(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.
Gold
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Goolde
(v. t.) A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.
(v. t.) Money; riches; wealth.
(v. t.) A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.
(v. t.) Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) To investigate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) intolerance and the effect of gold use on the seroprevalence of H. pylori.
(2) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
(3) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(4) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
(5) To determine the nature of the electrochemical treatment on the gold substrate, cyclic voltammetry was performed with various chemical solutions.
(6) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(7) Injection of albumin-colloidal gold conjugates resulted in an insignificant uptake.
(8) IgG-gold also adhered to M cells and excess unlabeled IgG inhibited IgA-gold binding; thus binding was not isotype-specific.
(9) Colloidal gold immuno-electron microscopy is a powerful tool for defining antigenicity at the subcellular level.
(10) The effects of gold thioglucose loading on Se distribution, and on Se-dependent GSH peroxidase and GSH S-transferase, were examined in rats fed three dietary levels of Se (0, 0.2, and 2.0 ppm), and with or without adjuvant-induced inflammation.
(11) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
(12) The sectioned worm tissues from each developmental stage were embedded in Lowicryl HM 20 medium, stained with infected serum IgG and protein A gold complex (particle size: 12 nm) and observed by electron microscopy.
(13) We concluded that gold labeling with polymyxin B is useful in localizing the binding sites of polymyxin.
(14) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
(15) Evidence for Golgi apparatus-associated processing of oligosaccharides in the ER was obtained by lectin-gold cytochemistry revealing the presence of the galactose (beta 1----4)N-acetylglucosamine sequence and sialic acid residues.
(16) One of them got a gold medal in medicine, for being top of the year, but they dropped out for exactly these reasons.” These are not alarmist stories being spread by campaigners.
(17) Different techniques for attaching the gold cylinders to the frameworks were used.
(18) A post-embedding cytochemical technique using WGA-gold complexes was used and the quantitative intensity of WGA-labeling on the surface membrane of platelets after convulxin stimulation was determined.
(19) Only 75% of the granules stained for PRL by the protein-A gold technique; the other 25% stained for neither PRL nor GH.
(20) Smoking behaviour, self-reported mood and cardiac activity were examined in 12 "sedative" and 12 "stimulant" smokers, defined using Mangan and Golding's questionnaire.