(a.) Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance.
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.
Poker
Definition:
(n.) One who pokes.
(n.) That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.
(n.) A poking-stick.
(n.) The poachard.
(n.) A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.
(n.) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Our longer-term strategic objective is to become the market leader in online poker, casino, sports and bingo."
(2) I supported myself (paying rent and the MA health insurance mandate) by playing online and live poker, and collecting unemployment insurance benefits while sending out 15-20 resumes a week.
(3) It is too important to play the cards close-to-your-chest poker games that marked diplomacy of the 20th century."
(4) Or reflect on the supposed aces Britain is confidently looking forward to playing in the upcoming game of Brexit poker.
(5) "I'm not interested really in that sort of poker game, but, you know, the position hasn't changed.
(6) The woman who back in the day managed to win a flame war with Julie Burchill landed the odd decent punch below the belt (Poker Face, she said, perfectly describes Gaga's "frosty mug"), but Gaga remained undemolished as Paglia's critique missed the point by a mile.
(7) Political donations were in the spotlight again this week when Fairfax Media reported that the Menzies 200 club, a fundraising organisation for the defence minister, Kevin Andrews, received money from the gambling lobby while he was in charge of formulating the Coalition’s response to poker machines as social services spokesman before the 2013 federal election.
(8) There are three simple ways of sorting out the current self-interested poker game between the political parties and the media.
(9) "Only two of us are showbiz, only me and Ben Ward [another director], so that's one-third of the board [the writer and the International Federation of Poker president, Anthony Holden, is another patron, as, to declare an interest, is this correspondent].
(10) The first evening we find ourselves playing poker with a couple of Aussies, a girl from Leicestershire and a South African.
(11) Despite not looking like a typical activist – he is the son of a wealthy shopping magnate – Bendat has waged a lengthy campaign against ALH, a subsidiary of supermarket giant Woolworths, which operates nearly 300 venues across Australia, containing 12,000 poker machines – more than the top five Las Vegas casinos combined.
(12) You certainly wouldn't want to play poker against him."
(13) Asked if she has four fingers, like her namesake, a poker-faced colleague replied: "We don't know.
(14) He said when you give someone the job of manager, you are basically giving them the right to play poker on your behalf.
(15) Female solidarity, in which womanhood alone is the high ace in victimhood poker, is often seen as the most important thing.
(16) At a sponsor's event for 888 Poker, he was then asked if there was a clause in his contract that allows him to leave for Madrid or Barcelona .
(17) The Greek politician’s threat of default now raises the game of poker a notch further.
(18) In the weeks leading up to the meeting, even as Yellen has maintained her cautious poker face, a number of other Fed officials have voiced bullish opinions that a second hike might come sooner rather than later.
(19) If I could launch just one experiment, it may well be that I temporarily banish all straight men from the planet for six months (don't worry – I would send you to planet Jock where you could drive around on quad bikes or in Porsches, and in the evening there would be poker and beer), and see if this peaceful utopia occurred.
(20) The resort features more than 92,000 sq ft (8,500 sq metres) of gaming space including 1,900 slot machines, 64 table games, 14 poker tables and a race and sports book.