(v. t.) To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
(v. & n.) To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters.
(v. & n.) To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady.
(v. & n.) To hesitate in purpose or action.
(v. & n.) To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought.
(v. t.) To utter with hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.
(v. i.) Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(2) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
(3) The use of a more 'appropriate' growth curve of exclusively breast-fed, healthy infants instead of the NCHS reference failed to define more accurately the age at which growth faltering starts.
(4) Playboy's globally recognisable "bunny ears" image remains untarnished by economic factors, but its business has faltered amid a rise in free adult entertainment online.
(5) The main symptom "incoordination" (ataxia, asynergy, paresis, paralysis) is used by us more precisely only in case of impairment of nervous system by neoplastic infiltrations and does not signify as possible symptoms of general physical weakness, for example faltering, staggering, tumbling or lameness.
(6) Against the backdrop of a faltering global economy, turmoil in the country’s stock markets and overcapacity in factories, Chinese economic growth has slowed markedly.
(7) Kerry flew into the Afghan capital in an attempt to salvage the faltering political and technical agreements that he had brokered between Ghani and his presidential rival, Abdullah Abdullah .
(8) Some people believe that it just works but the reality is that the online buyer-seller relationship can falter at any one of a number of hurdles.
(9) It is the liberal drive, with its obsessive seeking of a universal position, that ultimately obscures the violence taking place in this faltering dialogue.
(10) With China a key driving force behind already faltering global growth, its relations with the new US president will come into sharp focus.
(11) The dismal numbers followed a series of factory surveys since the start of 2014 that have pointed to weakness in economic activity as demand has faltered at home and abroad.
(12) Yet, “if the expansion was to falter or if inflation was to remain stubbornly low, the [Fed] would be able to provide only a modest degree of additional stimulus by cutting the federal funds rate back to near zero”.
(13) The clinical picture of repeated infection causing growth faltering followed by oedema, hair and skin changes, resembled the response to infection of many nutritionally stressed children in the tropical world.
(14) The median time for faltering in exclusively fed infants in Jordan was 6 months.
(15) When markets falter and banks fail it's the jobs and the homes and the security of the squeezed middle that are hit the hardest.
(16) The relationship between the prevalence of nine different categories of diseases and growth was investigated to determine the quantitative contribution of the diseases to the growth faltering observed.
(17) Xi has brushed aside concerns about his country’s faltering economy, telling an audience of business leaders in London that it would remain the powerhouse of the global economy.
(18) While the patient is undergoing evaluation of pelvic pain, it is essential that clinicians remain aware that the patient's psychogenic symptoms are an attempt to reinforce a faltering ego.
(19) Next on his list would be the faltering economy, social justice and reinforcing freedom and democracy.
(20) The welfare cap is lined up, as the bedroom tax continues and disability benefits falter.
Unsteady
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) On the 6th day, he suffered from vertigo, nausea and vomiting associated with unsteady gait.
(2) For elderly patients with a variety of problems ranging from general unsteadiness to frank vertigo, the risk of falling can be devastating, and it is important to provide a thorough investigation of the total balance system.
(3) The clinical symptoms of acute toxication are similar for all studied phenols (restlessness, unsteadiness, clonic tremor, paresis and paralysis of extremities, and death).
(4) Records of horizontal components of unsteady fixation by amblyopic eyes were characterized by abnormally large saccades and a nasalward bias for slow drifts.
(5) 8.08am GMT David Smith (@SmithInAfrica) #Pistorius writing on an A4 notepad, occasionally touching his brow with an unsteady hand.
(6) One month later an unsteady gait and mild intention tremor in the hands were noted.
(7) But after an unsteady start Davie has since seized the industry agenda with his proposal for a joint BBC-commercial Radio Council, which he will chair in its first year, with a brief no less ambitious than to secure the medium's future in the digital age.
(8) The flow conditions were characterized by peak Reynolds numbers from approximately 200 to 1500 and values of the unsteadiness parameter from 3 to 10.
(9) One third of the patients had persistent unsteadiness 6 weeks following the injury.
(10) The unsteady aspects of the ejection process were subsequently introduced into the numerical simulation.
(11) A Womersley model of intraluminal distribution of blood velocities enabled to determine from unsteadiness parameter alpha of Womersley, arterial diameter and maximal minimal and pulse (maximal-minimal) values of centerline velocity, the maximal minimal and pulse shear rate and shear stress (product between shear rate and viscosity) close to the endothelium.
(12) 23, 1985 with unsteady gait and memory disturbance.
(13) The calculation was carried out under the condition of unsteady, starting airflow and the results were examined by the means of color graphics animation.
(14) 12 year-old right-handed boy felt unsteadiness of the body and headache for several days.
(15) The transmission of muscle oxygen uptake (VO2) patterns to the pulmonary site is a basically nonlinear process during unsteady state exercise.
(16) In the third band the transmission of information is possible in the inversion regime with unsteady polarity of the reflex movement.
(17) Seventeen of these patients were examined by electronystagmography with caloric stimuli at 44 degrees, 30 degrees, 17 degrees and 0 degrees C. Most were free of subjective symptoms only one-third had slight unsteadiness after sudden head movement.
(18) The incorporation of the proposed model into finite volume methods is also demonstrated, in the context of unsteady, one-dimensional, radial heat conduction in cylindrical coordinates.
(19) A multivariate regression procedure showed that dizziness, vertigo and unsteadiness, transient ischemic attacks, antidepressant drugs, and poor subjectively experienced health characterized the fallers.
(20) Amid the recession and unsteady wages, men like Kishino feel that the pressure on them to be breadwinning economic warriors for a wife and family is unrealistic.