(n.) A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
(n.) Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
(n.) To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may be one of the mechanisms by which animals under stress prepare their skeletal muscle for exercise as part of the 'fright and flight' reaction.
(2) Shares in London fell sharply for a second successive session on Monday as the world's investors took fright at fears of a meltdown in emerging market economies.
(3) That hit stocks as investors took fright, because the iPhone is Apple's biggest revenue generator.
(4) Roads were poorly developed and unsafe, hygiene was rudimentary, social security virtually inexistent and perinatal and children's mortality frightfully high.
(5) But with his claims last time round being over-inflated, it could be a while before his new rivals take fright.
(6) Deployed in an attacking central midfield role behind Peter Crouch, Adam excelled, giving Newcastle quite a few early frights with his incisive through-passes and well-timed late runs into the penalty area.
(7) Results correspond to previous studies of coping with chronic illness, and suggest that somatization following physical trauma is better explained with reference to personal meaning than to a fright-model as suggested in the post-traumatic stress criteria of the DSM-III-R.
(8) There is a frightful row going on at the IUCN over the decision of its executive director Julia Marton-Lefevre last week to side with Britain over the creation of the marine protected area .
(9) Just to put this in context, the Guardian has reported that: "Stock markets took fright on Wednesday as fears grew over the health of the global economy and the ongoing European debt crisis.
(10) A fright or shock induced toxic secretion (gel) from the epidermis of the Arabian Gulf catfish, Arius thalassinus, exhibits hemolytic activity when tested against red blood cells from many different sources.
(11) This essay -- 1) considers probable risks of retreating in fright from the approach which has significantly reduced the morbidity and mortality of surgical operations over the last 100 years, so that we may balance them against the known and putative risks of transfusion.
(12) Analysts immediately wiped £2bn off their forecasts for 2011 – which had been at about £6.5bn – after taking fright at the grim outlook for margins.
(13) The City took fright after high court judge Mr Justice Vos announced on Friday morning that he planned to manage the four phone-hacking claims filed against Trinity Mirror's newspapers earlier this week.
(14) This trend has resulted in extraordinary progress in many aspects of life, though at the same time created a frightfully specialized lifestyle.
(15) If international investors took fright, driving up the cost of serving the UK’s £1.5trn in government debt, he would simply order Threadneedle Street to start creating money and buying up gilts.
(16) Alfred Hitchcock's 1950 film, Stage Fright , was criticised for what became known as its "lying flashback" – a long flashback about a murder that we later learn is untrue.
(17) But analysts were sceptical of how long the campaign could be sustained, given the fright that investors took at the speed and scale of a slump that wiped out up to $4tn in stock market capitalisation.
(18) At the time, she felt so humiliated that she became stricken with stage fright.
(19) People’s weak appetite for economic risk may not be the result of pure fear, at least not in the sense of an anxiety like stage fright.
(20) There was no evident difference in responsiveness between the four groups, though 3 fish with lesions in the regions ventralis pars dorsalis and ventralis pars ventralis gave fright responses to novel stimuli.
Wah
Definition:
(n.) The panda.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lau Kong-wah, undersecretary for constitutional affairs, said he had agreed to multiple rounds of discussions conducted on a basis of equality.
(2) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
(3) The buzz : "Skull-crushing repetition, menacing walls of nuanced guitar noise, feedback magick wah'd from hell to the sky, a sprawling kraut backbone, evil melodies" .
(4) Furthermore, the ratios of N-glycosylations at the three positions are identical in IgD WAH [Takahashi, N. et al.
(5) Even though there was a lot of politically committed music during the late 70s and early 80s, there was also New Romanticism, which was essentially people putting their fingers in their ears and going 'Wah-wah-wah-wah'.
(6) The summit activities of the WAHs (wives and one husband, the German chancellor Angela Merkel's husband, Joachim Sauer, who was absent today) are now as much a media circus as the key political meetings.
(7) The London branch, run by students Julia Gray, 23, and Bryony Beynon, 25, launched last April in conjunction with nail salon WAH (which stands for We Ain't Hoes) in Dalston.
(8) The music chosen for the event seemed poignantly appropriate – Ole Bull's piece for a solo violin entitled In Moments of Solitude, and the performance by Burmese harpist Nei Wah of Aung San Suu Ki's favourite piece, Loving Kindness and the Golden Harp.
(9) Since vitellogenins of chicken and Xenopus have been shown to be structurally similar and evolutionarily related (Nardelli, D., van het Schip, F. D., Gerber-Huber, S., Haefliger, J.-A., Gruber, M., AB, G., and Wahli, W. (1987) J. Biol.
(10) The mean increase in systemic temperature during WAH was 6.4 degrees C for the saline-infused group and 5.1 degrees C for the non-infused group.
(11) Some properties of 21 of these cloned DNAs, ranging in size from 1 to 3.7 kb, have been reported by Wahli et al.
(12) It appears that elevation of the systemic temperature to 40.5 degrees C or more can be safely achieved under conditions where the temperature in the peritoneal cavity is kept below 43.5 degrees C during WAH.
(13) The effects of whole-abdominal hyperthermia (WAH), using an 8 MHz radiofrequency capacitive-heating system, on the intraperitoneal and extraperitoneal distribution of heat and on the functions of visceral organs were studied.
(14) Lai Wah Co, the head of economic analysis at the CBI, agreed that rates were unlikely to rise in the short term, adding that "economic indicators still suggest the UK recovery is on track, although we expect it to be bumpy and slow".
(15) The coda is a total wah-wah freak-out and makes us imagine Jim Morrison in deranged preacher mode shrieking along with Faust.
(16) In one of the songs on the exercise DVD released on Kumamon’s birthday, as he leads his fans through their exertions, they grunt, “Toh-MAY-toes … straw-BEAR-ies … wah-TER-melons” – all agricultural products that are specialities of Kumamoto.
(17) "Better sales growth continued in the high street in early August, and retailers are upbeat about prospects in the coming three months," said Lai Wah Co, head of economic analysis at the CBI.
(18) The effects on the liver of WAH were very marked, as analysed by biochemical and histological techniques.
(19) Visceral organs tolerated heating to less than 43 degrees C by WAH alone.