with studies using ferritin-labeled antibodies (S. De Petris and M. Raff.
(8) Watanabe and Raff (Nature 332:834-837, '88) have recently reported an independent study supporting the same conclusions.
(9) Shivaun Raff, co-founder of the UK vertical search company Foundem – one of the original complainants to the EC in spring 2010, after alleging that the US company was artificially demoting it in search results – said: "The only foolproof way to tackle abusive practices is to end them.
(10) For more extensive reviews on this topic, the reader is referred to recent reviews by Raff (1989), Richardson et al.
(11) At the same time, we saw how the pro-government press tried to turn our legitimate, peaceful protests into acts of terrorism.” Just as Erdoğan branded the protesters two years ago “riff-raff”, “terrorists” and “foreign agents”, in the election campaign he stoked division and malice by repeatedly smearing his HDP opponents as “terrorists, marginals, gays and atheists”.
(12) Victoria Raffe, director of authorisations at the FCA, said: “These firms are advising consumers who have often reached rock bottom, so it’s important that firms get it right.
(13) The aesthetic outcome was also better in patients who had reconstructions with the RAFF.
(14) Ralf Marschner, an avowed neo-Nazi and a former singer in a skinhead band called West-Saxon Riff-Raff, was a paid informant for the BfV between 2000 and 2002.
(15) We conclude that, for most major head and neck defects, reconstruction methods that utilize the RAFF and other free tissue transfer techniques are preferable when the requisite equipment and expertise are available.
(16) Riff Raff If you’re a fan of Jenga but feel the need for a stiffer challenge, Riff Raff might be for you.
(17) Shivaun Raff of Foundem, the British search company, was one of the first to complain to the commission about what she says was Google's manipulation of search results to reduce her site's visibility.
(18) Raff insisted that Google is leveraging its power in search to boost the position of its other properties, such as maps and video, which would constitute a potentially illegal abuse of dominance in one field to gain share in another.
(19) Foundem's Shivaun Raff explains: "We sent reconsideration requests then started sending emails to as many people as we could find, expecting each time that this was just a failure of process, expecting that once our case was in front of people with the power to do something it would get fixed."
(20) "We're very pleased the commission has taken this important step, but we're not surprised," said Shivaun Raff, chief executive of Bracknell-based Foundem.