(n.) A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
(n.) Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; passionate excitement or anger.
(n.) Ardor of affection; the passion of love.
(n.) A person beloved; a sweetheart.
(n.) To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.
(n.) To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor.
(v. t.) To kindle; to inflame; to excite.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
(3) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(4) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(5) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
(6) Three brands of Ca supplement, a laboratory-reagent grade CaCO3 and a certified reference material (International Atomic Energy Agency H-5 Animal Bone) wee analysed for Cd and Pb by four different analytical techniques, viz., anodic stripping voltammetry inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, flame atomic absorption spectrometry and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry.
(7) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
(8) Analytically, the major products formed initially from pTFE at 700 degrees C under either condition (flame or cup furnace) are similar but they disappear rapidly in the presence of continuous heat.
(9) The main lesions of the tegument included indistinct of the matrix, vacuolization and peeling, while vacuolization of perinuclear cytoplasma in tegumental cells, focus lysis in muscle bundles, and destruction in collection ducts and flame cells were also seen.
(10) Using the Perkin Elmer flame photometer sodium and potassium concentrations have been measured in muscle fibers from the m. ileofibularis of Rana temporaria.
(11) In 1998, when Jeffrey Archer's son, James, and his trader friends, known as the Flaming Ferraris, took a stretch limo to their bank's Christmas party, the Sunday Telegraph could barely contain itself.
(12) This team flamed out early in the last two tournaments despite big expectations.
(13) Urine is separated by reversed-phase HPLC and metal-species are detected on-line by flame-AAS (Ca, Mg, Zn, Cu and Fe) or by ETAAS in fractions (Pb, Cd, Sn).
(14) Liam Fox, regarded as the flame-keeper of the Tory right, would also be a prime target for the Lib Dems.
(15) The propazine was extracted from the powder with chloroform, with dieldrin as an internal standard, and chromatographed on Carbowax 20M, using a flame ionization detector.
(16) Flame burns due to domestic accidents were the aetiological factors in the majority of patients; 84 (87.5 per cent) of those who died sustained flame burns, although flame burns were only responsible for 46.6 per cent of all burns cases admitted.
(17) While there are similarities between the morphology of the central terminals of cutaneous low-threshold mechanoreceptors in the rat and those previously described in the cat (for example, the longitudinally continuous arrangement of the mediolaterally restricted flame-shaped HFA arborizations and the discontinuous RA arborizations arising from a dorsally located axon), there are also some major differences: the large number of HFA arbors extending to lamina IIi and to lamina IV rather than being restricted to lamina III, the deeper location of the RA arbors (in laminae IV and V rather than lamina III),(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
(18) When Black regained consciousness, he made his way down the length of the plane and tried to free the pilot from his seat as flames began to engulf the fuselage.
(19) In some instances where direct coupling was impossible, owing to the physical properties of the effluent or eluent, conventional analyses of chromatographically separated iron species were performed by flame AAS.
(20) The ion content of heart tissue was measured with flame spectrometer after the decomposition of myocardium by Lumatom tissue solubizer.
Post
Definition:
(a.) Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
(n.) A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house.
(n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt.
(n.) The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station.
(n.) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post.
(n.) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
(n.) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited.
(n.) A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman.
(n.) An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported.
(n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier.
(n.) One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station.
(n.) A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger.
(n.) A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper.
(v. t.) To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills.
(v. t.) To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice.
(v. t.) To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.
(v. t.) To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel.
(v. t.) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger.
(v. t.) To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
(v. t.) To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up.
(v. i.) To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste.
(v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting.
(adv.) With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(2) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(3) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(4) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(5) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
(6) To investigate the mechanism of enhanced responsiveness of cholesterol-enriched human platelets, we compared stimulation by surface-membrane-receptor (thrombin) and post-receptor (AlF4-) G-protein-directed pathways.
(7) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(8) An intact post-injury marriage was associated with improvement in education.
(9) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(10) Post-irradiation hypertonic treatment inhibited both DNA repair and PLD recovery, while post-irradiation isotonic treatment inhibited neither phenomenon.
(11) Airbnb also features a number of independently posted holiday rentals in Brazil's favelas.
(12) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(13) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(14) From the present results it is concluded that secretion of extrapancreatic glucagon increased in response to arginine infusion in the diabetic state, both alloxan diabetic dogs and one-week post-pancreatectomized dogs.
(15) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(16) The authors examined an eye obtained post-mortem from a patient with chronic granulomatous disease of childhood and clinically apparent chorioretinal scars.
(17) A dose dependent decrease (P greater than 0.05) in delayed type hypersensitivity reaction was noticed on day 61 post treatment.
(18) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(19) Acute effects of insulin on protein metabolism (whole body and forearm muscle) were simultaneously assessed using doubly labelled (13C15N) leucine in post-absorptive Type I diabetic patients.
(20) It is proposed that in A. brasilense, the PII protein and glutamine synthetase are involved in a post-translational modification of NifA.