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Giddiness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being giddy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Twenty workers promptly developed symptoms (e.g., nausea, vomiting, abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, giddiness, lassitude, headache, cough, shortness of breath) that typically lasted a few hours but persisted 1-2 days in 7 cases.
  • (2) Everyone wants to forget that Britain’s biggest bank, HSBC, was caught, and admitted, laundering Chapo Guzmán’s giddy profits , as was Wachovia bank , a subsidiary of Wells Fargo: hundreds of billions of dollars of Sinaloa cartel blood money, handled with effective impunity inasmuch as no one in either instance was prosecuted, let alone jailed – indeed, most were promoted.
  • (3) In some parts of the country, then, the giddiness sown by a hyped-up recovery and rising house prices – up by an annual average of 7.7% , according to Halifax, with George Osborne's Help To Buy scheme having played its part – is evidently doing its work.
  • (4) Giddiness, nausea and vomiting were the common adverse effects observed.
  • (5) In the event it was Campbell who took the gold, producing a display of controlled long range aggression to secure Team GB's 28th gold medal of these rather giddy Games.
  • (6) More giddy blog posts may lie ahead: All Things Digital claimed in October that Snapchat is in talks about yet another funding round valuing the company at a startling $3.6bn , with a lead investor potentially being "a strategic party from Asia" – later fingered as internet firm Tencent.
  • (7) The mother country would have a hard time refuting the charge that the English just don't take the international game seriously, however giddy St George turns every couple of years.
  • (8) Perhaps giddy with the excitement of it all, Djokovic produces a couple of unforced errors to give Nadal a break point.
  • (9) The giddy rise in house prices, too, should be examined skeptically.
  • (10) Hypertension (n = 50) and the related symptom of headache (n = 40), dyspnea (n = 24), and giddiness (n = 20) were common at presentation.
  • (11) The giddiness was characterized by a late onset and was usually present even at 24 hours.
  • (12) Tuesday Thornberry and her staff have recently been upgraded to a new parliamentary office, and are giddy about it.
  • (13) Photograph: Dreamworks Yelchin wasn’t as classically handsome as Depp; he was easy on the eye without having traditional film-star looks, and I don’t recall his name cropping up in the sort of messageboards bursting with giddy declarations of devotion to Tom Hiddleston or Tom Hardy or Idris Elba.
  • (14) I was so giddy with success that I stayed for a few drinks and ended up missing my train home.
  • (15) The authors' findings permit a conclusion that the risk of ethmozine overdosage leading to undesirable side effects (dryness in the mouth, noise in the ears, a 'net' in eyes; giddiness, nausea, vomiting) is very high when routine ethmozine doses are administered to patients with grave (Stages II-III) impairments of liver function; this is explained by (1) reduced rate of ethmozine biotransformation, this resulting in a heightened concentration of the drug in the blood, and (2) by an increase of the drug free fraction concentration due to its reduced ability to bind with the blood plasma proteins.
  • (16) She shows us photographs of him as a giddy young boy, as a proud paratrooper, and letters in which he talks about how well he’s doing in training.
  • (17) At last, as the sun dipped behind snow-capped mountains, we rolled down Leadville’s cool, still Main Street, the lack of oxygen making us feel giddy.
  • (18) A giddy celebration of the “new politics” this conference may officially be, but it is also an old-style beauty contest in which the party is already sizing up the potential contenders for the succession should Uncle Jez fall under a composite motion.
  • (19) I mean, you weren’t so giddy when The Container Store started trading last week .
  • (20) A golden moon hung over the city, and as night deepened the crowd lounging off Hope Street grew giddy.

