(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.
Understanding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Understand
(a.) Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
(n.) The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
(n.) An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
(n.) The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
(n.) Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(4) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(5) Attempts are now being made to use this increased understanding to produce effective killed vaccines that produce immune responses in the lung.
(6) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(7) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(8) Further study both of the signaling events that lead to MPF activation and of the substrates for phosphorylation by MPF should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the biochemistry of cell division.
(9) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
(10) Grisham said she and other aides had not been aware of the trip and “appreciate everyone’s understanding”.
(11) With better understanding of metabolic and compositional requirements, great advances have been made in the area of total parenteral nutrition.
(12) I did not - do not - quite understand how some are able to contemplate his anti-semitism with indifference.
(13) To get a better understanding of the different cell interactions during the immune response to a hapten-carrier complex, the effects of immunogenic or tolerogenic injections of various hapten-containing compounds on the responses induced by immunization with the same hapten coupled to protein carriers were studied.
(14) A clearer understanding of these relationships and their application to clinical management await further study.
(15) A good understanding of upper gastrointestinal physiology is required to properly understand the pathophysiological events in various diseases or after operations on the upper gastrointestinal tract.
(16) More needs to be known about the direct and indirect modulation of cytokine production by cyclosporin A in connective tissues, in order to understand its potential value in clinical disorders.
(17) This is not an argument for the status quo: teaching must be given greater priority within HE, but the flipside has to be an understanding on the part of students, ministers, officials, the public and the media that academics (just like politicians) cannot make everyone happy all of the time.
(18) For a better understanding of the cytochrome P-450 mediated reactions, we studied the metabolism of midazolam in microsomal fractions prepared from twelve human livers.
(19) Critical in this understanding are the subtle changes that occur in the individual patient, reflecting the natural history of the disease or response to its treatment.
(20) We are already witnessing a wholly understandable uprising of protest.