(n.) A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.
(n.) A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Larvae of the hermit crab Clibanarius vittatus were reared on a diet of Artemia nauplii.
(2) Visual pigment absorption spectra were measured in single photoreceptors of a stomatopod, a crayfish, a hermit crab, and five species of brachyuran crab.
(3) It has charted the world's highest peaks, the ocean floor, the Amazon rainforest and even provided a glimpse into the hermit state of North Korea.
(4) The use of Hermite integration to replace the integration in the combined model likelihood provided the parameter estimates closest to those stimulated.
(5) Established by St Kevin in the 6th century, the site has an arched gateway, a 30m-high round tower, a roofless cathedral, and St Kevin's Cell, the ruins of a beehive-shaped stone hut, thought to have been the hermit's home.
(6) It was also suggested that a three-dimensional Hermite transform can be used to code spatiotemporal events.
(7) It would also force the United Nations to rethink its approach to the hermit state.
(8) I disagree with the ban as it has turned me into a hermit.
(9) Shell-living Pagurus longicarpus hermit crabs were grown in one species of shell.
(10) Number of deaths for each year of age were calculated by application of "two dimensional semi-Hermite method" after estimation of number of deaths for age 80, 81,......84, using Sprague interpolation factors.
(11) The present paper reports on a case of mycobacteriosis in a colony of Hermit-Ibises, in which a so far unknown serovar of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare has been isolated.
(12) It is possible that North Korea's hardline sabre-rattling shines a spotlight onto internal power struggles inside the hermit kingdom.
(13) The orientation of fibers within coordinate planes bounded by epicardial and endocardial surfaces is interpolated linearly, with transmural variation given by cubic Hermite basis functions.
(14) We dispute the claim that Hermite functions (similar to derivatives of Gaussians) minimize a joint uncertainty relation in space and spatial frequency.
(15) Instead, the Hermite functions arise as the eigenfunctions of a space-variant differential operator used to model the contrast sensitivity of human observers.
(16) The active stiffness of ventral superficial abdominal muscle (VSM) of the hermit crab, Pagurus pollicarus, was measured with ramp stretches of different amplitudes and velocities.
(17) The effects of penicillin and picrotoxin on the increase in membrane conductance produced by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) at the hermit crab neuromuscular junction were investigated.
(18) He is, they say, a virtual hermit in his seven-bedroom north London home, a fearful wreck persecuted by his own perfectionism.
(19) With reference to the experimental investigations of Lloyd (1975) and following the suggestions of L'Hermite (1977) and Vaidya (1977) this tumour regression is interpreted as being due to the antimitotic effect of Bromocriptin via inhibition of c-AMP and DNA.
(20) It also heaps additional financial pressure on the already sanctioned hermit regime of leader Kim Jong-un by aiming at cutting down on money laundering and narcotics trafficking, two major illicit activities believed to be funneling millions of dollars into Kim’s inner circle.
Sullen
Definition:
(a.) Lonely; solitary; desolate.
(a.) Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
(a.) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
(a.) Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.
(a.) Obstinate; intractable.
(a.) Heavy; dull; sluggish.
(n.) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
(n.) Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.
(v. t.) To make sullen or sluggish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most defendants in multimillion-euro fraud cases turn up to court ashen-faced and sullen-looking.
(2) Broadly defined, this sort of behaviour involves procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, obstructionism, self-pity and a tendency to create chaotic situations.
(3) The result is a weird kind of dissonance: blogs and op-ed pieces written in London salivate over "the most important byelection in 30 years" and claim – with some justification – that its outcome will have profound consequences for the two coalition parties, while most locals view it all with a sullen detachment.
(4) They were instantly swamped by sunlight; more the sullen accused on trial than Her Majesty's front bench.
(5) "Even a total stranger could experience the chilling effect of seeing sullen pairs of the Guardia Civil walking the street."
(6) In his memoir , Brown’s former aide Damian McBride candidly describes the thrill of having the ear of one of the most powerful men in the land – though he confesses the prime minister would “stare at [him] sullenly for a moment or two, then say: ‘Get me Ed Balls.’” I certainly met plenty of chiefs of staff and spin doctors who jealously guarded their privileged access to a particular politician and their status as that MP’s “vicar on Earth”.
(7) Against a backdrop described by the King's Fund thinktank as "deepening pessimism about the ability of the NHS to make ends meet, particularly in 2015-16", many on the health side are sullenly resentful of "their" money going into the BCF.
(8) Factor analysis of this brief inventory resulted in eight factors: disorientation, impaired concentration and thinking, paranoid-hallucinatory symptoms, anxiety, sullen inadequacy (restraint depression), hostility, loss of control, giving up.
(9) Through a double-glazed window in an adjacent room, a sullen security guard in khaki watches over all.
(10) Shortly after midnight Friday, partygoers belted Purple Rain together, a notably moving moment amid a sullen day.
(11) That sullen death-stare she perfected as April in Parks & Rec should come in handy somewhere on the dark side, perhaps as a female Sith Lord – a Sith Lady, if you will.
(12) If you’re sensing that the Mill is bored, or better yet, indifferent, or better yet, showing all the sullen ardour of a husband obliging himself to make love to his wife in the thick of a carnal indifference, then take your right hand, place it over your left shoulder and give yourself a big old pat on the back.
(13) I interviewed G-Unit once (minus the banged-up Tony Yayo) and they were the antithesis of the sullen, aggressive rapper stereotype (although they did turn their noses up at the very idea of letting any of the "British food" at their 5-star hotel pass their lips, and sent their manager out for a McDonalds instead).
(14) There are roadblocks manned by sullen-looking teenagers cradling AK-47s, but no meaningful law and order.
(15) Behind came a straggling caravan of mules and porters, including a couple of teenage boys who watched the college girls with sullen fascination.
(16) McFadden's penalty brought City a point, at which point William Gallas went all precious, attacking an advertising board and sitting sullenly on the pitch after the final whistle.
(17) A period as manager of Port Vale, after Stoke had rather sullenly parted company with him, reducing his wages and refusing him complimentary tickets, was ill-starred.
(18) It made him look sullen, grumpy and at worst disengaged from his challenger.
(19) Obscenity is lecherous and sullen in regard to women and virulent towards men: it may then be interpreted as a mean of struggle against the anxiety of death.
(20) Manchester United survived a couple of scares in 2008 at Wigan, but ultimately won 2-0 comfortably, while in 2010 Chelsea romped to an 8-0 victory over Wigan at Stamford Bridge as United sullenly and pointlessly beat Stoke City 4-0 at home.