(superl.) Having in the head a sensation of whirling or reeling about; having lost the power of preserving the balance of the body, and therefore wavering and inclined to fall; lightheaded; dizzy.
(superl.) Promoting or inducing giddiness; as, a giddy height; a giddy precipice.
(superl.) Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.
(superl.) Characterized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless.
(v. i.) To reel; to whirl.
(v. t.) To make dizzy or unsteady.
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.
Masker
Definition:
(n.) One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade.
(v. t.) To confuse; to stupefy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, three mechanisms are discussed that contribute to the absence of unmasking by masker fluctuations in hearing-impaired listeners.
(2) Detectability of a filtered probe tone (250, 500, or 1000 Hz) was measured in the presence of a narrow-band Gaussian masker centered at the signal frequency.
(3) For fixed delta T (delta T greater than 3 msec), the masking effect may actually increase for the longer, less intense noises despite the fact that, for long maskers, there is less masker energy near the signal in time.
(4) Results indicated that the MLD decreased in magnitude as the interaural phase shift of the masker increased.
(5) Forward masking, as measured behaviorally, is defined as an increase in a signal's detection threshold resulting from a preceding masker.
(6) Thus the overshoot effect was markedly reduced by aspirin because the drug partially counteracted the normally poor detectability for signals presented soon after masker onset.
(7) Masker and signal frequencies were the same as for the first experiment.
(8) The iso-forward masking contour near the threshold of the masking effect across masker frequencies approximates a fiber's frequency threshold curve (FTC).
(9) In part, the small threshold shifts can be attributed to the reduction in response variance following the masker, which is the result of the adaptation of spontaneous activity.
(10) Hence, one cannot predict masked threshold from the acoustic spectra of the maskers used here since they differ from their internal representations.
(11) The data support a spectrum-analyzer model of detection in which multiband filtering of the input smooths the masker energy in each spectral region to approximate the Gaussian case.
(12) Recent investigations of the masking-level difference (MLD) have often involved measurement of the MLD as a function of masker level.
(13) The masker with the largest amplitude fluctuations exhibited greater forward-masking ability than other stimuli; this effect was observed on the high-frequency branch and within the tip region of the tuning curve.
(14) The 20-ms signal was presented at the onset or at the temporal center of the 400-ms masker.
(15) A reaction time paradigm was used to estimate the sensitivity of four subjects to airpuffs without and during continuous vibration (masker) of low (30 Hz) or high (240 Hz) frequency.
(16) The data from all three experiments suggest that threshold signal levels in the presence of interaural differences in masker intensity depend principally on the ear with the higher signal-to-masker ratio at the output of its auditory filter, a finding consistent with the power-spectrum model of masking.
(17) Because maskers that are decorrelated yield small MLDs, the MLD is likewise small at low masker levels.
(18) For large masker separations, r greater than 0.4, no consistent effects of signal phase were observed.
(19) The IMD is dominated by the cubic component (2f1-f2) and arises from the interaction of the probe tone and the simultaneous masker.
(20) Masker duration was 20 or 400 ms; in the latter case, the signal was presented in one of three temporal positions within the masker.