(a.) Rough in tone; harsh; hoarse; raucous; as, a husky voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
(2) On the day, however, the Queen's 80th birthday won hand over fist against both Cameron and the huskies and Mrs Blair and the hairdressing bill .
(3) Photograph: Gabrielle Lurie for the Guardian O n the evening of 21 March 2014, Evan Snow, a thirtysomething “user experience design professional”, according to his LinkedIn profile, who had moved to the neighbourhood about six months earlier (and who has since departed for a more suburban environment), took his young Siberian husky for a walk on Bernal Hill.
(4) Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat campaign manager, accused Cameron of using the Greens to duck TV debates, adding: “Not since the photos of Cameron driving huskies have green issues been so cynically harnessed to Tory interest.” The broadcasters have proposed three one-hour TV debates, the first involving the Ukip, Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative leaders, the second Lib Dem, Labour and Tory.
(5) The striking images of Cameron posing on the ice with huskies on the way to visiting a melting glacier in 2006 marked a turning point for the Conservatives, who had been seen by many voters as uncaring.
(6) Richard Corliss of Time magazine called her performance one of the top 10 of the year; Roger Ebert said it made her a star; John Griffiths from Us Weekly praised her "husky voice and fiery hair" and likened her to Lindsay Lohan.
(7) Congenital paralysis of the laryngeal musculature has been seen in the Bouvier des Flandres and the Siberian Husky.
(8) Eggs of a tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium sp (probably D dendriticum), were detected in feces of a healthy, 5-month-old, Siberian Husky.
(9) The head of the charity that helped to arrange David Cameron's memorable husky photoshoot in the Arctic , launching the Conservatives' rebranding as the nice-not-nasty party, has warned that the PM's lack of leadership on environment issues risks "retoxifying" their image.
(10) Piers Morgan appraisal … Chelsea Handler "Let me ask him, doesn't he feel faintly embarrassed that in five short years he has gone from hug a husky to gas a badger?"
(11) A 6-week-old Siberian Husky pup had an unusual group of congenital heart anomalies that included a right-to-left patent ductus arteriosus, a small left ventricular chamber and ascending aorta, and a dysplastic mitral valve that may have been stenotic.
(12) He has told colleagues: "I'm not going to do huskies."
(13) An astrocytoma of the cervical spinal cord was diagnosed in a 3-year-old Siberian Husky.
(14) "[Cameron] wanted this to be based on substance, not just a nice picture of huskies: he was interested and engaged with the scientists," said Nussbaum, who joined WWF a year later in 2007.
(15) David Cameron was a master stunt-artist: the husky-sledding in the Arctic circle, the bicycle-riding to Westminster.
(16) Additionally, sodium efflux in isotonic choline chloride was significantly (P less than 0.01) lower in erythrocytes isolated from Siberian Huskies.
(17) After a 30-minute technical session, sledders who are reasonably fit and at least 12 years old get to pilot their own team of eager huskies.
(18) Coming from the position of being a high Tory with great personal wealth and aristocratic family ties, Cameron needed to ride a husky sled across a glacier and go on about global warming to persuade people he was half-way normal.
(19) Miliband claimed Cameron in the past had backed the green energy taxes, arguing Cameron should feel faintly embarrassed he had gone from "hug a husky to gas a badger" in the past five years.
(20) In five years Cameron has gone from "hug a husky to gas a badger".
Mute
Definition:
(v. t.) To cast off; to molt.
(v. t. & i.) To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.
(n.) The dung of birds.
(a.) Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent.
(a.) Incapable of speaking; dumb.
(a.) Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2.
(a.) Not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal.
(n.) One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause.
(n.) One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.
(n.) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.
(n.) A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak.
(n.) Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.
(n.) A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.
(n.) A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such conditions may influence the personality of offspring of deaf-mute people.
(2) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
(3) But its protests were far more muted than the complaints which saw off plans for drills there earlier this year.
(4) to produce speech for the mute, man-machine communication through speech in industry control, data processing systems and uses in audiological diagnostics.
(5) Ten months on, reactions are likely to be more muted.
(6) When it transpired that he had, if not in the way he might have wanted, he and his corner leapt in the air, before the realization of the ugly mood of the crowd muted the celebrations.
(7) Likewise, his criticism of Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill , which proposed the death penalty for same-sex acts, was muted.
(8) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(9) Additional studies revealed that the muted effects of PTHrP occurred via a PTH-independent mechanism.
(10) Winning a majority muted that speculation without eradicating the ambitions that fuelled it.
(11) Eight of 9 Mute swans (Cygnus olor) untied in the river acrossing the central part of Tottori-city died within the period of 40 days of summer in 1989.
(12) While calling for an end to the violence and democratic reform, western and other Arab countries have mostly muted their criticism of the killings and repression in Syria for fear of destabilising the country, which plays a strategic role across the Middle East.
(13) Another sci-fi film, Mute, which he describes as "my love letter to Blade Runner", is already in development and will be filmed in Berlin.
(14) It appeared, however, that she was muting her resistance to an expanded if limited ECB role, clearing the way for central bank and International Monetary Fund interventions that might take the edge off the immediate emergency and provide a breathing space for a more systemic political response.
(15) Indeed, the language of the ethic of care may give a voice to nurses who previously felt morally mute.
(16) Lysosomal enzyme secretion in response to thrombin treatment was partially reduced in muted platelets and markedly reduced in mocha platelets.
(17) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(18) Even in the wake of Newtown, the shift toward gun safety policies has been relatively muted .
(19) Violence, public and domestic, in peace and war, is muted by the modulated tones of civilised life.
(20) If I had been seeing red upon learning the dark projections for my health, my world was returning to its known colors, now muted with that knowledge that comes eventually for everyone: that the body is not the friend you thought was.