(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.
Whop
Definition:
(v. i.) To throw one's self quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly; as, she whapped down on the floor; the fish whapped over.
(v. t.) To beat or strike.
(n.) A blow, or quick, smart stroke.
(v. t.) Same as Whap.
(n.) Same as Whap.
Example Sentences:
(1) No sign of an OMT announcement.. September 10, 2012 Updated at 2.46pm BST 2.12pm BST Another development in Greece: there is growing speculation in Athens today that with Greek debt still at a whopping 166% of GDP – despite a massive write-down by private sector creditors earlier this year – another haircut, this time by the official sector, is on the cards.
(2) Printers have come a long way since 1984 when Hewlett Packard introduced the ThinkJet , the firm's first personal inkjet printer grinding at a snail's pace of two pages a minute and priced at a whopping $495.
(3) When Simon Crowther began his course in 2012, RPI inflation was 3.6%, so in the first year interest of a whopping 6.6% was being added.
(4) The beta-carotene content of sweet potatoes has been boosted from 10 micrograms per gram to a whopping 115.
(5) For what it's worth, Labour lost on a whopping great 18% swing to the Tories, yet despite an awful lot of muttering absolutely nothing happened.
(6) Constantine – who has now taken the precaution of buying up the trademark to his own name in case Amazon tries a countermove – is now ready for a another outbreak of hostilities with Amazon: "Now I've said this to you," he said, "they will no doubt give us another whopping with a stick."
(7) Some of the worst affected locales include the Volga city of Tolyatti with a whopping 3.0 per cent prevalence, and the Irkutsk region in Siberia with 1.5 per cent, Pokrovsky said.
(8) Rob Carnell at ING Financial Markets The latest durable goods orders data throw more doubt on the resilience of the US recovery, with the headline growth rate of only 0.3% helped by a whopping 75.9% gain in non-defence aircraft.
(9) Which is why the government pumped a whopping £40bn into the nationalised banks yesterday (more than the October bailout), but made sure not to increase its shareholding in RBS.
(10) Those companies aren’t evil, but the jury is still out on whether they can balance large audiences of children on one side with whopping in-app purchases in games for adults on the other, without falling foul of parents.
(11) Among the fifth of voters who said the most important quality to them in choosing a candidate was "cares about people like me", Obama had a whopping 81-18 edge.
(12) This March, the proportions of loans taken by finance and property slumped all the way to a trifling 74.7%, while non-financial firms took a whopping 25.3%.
(13) That's effectively what the Guardian did last week, except that there was no beloved actor, but rather a whopping great multinational company accused of dumping toxic waste off the Ivory Coast, following which a lot of people got rather sick and more than a little upset.
(14) In Star Trek Into Darkness, he allegedly used the special effect a whopping 826 times.
(15) Between 2003–4 and 2010–11, a whopping £176.64bn was spent on them.
(16) He has already outlasted Leonid Brezhnev (18 years) and is closing in fast on comrade Stalin (a whopping 31).
(17) In 2007, when he faced a referendum with no rivals, he won with a whopping 97.6% of the vote.
(18) Before permitting the release of NBK in 1994, the censors insisted that Stone strip a whopping 150 shots from the film.
(19) Giving the NYPD a fail grade, the public advocate noted that "28% of answered requests took more than 60 days to process," while a whopping "31% of requests received no response."
(20) Asian Americans Asian Americans delivered another whopping vote of confidence to Obama, siding with him by 74% to 25%.