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Deft


Definition:

  • (a.) Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Deft and perceptive, with the ability to contribute his share of goals, Eriksen made his Eredivisie debut at 17 and received his first senior cap at 18, making him the country's youngest international since Michael Laudrup.
  • (2) All you do is deftly lie with your body or with your words.
  • (3) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
  • (4) It is based on the comparison of an aerobic plate count (APC) with a count obtained using the Direct Epifluorescent Filter Technique (DEFT).
  • (5) The deft and defs reductions ranged from 60 to 6.5 per cent and 58.8 to 9.6 per cent respectively, and equivalent DMFT and DMFS reductions ranged from 11.1 to 0 per cent, and 33.3 to 16.7 per cent respectively.
  • (6) We will need some deft maneuvering, and perhaps some out-of-the-box thinking.
  • (7) • Sir George Young, attends cabinet as leader of the House of Commons, 71, has been widely praised for his deft handling of MPs across the chamber.
  • (8) And yet with a deftness of touch, Uni Lad – a website for "LADS" – exposed these stereotypes to their bare essentials.
  • (9) A plot of decayed, extracted, and filled teeth (deft) vs. age resulted in a bell-shaped curve that was shifted to the right by 2.5 years for malnourished groups, compared with normal children (p less than 0.01).
  • (10) I lifted my patient's eyelid to check she was dead – and her eyeball came out Read more After some deft manoeuvring with the forceps and a prophylactic course of antibiotics, the offending item was deposited in the medical waste bin.
  • (11) In fact, the first things that strike you about the album are the soulful vocals of Sampha – whose voice does "hurt" better than a wounded puppy – and its deft, garage-inspired rhythms.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Silva had been identified, along with Agüero, as City’s main threat by Leonid Slutsky, the CSKA manager, and it was the Spaniard who slipped the ball through deftly for Dzeko to beat the offside trap.
  • (13) With such a magnificently deft operator, it’s hard to work out what’s really going on behind the smile.
  • (14) The results showed a mean DEFT (decayed, extracted and filled teeth) score of 3.34 for four to six year old children, a mean DEFT of 3.26 for seven to nine year olds and a mean DMFT (decayed, missing and filled permanent teeth) of 5.03 for 10 to 12 year olds.
  • (15) It was a deft move on the part of Putin to build trust.” What was also significant was who was in the room – or rather who wasn’t.
  • (16) 106 samples of chilled, cured canned hams and shoulders have been examined with a traditional plate count technique and with the Direct Epifluorescent Filter Technique (DEFT).
  • (17) Its presence at the sector's policy high table this week is a timely reminder of just how deftly the collapse was dealt with, largely by the sector itself, little more than 12 months ago.
  • (18) Lowell Libson, a member of the export review committee that advises the government on works of art, said: "This portrait is a profoundly personal and impressive demonstration of Van Dyck's confidence as a painter and with his deft manipulation of paint he created the illusion that the viewer is encountering the subject directly.
  • (19) The average baseline D3MFT scores of the 7-, 8- and -9-yr-old urban and rural children were 0.27, 0.33, 0.35 and 0.04, 0.23 and 0.23, respectively; the average deft values were 2.9, 2.4, 2.6 and 1.4, 1.9 and 1.4.
  • (20) Even before her deft performance in the early evening Republican presidential debate last week, Carly Fiorina was being heralded as the candidate who could take on Hillary Clinton .

Glance


Definition:

  • (n.) A sudden flash of light or splendor.
  • (n.) A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a swift survey; a glimpse.
  • (n.) An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
  • (n.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
  • (v. i.) To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
  • (v. i.) To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside. "Your arrow hath glanced".
  • (v. i.) To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a momentary or hasty view.
  • (v. i.) To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; -- often with at.
  • (v. i.) To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
  • (v. t.) To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye.
  • (v. t.) To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
  • (2) A mere glance at the time courses shows what reaction schemes are inapplicable.
  • (3) The police officers guarding the entrance to Japan's nuclear evacuation zone barely glance at Yukio Yamamoto's permit before waving him through.
  • (4) He was perhaps casting an envious glance at his counterpart Dave Whelan's summer signings, particularly Holt, who nodded over early on from six yards.
  • (5) At first glance it seemed to be Carlos Alberto Parreira, a man who was sacked by Saudi Arabia after losing his first two matches at France 1998.
  • (6) BNP spokesman Simon Darby, said today that at first glance the list includes some people who are no longer members and some who have moved abroad.
  • (7) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
  • (8) Otherwise it’s unbearable.” She glances over my shoulder again: “I’m going to have to change position.
  • (9) A glance at today's Sun provides a stark reminder that constitutional reform is no way to win easy plaudits from the papers that most voters read.
  • (10) Andy and his dad – who now looks like a Stieg Larsson character with a secret underground chamber - share a knowing glance and everyone is happy.
  • (11) Moments earlier Olsson had given the visitors the lead with a glancing header from Brunt’s corner to the near-post.
  • (12) Climate injustice is not at first glance a legal problem any more than climate change itself is: it is economic, political, scientific.
  • (13) Photograph: Life at a Glance He had been a relatively successful culture secretary in the first Blair government, so why was he sacked with no offer of another government job immediately after Labour won a second term in 2001?
  • (14) I cannot risk a whole game, I am a long-term coach.” Puzzled glances around the room alerted the manager to the possibility of a misunderstanding.
  • (15) A cursory glance at human history suggests otherwise.
  • (16) At first glance this may look simply like the natural order being imposed, a Premier League club easing out a side from two tiers below even if they were forced to endure the irritation of extra-time in the process.
  • (17) Soldado could have embellished his open-play haul just before that but glanced a header inches wide from a Paulinho cross.
  • (18) My uncle glances at her nicely rounded butt: – Nice fit lady, eh?
  • (19) At first glance the underlying profit before tax of £3.8bn, up 12.3%, looks good but that includes property disposal profits of £427m (which were ahead of the new annual target of £250m-£350m of property profits).
  • (20) • Mara And Dann, An Adventure, is published by Flamingo at £16.99 Life at a glance Doris May Lessing Born: October 22, 1919; Kermanshahan, Persia (now Iran).