(a.) Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.
(a.) Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
(a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
(a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.
(n.) Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
(n.) The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
(n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.
(v. t.) To darken to obscure.
Example Sentences:
(1) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(2) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
(3) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
(4) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
(5) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
(6) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(7) We were searching for spontaneous and positional nystagmus in 5 positions with open eyes in darkness and with closed eyes.
(8) Previous FTIR measurements have identified several tyrosine residues that change their absorption characteristics between light-adapted BR and dark-adapted BR, or between intermediates K and M [Dollinger, G., Eisenstein, L., Lin, S.-L., Nakanishi, K., Odashima, K., & Termini, J.
(9) Steady state levels of chloroplast mRNA encoding the core PSII polypeptides remain nearly constant in the light or the dark and are not affected by the developmental stage of the plastid.
(10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(11) The results indicate that CRALBP X 11-cis-retinol is sufficiently stereoselective in its binding properties to warrant consideration as a component of the mechanism for the generation of 11-cis-retinaldehyde in the dark.
(12) Although the Ca2+-independent mechanism accounts for about two thirds of the total acetylcholine release in the dark, the amount of acetylcholine released in this way is small compared with the release of acetylcholine triggered by stimulation of the retina with light.
(13) The extracellular concentration of GABA is probably high in prolonged darkness, and it is low after prolonged light exposure.
(14) In lettuce, the presence of 2,4-D in the light lowered the concentration of total Hg (or MeHg) required to reduce growth by 50%, about 13 times relative to that in the dark (i.e., it sensitized the cells).
(15) This suggests that many retinal ganglion cells continue to discharge in total darkness for long periods.
(16) In darkness, raising the concentration of K in the fluid of perfusion gives an increase of the efflux of (86)Rb and increasing the extracellular concentration of Ca yields a retention.
(17) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
(18) One elderly woman was left alone in the dark for hours unable to find food or drink.
(19) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
(20) It was observed that the circadian rhythm was disrupted by injections of lithium at the beginning of the light as well as the dark phase of the LD cycle.
Wark
Definition:
(n.) Work; a building.
Example Sentences:
(1) In its original format the show was was presented by Mark Lawson from 1994 until 2005, when Kearney and Wark took over, and in the early years often featured a regular panel of Tom Paulin, Allison Pearson and Tony Parsons.
(2) It was memorable for being the first time that hosts Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark , who always host the show on different nights, have presented a programme together since 1989, when they were working on Breakfast Time, according to the Times.
(3) Welby ducked a question on his personal views on gay marriage – which he has opposed in the past, though he told Pink News earlier this year that it was “great” parliament had passed the law – telling interviewer, Kirsty Wark, it would be inappropriate to speak of it while the church was debating the issue.
(4) Clements, who is married to Newsnight's Kirsty Wark, will join the company as the director of content for SMG's television business, STV, on September 15.
(5) Those who have already appeared in front of Pollard, a former Sky News executive, include Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark, as well as programme editor Peter Rippon, head of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell.
(6) How does he cope with being referred to as Mr Kirsty Wark?
(7) Jeremy Paxman, Newsnight's best-known presenter, and Kirsty Wark, another programme veteran, and Helen Boaden, the BBC's "recused" director of news, are among those who have given evidence to Pollard, as have the reporter and producer at the centre of the storm about the axed Savile film – Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones.
(8) Imagine the leader of a UK political party, a potential prime minister, making these comments about Kirsty Wark or Theresa May.
(9) The inquiry has already heard evidence from Newsnight presenters Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark, the programme editor Peter Rippon, director of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell.
(10) Strathclyde Police have confirmed that they are investigating a complaint against the independent producer Alan Clements and his wife, the Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark, over an alleged incident of data theft.
(11) Ignatieff's fellow presenters included Sarah Dunant, Kirsty Wark, Matthew Collings, Clive James, Waldemar Januszczak, Mark Lawson and Tracey MacLeod.
(12) It will be reported about a new bifocal lens, that can be supplied with an additional prism in the near segment for close-range wark with an increased magnification up to +8.0 dpt.
(13) When Kirsty Wark tried a rather spluttery Newsnight interrogation of Glenn Greenwald , for instance, was that useful or irritating?
(14) According to sources at the Times, Washington correspondent Tim Reid and features writer Penny Wark are also due to leave, as is the head of business news Phil Robinson and reporter Elizabeth Judge.
(15) It was alleged in court that Mr Clements had instructed his then personal assistant Janice McKnight - who now works for Wark - to hack into the emails sent between his IWC colleagues, including Hamish Barbour.
(16) Those who have already appeared in front of Pollard include Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark, as well as programme editor Peter Rippon, Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell.
(17) His views were robustly challenged by both the presenter, Kirsty Wark and the other participants in the discussion – Julie Siddiqi, the executive director of the Islamic Society of Britain and Shams Ad-Duha Muhammad, the director of Ebrahim College."
(18) "We are also quite mystified that Kirsty Wark's name has been mentioned because she has not been accused of anything.
(19) • nationaltrust.org.uk PatricC Padley Gorge, Derbyshire Starting at Padley Gorge, walk down to Burbage Brook, looking out across beautiful moorland to Carl Wark in the distance, across the rickety bridge and through ancient oak forest to Grindleford Station, where you can stop at the cafe famous for its chip butties and rude notices.
(20) Alan Clements, one of Scotland's leading TV executives and the husband of Newsnight's Kirsty Wark, was left with legal bills of £450,000 yesterday after his former employer RDF Media won a legal action stopping him from moving to rivals SMG before December 2008.