(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.
Spar
Definition:
(n.) An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein.
(v. t.) A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
(v. t.) Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters.
(v. t.) The bar of a gate or door.
(v. t.) To bolt; to bar.
(v. t.) To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
(v. i.) To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
(v. i.) To use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box.
(v. i.) To contest in words; to wrangle.
(n.) A contest at sparring or boxing.
(n.) A movement of offense or defense in boxing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's good to be able to take the opportunity to thank my friends and sparring partners from around the YouView boardroom table.
(2) US supreme court justices spar over strictest abortion law in the nation Read more Delta has been sending its patients on this trek for a week – ever since the fifth circuit court of appeals put on hold a lower court ruling that would have allowed the clinic to remain open.
(3) In vivo spin-lattice relaxation times, T1, of water and lipid protons of normal and atrophic muscles were measured, using the spatially resolved spectroscopy (SPARS) sequence, in a genetic avian model of myopathy.
(4) A method of spatially resolved spectroscopy (SPARS), combined with techniques to suppress water signal, was used to overcome this problem.
(5) Amid the sparring over Snowden's asylum claim, his father Lon Snowden told Reuters he was confident Putin would not cave in to pressure to send his son back to the US to face espionage charges.
(6) Shoppers will find out whether they are shopping in a free-bag or pay-bag Spar only when they reach the checkout.
(7) Many of the president's former sparring partners are now billionaires who occupy senior Kremlin positions.
(8) All eyes will be watching closely as Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee spar over the economy, environment, foreign policy, labor rights, and more.
(9) Down at the Spar store, the manager, Chris Richards, was waiting anxiously for the notices that will explain the charge to customers.
(10) Although the data for hearing-impaired subjects fail to support the rationale for the SPAR test, the results for the entire research sample offer substantial support.
(11) Business, governments, consumers, activists - all the main actors in the debate over corporate social responsibility were present in the Brent Spar case, and since then nothing has quite been the same.
(12) But by this time next year, Obama and others may have cause to miss their old sparring partner Karzai.
(13) Although the technical and scientific assessments led to our initial plan to safely sink Brent Spar in deep water in the Atlantic Ocean (a plan supported by the government at the time) we failed to engage sufficiently with others and win public acceptance.
(14) As a child, Dinara fell asleep to the sound of her parents talking late into the night, sparring cheerfully over history or discussing Leyla’s work as head of the Institute for Peace and Democracy , a group launched in 1995 to fight corruption, violence against women, and unlawful evictions.
(15) Carly Fiorina expertly defuses Trump on 'beautiful face' retort and foreign policy Read more The New York real estate mogul went out off his way to bash Carly Fiorina , the former Hewlett Packard CEO and GOP presidential rival with whom he sparred in Wednesday’s debate.
(16) In a cartoon fashion, I half-believe he'll turn up on the news one day jogging and sparring.
(17) His T-shirt is soon soaked with sweat and he looks incredulous when told he has sparred 10 rounds.
(18) To satisfy the competitive spirit, there will be a chance for them to enter an arena-style activity that lets them spar against one another for honour and bragging rights..." On that subject, Destiny players will, of course, get access to Bungie.net, the studio's community website.
(19) Obama has often sparred with Netanyahu over strategy on Iran and the Palestinians.
(20) Subjects were categorized into groups showing high, medium, and low competitive anxiety to assess whether differences on the variables of sparring and forms were significantly related with scores on competition anxiety, age, or gender after adjusting for the covariate of years of competition.