(a.) To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
(a.) To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
(v. t.) The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp., one of the usually erectile, venomous teeth of serpents. Also, one of the falcers of a spider.
(v. t.) Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.
(v. t.) The root, or one of the branches of the root, of a tooth. See Tooth.
(v. t.) A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course.
(v. t.) A projecting tooth or prong, as in a part of a lock, or the plate of a belt clamp, or the end of a tool, as a chisel, where it enters the handle.
(v. t.) The valve of a pump box.
(v. t.) A bend or loop of a rope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(2) This case demonstrates the hazard of even preserved snake heads and fangs.
(3) The first classification of epilepsy, probably by Cao Yuan Fang in A.D. 610, listed five types of epilepsy: "Yang Dian," "Yin Dian," "Feng (Wind) Dian," "Shih (Wet) Dian," and "Lao (Labor) Dian."
(4) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
(5) Specific antisera against FanG and against FanH were prepared by immunization with hybrid Cro-LacZ-FanG and Cro-LacZ-FanH proteins, respectively.
(6) Fang's visit to Washington was heralded with a rare full military honours ceremony on the Pentagon's parade field, complete with a US navy band, formations of troops from all of the services and a 19-gun salute.
(7) In Washington the visiting Chinese army chief, General Fang Fenghui, reacted to the situation by accusing the US of stoking tensions in the region .
(8) The monsters in Doctor Sleep are promisingly creepy: polyester-clad senior citizens who turn out to be child-torturing paranormals with fangs beneath their dentures.
(9) According to local reports , Fang Binxing attempted to display a South Korea website, which he said showed the views of South Koreans attempting to build similar infrastructure to China’s firewall, but was blocked by said censorship system.
(10) "Now that we know each other, you can call me Fang Fang," she said.
(11) Proper first aid consists of a proximal mildly constricting tourniquet, superficial incision at fang marks, and constant suction.
(12) The effect of mitotane to Fang-8 cells was a reversible one.
(13) When we meet he has, just the week before, finished directing The Family Fang , starring himself and Nicole Kidman.
(14) That their parties have nevertheless chosen them to confront Griffin suggests that they, like celebrity broadcasters, think it is enough to accuse the BNP leader of racism for him to show his fangs to the cameras.
(15) Among traditional Fang-chi plants only Sinomeniumacutum has been demonstrated to contain the alkaloid sinomenine, which is now known to be effective in neuralgia and rheumatic diseases.
(16) The pulp of the fangs of Viperidae shows a poor collagen and fibroblast content and a high developed vascular system.
(17) The effect of the drug was specific to Fang-8 cells because the same treatment produced little or no toxicity on lines of rat pituitary GH3 cells and human skin fibrocytes.
(18) Fang then had to resort to setting up a virtual private network (VPN) to circumvent the censorship, in full view of the lecture attendees, to display the site.
(19) "Foreigners must get police permission to stay at guesthouses below three stars," Miss Fang said.
(20) ichangensis Y. Y. Fang et C. Z. Zheng, I. kirilowii Maxim.
Worth
Definition:
(v. i.) To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.
(a.) Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.
(a.) Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.
(a.) Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.
(a.) Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.
(a.) That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.
(a.) Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(2) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(3) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
(4) Worth an estimated $17.5bn each, they can afford it.
(5) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(6) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
(7) Britain has been the Gates foundation’s second largest recipient, receiving 25 grants worth $156m since 2003.
(8) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
(9) Now he can look forward to a rookie contract worth millions.
(10) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
(11) Because while some of these alt-currencies show promise, many aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
(12) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
(13) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
(14) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
(15) This suggests his wealth exceeds the total worth of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who was attacked for his wealth throughout the campaign.
(16) The service has proved its worth in Queensland, and provides a model for the development of similar services in other large States of Australia.
(17) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
(18) It's also worth noting that if the Help to Buy scheme really does inflate house prices, by waiting five years before you buy you run the risk of not actually being able to save enough for a 10% deposit, because you'll need a bigger amount than you now need.
(19) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
(20) Prices nationwide are increasing at an annual rate of 10%, and the average property in the capital is now worth almost eight times the average income.