(v. t.) To shut up in a frank or sty; to pen up; hence, to cram; to fatten.
(n.) A pigsty.
(n.) The common heron; -- so called from its note.
(n.) Unbounded by restrictions, limitations, etc.; free.
(n.) Free in uttering one's real sentiments; not reserved; using no disguise; candid; ingenuous; as, a frank nature, conversation, manner, etc.
(n.) Liberal; generous; profuse.
(n.) Unrestrained; loose; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
(v. t.) To send by public conveyance free of expense.
(v. t.) To extempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc.
(a.) The privilege of sending letters or other mail matter, free of postage, or without charge; also, the sign, mark, or signature denoting that a letter or other mail matter is to free of postage.
(a.) A member of one of the German tribes that in the fifth century overran and conquered Gaul, and established the kingdom of France.
(a.) A native or inhabitant of Western Europe; a European; -- a term used in the Levant.
(a.) A French coin. See Franc.
Example Sentences:
(1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(2) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
(3) • Harriet Harman gives a frank interview about the olden days, in which she reveals a passionate affair with Arthur Scargill.
(4) The Ajax coach Frank de Boer has confirmed that Tottenham Hotspur have approached the Amsterdam club to test his interest in coaching the club.
(5) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(6) Absolute has raised its profile with big-name signings such as Frank Skinner and bought live Premier League football rights for the first time for this season .
(7) Two term newborn infants born by frank breech delivery had posterior fossa hemorrhage diagnosed by CT scan within the first 72 hours of life and underwent successful surgical drainage of hematoma.
(8) After the formal PIRC inquiry was triggered by the lord advocate, Frank Mulholland, Bayoh’s family said police gave them five different accounts of what had happened before eventually being told late on Sunday afternoon how he died.
(9) To be frank, the police cannot cope with the extent of abuse on social media.
(10) Frankly, the pair had been at each other ever since the Frenchman had come on to the pitch.
(11) Moreover, S-phase prolongation was observed with the malignant changes, and the cell cycle time did not differ markedly among normal epithelium (22.8 hr), anaplastic epithelium (23.0 hr), and frank invasive carcinoma (26.1 hr).
(12) In any halfway-awake western nation, and, to be frank, in many reaches of British national life, this would be considered an amateurish absurdity, a guarantee of eventual failure.
(13) On the other hand, only limited feelings of frankness existed among the residents.
(14) Del Piero, who helped greatly increase the A-League’s profile during his two-year stay, was linked by the media to a managerial role at the club when Frank Farina lost his job in April 2014.
(15) Some Labour MPs, such as Frank Field and David Miliband, are keen on primaries.
(16) Activation of GV by monochromatic 450-nm radiation causes two specific DNA changes in human P3 cells in culture as shown by alkaline elution techniques: single-strand breaks (i.e., alkali-labile sites plus frank strand scissions) and DNA-to-protein covalent bond crosslinks.
(17) Five-year actuarial survival rates were 86.6% for frank, 98.8% for microinvasive and 98.8% for in situ carcinomas.
(18) "And let's be frank, we're not actually helping anyone by leaving the economic coast clear for others to provide the inward investment that often comes in from elsewhere and may represent tied aid or investment that won't help lift the poorest into employment," she said.
(19) But frankly we’re still so troubled by the past, it’s hard to put together our plans for the future,” he said.
(20) Regardless of who wins the high court case, appeals are possible and, frankly, likely."
Wiener
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The system identification results are in the form of first- and second-order frequency kernels, which are related to temporal kernels that appear in the Wiener functional series.
(2) For the noise analysis, we compared the Wiener spectra of uniformly exposed film samples before and after digitization.
(3) In addition, the use of the new non-empirical heteroatom parameterization scheme in the calculation of Wiener numbers and Balaban indices was successfully tested for the first time.
(4) We summarize Wiener's theory of the dielectric constant of heterogeneous systems and extend its application to suspensions of particles with corrugated surfaces and interstitial solvent.
(5) We have applied Wiener analysis to a study of response dynamics of N (sustained) and C (transient) amacrine cells.
(6) By means of white gaussian noise stimulation, the Wiener kernels are derived for the Phycomyces light growth response for a variety of intensity conditions.
(7) The light-growth response of Phycomyces has been studied further with the sum-of-sinusoids method in the framework of the Wiener theory of nonlinear system identification.
(8) Applications of Wiener-like identification methods to biological systems have revealed several limitations of this technique.
(9) The input-output characteristics of muscle stretch receptors can be represented by a set of Wiener kernels estimated from responses to random length stimuli.
(10) Updated at 9.03am BST 8.52am BST Roux's comments about the reluctance of some witnesses to appear for the defence could be laying a foundation for a possible future appeal, some commentators are suggesting: Mandy Wiener (@MandyWiener) Defence claims witnesses refused to testify because of broadcast.
(11) This quantity, called the image quality index (IQI), can be derived from the basic image parameters: contrast, MTF, Wiener spectrum.
(12) Adaptation of the Wiener-Inverse filter with respect to the beam properties gives acceptable results, at the expense of a rather large computational effort.
(13) It is shown that Wiener filtering may cause information loss for certain types of evoked potentials, since the transient evoked response components of the brain are of damped oscillatory character and are not stationary signals.
(14) Since this suggested the existence of form birefringence, the influence of solvents of different refractive indices on the observed birefringence was investigated, using a new derivation of the Wiener form birefringence equations which allows direct comparison of Wiener's theory with experimental results.
(15) Various identification schemes that have been proposed for the Hammerstein and Wiener systems are critically reviewed with reference to the special problems that arise in the identification of nonlinear biological systems.
(16) It turns out that the modulation transfer function is correlated to the visual sharpness and the Wiener spectrum is correlated to the visual impression of graininess.
(17) DianaTorrens A trio of restaurants, Vienna Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wiener schnitzels hang over the plate edge at Restaurant Figlmueller.
(18) The performance of the proposed method is compared with that of conventional methods (Wiener filter and parametric projection filter).
(19) A posteriori Wiener filtering, time varying filtering, and smoothing of the average EP have been proposed to meet this problem.
(20) From this estimate an approximate Wiener filter was calculated.