(n.) A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.
(n.) A mark of reference in the form of a dagger [/]. It is the second in order when more than one reference occurs on a page; -- called also obelisk.
(v. t.) To pierce with a dagger; to stab.
(n.) A timber placed diagonally in a ship's frame.
Example Sentences:
(1) His children will get used to a father who wears pants, without a dagger, and who does not pick out their nits in public.
(2) Fear of the war between Blairites and Brownites breaking into open riot led to cabinet paralysis, while leadership ambitions warned that he who wields the dagger never wears the crown.
(3) Some daggers have already been drawn – François Rebsamen , said the revelations showed the entire idea of "première dame", was obsolete, adding that scrapping of the office of the first lady would be progress for democracy.
(4) Ennis had hit a jumper just moments before that cut the Flyers' lead down to one and, as everyone on both sides certainly remembered, hit a dagger of a game-winner against Pittsburgh just last month .
(5) The magnificent bronze Beaune Dirk is a princely dagger, but could not have been intended for practical use: the blade was never sharpened, nor the end drilled to attach a wooden hilt.
(6) Joey's slap in the face to his parents is certainly transgressive, "a stunning act of sedition and a dagger to Patty's heart".
(7) Zhang, who directed House of Flying Daggers and Hero, admitted on Sunday to having had three children with his wife.
(8) The pressure dependence of these coefficients shows that the volume of the system decreases upon complex formation and that there is an expansion upon formation of the activated complex (DeltaVdouble dagger is positive).
(9) From the values of the slopes of the Arrhenius plots, the energy of activation (E(a)) for each isoenzyme and isoenzyme variant was determined, and the following thermodynamic activation parameters were calculated at 55 degrees C: the free energy of activation (DeltaG(double dagger)), the activation enthalpy (DeltaH(double dagger)) and the activation entropy (DeltaS(double dagger)).
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shakespeare Solos: Daniel Mays as Macbeth – ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me?’ “All those shows definitely have a place, but there are a lot of public school actors and writers about at the moment.
(11) Last year she narrowly escaped with her life when a female assassin tried to stab her with a traditional dagger known as a jambiya.
(12) They ranged from tiny dagger size to elaborate, candelabra-esque weapons with multiple ports.
(13) It’s time to wind down cloak-and-dagger efforts to undermine the Cuban regime and try a new approach, the pundits now suggest , presumably as incentive for the Cuban government to loosen its grip on its people.
(14) He's part of a Brooklyn film-making collective, Waverley (heraldic crest: dagger, beer, skull and crossbones, neon green background), with whom he has made shorts and TV shows.
(15) This month the Dagger Awards, run by the Crime Writers Association, celebrated the work of two French writers at its gala awards event.
(16) Both subject groups have difficulties in retrieving words that specify a property relationship to a late acquired stimulus word, as in 'desert-sand', while words that specify an 'is a' relationship with the stimulus word, as in 'dagger-knife', are easily retrieved.
(17) The blade of this dagger can be fixed at right angles to the knife-handle, ready for use just as an "American San Francisco Push-Dagger" or an Indian "katar", obviously very dangerous weapons.
(18) I just wait until I’ve got a character and I think, why would anybody do that, what is it in their background, what is it in their lives makes them do it?” Rendell won prizes including the Crime Writers’ Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for “sustained excellence in crime writing”, and, as a Labour life peer, helped pass a law preventing girls being sent abroad for female genital mutilation.
(19) • This article was amended on 10 February 2016 to clarify ownership of Lawrence’s dagger and robes.
(20) He points out his primary school, his father's church, the house where he was brought up, the hospice where he and Sarah worked unpublicised in the summer of 2009, when the country was in recession and would-be assassins in the Labour party were agonising about whether to unsheathe their daggers.
Popper
Definition:
(n.) A utensil for popping corn, usually a wire basket with a long handle.
(n.) A dagger.
