(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).
Uninteresting
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
(2) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
(3) I went to the US point of arrival and opened the manhole they come up through: it was heavily piped, dark, uninteresting.
(4) But some who have been at lobbying events with Miliband claim he is disengaged, uninterested, and sometimes appears not to have done his homework on the attendant money men.
(5) The UK press is uninterested in "regional" stories while the Scottish press is often weak and compromised when it comes to oversight of our representatives.
(6) The British citizen says he was also interrogated by two British men who declined to identify themselves and who appeared uninterested in his complaints of mistreatment.
(7) She had lived for a long time in the shadow of her unfaithful husband, and, uninterested in the perennial squabbles of the Chilean left, the coup turned her into a significant political figure in her own right.
(8) Not because they are uninteresting to me, but because I am making space for all the other questions, the questions about falling in love, about the taste of water in the air, about the blue-black feathers and crimson eyes of the koel bird.
(9) You might think Mohamed is an unusual case, an outlier in a nation of apathetic young people disengaged from politics and uninterested in the world around them.
(10) Whether the issue is anti-democratic developments in Asia and in and around Russia or, for example, using US leverage to help create a unified, democratic Palestinian state, Obama has often appeared personally detached , even uninterested.
(11) "If he had started the negotiations in July (when they were chasing an uninterested ‘Cesc) then fine.
(12) Assigning patients at random to treatments and no treatment who are uninterested, who desire particular treatments, or who are in need of specific treatments is impractical and socially unacceptable.
(13) Dacre is uninterested in the web, famously dubbing it "bullshit.com" .
(14) That’s little comfort to victims of online harassment, who still face uninterested or uninformed law enforcement officers when they report, a patchwork of laws that makes harassment difficult to prosecute across state let alone international lines, and a civil process that is expensive and time-consuming even when it works at all.
(15) On the basis of the present findings it was concluded that the problem of rotation was not of importance and scientifically uninteresting and that the hierarchical factor solutions were highly stable.
(16) "Another is the way Iranians appear uninterested but will rush and vote at the last minute."
(17) Various alternatives have been proposed, in particular the Gini coefficient which clearly answers a different, possibly rather uninteresting, question.
(18) As the Obama team conducted its post-mortem, his campaign advisers faced questions about why Obama had appeared tired and uninterested, and about his failure to match Romney's aggression.
(19) Speaking in a rare TV interview, Eminem seemed woefully uninterested in his forthcoming record, The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
(20) If England had not hung in until they started to win matches, if the home side had made a mid-tournament exit as they have done so many times since, the event as a whole could easily have been dismissed as uninteresting by the television audience at large.