(v. t.) To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
(n.) Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
(n.) A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.
(n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.
(n.) A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Played out against the backdrop of the 1979 hostage crisis, Argo spins the account of a joint Hollywood-CIA mission to spring six imperiled Americans from revolutionary Iran, using a fake movie production as a decoy.
(2) Sialoresponsin is a receptor "decoy" that inhibits neuraminidase.
(3) With Mitrovic’s decoy run having deceived Neil’s defence the Spanish striker advanced only to find his initial shot blocked by Olsson.
(4) The most effective decoys were M. cornuarietis and H. caribaeum, both of which caused experimental infection levels of 90% to decrease to 25% when five decoy snails were present for each target snail.
(5) Destroyer turned decoy for their third as Lukaku missed Mirallas's corner, the ball was allowed to bounce in the six-yard box and Ross Barkley emerged unnoticed to head in what proved the winner.
(6) 6.41pm GMT 49ers 6-0 Panthers, 2:19, 1st quarter Newton throws to Smith for 28 yards to get to the SF 38, I guess he's not just a decoy after all.
(7) The sum of the results suggest that tumor growth may succeed in vivo by the wholesale production of "decoy" antigens.
(8) Overexpression of TAR-containing sequences (TAR decoys) was used to render cells resistant to HIV replication.
(9) Overexpression of sequences corresponding to the major Rev-binding site in the Rev response element of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) (RRE decoys) was used to render cells resistant to HIV-1 replication.
(10) However, the phenotype of several mutations suggests that TAR decoy RNA does not inhibit HIV-1 gene expression by simply sequestering Tat but rather does so by sequestering a transactivation protein complex, implying that transactivation requires the cooperative binding of both Tat and a loop-binding cellular factor(s) to TAR.
(11) The concentration of the enzymes creatine kinase (CK) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST), that are released from damaged muscle, was measured in the blood of wild adult male mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) captured for banding in decoy and bait traps and by rocket net.
(12) A long time seems to go by, marked only by the slap of Owen throwing and rethrowing the decoy.
(13) As such, the truncated soluble form of this molecule (sT4) has been proposed as a therapeutic drug for the treatment of AIDS whereby it would act as decoy for viral entry into cells or facilitate elimination of soluble viral envelope glycoprotein.
(14) Some of the ducklings had not been given any previous visual experience other than that gained in a 20-minute introduction to the empty apparatus; others had previously been given the opportunity to follow one particular decoy for 20 minutes.
(15) Bellamy's goal was every bit as special, the forward accepting the invitation to cut inside, after Adam Matthews's overlapping run served as a decoy, before arrowing a superb 20-yard drive into the far corner.
(16) The decoys could be grouped into three categories: those in the first category were treated as equivalent, that is, so long as the duckling had followed one of these models it would approach either.
(17) Testing the hypothesis may lead to the identification of plasmodial antigens that induce protective responses in the human host and distinguish them from non-protective, immunosuppressive or decoy antigens that promote parasite survival.
(18) He says that he is innocent, a decoy thrown out to protect the real culprits.
(19) Thus, use of RRE-based decoy RNA to inhibit HIV-1 replication may represent a safer alternative to the use of TAR decoy RNA.
(20) However, it then transpired that the security operation was a decoy to divert the loyalists away from the back of the station.
Flare
Definition:
(v. i.) To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
(v. i.) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
(v. i.) To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
(v. i.) To be exposed to too much light.
(v. i.) To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.
(n.) An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
(n.) A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
(n.) Leaf of lard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Regarding psoriasis, emotional factors have a strong correlation with onset and flare-ups.
(2) A definite dose-response relationship was demonstrated between the weal and flare areas and the three active treatments.
(3) Pretreatment with terfenadine 60 mg orally significantly inhibited the flare response to both the lower dose of antigen and to saline (P less than 0.05).
(4) Although the area of flare increased with each increase in dose from 0.1 to 10 micrograms, the areas of flare produced by 10 and 100 micrograms of histamine did not differ.
(5) New observations include: (1) In 15 nm cross sections that show single 14.5 nm levels: (a) The flared X structure characteristic of rigor is replaced by a straight-X figure in which the crossbridge density is aligned along the myosin-actin plane, rather than skewed across it as in rigor.
(6) There was no clinically relevant difference between the effects of the two routes of administration on flare area.
(7) Cimetidine, an H2-receptor antagonist slightly reduced the effect of clonidine on the wheal and flare reaction.
(8) Violence also flared before the game when 300 Torino fans tried to block the Juventus team bus from entering the stadium compound and threw stones at the vehicle, breaking one of its windows.
(9) Pretreatment of skin with capsaicin dramatically inhibited the histamine-induced flare response but had no effect on nicotine-induced axon reflex sweating.
(10) An additional category, SAP "flare", was also identified (SAP increment greater than 15% at 1 month, with subsequent fall at 2 months).
(11) Aqueous cells and flare of both eyes were measured by a laser flare-cell meter (KOWA FC 100).
(12) He explains that the violence began after the demo overran its official cut-off time: Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.
(13) Both patients with previous infection of the bone had flare up of the infection which was controlled medically.
(14) After prednisone was started the total serum IgE sharply declined to a plateau and remained at this level until a flare of allergic aspergillosis occurred.
(15) The test result correlated with the activity of the disease when repeated during a flare in the 1st case, and during remission in both.
(16) Formation of both weals and flares was significantly inhibited by cetirizine administered by either route; weals were inhibited as early as 20 min after oral intake but not clearly inhibited until 90 min after sublingual intake.
(17) Hydroxychloroquine has now clearly been shown to prevent flares, and ancrod has been shown to improve renal disease in patients with glomerular thrombosis.
(18) The flare response to SP following capsaicin- or bradykinin-induced desensitization gradually returned to normal after 5-8 weeks.
(19) Vladimir Putin claims Ebola virus vaccine has been developed by Russia Read more The tests reinforce concerns about flare-ups of the virus that has killed more than 11,300 people since 2013, almost all of which were in Sierra Leone , Guinea and Liberia.
(20) His subcorneal pustular dermatosis subsequently flared and was troublesome for 2 years until he was commenced on PUVA, with excellent response.