(v.) To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child.
Example Sentences:
(1) Additionally, the Schmidt-Furlow investigators looked at instances where female interrogators had fondled prisoners, or pretended to splash menstrual blood upon them.
(2) I would be sitting in the studio with my headphones on, my back to the studio door, live on air, and couldn't hear a thing except what was in my headphones, and then I'd find these wandering hands up my jumper fondling my breasts," she said.
(3) She writes: It used to be that evil finance plots at least had the dignity to be conducted in back rooms, with much mustache-twirling and fondling of watch fobs as well as hearty, if ominous laughs.
(4) Case description methodology was used to obtain treatment acceptability ratings for mentally retarded and nondisabled (normal) sex offenders across three different offenses (masturbation, rape, and child fondling) and eight interventions.
(5) As the debate reached its conclusion, Stockwood, dressed grandly in a purple cassock and pompously fondling his crucifix in a way that was devastatingly lampooned by Rowan Atkinson a week later on a Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, delivered his parting shot of, "You'll get your 30 pieces of silver."
(6) He was suspended for a few months, and then four years later – after a different man, an assistant principal, was arrested for fondling and exposing himself to a freshman – he was suspended again.
(7) The pair did not have sex though he fondled her and reportedly kissed her "roughly".
(8) David Trent: Pull down your trousers and pants and inconclusively fondle yourself in front of a woman wearing a fancy dress dog suit.
(9) The offenses reported included fondling and masturbation (30 rings), oral, anal, or vaginal intercourse (21 rings), and production of child pornography (two rings).
(10) The relationship between sexual behavior pre-post hysterectomy differences and sexual satisfaction only showed a significant correlation for the sexual behavior of coitus (r = -2.012, p less than .001), and fondling of sex organs (r = -.1121, p less than .05).
(11) If you move on from kissing to fondling to oral sex to vaginal intercourse, make sure you’re both comfortable at each stages.
(12) Parents Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar told Kelly their son had confessed to fondling four of his sisters , saying: “He’s very sorry.” Kelly asked the Duggars pointed questions, but she also gave them lots of leeway to complain about “anti-Christian bias” and argue that the real victim of the situation was Josh, who, they say, had his privacy violated by the leaked report.
(13) The most common form of sexual activity was group sex; the next most common was fondling.
(14) If the accusations are true, Lord Rennard's gropings will be all too familiar to women everywhere, harried by grimy colleagues fondling, pinching, leering, and pretending women can't take a joke if they complain.
(15) Eight of the boys he was found guilty of molesting testified at his trial, describing a range of abuse that included fondling, oral sex and anal intercourse.
(16) All sex crimes against children – both penetration and fondling – are treated with great seriousness, and there is little difference in sentencing between them, she says.
(17) For the low income group, the sexual behavior with the most significant decrease in frequency was fondling the sex organs (t = 2.21, p less than .05).
(18) When he does, he just wants to hold me tightly, and just fondling me vaguely seems bring him satisfaction, though he doesn't ejaculate as such.
(19) The fondling was done over the girls’ clothes and, except in two cases, happened when the girls were asleep, Jim Bob Duggar said in a Fox one-hour special about the case.
(20) Think about detail in a novel, the details that please you, and learn to fondle these details.
Valonia
Definition:
(n.) The acorn cup of two kinds of oak (Quercus macrolepis, and Q. vallonea) found in Eastern Europe. It contains abundance of tannin, and is much used by tanners and dyers.
(n.) A genus of marine green algae, in which the whole frond consists of a single oval or cylindrical cell, often an inch in length.
Example Sentences:
(1) Internally perfused cells of the marine alga Valonia actively transport potassium from external seawater into the cell vacuole.
(2) The implications of these findings in terms of models of ion transport into Valonia are discussed.
(3) It was found that cellulose microfibrils from Valonia ventricosa could act as nuclei for inducing the crystallization of chitosan on cellulose.
(4) This value is close to that measured directly for dielectric breakdown of the membranes of Valonia utricularis (0.85 V, 20 degrees C).
(5) This inhibition of salt uptake by a small hydrostatic pressure suggests that Valonia and other walled cells may regulate their turgor pressures by adjusting their rates of salt uptake.
(6) It was concluded that mature cells of Valonia are significantly different from immature cells in that no highly negative potential cytoplasmic region was found in mature cells.
(7) The cytoplasmic electrical potential and membrane resistance of mature cells of Valonia ventricosa have been measured by inserting a microelectrode concentric with another electrode into the vacuole of the cell.
(8) We have investigated the possible defects in Valonia cellulose microfibrils, which are such that the microfibrils can be broken into elementary fibrils by deformation, but are not sufficient to allow for a small angle maximum corresponding to the elementary fibril dimension.
(9) The possible effect of the illumination-induced transcellular H+-gradient between the central vacuole and the external medium, on both the intensity and the kinetics of delayed fluorescence was studied by measuring both the membrane potentials and H+ fluxes across the plasmatic membranes, and the millisecond component of delayed fluorescence in single cells of the marine alga Valonia ventricosa.
(10) The aim of the present study is to ascertain whether transmembrane temperature gradients couple with transport of electric charge in living cells of Valonia utricularis and eventually measure the thermodynamic coupling coefficient (s).
(11) Voltage relaxation studies in the presence of anaesthetics were performed on cells of the giant marine alga Valonia utricularis using intracellular microelectrodes.
(12) The activities relative to tannic acid (congruent to 100) were as follows: methyl gallate, 195; valonia, 117; wattle, 114; allepo tannic acid, 107; eucalyptus, 105, myrobalan, 98; tara crystals, 76; mangrove, 72; quebracho, 39; gallic acid, and ellagic acid, O.
(13) The electrical properties of the membranes of Valonia utricularis were investigated using intracellular electrodes.
(14) The dielectric breakdown in the membranes of cells of Valonia utricularis was investigated using intracellular electrodes and 500 mu sec current pulses.