(v. t.) To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.
(v. t.) To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) You won’t read about this in adverts for “feminine hygiene” (because of course having periods makes us dirty).
(3) But the president said that the rest of the country had relied for too long on police to do the “dirty work” of containing urban violence and bore responsibility for the violent spectacle in Baltimore.
(4) But the other brother did not want to get his hands dirty with the regime and would have nothing.
(5) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bus belching smoke in Bogotá Pretty dirty.
(7) Source: Reuters Dirty old river If the notion of an Englishman’s castle as his home is being challenged on the Levels, where scores of properties flooded, the bursting of the Thames from its banks a few hundred yards from the royal castle of Windsor has raised the issue to a new height.
(8) The most characteristic microscopic features of the ovarian metastases were garland and cribriform growth patterns, intraluminal "dirty" necrosis, segmental destruction of glands, and absence of squamous metaplasia.
(9) Everyone has been part of it, regardless of whether you’re a dirty metalhead or a flamboyant pop fan.” • This article was amended on 1 June 2017.
(10) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(11) But Gates’s decision to “bump off from art” and live “in the sphere of dirt, the dirty, the stuff that we think is in the ground” was revelatory, leading to invitations to Davos and a TED Talk, where he talked about how he revived a neighborhood with imagination and hard graft .
(12) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
(13) You fight a dirty war with innovations.” Rawat expressed frustration about the pressures faced by his soldiers, required to police their own citizens in an environment the Indian government has described as “warlike”.
(14) The results of both tests are compared with those of the in vitro test (with the disinfectant diluted in distilled water, in water of standardized hardness, and in a 0.2% albumin solution), those of the European suspension test under clean and under dirty conditions, and those of four practical tests (the AFNOR test, the DGHM test, the QCT and the QSDT).
(15) O'Hagan's LRB piece is no part of an organised dirty tricks campaign.
(16) 5) Playing dirty helps win the day Three days before the vote, a panicking no campaign organised a last-ditch rally at the Place du Canada in Montreal.
(17) There's dirty politics, dirty money and dirty dealings.
(18) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.
(19) Last year in a Radar accessible toilet I discovered a dirty syringe in the bowl.
(20) It is dirty and it is cold, he can’t even have a shower.
Saur
Definition:
(n.) Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have identified a class of small mRNAs (approximately 0.5 kilobases), referred to as small auxin-up RNAs (SAURs), that increases in abundance within minutes after auxin application to excised elongating hypocotyl sections of soybean.
(2) Archaeologists in Kabul did a preliminary survey of the site, mapping it and digging test trenches, but before they could gather the enormous resources needed for a full-scale excavation, first the 1978 Marxist coup then the 1979 Saur Communist revolution and the Soviet invasion intervened.
(3) These results suggest that protein synthesis inhibitors act by stabilizing SAURs and that some labile protein(s) are involved in the rapid turnover of SAURs.
(4) Superinduction of SAURs occurs if the synthetic auxin 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid is added under conditions where protein synthesis is inhibited.
(5) In this study, we present evidence that SAURs accumulate in the absence of auxin when protein synthesis is inhibited.
(6) High levels of GH3 transcripts were also found in developing palisade mesophyll cells of leaves, cotyledons, and flowers treated with 2,4-D. SAUR transcripts became more abundant in the epidermis, cortex, starch sheath, and pith of epicotyls and hypocotyls after 2,4-D treatment.
(7) Transcription run-on experiments with isolated nuclei show that, unlike 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, protein synthesis inhibitors do not activate transcription of the SAUR genes.
(8) An auxin-inducible bidirectional promoter from the soybean SAUR gene locus was fused to a reporter gene in one direction and a cytokinin biosynthetic gene in the opposite direction and the expression of these fused genes was examined in transgenic tobacco.
(9) Unlike 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid-induced SAUR accumulation, the increase in abundance of SAURs induced by cycloheximide is transient, with a peak approximately 1 h after inhibitor addition.
(10) The splints or temporary crowns were: (1) silver cap splint, (2) acrylic cap splint, (3) Hawley orthodontic plate, (4) Saur's arch bar, (5) orthodontic bands, (6) stainless steel crown, and (7) stainless steel crown with labial surface removed.
(11) SAUR transcripts were expressed in the epidermis, cortex, and starch sheath of epicotyls and immature hypocotyls.
(12) Whether induced with 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid or cycloheximide, SAURs are primarily expressed in epidermal and cortical cells of elongating hypocotyl sections, with little or no expression in vascular tissue.
(13) Complete inhibition of protein synthesis is not required for SAUR accumulation in the presence of protein synthesis inhibitors.
(14) SAURs were also expressed in developing xylem elements of the hypocotyl hook.
(15) We used in situ hybridization to localize two classes of auxin-regulated transcripts, GH3 and SAURs, within organs and tissues of soybean seedlings and flowers.
(16) SAUR transcripts became more abundant on the bottom side of hypocotyls that were undergoing gravitropic curvature.