() To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn; to deride; to sneer; to mock; to gibe; as, to fleer and flout.
() To grin with an air of civility; to leer.
(v. t.) To mock; to flout at.
Example Sentences:
(1) Modification of the more reactive sulfhydryl group with N-ethylmaleimide resulted in inactivation of the enzyme and modification of coenzyme-binding characteristics [McIntyre, J. O., Fleer, E. A. M. and Fleischer, S. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 5135-5141].
(2) All these results are predicted for constrained equilibrium by a discrete lattice model [Scheutjens, J. M. H. M. & Fleer, G. J.
(3) Shuttle plasmids carrying the wild-type RAD4 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cannot be propagated in Escherichia coli (R. Fleer, W. Siede, and E. C. Friedberg, J. Bacteriol.
(4) This receptor recently has been implicated as the channel involved in the calcium release process in excitation-contraction coupling and was localized to the junctional terminal cisternae of sarcoplasmic reticulum from skeletal muscle [Fleischer, S., Ogunbunmi, E. M., Dixon, M. C., & Fleer, E.A.M.
Flyer
Definition:
(n.) One that uses wings.
(n.) The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6.
(n.) Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc.
(n.) One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder.
(n.) The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11.
(n.) The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers.
(n.) A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture.
Example Sentences:
(1) In saying what he did, he was not telling any frequent flyer something they didn't already know, and he was not protesting about any newly adopted measures.
(2) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
(3) I suppose I may be one of the most frequent flyers on the NHS, and therefore one of your best customers.
(4) On Saturday morning in Adelaide, someone put the finishing touches to their “all girls must finish kindy before marriage” sign; a woman donned her cow suit painted with the message “don’t halal me”; and the Australia First Party stacked their “Multiculturalism Means Death” flyers before joining a thousand other Reclaim Australia supporters in Elder Park.
(5) Two aircrew members lost a total of 9 "duties not to include flying" (DNIF) days: one flyer was grounded for 1 d with a corneal abrasion and another for 8 d with epithelial microcysts.
(6) Andy Hill, a 51-year-old former RAF instructor with more than 12,000 hours of flying experience, is a skilled aerobatic flyer and a regular at airshows, said fellow pilot, who flew earlier in the show.
(7) Got warrants from Beverly Hills?” the flyer asked.
(8) Dayton Flyers once again pull off the round's first upset The final minute of game time seemed to take a small eternity in real time, with the in-game action interrupted by four team timeouts and eight free throw attempts.
(9) One man – Guo Xianliang, an engineer from Yunnan Province – is detained on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power after distributing flyers about Liu and the prize in Guangdong, southern China, the organisation reported.
(10) The case of Bo Xilai , the former Communist party high-flyer brought down after the mysterious death of a British businessman, was a wild courtroom drama full of explosive confessions, unexpected revelations and bruising confrontations.
(11) After her legal studies, Lady Scotland practised family law - not a field noted for high-flyers - as a barrister.
(12) I was a nervous flyer so he had the plane done out like a sweetshop.
(13) Faced with a rapidly ageing society, skyrocketing housing prices, low birth rates and a population that works the longest hours in the world, this country of 5.3 million people has made various attempts over the years to encourage its citizens to marry and procreate, from government-funded speed-dating schemes to educational flyers on how to flirt.
(14) · In the early 1990s, television news programmes featured clips of advanced TM practitioners, known as yogic flyers, apparently hovering off the ground while sitting in the lotus position.
(15) He didn't mind telling you, for instance, that his wife's family had been interned in camps in the country to which they were now returning; if he saw someone handing out flyers in the street, he would delve deeply into their purposes; he was not shy of doorstepping ancient members of the KGB.
(16) The Bundesliga high flyers unveiled Hernández at a press conference on Tuesday and he said: “I want to go back to feeling important and happy.
(17) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Only buy newspapers, magazines, books, toilet paper and copier paper made from recycled materials 0.1 Block direct mail, choose electronic bills and statements, buy secondhand books and share papers 0.1 'I'm a frequent flyer.
(18) Ennis had hit a jumper just moments before that cut the Flyers' lead down to one and, as everyone on both sides certainly remembered, hit a dagger of a game-winner against Pittsburgh just last month .
(19) He is not the only high-flyer to choose the slightly dog-eared charms of The White House over a Four Seasons suite with a mini-bar and 24-hour concierge somewhere abroad.
(20) We would walk around and see flyers that said stuff like, ‘Video is out now text 831 to 7988’ or whatever the number was.