(a.) Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase.
(a.) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
(n.) Same as Eagre.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beijing has no interest in seeing strained ties affecting development plans either.” The Moranbong band was founded by Kim Jong-un , with each member reportedly selected by a leader eager to make his mark on the cultural scene.
(2) The reason behind Burnham's impregnable new confidence may well also explain the coalition's eagerness to drive him on to the backbenches.
(3) Eager to show I was a good student, the next time we had sex, I noticed that one of my hands was, indeed, lying idle – and started to pat him on the back, absently, as if trying to wind a baby.
(4) Driven by a desire to reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels and promote a secure supply of energy, the government of Albania has been very eager to encourage increased investment in renewable energy and in 2013 a law was passed to promote renewable energy .
(5) Certainly the affidavit against Ferdaus paints a compelling picture of a man hellbent on waging jihad in America and eager to take the guns and explosives eventually supplied to him by the undercover FBI agents.
(6) Wide-eyed, tentative and much given to confidences – her voice falls to an eager whisper when she's really dishing – she seems far younger than her years.
(7) Coleman, in his efforts to sustain the national team's momentum, will be particularly eager to keep Craig Bellamy in the lineup, although it was the persuasiveness of Speed that brought his return.
(8) "EA's next CEO inherits a company beset by a broad range of legacy problems created not just by difficult retail market conditions but also by its own hand," says Nick Gibson an analyst at Games Investor Consulting Ltd. "It has been too eager to use major acquisitions – Jamdat, Playfish, Bioware, PopCap etc – to try to accelerate growth or gain early leadership positions in emerging markets, often overpaying by substantial amounts for companies that subsequently fail to deliver what EA expected they would."
(9) Nor should we forget why the Conservatives were so eager to seize that chance: they saw the opportunity to wipe out the achievements of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who demonstrated, over many years of hard graft, that the country’s economic management was safe in Labour’s hands.
(10) Boris Johnson, the mayor, has been accused of being too eager to allow developers to change the skyline.
(11) With a high level of English gleaned from an Erasmus stint in Oxford, she was eager to move to London.
(12) That report, due July 2 , is eagerly anticipated by both the NSA and its critics, as it is likely to add momentum to either side in the ongoing legislative debate on the scope surveillance.
(13) Hence the tearing-off-the-arm eagerness to seize the opportunity.
(14) The nuptials drew crowds of fans eager to witness the glitzy event, but they were kept far away from the heavily walled 16th-century fortress, which offers stunning views of Florence and surrounding Tuscan hills.
(15) Kipsang will be running in London in one of the most eagerly anticipated races in history.
(16) People eagerly accept such evidence-free claims "because the alternative mean[s] confronting outright mendacity from otherwise respected authorities, trading the calm of certainty for the disquiet of doubt".
(17) I'm sure that advisers are at fault: mediocre people with PR degrees, eagerly advising on how to avoid the resentment of the masses.
(18) Many are first- or second-generation immigrants from places such as Afghanistan, Poland, Somalia and Nigeria eager to sign up to drive for the US tech company, whose phone-based minicab-hailing app has transformed the taxi industry in 58 countries.
(19) Randomized trials comparing BCG and chemotherapy are in progress and are eagerly awaited.
(20) To bail themselves out of the NBA's worst crisis of credibility since the Tim Donaghy officiating scandal, the easy part for the NBA will be enlisting the eagerness and financial muscle of Magic Johnson and Mark Walter of the Guggenheim Partners – owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers .
Egger
Definition:
(n.) One who gathers eggs; an eggler.
(v. t.) One who eggs or incites.
Example Sentences:
(1) These correspond to the type I and type III precursors analyzed previously at the cDNA level [Richter, K., Egger, R. and Kreil, G. (1986) J. Biol.
(2) And then there's a younger generation coming through – Jhumpa Lahiri, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Lethem, Jonathan Safran Foer.
(3) The second definition highlights followers of a certain hipster culture, which revels in a childlike naivety; the films of Wes Anderson , the early books of Dave Eggers , and the twee indie pop of Belle and Sebastian are all mentioned.
(4) Revisions are suggested in the guidelines given recently by Egger et al.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The crowd greets Trump’s plane Photograph: Dave Eggers The mood among the people gathered was so gentle, so calm and so welcoming, that, when the first notes of “Tiny Dancer” emerged from the sound system, the song didn’t seem at all incongruous.
(6) Dave Eggers's 2013 novel The Circle paints a portrait of an America without privacy, where a vast, internet-based, multimedia empire surveys and controls the lives of its people, relying on strict adherence to its motto: "Secrets are lies, sharing is caring, and privacy is theft."
(7) But the outcome of ever greater transparency must be that satirised by Dave Eggers’ in his novel, The Circle .
(8) This has led to the development of plates that have a greater overall dimension and stiffness compared to earlier plate models, as exemplified by the Lane or Eggers type of plate.
(9) (The happiest words: "I told you so") The author "meant everything to me when I was learning how to write and learning how to read", Dave Eggers said at the 2009 National Book Awards ceremony, when he and Vidal received honorary citations.
(10) Things have changed since 2003, when there were estimated to be only 500 remaining inhabitants in Marial Bai, and when Eggers accompanied Achak Deng on his first trip back home in 17 years.
(11) Photograph: Dave Eggers The vendors in the parking lot had been selling a wide variety of Trump gear, much of it on the extreme end of the messaging scale.
(12) When Frey first arrived on the literary scene he showed no qualms about squaring up to the distinguished writers of the period, writers such as Dave Eggers and David Foster Wallace, just as in rehab he wasted no time (by his account) in challenging the toughest guy in the centre to a brawl.
(14) "I went to Atlanta to meet with Val and Mary, not really expecting to undertake a four-year project," recalls Eggers, who is based in San Francisco.
(15) To Eggers’ evident astonishment, he found those present “a broad cross-section of regular people … genial, polite and, with few notable exceptions, their opinions within the realm of the reasonable”.
(16) The procedures were either a modified Eggers' operation, a lowering of the patella or a combination of both.
(17) The first 85 students at Valentino's and Eggers' Marial Bai secondary school.
(18) If you doubt this, I suggest you seek out a copy of Dave Eggers’ recent(ish) novel The Circle and turn to page 299.
(19) Joaquin Phoenix in Her Jonze's new movie Her – his first as both sole writer and director (after his splendidly mind-boggling collaborations with Charlie Kaufman on Being John Malkovich and Adaptation , and with Dave Eggers and Maurice Sendak on Where The Wild Things Are ) – is being sold as "A Spike Jonze Love Story."
(20) The heavy enzyme is a complex of one molecule of light enzyme (consisting of three alpha subunits) and approximately 60 beta subunits (A. Bacher, R. Bauer, U. Eggers, H. Harders, and H. Schnepple, p. 729--732, in T. P. Singer (ed.