(v. t.) To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky.
Example Sentences:
(1) Asked by counsel assisting the inquest Jeremy Gormly SC whether it was the case that it was not going to be available to any of the three snipers to take a shot unless the glass was breached, he replied: “I believe that to be correct.” Sydney siege: plan to release hostage thwarted by mass breakout, inquest told Read more The officer, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has also rejected suggestions that the sniper at the Westpac building could have taken a shot at Monis at about 7.38pm, when the gunman was observed through a window at the Lindt cafe.
(2) Overseen by New South Wales coroner Michael Barnes, the inquest is being guided by Jeremy Gormly SC, counsel assisting the coroner, who has revealed there are many audio and video recordings from inside the cafe to shed more light on what happened.
(3) Rothman shows more gorm: sometimes chaos is just chaos.
(4) Sydney siege: how a day and night of terror unfolded at the Lindt cafe Read more Asked by counsel assisting the coroner, Jeremy Gormly SC, what he believed Monis was referring to, Morton-Hoffman said: “I believe Monis might have said to me that he wants, he has these two bombs on him but he doesn’t want to blow them up and he needs the police to disarm them ... take them out of the building so that we don’t die.” It was confirmed after the siege ended there were no bombs.
(5) When pressed by counsel assisting the inquest, Jeremy Gormly SC, why the emergency action trigger had not been reached despite a shot being fired, the tactical commander said no hostage had been harmed at that stage.
Norm
Definition:
(a.) A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.
(a.) A typical, structural unit; a type.
Example Sentences:
(1) The norms are reported as "Scaled Score Equivalents of Raw Scores" for each age group and as "IQ Equivalents of Sums of Scaled Scores."
(2) Specifically, the study investigated the cross-cultural utility of the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) by examining scores of community and patient samples of Korean immigrants and comparing them with norms for Americans and for Koreans living in Korea.
(3) The Metro-Manila Developmental Screening Test (MMDST) is a Philippine version of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) for which norms were developed in 1980 on 6006 Filipino children.
(4) Both the indirect and direct measures of attitude and social norm explained a significant amount of the variance in intention and BSE frequency.
(5) Examples include growth trajectories, morphological shapes, and norms of reaction.
(6) This study was designed to assess whether the influences of affect, utility, norm, and habit on intention to seek care promptly for a breast cancer symptom were conditional upon race.
(7) Following the cognitive orientation theory, we hypothesized that beliefs concerning goals, norms, oneself, and general beliefs would predict the extent of improvement following acupuncture.
(8) On this planet, extinction is the norm – of the 4 billion species ever thought to have evolved, 99% have become extinct.
(9) Normative ranges of drinking converged from September to April, suggesting the emerging norms were the product of social experience with classmates.
(10) In 30 patients, the structure and function of the reproductive organs was within age norm.
(11) On the basis of detected wide species variety of microorganisms potentially dominating by their biotope numerical limits of the norm were determined only for the microbial groups of the accompanying microflora.
(12) Overall, both groups scored higher than the norm and showed a more optimal personality development than has been observed in earlier studies of this kind.
(13) Its average values are significantly lower up to the 6th month post treatment discontinuation and closrm, with only 13 above the norm.
(14) The biological tolerability was excellent without any variation of the biological norm values (47 parameters).
(15) Referencing these dismal truths on the website Race Files , Soya Jung criticised Chua and Rubenfeld for "buying into exceptionalist arguments to explain disparities means endorsing a dehumanising system of racialised norms".
(16) An interactive effect between drug testing and subjective norms on attitudes toward a company was also significant.
(17) Gilmore said she can understand that antipathy towards teenage pregnancy in many countries, but said traditional belief systems were not a reason to hold on to a “toxic norm”.
(18) In the athletic population the maximal aerobic power increased across ages 10 to 14, whereas, the values for the less active norms decreased with age.
(19) This, in turn, would provide the cover to push through aspects of the Trump agenda that require a further suspension of core democratic norms – such as his pledge to deny entry to all Muslims (not only those from selected countries), his Twitter threat to bring in “the feds” to quell street violence in Chicago, or his obvious desire to place restrictions on the press.
(20) Prolonged breast feeding should be encouraged, child health improved, and research conducted on the traditions, norms, customs, and taboos of target populations.