(v. i.) To be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter.
(n.) Glitter; luster.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has glistered over 10 years, rising 177% against 69% on the FTSE 100, 41% for house prices and 32% for bonds.
(2) Brian Sewell, enemy of conceptualism and all things contemporary, once wrote, "They offer nothing but a moment's glister and demand no contemplation."
(3) For the owners of property the streets around here are still quietly glistering, even if nobody is at home.
(4) I fear the user interfaces will be labyrinths of glistering advertising, festooned with social-media gimcracks, and that the focus of these corporations is dangerously diluted away from producing surprising, novel, fun games.
Lister
Definition:
(n.) A spear armed with three or more prongs, for striking fish.
(n.) One who makes a list or roll.
(n.) Same as Leister.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(2) Detailed studies of the effects of acid pH on the formation of Fraction C after borohydride reduction demonstrated the apparent lability of the non-reduced form, thus confirming our previous findings (Bailey & Lister, 1968).
(3) Several stages in its histogenesis may be discerned: I. focal necroses of hepatic cells associated with their invasion with lister Listeria; 2. appearance of cellular elements around the foci of necroses with subsequent formation of granulemas consisting mainly of leucocytes and lymphoid cells; 3. development of necrobiotic changes in the central areas of granulemas with concomitance of exudative processes; 4. organization of necrotic foci with subsequent scarring.
(4) She was accompanied by a Scottish Labour activist Hannah Lister.
(5) Lister, a Scottish surgeon, was the first physician to apply the germ theory to clinical practice and developed the techniques of antiseptic surgery and wound care, resulting in dramatic reductions in surgical mortality.
(6) Rats of the Hooded-Lister strain were sensitized and challenged with ovalbumin.
(7) Sir Edward Lister, Johnson's chief-of-staff and the deputy mayor for planning, said his boss's priority was to increase the number of low-cost homes for Londoners, and that since 2008 more than 76,000 affordable homes had been built in the city.
(8) Simpson, Semmelweis, Lister, and Ogston all found their ideas scorned by members of the profession, which may have feared being held responsible for deaths.
(9) The assay also successfully detected and measured specific anti-LLO antibodies in the sera of silage-fed sheep among which listeric enteritis and abortions had occurred.
(10) The Human Engineering Division of the Armstrong Laboratory (USAF); the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology; the Washington University School of Medicine; and the Lister-Hill National Center for Biomedical Communication, National Library of Medicine are sponsoring a working group on electronic imaging of the human body.
(11) Providing more affordable homes, both to rent and buy, is one of the mayor’s top priorities, and the report to be considered by the mayor proposes to double the amount of affordable housing in these planning applications,” Sir Edward Lister, the deputy mayor for planning, said.
(12) Vaccinia viruses LC16m0 and LC16m8 are temperature-sensitive and low-neurovirulent variants derived from the Lister (Elstree) (LO) strain.
(13) Trachoma organisms of immunotypes A, B and C prepared in yolk sac produced more inclusion-forming units per ml in CO60 BHK-21 Lister than in CO60 McCoy.
(14) About 400 British nationals are thought to be fighting in Syria, with a majority likely to be involved with Isis or its affiliated factions, according to Charles Lister, a Middle East analyst at the Brookings Doha Centre.
(15) This congenic strain of the Lister and Albany rat is normotensive, corpulent, and hyperlipidemic when homozygous for the corpulent (cp) gene derived from the Koletsky strain.
(16) Intracardiac injection, in hooded Lister rats, of syngeneic MC28 sarcoma cells never induced tumour growth in normal bowel.
(17) The clinical, angiographic, and histopathological features of experimental posterior uveitis in the black hooded Lister rat are described.
(18) We compared the time course of changes in serum levels of circulating immune complexes (CICs) and of IgG antibody after sensitization of albino Lewis and pigmented Lister strain rats with uveitogenic (retinal S-antigen) and non-uveitogenic (ovalbumin) protein antigens of comparable molecular weight.
(19) One in eight Universities Central Council on Admissions (UCCA) applications for admission to St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1986 were in due course recirculated to the four short-listers, being seen again either by the same short-lister or by another short-lister.
(20) A standard challenge with percutaneous smallpox vaccine was administered to 629 children six to 12 months after percutaneous primary inoculation with one of four vaccines (New York City Board of Health strains grown in calf lymph or chorioallantoic membranes, the Lister vaccine, or the CV-1 strain).