(v. t.) To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
(v. t.) To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
(v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation.
(v. i.) To throw; to wince; to flounce; as, the horse began to kick and fling.
(v. i.) To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer; as, the scold began to flout and fling.
(v. i.) To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush or spring with violence or haste.
(n.) A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse.
(n.) A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
(n.) A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
(n.) A trifing matter; an object of contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither of us are rampant or militant or any of those other descriptors anti-feminists fling about to scare those who stand up for their rights.
(2) He brushes past Felipe Melo and flings himself to the floor.
(3) If anyone in Macclesfield wants, for a small fee, I will come round to your house, lift the pesky varmint out of the bath with finger and thumb and fling it out of the window.
(4) You can see why retailers do everything in their power to lure them in, including flinging open shop doors.
(5) Helen aka helenlhelen I became pregnant after an ill-advised fling with a much older man.
(6) The kid isn’t feeding a penguin; he’s just flinging fish fingers on to the floor.
(7) At one point she had a bodyguard who would take her to the bank to deposit her takings.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Knight’s second-place depiction of a highland fling.
(8) Djokovic, though flings his entire corporeal into a forehand that near enough wins the point, and then forces Nadal to save a break point.
(9) I know someone whose entire circle of friends consists of ex-flings.
(10) Meanwhile in the American League... Steve Busfield (@Busfield) Benches clear in Detroit as Martinez and Balfour fling expletives but no punches thrown.
(11) It's a shame he can't just ramble on about his obsessions onscreen, flinging himself from point to point.
(12) [But] it does make me chuckle a little bit when Bernie flings around the word ‘revolution’.
(13) Gerrard flings over another free kick, much like the ones Liverpool scored from, but it evades everyone at the far post, and drifts away.
(14) The visitors might have been spurred into a riposte by a sense of injustice that Branislav Ivanovic was not penalised for going to ground too easily in first-half stoppage time, but by the time Allardyce reacted to fling on Song and Diafra Sakho just before the hour, a salvage mission was unlikely.
(15) Costa has managed only one goal in six Premier League appearances – he had scored eight at the corresponding stage last term – and has now completed a three-match suspension having been banned retrospectively for flinging an arm at Laurent Koscielny during the victory over Arsenal last month.
(16) After Tony and his shiny head did the dirty with Tracy Barlow, the goddess of pure evil, Liz went straight into a rebound fling with Dan, a man so slimy he glistens.
(17) Cahill and Emerson tangled in the last minute, the Corinthians player appearing to fling out an arm to provoke a reaction, then feigning agony after the centre-half had flicked out his shin in riposte.
(18) Once in power, relations between the two soured, with stories of Brown flinging telephones across his office in frustration.
(19) We had canisters of it with lumps in – and a catapult to fling it.
(20) He is flinging canvases around as though they were sacks of coal.
Mobile
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.