(v. i.) To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
(n.) The act of floucing; a sudden, jerking motion of the body.
(n.) An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging.
(v. t.) To deck with a flounce or flounces; as, to flounce a petticoat or a frock.
Example Sentences:
(1) There might be a report, a few seminars and then a flouncing off, or just a withering away.
(2) But as soon as the song was over and Keaton flounced offstage, the awkwardness from her performance was overshadowed by Allen's maybe-son Ronan Farrow , resurfacing some old allegations of sexual abuse by Allen: Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) Missed the Woody Allen tribute - did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age 7 before or after Annie Hall?
(3) Yelling is the easy option in a fight, like flouncing out and slamming the door.
(4) Flouncing out over the sort of benefits cuts that he himself had been enforcing, or trying to enforce, ever since arriving in cabinet?
(5) Those former shadow ministers who have stomped off in a huff and a flounce make a serious error by deserting their posts.
(6) In 1997, shortly before she acquired notoriety by flouncing – drunk and cursing – from a live TV show about the Turner prize, and two years before she failed to win a Turner with My Bed , I interviewed Tracey Emin over coffee at her council flat in Waterloo about the nocturnal and nutritional ups and downs of her weekend.
(7) Those who flounce out on Jeremy Corbyn will not escape blame if Labour crashes | Polly Toynbee Read more This has not always been the friendliest of arenas for Labour leaders – Tony Blair got an enthusiastic pitchforking in his last speech here, while Ed Miliband was heckled in 2011.
(8) She walks back to her chair and looks around, an expression of utter amazement on her face, while Shvedova flounces off.
(9) In spring, cherry trees toss extravagant flounces of blossom.
(10) Britney Spears cut short an interview in tears; where-are-they-now mainstay Preston flounced out when Amstell mocked his wife Chantelle Houghton .
(11) Several years after Alan Partridge flounced off the small screen, Steve Coogan's best-loved character was judged the best scripted comedy for the Sky Atlantic special Welcome to the Places of My Life – marking possibly the first time a tour of Norfolk landmarks has met with such comic acclaim.
(12) Flouncing out of the United Kingdom like this, and anyway it's not as if you're decamping to the Mediterranean, is it?
(13) It's tempting to read this as a sort of corporate-scale flounce, but there are obvious considerations.
(14) Pardew’s problem is that, just as Ben Arfa has come to represent a set of ideals and a style of football mislaid when Kevin Keegan last flounced out, the manager is now regarded as emblematic of the entire ills of the Ashley regime.
(15) Zevon would have taken gleefully to the role of grizzled, geriatric curmudgeon; his approach to his work always had more in common with a detective or a crime writer than with some flouncing showbiz wannabe.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A silk taffeta Balenciaga dress from 1955, with wired skirt flounces.
(17) Publication: Conservative Review Author: When he found himself on the wrong side of Breitbart’s primary-era civil war, the writer Ben Shapiro flounced .
(18) And nor is it in our national interest to have a prime minister who, playing to a domestic and Eurosceptic gallery, flounces out of vital summits and thinks that splendid isolation is a sign of strength, when everyone else can see it is really just a sign of weakness.
(19) The perfect example of this trend is Al Gore, who flounced off in presidential defeat and grew one.
(20) Ukip members love a good feud – and they particularly love the traditional finale, where the arrogant arriviste gets his comeuppance, and flounces off humiliated.
Pleat
Definition:
(n. & v. t.) See Plait.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both types of molecules are compact and globular in shape and apparently contain beta-pleated sheet conformation.
(2) A central eight-stranded beta-pleated sheet is the main feature of the polypeptide backbone folding in dihydrofolate reductase.
(3) The resulting tertiary structures are extremely Ig-like consisting of two superposed beta-pleated sheets.
(4) Important secondary structure elements that can be derived from the observed nuclear Overhauser effects are a large antiparallel beta-pleated sheet consisting of four strands, A, B, C, D, a segment SAB consisting of an extended region around the active-center histidine (His-15) and an alpha-helix, a half-turn between strands B and C, a segment SCD which shows no typical secondary structure, and the alpha-helical, C-terminal segment S(term).
(5) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
(6) Then, the skin strips were glued on alternate folds of a pleated sheet of paper, each fold of which was 0.3 cm or 0.5 cm in width.
(7) Both pleated septate and gap junctions were found in the immature state; their intramembranous particle (IMP) distribution was characteristic of junctions in the process of assembly, since the IMPs were irregularly and loosely arrayed in contrast with the parallel septate junctional IMP rows and gap junctional plaques found in the fully regenerated or control tissues.
(8) In Rhinolasius, one receptor possesses a short bulbous cilium without a rootlet, with a septate desmosome of the pleated sheet (comb) type and a weakly developed electron-dense band beneath it.
(9) Its secondary structure is mostly beta-structure, part of which can be visualized by electron microscopy to form a single beta-pleated sheet near the protein-lipid interface of the trimer.
(10) It possesses an alternating motif of hydrophilic sequences that can potentially be folded into alpha-helices and hydrophobic sequences that can potentially be folded into beta-pleated sheets.
(11) In addition, most of the autoreactive hybridomas also demonstrated inhibition of reactivity to mutations in the amino half of the first domain of the I-A alpha- and beta-chains, which encodes the beta-pleated sheet of the floor of the Ag-binding groove.
(12) 25.4 cm) fiberglass depth cartridge and a 10-inch pleated epoxy-fiberglass filter in a series at flow rates of up to 37.8 liters (10 gallons) per min.
(13) In the absence of Ca2+ and in the presence of [ethylenebis(oxoethylenenitrilo)]tetraacetic acid (EGTA), the protein contains 30-35% alpha helix, 50% random coil, and 15-20% beta-pleated sheat.
(14) analyses of the single domains and the scTCR indicate that they are folded into beta-pleated sheet structures similar to those of immunoglobulin variable domains.
(15) The rules predict the absence of alpha helix and beta pleated sheets in the structure of this peptide.
(16) Early myotube retraction was accompanied by accentuation of the longitudinally oriented surface pleats and appearance of "blebs" followed by cell-rounding.
(17) In the case of the apolipoproteins, the knowledge of their primary structure has facilitated the study of their physicochemical properties in solution and at the air-water interface and has also permitted realistic predictions of the two dimensional organization, not only of their alpha-helical segments but also of the beta-pleated sheets, random coil and beta-turns, all of which have amphipathic properties.
(18) Its first 120 amino acids form a central five-stranded, beta-pleated sheet surrounded by five alpha helices.
(19) The antiparallel peptide strands are distorted from a regularly pleated sheet, caused mainly by the L-Ala residue in which phi = -155 degrees and psi = 162 degrees.
(20) The ledges of some pleats partly grow toward each other as ring like diaphragms, leaving openings whose boundary is composed of alveolar epithelium separated by a basal lamina from a connective tissue sheath with capillaries.