(a.) Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story.
Example Sentences:
(1) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(2) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(3) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(4) This result suggests that tryptophan-86 may be importantly involved in the generation of the product excited state during aequorin bioluminescence.
(5) This report is an overview of the data and has incorporated some additional findings of the influence of the ACTH4-9 analog, Org2766, on neuronal excitation, especially in the hippocampus.
(6) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
(7) Stimulation of parallel fibers or iontophoresis of acetylcholine excited P cells.
(8) This effect of adrenalectomy on MNE excitability was further demonstrated by recording directly the neostigmine-induced repetitive neural discharges responsible for the muscle fasciculations.
(9) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
(10) We present the analysis both formally and in geometric terms and show how it leads to a general algorithm for the optimization of NMR excitation schemes.
(11) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
(12) Following electrical stimulation of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) area, 21% of the neurons were orthodromically excited, 6% were inhibited and 2.5% were antidromically activated.
(13) Formation of a complex between alpha-tocopherol or its analogues in the excited state and fatty acids or their hydroperoxides has been suggested basing on the fluorescence quenching experimental data.
(14) It is concluded that intraventricular 5-HT raises rectal temperature in cats when the amount is not too large, and that a hypothermic effect when it occurs results from paralysis of cells in the anterior hypothalamus which are excited by small doses.
(15) The optical efficiencies are similar and depend on the match of the excitation characteristics of the stain with the emission spectra of the light source.
(16) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(17) As a consequence, a neural network, considered as a kind of parallel random automata, delivers an output random field in response to the excitation provided by a random field that represents the activity of some input fibers.
(18) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
(19) We use this procedure to assess the excitability of the auditory nerve, the patency of the cochlea and to detect undesirable side effects of electrical stimulation, such as facial nerve activation.
(20) And that's exciting, you've got no time to slow it down.
Sizzle
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound.
(n.) A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(2) I savour the smell of the food stalls as I ride down Whitecross Street market at about 11am, inhaling successive wafts of roasting steak, baking flatbreads, frying onions, toasting cumin seeds, sizzling bacon, curries and chillies and pickles and melting cheese.
(3) Fat sizzles, flour sifts, and delicious smells waft around.
(4) Photograph: Victoria and Albert Museum, London Of course it may have been that by the time he agreed to be interviewed by middle-of-the-road me he had begun to lose his cultural sizzle.
(5) Tom Watson used his media talents to get his weak-tea “Momentum are secret plotting plotters” stuff onto the news cycle for a couple of days, and that turned out to be all sizzle and no steak.
(6) The food, Korean, is cheap (starters less than a fiver; mains under £8) and very good: bibimbap, of course, also crisp fried mandu (dumplings) with homemade soy; tangy blanched and pickled veg; sizzling marinated beef; fat pork belly with garlic, kimchi and spicy doenjang sauce.
(7) Sorry if I did that.” That hoopla created a sizzling atmosphere in which players needed to stay cool.
(8) The Glory is co-owned and run by the Bert and Ernie of drag, Jonny Woo and John Sizzle.
(9) Temperatures are set to reach sizzling highs across large parts of the UK again on Wednesday with a high of 30C (86F) expected in the south of England and possibly 28C (82F) in Scotland.
(10) The Sun had an exclusive kiss-and-tell story from one of his former girlfriends, who told readers of their passionate affair and focused on a night when “sizzling Seb” had allegedly drunk far too much at the Athletics Writers’ Association’s annual dinner.
(11) Melt the rest of the lard in the pan and turn the heat up until the fat is sizzling.
(12) After joining West Brom, Foster announced his plan to build his own barbecue hut adjacent to his house, which would serve as a sanctuary in which he could kick back and sizzle flesh.
(13) 5 Fill a wok a third full with oil, heat until a breadcrumb sizzles and turns golden within 30 seconds, then fry the dumplings in batches until golden.
(14) With sizzling temperatures claiming more than 300 lives this month in India , officials have banned daytime cooking in some parts of the drought-stricken country in a bid to prevent accidental fires that have killed nearly 80 more people.
(15) "Things are sizzling," he said, adding that he was fearful the situation could get out of control if police and other agencies did not step in to reassure the community.
(16) Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies - Podcast Read more The two men stood with their arms crossed and heads cocked at the same angle, reviewing a scene in which a sound cue they had designed had gone awry.
(17) In September 1984, Sebastian Coe became “sizzling Seb” for two days.
(18) The comet at first seemed to have fallen apart as it approached the sun's sizzling surface, but new images showed a streak of light that some said could indicate it wasn't game over just yet.
(19) Looking at his website , I don't think Tuesday's seafood risotto, Wednesday's sizzling chicken fajitas or Saturday's mojito fruit salad would quite "weigh up".
(20) Bang goes my sizzling one-liner about the long-term risks of Nato's strategy.