(n.) A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
(n.) One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
(n.) A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
(n.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
(n.) One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
(v. i.) To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
(v. t.) To infatuate; to make foolish.
(v. t.) To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.
Example Sentences:
(1) After trading mistakes, Wawrinka got lucky at 30-30, mishitting a service return and fooling Djokovic.
(2) How opiates became the love of my life | Alisha Choquette Read more The numbers are not specific to the type of drug used, but we’d be fools to think opiates don’t lead the list.
(3) Sage did not suffer fools gladly, and often the world seemed increasingly full of them.
(4) But it is difficult not to conclude that the survey, which ends on St Andrew’s day, 30 November, has been something of a fools errand for those loyal driveway-trampers.
(5) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(6) "So don't be fooled again: you cannot afford Labour.
(7) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(8) So it is only a fool, like me, who would walk nonchalantly around the headland during a high wind.
(9) A few months later, the certificate was discovered being used in Iran to fool people who were accessing Gmail into thinking that their connection was secure; in fact any suitably equipped hacker could have monitored their emails.
(10) It's Jane Austen all over again, and we've just fooled ourselves that the complicated financial system has changed a thing.
(11) No sufferer of fools, he also found it difficult to put up with what he felt to be the arrogance of some colleagues.
(12) An immensely cerebral man, who trained himself to need only six hours of sleep - believing that a woman should have seven and only a fool eight - Mishcon was not a man given to small talk, nor one who would tolerate prattle for the sake of it.
(13) Standing Rock protests: this is only the beginning Read more “When the Dakota Access Pipeline breaks (and we know that too many pipelines do), millions of people will have crude-oil-contaminated water … don’t let the automatic sink faucets in your homes fool you – that water comes from somewhere, and the second its source is contaminated, so is your bathtub, and your sink, and your drinking liquid.
(14) He has been declared "a Shakespearean fool, the only one who can say what others can't" and "an antidote to the proliferation of neo-Nazi movements which took hold of Hungary and Greece".
(15) It helps to make testing fun, capitalizes on the student's natural tendency to fool around, and teaches something in the process.
(16) 7.44pm BST The April Fools' Day jokes have slowed as people actually get back to work, so we're going to sign off.
(17) He said: "To people of a certain age, Stuart Hall will be known as the presenter of It's A Knockout, a good-natured TV programme in which members of the public cheerfully made fools of themselves on camera.
(18) Although his finance minister François Baroin pledged on Friday night that there would be no more "austerity measures", only a fool, or someone who expected to be out of office later this year, would promise otherwise.
(19) In other words, Mr Johnson is making a fool of himself and of Britain over issues that will have the deepest national repercussions.
(20) Cue the day’s first SPR (silent printer rage): another four minutes eaten up by a printer refusing to be fooled by the off-on tactic.
Ora
Definition:
(n.) A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.
(pl. ) of Os
Example Sentences:
(1) The necrotic retinal neurons are substituted by mitotic processes in the outer nuclear layer and the marginal growth zone at the ora serrata.
(2) Daily injection of OrA-2, 1 h prior to hMG into 10-day-old female rats for 4 days caused a significant inhibition of hMG-induced estradiol secretion.
(3) This study reports 14 patients who presented proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) at stages III to IV, as well as ora dialysis or large retinal breaks of such extent that it was evident that implanted silicone oil would penetrate behind the retina.
(4) Ora; ciprofloxacin was studied as a prophylactic antimicrobial agent in high- and low-risk patients undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiography.
(5) He said Ora last week scrapped a reality series it was working on with Trump’s companies last week.
(6) Such sera positive for Chikungunya HI antibodies were further screened against other circulating alphaviruses of which 17 or 25% were positive to Igbo-Ora virus, 6 or 38.1% to Semliki forest virus and 36 or 52.6% were positive to Sindbis virus.
(7) Only a few nuclei near the ora serrata were labeled in retinas from kittens injected at three weeks after birth, and no labeled neurons were found in kittens injected at four weeks.
(8) A geometrical method of calculating retinal magnification factor at the limits of the retinal field, adjacent to the ora terminalis, is described.
(9) This method also yields good results in determining the total saponins in P. ginseng ora solution.
(10) As the eye grows the mitotic zone occupies a progressively smaller and more distal proportion of the increasing radius; by P5 only the region near the ora serrata is highly active, with some additional mitotic cells trailing into a broad central zone.
(11) Therefore, we concluded that when cryotherapy is used to treat lattice degeneration, an adequate margin of surrounding retina should be treated and the treatment should extend to the ora serrata.
(12) Hyalinoid thickening was found in the ora serrata, which does not reflect the changes of the intracerebral arteries.
(13) This utilitarian feature allows the surgeon to eliminate residual anteroposterior traction following complete membrane peeling by extending relaxing retinotomies and tacking the posterior cut edge of the retina securely between the ora serrata and the equator.
(14) Women are dead (McAdams), betrayed (Laurence) or embittered (Rita Ora, on hand as a “tough junkie with a kid to protect”, according to Harvey Weinstein).
(15) The feasibility of autologous transplantation of retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells from just posterior to the ora serrata to the posterior pole was demonstrated in the rabbit model.
(16) Rita Ora: I Will Never Let You Down Another general-use tune, and one whose reassuring words will haunt any politician just as effectively as they haunt Rita Ora in the wake of her romantic split from the song’s writer, Calvin Harris.
(17) I won’t try to replicate this; I have to write records that I’d play in my sets rather than something that I think will do well.” So he’s not about to start producing for Rita Ora?
(18) Using an anti-human S-100 protein antibody, the Müller cells of the retina of the monkey Macacus irus were immunostained in the neural retina and in the ora serrata.
(19) Few labeled cells were detectable in the INL at day 9; these were found close to the ora serrata.
(20) Study 1: the patients were examined pre and post-treatment (with ora oxamniquine) and the following exams were performed: sputum for eosinophils and chest x-ray.