(superl.) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst.
(superl.) Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; as, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."
(superl.) Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
(superl.) Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance.
(n.) The act of fainting, or the state of one who has fainted; a swoon. [R.] See Fainting, n.
(v. i.) To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See Fainting, n.
(n.) To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent.
(n.) To decay; to disappear; to vanish.
(v. t.) To cause to faint or become dispirited; to depress; to weaken.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sleep was defined behaviorally as failure to respond to the faint auditory RT cue.
(2) On the other hand, immunofluorescence in anterior pituitary cells was faint and detected in only 2 of 28 patients with Graves' disease (7.1%) after absorption of their sera with rat liver aceton powder.
(3) Implications of these findings for fear and fainting acquisition and its relation to avoidance were discussed.
(4) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
(5) One subject reported slight transient faintness and visual blurring after 20 mg of the drug.
(6) I watched some boxing last night," he replies in his faint, lisping voice.
(7) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
(8) Positive specimens produce a faint pink deposit which is better visualised by silver enhancement which gives an intense black colour.
(9) The pI 5.0 component, designated F-5.0, was faint yellow, with a broad absorption in the range of 400-450 nm, while the pI 7.5 component, designated F-7.5, was colorless and did not absorb in that range.
(10) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
(11) Among the observed side effects were moderate pelvic cramps (20.9%), nausea (27%), fainting (4.8%); 61.3% of the women complained of fatigue.
(12) The study has revealed a faintly pronounced inverse correlation between the degree of avidity of serum antibodies and the level of infectious antigenemia.
(13) The intravenous injection of 5-HT relieves established migraine headache, but causes side-effects of nausea, faintness, paraesthesia and dyspnoea.
(14) Uptake in the other benign lesions such as trauma of the ribs, spondylosis deformans, and arthrosis deformans was rather faint.
(15) Consistent with these measures, derived from self-reported data, physician-diagnosed measures also indicate a greater vulnerability of unemployed individuals to serious physical ailments such as heart trouble, pain in heart and chest, high blood pressure, spells of faint-dizziness, bone-joint problems and hypertension.
(16) The tec gene is expressed mainly in liver and faintly in heart, kidney and ovary.
(17) All lymphomas and plasmacytomas were negative with MAK-6 and CAM-5.2, however, AE1:AE3 faintly stained two of three plasmacytomas and two of the seven large cell lymphomas.
(18) In the arterial blood, ESR signal of HbNO with faint hyperfine structure was detected.
(19) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.
(20) Total RNP contained more small subunit proteins than 110S RNP; 7 proteins spots were distinct, 10 protein spots were faint and 8 protein spots were missing.
Feint
Definition:
(a.) Feigned; counterfeit.
(a.) That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch.
(a.) A mock blow or attack on one part when another part is intended to be struck; -- said of certain movements in fencing, boxing, war, etc.
(v. i.) To make a feint, or mock attack.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inviting him on while feinting and flicking out the jab.
(2) The winger made Jonny Evans seem oafish as he feinted his way past him on the right and then glided 20 yards forward before racing into the box, past Jonas Olsson, and firing into the net despite an attempted block by Craig Dawson.
(3) The first of them came after 90 seconds, when, taking a free kick from the edge of the penalty box, his feint drew Johnston aside in the wall, whereupon Hidegkuti shot through the gap, to beat Gil Merrick, an erratic keeper that day.
(4) He feinted right, veered left, twisted sharp right.
(5) He brilliantly feints to shoot, throwing the Zambian defence off course, but having worked the opening, he drags his left-footed shot agonisingly past the right post.
(6) 49 mins Messi beats two defenders, takes another out of the game, feints one way and plays a lovely reverse pass in the box to.. no one.
(7) With one of those feints defenders hate, he bought a fraction and banged the ball in for the hat-trick.
(8) Speaking of fragile confidence… Johnson picks up the ball in the corner of the box cuts inside then feints and slides the ball on the inside of Irwin to score at the near post.
(9) A quickly taken free-kick was flicked on by Fernando Torres, also a substitute, and Correa made a clever feint that left Mascherano on the ground before firing home via a post.
(10) He's an incredible player and if you can acclimatise you can use the speed to your advantage: if, in the middle of that frenetic pace, you're good enough to apply pausa , put the brakes on, feint and send the opponent flying 10 metres past, that gives you a real advantage.
(11) High point A taut, terrifying Red Right Hand Low point The fact that Cave feints an encore before that very tune, declaring "goodnight Glastonbury" and going off for one minute before the ominous knell of Red Right Hand chimes.
(12) All three tumor cell lines were more sensitive to OHUrd than were the FeInt cells, whereas 5-FU was more toxic to the latter.
(13) To be sure, it was always going to be difficult for Christie to win over Republican primary voters – what with his willingness to shake hands with President Obama and his feint toward political moderation .
(14) Iwobi drove through the inside-left channel, played a nice nudged pass to Theo Walcott, who feinted for the byline then played a beautiful cutback for Joel Campbell to finish with great assurance.
(15) They should have opened the scoring within a minute when Messi danced past three players with a drop of the shoulder and a series of subtle feints to set up Higuaín, who side-footed wide from three yards.
(16) Ali called it his “rope-a-dope” trick – and the world caught its breath when finally he came off the ropes, feinted with his left and, with a single right hander, felled the bewildered Foreman.
(17) He feints past Keogh, attempting to drive into the area, but the Derby centre-back hangs out a leg to brink him down, giving QPR have a free-kick a few yards to the right of the D. It's in a promising position.
(18) The winger feinted past Finonchenko before sending a reasonable effort wide.
(19) Feint sucking in connection with a deficit of real sucking was observed regularly under bucket feeding conditions but only in those cases of automatic feeding, where the calves pushed each other aside from the feeding facilities.
(20) Fourier-based processing of one-dimensionally ordered arrays is described by way of introduction, before analysing two-dimensional crystals in projection with the aim of enhancing signal:noise ratio and thus of feint features that were initially obscured.