(n.) A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.
(n.) The European polecat; also, its fur.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fitch said there was “material risk to the success of the restructuring”.
(2) In another sign the financial crisis was deepening last night, Fitch cut its ratings on eight of the world's biggest banks, including Barclays, Bank of America, and Deutsche Bank.
(3) A Co-op Bank spokesperson said: "The Co-operative Bank notes the announcement from Fitch.
(4) Data from ratings agency Fitch showed that these funds were still refusing to provide short-term funds to eurozone banks – the same situation that sparked concerns about French banks last year.
(5) "The downgrade of the UK's sovereign ratings primarily reflects a weaker economic and fiscal outlook and hence the upward revision to Fitch's medium-term projections for UK budget deficits and government debt," it said.
(6) Poor's Publishing Company (the predecessor to S&P) emerged in 1916, Fitch in 1924.
(7) Fitch also raised concerns that it could lose customers after the intervention of hedge funds, which are forcing the mutual Co-op Group of funeral homes, supermarkets and pharmacies to cede control of the bank.
(8) In a further blow to the embattled financial services giant, credit-rating agency Fitch downgraded the bank Friday.
(9) The IMF downgraded its forecasts for the UK last week, with its chief economist, Olivier Blanchard, saying the chancellor should reconsider his "strict" austerity programme, and Fitch's downgraded Britain's triple-A rating to AA+.
(10) Thinktank NIESR is predicting a real fall of nearly 5% this year and falls of 1.5% a year for the next four years, while ratings agency Fitch says: "The weak economic outlook and restricted credit availability lead Fitch to consider a further decline of UK house prices of 5-10% annually over the next two years as likely."
(11) In Fitch’s view, the present balance of risks points toward a less benign global outcome.
(12) That followed Fitch's comments yesterday that if delivered upon, the budget would "materially strengthen confidence in UK public finances and its AAA status" .
(13) The other two main rating agencies, S&P and Fitch, had already downgraded Spanish government debt in the spring.
(14) 17 December 2009: Strikes hit Greece as debt crisis grows Thousands of workers take to the streets in protest at Papandreou's cutbacks, hours after Standard & Poor's follows Fitch by cutting Greece's credit rating.
(15) In its latest analysis of the Irish property market at the start of 2014, the ratings agency Fitch said one in five houses where mortgages had been in arrears for three months or more was likely to be repossessed.
(16) If Fitch and the rest are providing a public service and doing so badly, there is scope for governments to regulate them much harder – or even to set up alternatives: the Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang suggests that governments set up an independent UN version of a credit-rating agency.
(17) An extensive phylogenetic study was performed, comparing two phenetic methods (neighbor joining on difference matrix, and Fitch and Margoliash on Knuc values matrix) and one cladistic (parsimony).
(18) Fitch , the credit-rating agency, gave a clear signal that it believes Greece is heading closer to default after it followed the report with a downgrade of the country further into junk territory.
(19) Fitch is to carry out a more detailed review of the US position by the end of the month.
(20) Fitch is the only large ratings agency which still considers France to have a top-notch rating.
Itch
Definition:
(v. i.) To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
(v. i.) To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.
(n.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.
(n.) Any itching eruption.
(n.) A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.
(n.) A constant irritating desire.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of the depth of injection and of skin temperature on the latency, magnitude, and duration of itch were examined.
(2) It was found that medrysone (1%) significantly improved the symptoms of itching, watering, photophobia and hyperaemia, while sodium cromoglycate (2%) was found to be ineffective.
(3) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
(4) The speediest effect was registered for sneezing, followed by nasal catarrh, nasal itching, and blocking.
(5) We reviewed 52 reports in the literature of the use of epidural and spinal opiates to assess the incidence of itching and found an overall incidence of 8.5% in patients receiving epidural opiates, and 46% in patients receiving spinal opiates.
(6) Side effects with OTFC were more frequent: nose itching occurred in 65%, body itching in 10%, and vomiting in 30%.
(7) Itching appeared before erythema in 83% of subjects and within 5-8 min after instillation of the allergen.
(8) Topical BDP by both methods of delivery was rapidly effective in decreasing mean nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea, sneezing, and itching symptoms as well as mean eye symptoms with no statistically significant differences between them.
(9) Chlorpheniramine given alone produced no significant benefit whilst cimetidine alone produced a marked exacerbation in itching in nearly half the patients who initially entered the study and was sufficient to require withdrawal.
(10) But the ad any American politico worth his salt would be itching to make would open thus.
(11) The treatment proved to be effective in those with toxicoderma, secondary xanthomatosis, porphyria cutanea tarda, skin itching, and urticaria, particularly in the cases when toxic exposures and gastrointestinal conditions contributed to the disease pathogenesis.
(12) Degrees of itching were estimated before and for 6 months after a fourth dose of ivermectin or placebo was given to 97 subjects in Sierra Leone.
(13) "Itching" was the most frequent complaint, encountered in 20 (69%) of the study patient.
(14) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."
(15) And even more scary, I have a drillion moles all over my body, some of which have now started itching, on my back.
(16) PUPP is a specific eruptive dermatosis in pregnancy, clinically characterized by erythematous papules and plaques with intense itching in periumbilical localization.
(17) Severity of itching was determined by a visual linear analogue scale.
(18) Giant papillary conjunctivitis (GPC) is largely a soft contact lens-related syndrome, characterized by the formation of giant papillae on the upper tarsal conjunctiva, itching, excess mucus, erythema, and contact lens intolerance.
(19) Therapeutic response was assessed according to the suppression of symptoms and symptom diary scores of daily itching and frequency, number, size, and duration of hives.
(20) The study which was carried out in 20 patients confirmed the lack of collateral effects on the fetus, mother (except for slight itching in 25% of cases) and the progress of labour.