(a.) Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.
(a.) Destitute of a chief or leader.
(a.) Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate.
Example Sentences:
(1) That it comes exactly 100 days from the opening ceremony of the Rio Games merely underlines the urgency now that the team has been left in effect headless.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘It stands inert as a headless electric toothbrush, but less useful.’ Well?
(3) There will be burlesque workshops for adults, the Magnificent Insect Circus Museum and five performances of Sideshow Illusions featuring a headless lady.
(4) To examine the influence of the head and tail domains on the structure and assembly properties of nuclear lamins, we have engineered "headless," "tailless," and "rod" chicken lamin B2 cDNAs and expressed them in Escherichia coli.
(5) Agencies are headless, leaks are rampant, and aides are congratulated for lying on TV.
(6) This unconditioned response affects the headless cockroaches avoid shocks in the lifting task by escape learning, whereas they avoid shocks in the lowering task by true avoidance learning.
(7) Following induction of long-term potentiation in subfield CA1 of the hippocampal slice from 26-month-old rats, shaft synapse numbers increased by 44% and sessile spine synapses (synapses on stubby, headless spines) by 72%, with the more common mushroom-shaped spine synapses statistically unaltered.
(8) I’m going to be running around like a headless chicken later,” she says, looking at the afternoon’s roster of short appointments.
(9) It is concluded that the headless cockroach is useful for understanding the motor mechanisms underlying righting and walking but is not of value in assessing the functions of proprioceptive feedback.
(10) The site quickly became unavailable, but screenshots circulated online showed the group's trademark headless suit and a message addressed to the Syrian people saying that "the world stands with you against the brutal regime."
(11) Fragments fused soon after isolation formed "headless" regenerates but had normal body proportions.
(12) And when Nick Clegg suggested that the next generation of nuclear power stations may never be built because the recommended higher and more costly safety standards would make them too expensive, Chris Huhne launched an astonishing attack on his party leader , accusing him of behaving like a "headless chicken" on the issue.
(13) Whereas dimers made of the truncated B2 headless and rod lamins had lost their propensity to associate head-to-tail, tailless lamin B2 dimers revealed an enhanced head-to-tail association.
(14) The Conservative housing spokesman, Grant Shapps, said: "We welcome anything that will genuinely keep people in their homes, but ministers are guilty of running around like headless chickens announcing complicated, confusing and often contradictory plans, which later turn out to help far fewer people than the headlines would have you believe."
(15) It was because I was like a headless chicken in the first 10 minutes.” Dier is remembering his baptism as a defensive midfielder and the manager who gave it to him at Sporting Lisbon on 2 March 2013.
(16) Just four years later, Libya is witnessing an explosion in violence, led by al-Qaida and Islamic State (Isis): the gruesome murder of Egyptian Christians , devastating suicide bombings , the kidnapping of western oil workers and the discovery of countless headless soldiers and civil-society activists in Benghazi.
(17) The cover comes from a "headless" gull-shaped, forehead flap.
(18) In each case, skeletal metastases were extensive, but the calvaria was not involved, resulting in a headless appearance.
(19) But Paul Edden, who runs a franchise in Staffordshire, told of rivals who pay the minimum wage and run staff around "like headless chickens".
(20) blog alongside a photo of a headless Labour MP, and the most visible woman anywhere near the government remains Samantha Cameron, who could this week be found baking cupcakes for a royal wedding street party.
Keyboard
Definition:
(n.) The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The iPad is a 9.7in tablet computer with a virtual keyboard which can surf the web, do email, display ebooks and play video.
(2) A 32 key keyboard offers many advantages for use with the HP PDMS.
(3) Before physically disabled individuals can operate augmentative communication devices, computer keyboards or other assistive or rehabilitative devices, they should be provided with the optimum seated posture from which to operate.
(4) On the whole though, there is not much yelling but much tapping of keyboards.
(5) I was the Specials' founder, main songwriter and keyboard player.
(6) Some plump for Your Love , with its distinctive keyboard figure that subsequently turned up both on Candi Staton and the Source's endlessly reissued and covered 1991 hit You Got The Love and, of all things, psychedelic rock band Animal Collective's My Girls.
(7) Units are selected by the computer to meet requirements specified by the operator of a keyboard terminal.
(8) In total 99 patients, visiting the outpatient clinic of Internal Medicine for the first time, took part in this in-depth study, in which they could express themselves via an interactive and modified terminal and keyboard.
(9) He might not be the hard-drinking rockstar of old but classically-trained pianist James Blake proved that cerebral compositions on a keyboard are no barrier to success after he was crowned winner of the coveted Barclaycard Mercury prize .
(10) You have CEOs of major companies who whip out their BlackBerrys because of the keyboard.
(11) Perhaps his keyboard should have been shaped like a Snapchat of a stranger's todger instead.
(12) Pins (dots) being used to represent written information on a braille keyboard, the device in this application is not used as an input but for output purposes.
(13) Critics have focused on the price, which ranges from £429 to £699, and point out that "netbook" computers with full keyboards are available for about £350.
(14) Keyboard work consists mostly of dynamic contractions of the small muscles of the forearms and hands.
(15) There was sweat in every stroke and that was just on this keyboard.
(16) The interrelationships of these ocular and orthopedic phenomena have been synthesized into a comprehensive hypothesis, in an effort to create a computer configuration which permits a greater integration of the keyboard (tool-usage) with the screen-visualization (product-of-tool-usage), and improves visual feedback.
(17) On the day that Sony Pictures decided to cancel the release of The Interview – a comedy about the fictional assassination of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un – the firm’s employees were advised to cover their keyboard with a cloth when logging into email “so that hackers can’t see what you are typing”.
(18) But we stuck with them because we all use them heavily for email and the qwerty keyboard is much faster than a touchscreen, especially for one who has touchtyped at the speed of light since I was 13.
(19) The new keyboard is the jewel in the crown and RIM has mastered the experience.
(20) Keyboard operators had an odds ratio of 3.0 for tension neck syndrome (five studies).