(v. i.) To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
(v. i.) To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
(v. t.) To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
(v. t.) Anything that fatigues.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rebelling by dabbling in drink, fags, sex – the list goes on – is part of growing up.
(2) Here, we examine a group of six recessive mutations, the facets (fa, fa3, fag, fag-2, fafx and fasw), which affect eye and optic lobe morphology and have been previously shown to be associated with the insertion of transposable elements into an intronic region of Notch.
(3) There were 54 cases of somaticised anxiety (brain fag); 22 cases of depressive neurosis characterised by hypochondriasis, cognitive complaints, and culturally determined paranoid ideation; 23 cases of 'hysteria' in the form of dissociative states, pseudoseizures and fugues; and 39 cases of brief reactive psychosis which differed from the dissociative states more in duration and intensity than in form.
(4) The use of VW FAg levels in the diagnosis of vasculitic disorders has been proposed.
(5) It is the fact that the poor spend too much on fags and booze.
(6) In this paper an attempt has been made to tie the concept down more firmly by proposing a strict definition, examining the appropriateness of this definition in determining the CBS status of two new syndromes (anorexia nervosa and brain-fag) and analysing the usefulness or not of the basic CBS concept.
(7) In males, atrophic areas and the remaining choriocapillaris are clearly demonstrated in FAG and less well visible in ICG angiograms.
(8) At baseline, although the levels were not outside the laboratory range, the disease groups had raised VW FAg compared with the simultaneously tested controls.
(9) For those who like verisimilitude in their faux fags there are disposables – the hefty but effective Ten Motives or the petite, feminine NJOY – and rechargeable kits complete with USB chargers and cartridges from the likes of E-Lites, Halo and Skycig.
(10) Venostatic stress increased VW FAg activity in all disease groups, control levels also increased and differences between controls and disease groups diminished in significance.
(11) Brown's fear has been that he might inherit the fag end of a tired government.
(12) In other words, the noise surrounding this debate, not to mention the TV duel, will only partly be about whether Britain should be in Europe or not: the rest of it, one would imagine, will centre on the issue of immigration, both in terms of its links with the EU, and as a public concern that informs just about every other area of policy – and, implicitly or otherwise, the sense a lot of people have that we are governed by a homogeneous, well-heeled, cosseted bunch of politicians, and among the only people who offer any kind of alternative is Farage, complete with his pint and fag.
(13) At fluorescein angiography (FAG) at a mean of 8 months post-operatively, 9 showed leaking from the iridal vessels, and 3 were normal: Three cases were excluded because of factors affecting the iris FAG.
(14) He cycles down to the docks, puffs a fag and contemplates the water.
(15) In 1995, when Williams walked out on his boyband, he bounded into Liam's rock'n'roll life with ease – because although he had once writhed around in jelly , he also had a rebellious side with a penchant for Adidas jackets, booze, birds and fags.
(16) A lovely woman meets us, gives us fags in the cab and says she'll happily answer to the name of Dave too.
(17) ITV chief executive Charles Allen accused the corporation of "back of a fag packet" calculations after it requested an inflation-busting settlement that would result in the current £131.50 fee increase to more than £180 by 2014.
(18) "Obviously all the other cunts will have the same idea, and the motorways will be rammed," Dad continued, fag wedged in mouth, "so we'll be taking the back roads.
(19) In M-SHRSPs with age of 8 weeks, systolic blood pressure was 220mmHg or more and retinal arterioles showed generalised narrowing but no dye leakage was recognized by fluorescein angiography (FAG).
(20) The gently warm vapour ingeniously replicates the reflective pause of a real fag, the same quiet little buzz.
Fatigue
Definition:
(n.) Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
(n.) The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war.
(n.) The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.
(n.) To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.
Example Sentences:
(1) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
(2) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
(3) Results were inconsistent with both the feature detector fatigue and response bias hypothesis.
(4) A positive association was observed between the prevalence of fatigue, mild abdominal pain, and arthralgia and the blood lead (PbB), urinary lead (PbU), and zinc protoporphyrin (ZPP) levels.
(5) Hyperprolactinemia, hypogonadotropinism, and subnormal plasma testosterone were found in a 65-year-old patient who had an enlarged sella turcica, complained of fatigue, and addmitted to decreased sexual interest and potency.
(6) The average IEMG of the muscles in the relaxation phase of contraction remained unaltered by fatigue, while a marked deleterious change in the relaxation-time variables (p less than 0.001) occurred concomitantly.
(7) A 1-min test of repeated maximal contractions was administered to examine muscular fatiguability before and after training.
(8) In addition to the fatigue tester and the pulse duplicator, a signal conditioner, a DC amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital microcomputer comprised the essential hardware.
(9) Fatigue developed significantly faster with contractions of short duration, and the energy cost was higher.
(10) For cancer patients, fatigue is a disturbing symptom caused by many factors.
(11) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(12) Disturbances in muscle electrolytes play an important role in the development of muscular fatigue.
(13) The ratio of appearance on the fatigue by mastication was as follows: Type I (0%), Type II (50.0%), Type III (40.0-100%) and Type IV (75.0%).
(14) A 43-year-old lady was hospitalized due to easy fatiguability in the legs during exercise, and for evaluation of an abnormal shadow in the chest X-ray, and hypertension.
(15) Sleep disturbance among women and fatigue among males were also significantly associated with experiencing an onset of major depression.
(16) The action of sodium oxybutyrate, phenamine transamine and L-DOPA on the processes of re-establishing the mental and physical performance capacity after fatigue was studied in experiments with rats.
(17) The task used in the study was a stabilometer balance task, and fatigue was induced by walking on a treadmill.
(18) Repeated flashes above a few per second do not so much cause fatigue of the VEPs as reduce or prevent them by a sustained inhibition; large late waves are released as a rebound excitation any time the train of flashes stops or is delayed or sufficiently weakened.
(19) There is much conflicting immunological and viral data about the causes of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS); some findings support the notion that CFS may be due to one or more immune disorders that have resulted from exposure to an infectious agent.
(20) Increases from baseline rest for both exercise rates were observed in: oxygen uptake, carbon dioxide production, inspiratory flow, minute ventilation, respiratory rate, dyspnea, respiratory effort, and arm fatigue.