(v. i.) To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.
(n.) A thump or stroke, especially of a bell.
Example Sentences:
(1) The deleted peptide corresponds precisely to the sequence coded by exon 46 of the normal pro-alpha 1(I) gene (Chu, M.-L., de Wet, W., Bernard, M., Ding, J.F., Morabito, M., Myers, J., Williams, C., and Ramirez, F. (1984) Nature 310, 337-340).
(2) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.
(3) When we had a morning practice session, and some players were a bit sluggish, he would call them out to the middle of the pitch and shout: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!’ When I read this story about Leicester, I just started laughing because all those funny moments with him came rushing back into my head.” That Ranieri has a sense of humour is hardly new information.
(4) Plant tissue cultures of Maytenus wallichiana Raju et Babu and Maytenus emarginata Ding Hou were initiated.
(5) Martin pantomimes the motion, holing up his fingers dramatically, and Malhotra chimes in with a “ding!” when the phantom bullet falls.
(6) When you get a ring-ding on Christmas, it might not be Santa,” he said.
(7) And when the US president pokes his finger in this one, it is a hornets nest.” Shen Dingli, a prominent Chinese foreign policy expert from Shanghai’s Fudan University, told the New York Times such behaviour from Trump could not be tolerated once he reached the White House.
(8) Like the peaceful activities of Ding – a 73-year-old retired philosopher and grieving mother – Wuerkaixi's presence is unacceptable to a state determined to suppress memory of the Tiananmen protests.
(9) Among the remaining patrons are the actor Sean Bean, snooker player Ding Junhui and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Nick Matthew.
(10) Call me a boring old class war moo, but I've watched several episodes of Made In Chelsea and at no point has Fenella Flumpinton-Ding-Dong's mother pointed her towards prostitution, whinnying, "Go on darling, get your pants off, help us out."
(11) On top of the sex scandal there was a ding-dong over whether the post should go, as it always has, to another European – another French one, at that – when the global economy today bears no resemblance to the one for which the job was originally designed in 1945.
(12) [Ranieri] could see that mentally we were still in bed, so he shouted: ‘Dilly-ding, dilly-dong!
(13) • The BBC Trust has rejected a complaint about Radio 1's decision to cut down Ding Dong!
(14) It will be Hall's first appearance before MPs since he was appointed director general and he is likely to face a grilling about how the BBC plans to move on after the Savile scandal, along with his handling of recent rows over anti-Thatcher song Ding Dong!
(15) The Official Charts Company said on Thursday morning that Ding Dong!
(16) In a speech at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding in Clear Lake on Friday, Clinton not only painted the scandal which has led to an FBI investigation as a partisan witch-hunt – she made a joke of it.
(17) The BBC Trust has rejected a complaint about Radio 1's decision to cut down Ding Dong!
(18) The social mobility "trackers" will most probably lead to the blaming of schools in poor areas, as they try to achieve those five A to Cs for disadvantaged kids; schools will learn to game the system, resulting in grade inflation; there will be an annual ding-dong with rectors from Oxford and Cambridge as it emerges that they've managed in yet another year not to find a single black person clever enough to study history.
(19) A comparison of the nucleotide sequence of pGTB42 with the sequence of a Ya clone, pGTB38, described previously by our laboratory (Pickett, C. B., Telakowski-Hopkins, C. A., Ding, G. J.-F., Argenbright, L., and Lu, A.Y.H.
(20) Since then, the North has ratcheted up its rhetoric, tested another nuclear device and launched a Taepodong 2 long-range rocket (the international reaction being neatly summarised in the Sun's headline, "It's All Gone Pete Tong: Kim Jong in Taepodong Ding-dong").
Inflict
Definition:
(v. t.) To give, cause, or produce by striking, or as if by striking; to apply forcibly; to lay or impose; to send; to cause to bear, feel, or suffer; as, to inflict blows; to inflict a wound with a dagger; to inflict severe pain by ingratitude; to inflict punishment on an offender; to inflict the penalty of death on a criminal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(2) Perhaps they can laugh it all off more easily, but only to the extent that the show doesn’t instill terror for how this country’s greatness will be inflicted on them next.
(3) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(4) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
(5) The threshold of epileptic spiking varied inversely with the area of cortical damage inflicted by the electrode.
(6) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
(7) The attacker, who was named locally as Jaylen Fryberg, killed one girl on Friday and seriously wounded four people – including two of his cousins – before he died of what police said was a self-inflicted wound.
(8) Maltose-positive strains were only demonstrable in birds with wounds inflicted by cats.
(9) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
(10) These cases were tested at 9 to 25 years of age, or 8 to 22 years after inflicting injuries.
(11) A less intrusive way to make a city smarter might be to give those who govern it a way to try out their decisions in virtual reality before inflicting them on live humans.
(12) The concentrating defect in the postobstructive kidney may be related, at least in part, to damage inflicted by medullary ischemia during obstruction.
(13) We're kicking off with Spain, where prime minister Mariano Rajoy has defiantly insisted that he would not accept a bailout which would force him to inflict further spending cuts or tax rises on the Spanish people Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy answers journalists questions during last night's interview on the national Spanish Public Television (TVE).
(14) All were inflicted with severe smoke inhalation injury and pulmonary was demonstrated.
(15) He pointed out that the eighth amendment of the US constitution “prohibits the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain through torture, barbarous methods, or methods resulting in a lingering death”.
(16) "Use new satellite imagery to trace buildings, infrastructure, areas, natural features and other important visible features of the city of Ormoc," lists one requests, as well as "map the current state of Tacloban City area after Typhoon Haiyan inflicted heavy damage to buildings, infrastructure and areas".
(17) A belated acknowledgement of the damage inflicted by decades of stagnated earnings and inequality have meant pay levels have rightly climbed to prominence, in part spurred by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who put fair pay at the heart of his campaign attempts to secure the Democratic nomination for president.
(18) From January 1989 through December 1990, 74 patients were admitted to our urban level I trauma center with injuries inflicted by baseball bats.
(19) The number of self-inflicted deaths occurring in prisons in England and Wales is currently at record levels.” A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: “These are tragic cases, and our thoughts continue to be with the family and friends of Ian Brown and Daniel Dunkley.
(20) The finding that lymphocytes are not affected by the liposome encapsulated drug suggests that the observed loss of lymphocytes in vivo, after intravenous dichloromethylene diphosphonate liposome treatment, may be due to damage inflicted by lysosomal enzymes released from dying macrophages.