(n.) To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work.
(n.) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; -- often used impersonally.
(n.) To cause or permit to share.
(n.) Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern.
(n.) Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.
(n.) Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit.
(n.) Premium paid for the use of money, -- usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars.
(n.) Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered.
(n.) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
(2) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(3) It is quite interesting to analyse which gene of the virus determines the characteristics of the virus.
(4) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(5) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
(6) Angle closure glaucoma is a well-known complication of scleral buckling and it is of particular interest when it occurs in eyes with previously normal angles.
(7) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(8) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
(9) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
(10) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
(11) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
(12) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(13) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
(14) And the irony of it is it doesn't interest me at all.
(15) Further exploration of these excretory pathways will provide interesting new insights on the numerous cholestatic and hyperbilirubinemic syndromes that occur in nature.
(16) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(17) Our interest in the role of association brain structures during this behavior is not occasional.
(18) Apart from their pathogenic significance, these results may have some interest for the clinical investigation of patients with joint diseases.
(19) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(20) Interestingly, different mechanisms of nucleated and non-nucleated TC directed lysis by CD4+ effectors were implied by distinct patterns of sensitivity to cholera toxin (CT) and cyclosporin A (CsA).
Unattractive
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: "I am extremely unattracted to the idea of putting back ... these civil cases."
(2) There was no word on how any advertisement might look or whether it would use the strategy of making Britain look as unattractive as possible or emphasise to would-be migrants the positive aspects of their own countries such as Romania's Carpathian mountains or Bulgaria's Black Sea resorts.
(3) Other negative emotions – self-pity, guilt, apathy, pessimism, narcissism – make it a deeply unattractive illness to be around, one that requires unusual levels of understanding and tolerance from family and friends.
(4) It was hypothesized (1) that judges would consider attractive patients better adjusted than unattractive patients; and (2) that attractive patients would appear healthier or better adjusted than unattractive patients on standard diagnostic measures.
(5) Second, the territory held or contested by militants is certainly unattractive, but is often of strategic value.
(6) Marriage has become a minefield of unattractive choices.
(7) The isolation of rural life which makes it unattractive to health and other professionals also accentuates the problems of the rural patient.
(8) The Daily Mail's unattractive attack on Ed Miliband's late father has damaged the paper and revolted many people, the senior Conservative minister Francis Maude has said.
(9) The only other times I've seen people described as "losing their bodies" is when I pick up a copy of Heat magazine and see that a woman has apparently been rendered unattractive by having living creatures pulled from her sex organs.
(10) At present, all UK ATM and all major card issuers are connected to Link … We operate in a competitive market and there are other ATM networks in the UK available for card issuers and ATM operators if our commercial offer becomes unattractive.
(11) Water, ether and vacuum distillation extracts of old bone or marrow, added to unattractive materials e.g., ashed bone, rendered them attractive.
(12) Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian But to date, the prospect of building on abandoned north Kent chalk quarries, has been so unattractive to housebuilders that they have delivered homes at the rate of just 25 a year when 1,000 a year are needed.
(13) This may sound like an unattractive picture; lower pay and more insecurity.
(14) Research in Mexico indicated that the product name and packaging of oral rehydration packets were unattractive and intimidating to mothers.
(15) Community medicine (2%) and general practice (2%) were similarly unattractive; medical administration (0.5%) was the least popular choice.
(16) Twice we went to the country unchanged, unrepentant, just plain unattractive.
(17) Pronounced nasal tip ptosis is generally regarded as an unattractive facial feature.
(18) • A cross-party group of MPs has delivered the strongest blow yet to the green deal, the government's flagship programme for energy efficiency, calling it "unattractive and uncompetitive".
(19) The other members of the Justice League remain superpowered twinkles in the studio's eye (bar The Green Lantern, who's more of an unattractive snot-like stain after the debacle of Martin Campbell's 2011 non-event ).
(20) I think it probably will have done the Daily Mail some damage because it does look very unattractive and I think a lot of people will be pretty revolted by that approach."