Example Sentences:
(1) This article investigates this question by examining the views of the logical positivists, Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos, and concludes that the practice of science and psychotherapy involves metaphysics in (a) problem choice, (b) research and therapy design, (c) observation statements, (d) resolving the Duhemian problem, and (e) modifying hypotheses to encompass anomalous results.
(2) A report by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in 2011 noted that poppers did not produce “harmful effects sufficient to constitute a societal problem” and therefore should not be banned, a conclusion that was agreed with by the home affairs select committee .
(3) During his stay at the University of Prague, he was influenced by the famous people of his time, such as Einstein (physicist), Mach (physicist and psychophysicist), Lorenz (behavioral scientist), Popper (philosopher), Schlick (physicist and philosopher), Hering (physiologist), and others.
(4) Poppers users beware, a draconian and discriminatory law is on its way | Chris Ashford Read more Amid controversy and impassioned debate, the psychoactive substances bill passed its final stages in parliament this week and is expected to be signed into law by the Queen in April.
(5) And I was astonished to find that it’s proposed they be banned and, frankly, so were very many gay men.” As grateful as Addy was for Blunt’s intervention, he does not want poppers exempted from the bill.
(6) The psychotherapeutic implications of Husserl's method of inquiry are examined within the epistemological framework of Kuhn, Piaget, and Popper, which provides a model for both psychopathology and change in psychotherapy.
(7) The discussion of one classical (Popper) and one recent (Grünbaum) critique of psychoanalysis shows that the arguments are still broadly determined by Freuds own philosophical prejudice.
(8) They took three groups of children: one where the tonsils have been removed with both of the guillotines, then a group where only a Sluder was used, and the third group where only the Popper was used.
(9) It is seen as a safe product and we’ve already been selling it for 30 years, so surely the correct way to deal with it is to allow us to continue selling it until the review is published,” says Adams, who asks why the government took no time to examine poppers before passing the bill.
(10) His bedside drawer probably opens with the clink that characterises so many similar drawers belonging to gay men, as bottles of poppers nestle among the lube, condoms and a half-read Alan Hollinghurst novel.
(11) But philosophy is embroiled in the "Science Wars", where Popper's faith in progress by conjecture and refutation has been demonstrated by Thomas Kuhn to be naive in explaining why science undergoes revolutions - why theories persist when confronted by overwhelming contradictory evidence, and yet suddenly or prematurely collapse in the face of other, as yet untested, hypotheses.
(12) During the bill’s final stage in parliament, the Shadow Home Secretary, Andy Burnham, asked for an amendment that would have exempted poppers from the bill.
(13) A jury came back and decided [poppers] weren’t harmful.
(14) From the clinical point of view, the classification of drug-induced liver damage into predictable, unpredictable and simulated, has proved useful (Popper and Greim 1973).
(15) Buying sex is not an offence, the men were consenting adults, there was no use of cocaine and poppers are legal.
(16) Yorkshire is the poppers capital of Europe, with the largest and second largest manufacturers based in Huddersfield and Leeds respectively.
(17) A study in the Lancet, published in 2014, also claimed to have established a “clear cause–effect relationship” between the use of poppers and eyesight damage since the product’s main ingredient isobutyl nitrite was substituted for isopropyl nitrite following changes to legislation in 2006.
(18) Weed, ecstasy, speed, coke, acid, poppers, mushrooms, DMT and ketamine were all fine.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Conservative MP says he uses poppers in bid to prevent ban on psychoactive substances “The ACMD’s consensus view is that a psychoactive substance has a direct action on the brain and that substances having peripheral effects, such as those caused by alkyl nitrites, do not directly stimulate or depress the central nervous system.” The home secretary’s official advisers say that poppers, which have been widely used as recreational drugs since the 1970s, are “not seen to be capable of having ‘harmful effects sufficient to constitute a social problem’.” They say concerns about impaired sight and risks of lower blood pressure are rare but should be carefully monitored.
(20) We have examined the abuse patterns of nitrite inhalants (poppers) in several different groups.