(v. t.) To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger.
(v. t.) To snap; to project quickly.
(n.) A jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.
(n.) Something serving to rouse or excite.
Example Sentences:
(1) So a striker needs also a bit of luck and then the confidence is higher but he’s self-confident so I expect he shall score and maybe against Chelsea .” So far Van Persie has remained injury free, which is a fillip after previously admitting to managing persistent issues for years.
(2) Coverage of men's lifestyle and issues in the media received a fillip this year with the launch of Men's Hour on BBC Radio 5 Live.
(3) Smith’s campaign received a fillip on Wednesday when he was endorsed by the GMB union after he won a ballot of its members, 60% to 40%.
(4) But for Xi the willingness of the UK to embrace China is a much-needed fillip as he struggles with an economy suffering from massive overcapacity, especially in the steel, coal and building sectors, where official data suggests factories have the ability to produce up to 30% more than current demand.
(5) It is now the official opposition, boosted by the star quality of the Tory leader Ruth Davidson and Scotland has given the once loathed party of Margaret Thatcher its biggest fillip since the 1950s.
(6) George Osborne loosed his most strident rhetoric yet against environmental regulation in his autumn statement , slamming green policies as a "burden" and a "ridiculous cost" to British businesses, in a fillip to the right wing of his party.
(7) Nevertheless, the figures will come as a fillip to European leaders after a turbulent spring when the eurozone was threatened with collapse as the single currency was hammered on the financial markets and rioters took to the streets of Athens to protest at austerity measures.
(8) Be in no doubt: the leavers’ recruitment of Gove, a man of intellect and integrity, is a fillip to their cause.
(9) Engineering firm Rolls-Royce has given Britain's industrial sector a much-needed fillip by announcing it will open four new factories in the UK, creating or saving 800 jobs.
(10) The figures, published in the journal Nature Climate Change , will provide a fillip to negotiators from 195 countries entering a second week of climate talks in Paris on Monday.
(11) A total of 40.3 million people watched in the US, providing a fillip for producers struggling to halt a slow but steady decline in viewers since 57.25 million tuned in to watch Titanic win 11 gongs in 1998 .
(12) Stock markets remain near record highs and the pound has been given a fillip by news of the election , with investors predicting the result will strengthen May’s position in Brexit negotiations with her EU counterparts.
(13) Yet the meaning is unclear, a fillip of animal optimism after a book-length, clear-eyed exaltation of Nature as a chemical and molecular and mathematical construct - Nature seized in the tightening grip of science, and stripped of the pathetic fallacy even in the sophisticated form in which Emerson's Neoplatonism couched it.
(14) Whatever this move represents, it has nothing to do with capitalism: it's all about trading years-long monopoly contracts for a short-term fillip to the Treasury, with the hope that while extracting a profit, our roads' new owners will somehow improve and expand them (they might, but surely on terms akin to the eyewatering arrangements of PFI deals).
(15) Kasdan's appointment should prove a fillip for fans of the original Star Wars trilogy, as he co-wrote the screenplay for 1980's The Empire Strikes Back , widely seen as the best film in the long-running space opera, as well as 1983's Return of the Jedi (not to mention debut Indiana Jones instalment Raiders of the Lost Ark ).
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest "But in business terms, I feel that it will be a fillip for this area and the north more widely.
(17) "It has been waiting for this fillip to its vibrance for some years now."
(18) The project was delayed when Blake's marriage broke down and he returned to London, but received a fillip in October 1986, when he and Mitchell made a trip to Laugharne, the Carmarthenshire town where Thomas lived during his final four years, and which is generally regarded as the inspiration for Under Milk Wood .
(19) The model of taking one person in a room and beating up on them doesn’t work with 535.” Friday’s failure was a fillip for the anti-Trump “resistance” but it was hardly grounds for complacency.
(20) This is a massive, massive fillip," said the OPLC chair Baroness Ford.
Flick
Definition:
(v. t.) To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.
(n.) A flitch; as, a flick of bacon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nitrous oxide produced a dose-related analgesic response in rats (ED50, 67%) as measured by the tail-flick method.
(2) To test the hypothesis that EAA agonists are involved in transmission of nociceptive information in the spinal cord, we tested the effect of various opioid, sigma and phencyclidine compounds on the action of NMDA in the tail-flick, hot-plate and biting and scratching nociceptive tests.
(3) Antinociception was studied by measuring tail-flick response to hot (55 degrees C) water.
(4) Looping the tail of a "g", flicking the line up from the end of an "m", arcing it over an "a" or an "o".
(5) His first ball reaches Ali at hip height and he flicks him to fine leg for a boundary that takes him to a quite epic century.
(6) Three types of behavior of the compound eye of Daphnia magna are characterized: 'flick', a transient rotation elicited by a brief flash of light; 'fixation', a maintained eye orientation in response to a stationary light stimulus of long-duration; 'tracking', the smooth pursuit of a moving stimulus.
(7) On the tail flick method of rats, tolerance to the action of eptazocine was observed, similar to morphine, but not cross-tolerance between eptazocine and morphine.
(8) The CCK 8-induced analgesia or hyperalgesia was not seen in the tail flick test and was not associated with motor incapacitation or any other noticeable side effects.
(9) When Version came out, featuring covers sung by Winehouse, Allen et al, it was again assumed by some that Ronson had simply flicked through his diamanté-encrusted contacts book and got his friends to rehash a few old songs written by other people.
(10) The off-cell exhibits an abrupt pause just prior to the occurrence of the tail flick reflex (TF).
(11) Focal electrical stimulation and glutamate microinjection in the nuclei reticularis gigantocellularis (NGC) and gigantocellularis pars alpha (NGC alpha) both inhibit the nociceptive tail-flick (TF) reflex in rats.
(12) It has been shown that under all types of stimulation the latent periods (LP) of nociceptive reactions of paw licking and tail flick were significantly increased, as compared to baseline level, thus suggesting suppression of the pain sensitivity.
(13) administered DPDYN were determined in two nociceptive tests, involving thermal cutaneous (tail-flick) and chemical visceral (AcOH-induced writhing) stimuli, in which mu and kappa receptors are known to be activated differentially.
(14) The antinociceptive properties, as measured by the tail-flick and hot-plate tests, and the motor effects of an intrathecally-administered benzodiazepine agonist midazolam, alone, and in combination with morphine, was examined in rats.
(15) Suppression of the tail flick response to noxious heat and paw withdrawal response to noxious pressure were produced by electrical stimulation of arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARH) in pentobarbital anesthetized rats.
(16) These results indicate that noxious cutaneous stimulation may release an agent in the spinal cord which facilitates the tail flick reflex, and that this agent is antagonized by a substance P antagonist.
(17) The effects of altering sensory input on the motoneuronal activity underlying antennular flicking have been tested.
(18) Irrespective of treatment history, mice showed a retest EPM profile of enhanced anxiety, with tail-flick data suggesting a major contribution of anticipatory factors.
(19) Analgesic potency was evaluated by prolongation of the time required to induce tail-flick.
(20) They were slightly more potent in the formalin test but had no or negligible effects in the tail-flick test.