(v. t.) A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
(v. t.) To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) They have informed, advocated and sometimes goaded participants in a way that will be entirely familiar to people in Europe.
(2) Thereby, it serves as a goad to thinking about conflicts between pregnant women and their fetuses in a way that emphasizes relationships rather than rights.
(3) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
(4) Francesco Totti has escaped with a spell on the naughty step for goading Lazio fans in the wake of Sunday's Rome derby, but has been fined €10,000 for each thumb he pointed down in a bid to rile them up.
(5) The public conscience has been stirred and professional groups--doctors, lawyers, legislators and law enforcement agencies--goaded on many occasions by feminist groups, have deliberated the various aspects of this problem.
(6) Where Google News has a sentence that tells you what the story is, Goad notes: "Facebook often has the first paragraph, so they're stealing – if you want to use that word – more of the content."
(7) I can’t tell if he’s goading him, or wanting him to join in, or do something differently.
(8) We had two young daughters who would goad him into conversation, as children will.
(9) He used a number of accounts to goad his victims when they attempted to block his comments, saying police "would do nothing" about his tirade of abuse.
(10) Goaded, taunted and tormented by the prosecution, Pistorius was perhaps his own worst enemy during cross-examination, suffering surprising memory lapses and appearing evasive, agitated, petulant and self-contradictory.
(11) Baillie, Scottish Labour’s effective interim leader at Holyrood while the party votes on a successor to replace Johann Lamont, had goaded Salmond.
(12) To a packed Bundestag, Merkel said it was "absurd" to claim Germany was trying to "dominate" Europe – an accusation which has become ever more widespread after one of her MPs made goading comments that "Europe was now speaking German" .
(13) Locals say the gangs were goaded into the violence by others from their factions elsewhere in Rio.
(14) We have a president-elect who penned in journalists at his rallies, has continued to goad the press even after his election win, and who has history of threats against journalists.
(15) He heard the boos and the goading battle cries: "No Surrender to the IRA", "Judas!
(16) But our state must resist the temptation to be goaded into tackling complicated issues with simplistic, divisive laws.
(17) "Twitter is no longer purely in the domain of early adopters; rather it is becoming a universal tool which is being used increasingly by all types of internet users, regardless of their online preferences," Goad noted.
(18) "A typical website in the UK receives around two in every five visits from search engines and obviously, the vast majority of those come via Google," according to Robin Goad, research director at Hitwise UK.
(19) Not like at the Spectator garden party, where one eyewitness described the two cabinet ministers goading each other “like a pair of rutting stags locking antlers”.
(20) He has only ever talked about his experiences once and was angry with Frischmann for revealing this in a moment of weakness as she was being goaded about her 'privileged' upbringing.
Goat
Definition:
(n.) A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) 10D1 mAb induced a substantial proliferation of peripheral blood T cells when cross-linked with goat anti-mouse Ig antibody.
(2) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(3) Infectious virus was recovered 3 years after infection from selected tissues of 12 of 17 CAEV(63)-infected goats and 11 of 18 CAEV(Co)-infected goats.
(4) As evidence, they show no mediated semantic-phonological priming during picture naming: Retrieval of sheep primes goat, but the activation of goat is not transmitted to its phonological relative, goal.
(5) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
(6) In the second study, CFA, TiterMax, Adjuvax and RAS were compared in rabbits, mice and goats.
(7) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
(8) In order to obtain baseline information about Lewis antigen expression in human urothelium in order that changes during malignant transformation can be evaluated, urothelium from eight individuals of known erythrocyte Lewis types were stained by a Tween-modified indirect immunoperoxidase staining technique using goat antibodies directed toward the Lewis a and Lewis b determinants and mouse monoclonal antibodies directed toward the Lewis a determinant in serial dilutions.
(9) The staining method consisted of sequential treatment of slides with crest serum, fluorosceinated goat-antihuman and swine-antigoat antibodies, and propidium iodide.
(10) The antigen bound antibody was separated from the free antigen by the double antibody method using goat anti-rabbit IgG serum.
(11) Twenty-eight pregnant goats in midgestation were exposed to a bovine pathogenic strain of Brucella abortus to determine the histologic changes associated with infection.
(12) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(13) Mature Fasciola gigantica obtained from naturally infected cattle were surgically transferred into the gallbladders of six fluke-free goats.
(14) The Palestinian Bedouin family live in Az-Zayyem, inside Area C, farming goats and camels for milk.
(15) In the second experiment, 2 antisera to mouse NGF were given daily into the footpad for 11 or 12 d; control animals were given normal goat serum.
(16) Therefore, the hypothesis of a fetal sensori-neural hearing loss due to oxygen lack was tested in the following animal models: a) Adult cats to which feline red blood cells were infused thus causing a polycythemia similar to fetal conditions; b) Adult rats acclimated to altitude in a hypobaric chamber, inducing erythropoiesis with elevated hematocrit and hemoglobin; c) Neonatal guinea pigs and goats studied when they were less than 12 hours old so that the fetal compensatory mechanisms were still present.
(17) The goat and rabbit mouse epsilon chain-specific antisera were adsorbed on normal mouse serum.
(18) The OMI averaged 2.2 and 2.1% of body weight for sheep and goats, respectively (P = .08).
(19) The goat isolates were obtained from animals with various disease conditions including respiratory tract disorders, vulvovaginitis, and wart-like lesions on the eyelid.
(20) Cerebrocortical necrosis appears to be unusual in goats, compared to cattle and sheep, but it should be entertained in the differential diagnosis of caprine nervous diseases.