Turn


Definition:

  • (n.) Convenience; occasion; purpose; exigence; as, this will not serve his turn.
  • (n.) Incidental or opportune deed or office; occasional act of kindness or malice; as, to do one an ill turn.
  • (v. t.) To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head.
  • (v. t.) To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of; to reverse the position of; as, to turn a box or a board; to turn a coat.
  • (v. t.) To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise; to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something.
  • (v. t.) To change from a given use or office; to divert, as to another purpose or end; to transfer; to use or employ; to apply; to devote.
  • (v. t.) To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like.
  • (v. t.) To form in a lathe; to shape or fashion (anything) by applying a cutting tool to it while revolving; as, to turn the legs of stools or tables; to turn ivory or metal.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to give form to; to shape; to mold; to put in proper condition; to adapt.
  • (v. t.) To translate; to construe; as, to turn the Iliad.
  • (v. t.) To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle, etc.: as, to turn cider or wine; electricity turns milk quickly.
  • (v. t.) To sicken; to nauseate; as, an emetic turns one's stomach.
  • (v. i.) To move round; to have a circular motion; to revolve entirely, repeatedly, or partially; to change position, so as to face differently; to whirl or wheel round; as, a wheel turns on its axis; a spindle turns on a pivot; a man turns on his heel.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.
  • (v. i.) To result or terminate; to come about; to eventuate; to issue.
  • (v. i.) To be deflected; to take a different direction or tendency; to be directed otherwise; to be differently applied; to be transferred; as, to turn from the road.
  • (v. i.) To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan.
  • (v. i.) To undergo the process of turning on a lathe; as, ivory turns well.
  • (v. i.) To become acid; to sour; -- said of milk, ale, etc.
  • (v. i.) To become giddy; -- said of the head or brain.
  • (v. i.) To be nauseated; -- said of the stomach.
  • (v. i.) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales.
  • (v. i.) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide.
  • (v. i.) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
  • (v. i.) To invert a type of the same thickness, as temporary substitute for any sort which is exhausted.
  • (n.) The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel.
  • (n.) Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide.
  • (n.) One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander.
  • (n.) A circuitous walk, or a walk to and fro, ending where it began; a short walk; a stroll.
  • (n.) Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time.
  • (n.) Form; cast; shape; manner; fashion; -- used in a literal or figurative sense; hence, form of expression; mode of signifying; as, the turn of thought; a man of a sprightly turn in conversation.
  • (n.) A change of condition; especially, a sudden or recurring symptom of illness, as a nervous shock, or fainting spell; as, a bad turn.
  • (n.) A fall off the ladder at the gallows; a hanging; -- so called from the practice of causing the criminal to stand on a ladder which was turned over, so throwing him off, when the signal was given.
  • (n.) A round of a rope or cord in order to secure it, as about a pin or a cleat.
  • (n.) A pit sunk in some part of a drift.
  • (n.) A court of record, held by the sheriff twice a year in every hundred within his county.
  • (n.) Monthly courses; menses.
  • (n.) An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /), commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, with the note above, and the semitone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next, and the semitone below last, the three being performed quickly, as a triplet preceding the marked note. The turn may be inverted so as to begin with the lower note, in which case the sign is either placed on end thus /, or drawn thus /.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
  • (2) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
  • (3) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (4) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
  • (5) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (6) Since the first is balked by the obstacle of deficit reduction, emphasis has turned to the second.
  • (7) He said: "Monetary policy affects the exchange rate – which in turn can offset or reinforce our exposure to rising import prices.
  • (8) A second Scottish referendum has turned from a highly probable event into an almost inevitable one.
  • (9) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
  • (10) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
  • (11) Each L subunit contains 127 residues arranged into 10 beta-strands connected by turns.
  • (12) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
  • (13) In just a week her life has been turned upside down.
  • (14) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
  • (15) Berlin said it was not too late to turn back from the abyss, without proposing any decisions or action.
  • (16) The C-terminal sequence contains an amphiphilic alpha-helix of four turns which lies on the surface of the beta-barrel.
  • (17) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
  • (18) A new bill, to be published this week with the aim of turning it into law by next month, will allow the government to use Britain's low borrowing rates to guarantee the £40bn in infrastructure projects and £10bn for underwriting housing projects.
  • (19) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
  • (20) Seconds later the camera turns away as what sounds like at least 15 gunshots are fired amid bystanders’ screams.

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