(v. t.) To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.
(v. t.) To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer.
(v. i.) To utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(2) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
(3) The sensitivity of ejaculated spermatozoa to ouabain (in inhibitor of Na+-K+ ATPase) was determined on 4 consecutive weeks in November, March-April, and July-August.
(4) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
(5) The time of sperm penetration in the mouse eggs, however, was delayed for one-half to one hour when ejaculated sperm were used.
(6) The hymen was not penetrated as a result of intromission and therefore the site of ejaculation would have been in the urogenital canal of the 4 primigravid elephants.
(7) For each ejaculate the ratio of X- and Y-bearing sperm was analysed before and after sephadex filtration using three different methodologies: sperm chromosome analysis after fusion of human sperm with hamster oocytes, deoxyribonucleic acid analysis using the Y-preferential probe pS4 and the fluorescent Y-body test.
(8) Two ejaculates were harvested by electroejaculation on each of 3 d per week for 14 wk from 14, 12- to 24-mo-old Holstein bulls.
(9) The group of animals with sexual disorders included boars with inferior ejaculate quality and low fertility (24 animals) and cases with disturbed sexual potency (33 boars).
(10) A multicenter study of electro-ejaculation is currently in process in the USA, but as these are limited experiments, the preliminary results do not permit to draw any conclusion.
(11) Relaxin in seminal fluid was determined radioimmunologically in 238 andrological patients with various ejaculate qualities.
(12) Malnourished male rats ejaculated less frequently than controls in tests with sexually receptive female rats but this difference disappeared with repeated testing.
(13) The impulse installment of chemoluminescence increased during the time of storage of the ejaculate.
(14) Sperm progression into the filter reflected the motility of the ejaculate.
(15) Out of the 2550 ejaculates taken from 42 breeding bulls within 12 months, 685, i.e.
(16) Among 124 cases with premature ejaculation, 13 (10%) mild HPRL were found.
(17) On the other hand, the values of the instantaneous frequency, duration, and rhythmicity of the copulatory thrusting movements performed during mounts, intromissions or ejaculations did not differ significantly from the values obtained under saline treatment.
(18) After standardized observation of mating behavior culminating in ejaculation and a sperm plug, females were allowed to produce litters in undisturbed conditions.
(19) The technical strategies to yield higher density of progressively motile sperm were found to be centrifugal concentration of the sperm from whole ejaculate prior to the swimming down, and subsequent re-centrifugation of the separated sperm after the swimming down.
(20) The addition of 19-hydroxy prostaglandin (PG) E to ejaculates positively stimulated sperm motility and sperm penetration capacity.
Snowball
Definition:
(n.) A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.
(n.) The Guelder-rose.
(v. t.) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
(v. i.) To throw snowballs.
Example Sentences:
(1) For accurate diagnosis of INCL a biopsy with characteristic EM findings of "snowball" aggregates is a necessity.
(2) Edinburgh students called on outside supporters to stage snowball fights in solidarity, while Oxford's Facebook page features support from sympathisers, but also anger from English and theology students unable to get hold of books and data for this week's essays.
(3) The number of complaints is expected to snowball with further press coverage of the fallout from the stunt.
(4) The too-liberal availability of payday loans has created an easy way for people in desperate need to defer their shortfall temporarily but cause it to snowball in the long run.
(5) 'The positive critical reception, word of mouth and the rise of Nordic noir fiction has seen a snowball effect on the popularity of subtitled drama' The Returned Were it not for the success of The Killing et al, The Returned might have found itself quietly picking up a small but loyal audience in a graveyard slot on E4, or the network might have preferred to wait for the forthcoming US remake.
(6) I really hope there's a snowball effect from that," said Glover, who was signed up to the Sporting Giants programme trawling for talent in rowing, handball and volleyball in 2008.
(7) Snowballing and personal contacts were the most successful means of recruiting those not in treatment, while advertising was comparatively unsuccessful with this group because of the importance of establishing the credibility of the study and the interviewer among injecting drug users before they will volunteer to be involved.
(8) There is a real prospect of deficits snowballing and, unless the government finds extra money, an accelerating decline in NHS performance and a deterioration in patient care”, said Richard Murray, director of policy at the King’s Fund.
(9) I think it is a question of as and when policy, albeit coordinated or on a region basis, if policy starts to have an impact on demand, then we could potentially see thekind of scenario evolve where demand is weaker, supply starts to moderate and then these higher cost producers would be some of the first affected... It’s not that they are going to fall of a cliff that quickly, but they would not continue to reinvest [in developing those reserves].” Wilkins said the divestment movement was being closely watched and appeared to be snowballing.
(10) Some people in Washington helpfully used a snowball to illustrate that fact.
(11) When the shit started hitting the fan Stateside, the original plan to open Brian on 200 screens nationwide snowballed to nearer 600.
(12) Respondents were contacted by "snowballing", mainly with the assistance of sex workers.
(13) Lebedev, who co-owns the opposition Novaya Gazeta newspaper, said his platform would include protecting the city's rapidly disappearing cultural heritage; improving its 'impossible' traffic; scrapping its airline business; and reducing corruption.Writing on his blog last Thursday (June 18), he observed: 'The city's problems are getting bigger, like a snowball.
(14) It is a year since speculation over Jobs' health started to snowball, following an appearance at the same event that saw him looking drastically thin and frail.
(15) Interview subjects were selected by "strategic informant snowball sampling," a type of purpose sampling used in anthropological studies, best for collecting descriptive data.
(16) In a foreword to the report, Carne said: “In very complex projects sometimes simple things go wrong and these can snowball in short periods of time to become major issues.
(17) Over the last few years, her suggestion that local organisations stop trying to reform existing NGO networks and instead form their own has snowballed.
(18) A senior Sinn Féin spokesman later told the Guardian there “wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell” of the party ditching its abstentionism regarding Westminster.
(19) "Kids are having a snowball fight on the side of the road, making snow angels, people are walking their dogs."
(20) At the moment, we’re a snowball that’s turning over fairly slowly,” says the Greens’ leader, Natalie Bennett.