(a.) Mad; raving; furious; violent; wild and disorderly; distracted.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
(2) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
(3) You could understand why the Met was frantic to find who had stabbed Rachel Nickell 49 times on Wimbledon Common while her screaming child looked on, but the case against Stagg was preposterous.
(4) The Hull City manager, Steve Bruce , has admitted his side need to pull off a couple of “crazy results” if they are to preserve their Premier League status in a frantic end-of-season run-in.
(5) After a frantic period around "Black Friday" sales at the end of November, business quietened down but "took off like a rocket" from Boxing Day when Dixons took £100,000 a minute, chief executive Seb James said.
(6) The Lib Dems and Labour, after frantic consultations, announced they would table alternative amendments to introduce an element of statute and ensure the new press regulatory body was free from industry interference – two issues that the majority of newspaper proprietors have stoutly opposed.
(7) Having personally witnessed their live act (Black Flag frantically twanging Bootsy’s Rubber Band) at Dingwalls in late August, I thought I’d made a great discovery until, two breathless days later, and a mere few hours before they left these fair isles, the Peppers deposited their press kit in my lap.
(8) Chelsea’s frantic late attempts to add to their defensive ranks have prompted a surprise move for Papy Djilobodji from Nantes in a cut-price £2.7m deal, with the Senegalese likely to prove a stopgap signing before the pursuit of John Stones is renewed in future transfer windows.
(9) Disoriented by the early goal, they waged a frantic war in the middle of the pitch, exchanging misplaced passes.
(10) Frantic staff can be heard during the continual arrivals.
(11) For Manchester United this was a Saturday stroll that ended frantically, although the Premier League leaders' latest three points were made even sweeter by the return of their captain, Nemanja Vidic.
(12) The play began life in 2003, was heavily revised the following year, and then frantically rewritten even as it went into rehearsal in 2009.
(13) The Nottingham Forest defender Kelvin Wilson was the unfortunate player, hopelessly miskicking an attempted clearance of Allan Nyom’s cross, enabling Ighalo to drive in his 15th goal of the season, but it was that sort of match: high on effort but woefully low on quality and goalmouth incident, until a final frantic few minutes.
(14) After a lengthy and frantic search by his attorneys, Church said it took another three hours before he was finally charged with terrorism-related offenses at the nearby 11th district station, where he was made to sign papers, fingerprinted and photographed.
(15) She soon emerged before a frantic press corps and offered a short statement – a testament to the campaign’s desire to put the issue to rest.
(16) That’s where we need him.”Liverpool started off at such a frantic rate they passed the ball into touch from the kick-off without a Bulgarian player getting near it.
(17) Television's natural instinct was now simply to go on and on, to consume the infinite time stretching out in front of it, like those cartoons where Bugs Bunny is frantically laying down railway track so the train he is on can keep moving.
(18) Pringle found these conferences “brilliant and often informative”, but “they used to drive me nearly frantic because of the difficulty of getting a decision.’ Katharine Whitehorn , the women’s page editor, famously declared that “the editor’s indecision is final”, but although Astor would sometimes allow his journalists to vent opposing views in print as well in person – Nora Beloff and Robert Stephens on Israel and Palestine, for example – he always had the final say.
(19) When they took the lead through Omar Gonzalez’s first-half header it had been coming, but not so much through frantic pressure as from the kind of remorselessly confident performance that characterises this team when they’re on form, as they had been in winning five of their previous six.
(20) 4 types of delusional and hallucinatory experience with certain ensuing therapeutic reactions are distinguished: Type 1: pseudonormality and denial of delusions, type 2: overlapping of reality and delusion and frantic attempts to separate the two realms, type 3: hallucinatory absorption and trance-like states, type 4: dramatic delusional play and "happy" hallucinations in regressive psychoses.
Wode
Definition:
(a.) Mad. See Wood, a.
(n.) Wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This idea that there are people who have apparently never been north of Watford, and who think that up there it's all wode and pickled onions..." His voice trails off.
(2) The incidence of chlorine residues in milk derived from two kinds of chlorine-based disinfectants of differing solubilities was investigated by Wode's test in a total of 420 samples from 30 dairy farms using milk tanks in December 1976 and January 1977.
(3) In cases where Wode's test gave a positive or a weakly positive reaction, the identification test for antibiotics and chemotherapeutics was made by agar diffusion tests.