(a.) Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) What is shocking is the number of them on NGO boards, and the glaring absence of so many other kinds of expertise.
(2) The Heliomat film viewer offers impressive reproductions of 100 mm film on a glare-free glass screen.
(3) On the other hand, the greater diastolic response and appearance of VES in night driving subgroups during glare suggest a greater sensitivity to the glare pressor test in these subjects.
(4) "I wear orange tinted glasses for cricket which help reduce glare and also seem to enhance the ball in slightly less than impressive light.
(5) When Donald Trump takes the Japanese prime minister , Shinzo Abe, to his resort at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, this weekend, eyebrows will rise – and not just because of the glaring conflict of interest in hosting a state visit at a flagship Trump property.
(6) In the course of this teamwork the deficiencies and drawbacks of hospitalisation legislation have become glaringly evident.
(7) The glaring inconsistency now so prevalent in the management of children must be countered by clear positive guidelines and by 'unifying principles' which are embodied in legislation.
(8) "Every bit of good news sends that team into decline," he said as he glared at the opposition leader "but I can tell him the good news is going to keep coming."
(9) Summer targets Our squad has the same glaring gaps as always.
(10) The most glaring outcome is that all the houses pay less tax in real terms today than they did in local rates a third of a century ago.
(11) Night and day glare sensitivity were each associated only with increased severity of posterior subcapsular cataracts (P less than or equal to 0.003) and with decreased visual acuity (P less than 0.001).
(12) With Altidore's lack of movement glaringly apparent, the crowd agitated for Steven Fletcher's liberation from the bench and, taking the hint, Sunderland's manager threw him on.
(13) Increased glare sensitivity diminishing the ability to drive under mesopic conditions can be due to scattered light produced by artificial lenses.
(14) But given its popularity, it is little wonder that negotiating "Facebook divorce" status updates has become another unhappy event for failed romances, over when to launch the site's broken-heart icon out into the glare of the world's news feed.
(15) Ofsted said its inspectors had raised "glaringly serious" problems in Haringey's child protection regime with Shoesmith, despite her insistence that they were "never made clear" to her before the publication of the inspectors' report.
(16) As for Countryfile, Hunt personally oversaw the revamp: "Yes, we did change the presenting line-up, editorially, moving it from daytime to the glare of peak time.
(17) LogMAR visual acuity, contrast sensitivity and glare sensitivity measurements were made on 39 eyes of 18 cataractous subjects and compared against normative data.
(18) And it's that grizzly commitment to glaring and bone-crunching that's made him so internationally bankable.
(19) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
(20) Athlete Oscar Pistorius will be back in the glare of the world's media when his murder trial resumes on Monday but, in an unorthodox legal move, he will not be the first witness for his own defence.
Kindle
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To bring forth young.
(v. t.) To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to ignite; to cause to begin burning; to start; to light; as, to kindle a match, or shavings.
(v. t.) Fig.: To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame.
(v. i.) To take fire; to begin to burn with flame; to start as a flame.
(v. i.) Fig.: To begin to be excited; to grow warm or animated; to be roused or exasperated.
Example Sentences:
(1) The anticonvulsant properties of the endogenous excitatory amino acid antagonist, kynurenic acid (KYA), were studied in prepubescent and adult rats using the amygdaloid kindling model of epilepsy.
(2) For the purpose of contributing methodologically to experimental research on epilepsy, we investigated whether a difference exists in kindling development between acute and chronic preparations using identical species of animals, kindled brain tissues, stimulus intervals, and intensities.
(3) The kainate and quisqualate types of excitatory amino acid receptor were visualized autoradiographically in brain sections from rats kindled by stimulating the angular bundle.
(4) A corrective effect of Nicotinamide on oxidation processes in ganglion and neuroglial cells of cerebral cortex sensorimotor zone in "kindling" phenomenon was studied in the experiments on mice of C57BL line.
(5) PHT, CBZ, VPA, and CZP, SK&F 89976-A and SK&F 100330-A inhibited seizures in corneally kindled rats.
(6) The inhibitory effect of serotonin on the kindling model of epilepsy was investigated in the adult rat.
(7) In the second experiment, 15- and 30-day-old rats underwent unilateral carotid ligation followed by kindling in the ipsilateral amygdala.
(8) If Obama is your new iPad, Sarah Palin is your old Kindle.
(9) Electrical amygdaloid kindling was carried out with a 15 min inter-stimulus interval (ISI) in a control situation with intravenous (i.v.)
(10) We suggest that the NE-dependent mechanism responsible for the seizure suppression observed to follow concurrent, alternate stimulation and the suppression of seizure development using single-site kindling paradigms may be the same.
(11) GABAergic neurons and terminals are also increased in the hippocampus of seizure-sensitive gerbils, and kindling of the hippocampus and amygdala appears to enhance GABAergic inhibitory mechanisms.
(12) Based on an hypothesis that links electrical kindling in the limbic system (leading to seizures) to reverse tolerance or sensitivity to cocaine's effects, carbamazepine is being tested as a treatment for human cocaine users.
(13) reversed the increase in locomotion and elevation of multiple squeak thresholds in the bilaterally kindled rats.
(14) In fully kindled animals a stimulus-induced generalized seizure gave rise to a three-fold increase of noradrenaline levels in the stimulated hippocampus as compared to baseline levels (15-min samples).
(15) In the present work no significant differences were found between the behaviour of FG7142-kindled rats and vehicle-treated controls in social interaction test, elevated plus maze, or the Vogel conflict test of anxiety or in tests of home cage aggression or startle responses.
(16) Amygdaloid kindling of rats produced an increase in hippocampal Met5-enkephalin-Arg6-Gly7-Leu8 and cholecystokinin immunoreactivities and simultaneously a decrease in dynorphin A1-8 content.
(17) The data suggest that GABA-T inhibitors, such as vigabatrin, differ from most antiepileptic drugs previously tested in the kindling model in that they may produce both anticonvulsant and proconvulsant effects at the same dose in the same animal as a function of time after administration.
(18) However, the concentration of Asp decreased depending on the kindling stage, reaching the lowest value of 33% in comparison with the normal value.
(19) Thus, electrophysiological alterations within the first synaptic relay of the hippocampal trisynaptic circuit, the dentate gyrus, cannot explain the long duration of the kindling effect.
(20) In brightness discrimination reaction (BDR) the learning performance of PTZ-kindled animals was not influenced.