(superl.) Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
(superl.) Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
(superl.) Ugly; homely; poor.
(superl.) Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
(superl.) Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
(superl.) Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
(v. t.) To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
(v. t.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
(v. t.) To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
(v. t.) To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.
(v. i.) To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
(v. i.) To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
(n.) An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
(n.) See Foul ball, under Foul, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
(2) I hope this two days off gives him the stimulus.” The omissions left a manager who cherishes control at risk of falling foul of the “law of Murphy” that he had already bemoaned this season.
(3) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(4) Sow had a couple of chances and the substitute Emmanuel Emenike drew a sharp last-minute save out of Szczesny but Giroud's penalty, after Kadlec's foul on Walcott, represented Arsenal's emphatic final word.
(5) The home team's defence had been undermined by naivety and it was in evidence when Stepanov, already on a yellow card for a foul on McGeady and having been played into trouble, lunged for the ball only to be beaten to it by Keane.
(6) 1.56am GMT 49ers 17-13 Seahawks, 2:47, 3rd quarter Andy Lee is hit as he kicks and it's a five yard penalty rather than the personal foul you would get for crushing the punter.
(7) Anything that good for you might be expected to smell foul and come in a medicine bottle, but the Mediterranean diet is generally considered to be delicious, except by those who hate olive oil.
(8) Both Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain are believed to have fallen foul of the FFP rules with sponsorship deals related to each clubs' owners.
(9) Already, opposition parties are crying foul over the draw-down of more than 80% of the national foreign reserves that were set up in 2012.
(10) The lecture worked and one of his substitutes, James Ward-Prowse, opened the scoring from the penalty spot in the 56th minute following a reckless foul on Shane Long by Alex Bruce.
(11) Apart from that, nothing much to write home about, except that Whelan was lucky to escape a booking when he trod on Olivier Giroud's ankle and Erik Pieters possibly took the rap a few minutes later, picking up a caution for a less obvious foul on the same player.
(12) Williams said: "There is no doubt in my mind that you are a paedophile who has for some time harboured sexual and morbid fantasies about young girls, storing on your laptop not only images of pre-pubescent and pubescent girls, but foul pornography of the gross sexual abuse of young children."
(13) He's fouled out on the right, and takes the free kick very quickly, taking advantage of a wandering Krol, but the referee deems the kick was not take from the right place, and was probably moving as well.
(14) Guardian US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg looked at the role cities would have to play in reducing emissions: At-risk cities hold solutions to climate change: UN report It is already taking shape as the 21st century urban nightmare: a big storm hits a city like Shanghai, Mumbai, Miami or New York, knocking out power supply and waste treatment plants, washing out entire neighbourhoods and marooning the survivors in a toxic and foul-smelling swamp.
(15) Business leaders sometimes fall foul of the regime in autocratic countries such as China, and when they do, they risk having their assets appropriated by the state .
(16) The Brazilians could delight in keep-ball thereafter, Benítez pointing to time-wasting tactics and plenty of rolling around at hints of fouls, with frustration eventually bubbling over.
(17) That would be strike out it seems, as Napoli foul-tips one into the catcher's mitt, the first strikeout for Matt Moore.
(18) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(19) 12.17am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, bottom of the 1st Dustin Pedroia hits a long long fly that's hooking hooking... foul.
(20) 1.06am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 3rd And Clay faces Lance Lynn to start off the third, and the Superman-character named pitcher works a decent at-bat, working the count to 2-2 and then fouling off the next two pitches and taking ball three to a full count.
Repulsive
Definition:
(a.) Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.
(1) You float a tiny distance above, suspended by the repulsion between atoms.
(2) Following Nagle, we assume that the steric repulsions between chains and between head groups and the trans-gauche rotation energies are the dominant interactions in determining the transition and we describe the effect of the other interactions with a mean field approximation.
(3) Scattering techniques are also shown to be useful in studying intermicellar interactions, like the Coulomb repulsion between GM1 micelles, in the regime fo the long-range interactions obtainable at very low ionic strength.
(4) Ideal size-exclusion chromatography could be achieved only in a narrow range of the conditions: first, the mobile phase must contain a weak salting-out electrolyte such as NaCl, and second, the mobile phase pH must be high enough that hydrophobic interactions between the solute and support are balanced by their electrostatic repulsion.
(5) A model of functional epistasis is proposed in which it is assumed that coupling and repulsion genotypes differ in metabolic efficiency and thus in development time and net fecundity.
(6) Most repulsively of all, while rehabilitating convicted Nazi war criminals, the state prosecutor in Lithuania – a member of the EU and Nato – last year opened a war crimes investigation into four Lithuanian Jewish resistance veterans who fought with Soviet partisans: a case only abandoned for lack of evidence.
(7) Thinning is initially powered by gravity and capillary forces and will proceed in thin films (less than 100 nm) driven by intermolecular forces until the London-van der Waals attractive forces come to an equilibrium with electrostatic repulsion of similarly charged surfaces of the film.
(8) The compression isotherms of the two tetraether lipids PGC-I and DGC-I were very similar at pH 0, both molecules being uncharged, but at pH 5.6 or 8, PGC-I films were much more expanded than the neutral DGC-I, due to ionization of the phosphate group in PGC-I and the resulting charge-charge repulsion.
(9) We can survive this.” The bloodletting had names: two gunmen who came here to execute these “hundreds of idolatrous sinners” attending a “festival of perversion”, as Isis repulsively brands young fans of rock’n’roll.
(10) Calculation of the electrostatic repulsive force using measured charge densities indicates the existence of an attractive force which may be acting over several hundred angstroms.
(11) With larger separations substantial repulsion was obtained.
(12) The atrocities in Paris and Brussels are largely the work of people born and raised in France and Belgium, often from families repulsed by the ideologies of their sons.
(13) The measurements on the air-dried, but still hydrated layer were performed in the attractive imaging mode in which the forces between tip and sample are much smaller than in AFM in the repulsive mode or in scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM).
(14) The method is based on the affinity of a cation-exchange resin for doxorubicin and the repulsion by the same resin of negatively-charged liposomes.
(15) The introduction of a negative charge at position 41 through the replacement of Cys-41 by either aspartate or glutamate reduced the enzymatic activities to very low but measurable levels, suggesting a charge-charge repulsive interaction between these residues and possibly one or both of the phosphates of NAD.
(16) The agreement is not convincing for the sedimentation equilibrium at low ionic strength, because here the experimental DNA concentration is too high for the truncated dilute solution expansion of the DNA-salt repulsion.
(17) I never felt that way, and certainly the idea of putting anything foreign in my body was especially repulsive.
(18) While some politicians have sought to condemn the intolerance, such as President Joachim Gauck, who called the arson attacks “repulsive”, and warned that xenophobic attitudes had “hardened”, others, such as Horst Seehofer, the head of Bavaria’s conservative Christian Social Union party, have been accused of helping to fuel anti-foreigner feeling with repeated references to “en masse asylum abuse”.
(19) Foreigners thinking of visiting India – particularly young women – will find these views not only repulsive, but dangerous.
(20) The repulsive effect toward neurons can be neutralized by one of the monoclonal antibodies, but not by the other.