(a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.
Example Sentences:
(1) All seems simple enough: Jedis, Siths, deadbeat dads, emotional pregnancy, family reconciliation.
(2) The more we talk, and the more you listen to his old material, the more he seems less like the righteous Bill Hicks type "lazy" journalists like to compare him to, and more a Charles Bukowski -esque character: a drunken deadbeat throwing out tales from America's seedy underbelly without caring too much what the "message" is.
(3) It is not good enough for us to cede these conversations to those who demonise single mums and deadbeat dads but have nothing to say ourselves.
(4) The Stooges George, an out-of-work deadbeat, turns to selling drugs with his friends.
(5) Playing the drunken hedonist deadbeat dad to Andy Samberg's uptight square son, Sandler uses a rasping voice that's like sandpaper on the eardrums, especially given his repetition of the unmissed noughties archaism "Whaaaaazzzzuuuuppp???"
(6) The coalition government's only notable reactions to the underachievement and alienation of young men has been to rail against deadbeat dads and to offer a pathetic cash bribe to couples as a reward for marriage.
(7) That resulted in one of his greatest performances as the deadbeat comic Archie Rice in John Osborne's The Entertainer: a feat of acting that combined well-pitched camp with tidal waves of emotion as Archie's private life fell apart.
(8) • Our jury prize went to the Russian director Andrei Zvagintsev for his terrific, and intriguingly Chabrol-ish drama Elena, about a woman with a grown-up, deadbeat waster of a son; she is a nurse who is now re-married to the wealthy man whom she nursed back to health.
Default
Definition:
(n.) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default.
(n.) Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom.
(n.) A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc.
(v. i.) To fail in duty; to offend.
(v. i.) To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty.
(v. i.) To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.
(v. t.) To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.
(v. t.) To call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to appear; to enter a default against.
(v. t.) To leave out of account; to omit.
Example Sentences:
(1) And, according to a letter leaked to the BBC last week , he reckons he has found one: default-on.
(2) It’s unclear too whether Google will continue to pay Mozilla to be the default browser in countries outside the US, Russia and China when the current deal ends in December.
(3) Difficulties in their management are attributable to late presentation, high patient default rate, complete lack of radiotherapy, and shortage of chemotherapeutic agents.
(4) Francis dismissed the suggestion that changing the fine defaulting policy would significantly reduce the prisoner population, saying defaulters made up less than 0.4% of the total prison population, both male and female.
(5) "The default switch should be set to release information unless there is an extremely good reason for withholding it.".
(6) Couldn't the rest of the eurozone just let Greece default on its debts?
(7) One way they are doing this is to replace cookies, which worked fairly well for a long time when people accepted their browsers' default configuration, which until fairly recently has been to allow most cookies.
(8) Two patients defaulted (1 on each treatment) and 7 patients died during the study from non-drug-related causes.
(9) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
(10) The bulk flow model of intracellular trafficking predicts that forward transport from the ER through the Golgi to the plasma membrane proceeds by default without a special signal being required (Wieland, F.T., Gleason, M. L., Serafini, T. A., and Rothman, J. E. (1987) Cell 50, 289-300).
(11) Brazil GDP growth There is no immediate risk of a default.
(12) According to their study, the market consistently expects default to occur if a country's debt reaches twice its GDP.
(13) Things only got worse in 1998 when Russia defaulted on its loans: the people of this area once again lost what little they had saved, and the oligarchs just got richer, in yet more deals that Russians perceived, with some justification, to have been brokered by the west.
(14) As City analysts warned that a "Grexit" was growing more likely by the day, the cost of insuring Spanish debt against default rose.
(15) It results in porn becoming, by default, sex education.” The site originally debunked porn myths but she later launched a streaming service, where couples could upload their sex tapes.
(16) That was what triggered the bank closures and capital controls, which have taken Greece’s crisis to a new level this week as it became the first developed country to default on an IMF loan.
(17) Slowing growth, financial fragility, governments teetering on the brink of insolvency and default, and clear signs of a public backlash against the excesses of the rich and powerful: all have created a sombre backdrop to the invitation-only affair.
(18) "If ratings agencies see a rollover [of Greek debt] as a partial default, contagion to other peripheral eurozone countries will occur."
(19) Or will it slip inexorably into the unchartered waters of default and economic catastrophe?
(20) The program runs in accelerated time, and accepts defaults to continue without changes as long as desired.