(v. t.) To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
(n.) Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated.
(n.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
(2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(3) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(4) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
(5) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(6) The impact of ending 500 years of shipbuilding in Portsmouth won't be seen in the data for a while.
(7) In Stage II patients, chemotherapy has an impact on disease mortality for ER-positive and ER-negative premenopausal women and possibly ER-negative postmenopausal patients.
(8) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(9) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(10) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
(11) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
(12) The pharmacological effects characterize reproterol as a bronchospasmolytic with preferential impact on the adrenergic beta2-receptors.
(13) The procedure includes identifying "critical individuals," i.e., those who would have the greatest impact on the lod scores, should their diagnostic status in fact change.
(14) He elaborates: "Republicans use powerful economic wedge issues to great impact.
(15) These agents may improve functional status, but in general have had little impact on survival.
(16) While much research has examined the aetiology and treatment of asthma, little work has been done on its social impact.
(17) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
(18) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
(19) "I have to say that it is my expectation that they probably can be, because the data that we have to date is unlikely to show an adverse impact."
(20) The impact of ethnicity on the stress process in old age was examined using two surveys of Australians aged 60 years and older.
Wallop
Definition:
(v. i.) To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop.
(n.) A quick, rolling movement; a gallop.
(v. i.) To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
(v. i.) To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
(v. i.) To be slatternly.
(v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
(v. t.) To wrap up temporarily.
(v. t.) To throw or tumble over.
(n.) A thick piece of fat.
(n.) A blow.
Example Sentences:
(1) While that's going on, Nakazawa accidentally wallops Tulio upside the head.
(2) 20-odd seconds: Suarez goes for a loose ball down the inside-right channel and clatters into the back of Ferdinand, who in turn wallops Evra.
(3) Westminster is rarely a palace of pleasure, but Thursday brought the magnificent spectacle of Margaret Hodge walloping the big four accountancy firms for their role in helping companies deprive the Treasury of taxes everyone else has to pay.
(4) His family attended the Cygnus launch from Nasa's Wallops Flight Facility.
(5) Its launch early next year from Wallops Island, Virginia, is timed to coincide with the six-month mission of Italy's first female astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti.
(6) It appears the Berkshires there in western Massachusetts got walloped.
(7) He takes it down on his chest and wallops it past the distressed and totally stranded Souleymanou.
(8) And New Jersey got walloped by Hurricane Sandy, and instead of acting on climate, Governor Christie has doubled down by sticking his head in the sand.” The political logic of Christie’s hedging on vaccinations was not immediately clear.
(9) It left the Swans without their two main forward targets, but in the end it was their midfield that was on the receiving end of the biggest walloping in the 15.13 (103) to 7.9 (51) defeat.
(10) Two minutes later, Tadic provided another assist, wriggling into the box and feeding Victor Wanyama, who walloped in his side’s seventh goal.
(11) Giroud grabbed the ball and walloped it up into the stands in relief.
(12) Only a Conservative leader confident of a walloping great majority would dare challenge the privileges of the largely Conservative-voting old.
(13) City have been imperious at home this season, walloping much better sides than the Hammers, and Manchester United, and have scored 61 goals in 18 league matches at the Etihad.
(14) There’s not enough difference between Ed Miliband and David Cameron,” Sturgeon announced to cheers, seizing the absent prime minster and walloping Miliband around the head with his pinstriped legs.
(15) Rushing on to a long kick by Randolph, he left defenders in his wake before walloping the ball past Manuel Neuer and into the net.
(16) Or the 1987 final, when they came within 13 minutes of the trophy before being walloped by a quick one-two?
(17) An Air Force Minotaur V rocket provided the ride from Nasa's Wallops flight facility.
(18) 47 min: Asatiani plays a suicidal ball across the face of his own box; McFadden nearly latches onto it but Youngkeeper (it's easier to spell) does brilliantly to react, rushing out and walloping miles upfield.
(19) Ss either inside or outside of 2 houses in Wallops Station, Virginia, indicated on diagrams the direction of flyovers.
(20) Also: (5) Arsenal have been thrashed in their two other big matches at the Emirates this season, a 3-0 pasting by Chelsea and a 3-1 walloping by Manchester United, (6) Barcelona are better than Chelsea, (7) Barcelona are better than Manchester United, and (8) Henry might not get a sniff of action this evening anyway, rendering those four spurious omens totally worthless.