(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.
Prick
Definition:
(v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.
(v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.
(v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.
(v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
(v.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
(v.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.
(v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.
(v.) The footprint of a hare.
(v.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.
(n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper.
(n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board.
(n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.
(n.) To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition.
(n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.
(n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
(n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged.
(n.) To render acid or pungent.
(n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with up.
(n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.
(n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.
(n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
(n.) To nick.
(v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.
(v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.
(v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
(v. i.) To aim at a point or mark.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results have implications in utilizing codeine phosphate as a positive skin prick test control for allergy testing.
(2) The diagnosis of occupational allergy was based on history, skin prick tests and RAST to the pollen.
(3) Prick tests performed on 16 different condom brands showed that 4 brands caused positive reactions in 52-67% of patients.
(4) One hundred and forty-four had non-allergic and 69 allergic asthma verified retrospectively by positive skin prick test in 1988.
(5) The results of this investigation are clearly in contrast to earlier earlier reports, in that there was a very good correlation between prick test, RAST and case history.
(6) The prick tests, using both commercial allergens and specific extracts prepared from the most common types of coffee and their corresponding sacks, confirmed a sensitization in 21 workers (9.6%).
(7) There were statistically significant exposure-response relations between exposure and symptoms from eyes and upper airways, dry cough, positive skin prick test, and specific IgE and IgG antibodies.
(8) The effect of 4.4 mg azelastine administered orally on airway responsiveness, skin prick testing, daily peak expiratory flow rates and symptoms of asthma was compared with placebo in a 7 week double-blind, parallel group study of 24 patients with extrinsic asthma.
(9) Subjective pain ratings of mucosal pin-prick decreased a surprisingly small degree after application of both solutions.
(10) Having said that, though, the man is clearly a bit of a prick and one with a serial addiction to publicity."
(11) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
(12) In comparison with conventional allergen preparations immunologically characterized allergens were tested by skin-prick-tests for reactions.
(13) Exclusion of asthmatics and taking into account smoking and skin prick test positivity yielded mostly similar results.
(14) The results of the Phadezym-RAST and IgE-Quick correlated very well (r = 0.96) and both in-vitro methods corresponded to the Skin-Prick-Test (greater than 90%).
(15) Throughout history there have been periods of wild exuberance followed by the pricking of bubbles.
(16) By skin prick testing comparable results were obtained with both extracts.
(17) In both groups of patients, there was a low incidence of the causes of post-cordotomy pain recurrence contralateral to the lesion, i.e., deafferentation pain, fading of analgesia, and pain above the levels up to which deep pin-prick analgesia had been obtained.
(18) In making a computerized cephalometric analysis, first the film should be traced, and the landmarks pricked and manually digitalized into an X-Y coordinate system.
(19) Sections of eggs, fixed 20 to 60 s following fertilization or pricking, show that the tubular cisternae have disappeared and the clusters of cisternae have opened to give rise to longer cisternae arranged in chains.
(20) Bronchial responsiveness to histamine and skin prick test reactions to airborne allergens were measured in a random population sample of 891 adults and 1293 schoolchildren.