(v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
(v. t.) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.
(v. t.) To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
(v. t.) To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.
(v. t.) To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.
(n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.
(n.) The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.
(n.) A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.
(n.) A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.
(n.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.
(n.) A small dislocation of a bed or vein.
Example Sentences:
(1) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
(2) One bleeding of 200 ml from a wounded intercostal vessel ligated with a clip was the sole operative hitch.
(3) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
(4) Successful reconstruction of a neoureter was performed easily with the Boari bladder flap coupled with nephropexy and a psoas hitch.
(5) Follow-up observations revealed the presence of VUR in 2 patients who underwent surgery by the initial form of Boari's method and in 1 patient who underwent surgery by the psoas-hitch method.
(6) It is suggested that spontaneously occurring cryptic lesions that are themselves unable to induce the SOS system are subject to translesion synthesis under these conditions and trigger a burst of hitch-hiking mutations that are therefore effectively umuC dependent.
(7) They – we – had come by bus, plane, train, car and hitch-hiker's thumb to demonstrate to ourselves and a watching world that there was a better, more righteous America than the Birmingham of Bull Connor who had set the dogs and fire hoses on black children.
(8) Nine patients underwent adjunctive procedures in addition to bladder augmentation, including a Young-Dees-Leadbetter procedure in 4, an artificial urinary sphincter in 3, transureteroureterostomy and psoas hitch in 1, and a Mitrofanoff procedure and bladder neck closure in 1.
(9) We can’t complain if we’re not involved.” Buhari, the first opposition candidate with a realistic chance of defeating a sitting Nigerian president, was accredited without a hitch using the card reader in his hometown of Daura, in northern Katsina state.
(10) When I asked “What about the women?” I was told I could hitch a ride in a team car and watch.
(11) In most instances, DM are noncentromeric and distributed by a 'hitch-hiking' mechanism at mitosis; in one colcemid-resistant SEWA line, however, we have shown that the DM carry active centromeres.
(12) Combining the bladder-psoas hitch Boari-flap technique makes it possible to replace the entire ureter.
(13) George Osborne has had to go to China to get them to bail out this project, hitching our nuclear energy future to the Chinese state for 100 years,” he said.
(14) All this meant it had finally found a consistent identity and could hitch a ride as digital radio’s takeup grew.
(15) Nine patients with injury to the pelvic portion of the ureter successfully underwent the psoas-bladder hitch procedure and tunnelization as an antireflux measure.
(16) Simon Burnton is taking over for a while, you can email him at simon.burnton@the guardian.com Updated at 8.15pm BST 8.10pm BST Herrera is still on, just a technical hitch AS English (@English_AS) Man Utd's reps have just left the LFP offices without leaving Herrera's buy-out clause, apparently they need to sort out more paperwork.
(17) The acting director of the Australian Antarctic division of the department of environment, Jason Mundy, said the rescue was carried out without a hitch and it was a relief to have all passengers on board the Aurora Australis.
(18) Wing Commander Matt Radnall, 42, the very last British serviceman to depart, said: “To see the Afghans step up to the plate without any hitch or delay, as briefed, as rehearsed and as expected, it was just fantastic.” From that moment of the helicopters’ departure, the base was under Afghan command – a prospect that many believe will lead to the Taliban attempting to breach its 24-kilometre perimeter.
(19) The psoas hitch procedure is a simple and effective alternative in the management of distal ureter length defects.
(20) Continuity and good functional result was achieved with a Boari flap and psoas hitch to the renal pelvis.
Interference
Definition:
(n.) The act or state of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others.
(n.) The mutual influence, under certain conditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or vibrations of any kind, producing certain characteristic phenomena, as colored fringes, dark bands, or darkness, in the case of light, silence or increased intensity in sounds; neutralization or superposition of waves generally.
(n.) The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four cytotoxic antibiotics, bikaverin, duclauxine, PSX-1 and vermiculine, were examined with respect to their interference with glycolysis and respiration and their possible ionophoric or cytolytic activity.
(2) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
(3) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(4) These results indicate that both racemic and L-baclofen inhibit trigeminal transmission in man, probably because they interfere with excitatory transmission through the interneurons of the lateral reticular formation.
(5) An operant delayed-matching task was used to assess the role of proactive interference (PI) effects on short-term memory capacity of rats.
(6) The last time Vince Cable had a seat in the business department, it was during a high noon of industrial action and state interference in the economy.
(7) Electromagnetic interference presented as inhibition and resetting of the demand circuitry of a ventricular-inhibited temporary external pacemaker in a 70-year-old man undergoing surgical implantation of a permanent bipolar pacemaker generator and lead.
(8) We tested the hypothesis that furosemide interferes with energy generation in the cochlea, and determined its effect on CO2 formation from glucose and glyceroaldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) activity by examining biochemical and histochemical changes in the cochlea, the kidney, and the liver.
(9) Agents that lower total plasma or LDL cholesterol in hypercholesterolaemic patients by interfering with cholesterol reabsorption from the gut (cholestyramine, cholestipol) or reduction of hepatic VLDL release (fibrates) do not appear to interfere with platelet hyperreactivity and do not change platelet-derived thromboxane formation.
(10) Blockade of beta-adrenoceptors interferes with haemodynamic and metabolic adaptations and ion balance during dynamic exercise.
(11) For each theory, a constraint on preformance is proposed based on interference between the "analytic" and "synthetic" pitch perception modes.
(12) It is important for this commission to get to the truth of what happened and it's able to carry on without interference and disruption.
(13) Treatment of bacterial cells with inhibitors of gyrase at high concentration leads to relaxation of DNA supercoils, presumably through interference with the supercoiling activity of gyrase.
(14) Although the general guiding principle of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders--the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time--remains, this rule should not interfere with the judicious use of medications as long as the benefits justify it.
(15) 3H-phorbol ester binding experiments reveal that inhibition by BP may be due to its interference with the phorbol ester binding site and consequently diacylglycerol binding.
(16) Both types of interference can be eliminated by selectively precipitating protein with deoxycholate and trichloroacetic acid (A. Bensadoun and D. Weinstein (1976) Anal.
(17) We conclude that cigarette smoking does interfere with the treatment of hypertension in general, and especially with reduction of blood pressure by propranolol in black patients.
(18) Glutathion and ascorbic acid interfere with the test strip method but this error is neglectable because of physiological low concentrations of these substances.
(19) I called it following the Star Trek Non-Interference Directive.
(20) The absence of uniform definitions prevents meaningful intersystem comparisons, prohibits explorations of hypotheses about effective interventions, and interferes with the efforts of quality assurance.