(a.) Having jags; set with teeth; notched; uneven; as, jaggy teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jaggi and Obrist, using an intravenous injection of 133Xe, suggested that the counts detected by an external lung probe could provide an alternative estimate for arterial blood concentration once the noise produced by 133Xe in superficial tissues is removed from the signal.
(2) The Glaswegian theologian and part-time comedian Billy Connolly described this as a “jaggy bunnet” .
(3) The conditional expression of the v-mos and Ha-ras(EJ) oncogenes in NIH 3T3 cells leads to the accumulation of a 23-kDa protein (p23) (R. Klemenz, S. Hoffmann, R. Jaggi, and A.-K. Werenskiold, Oncogene 4:799-803, 1989).
(4) He's kind of scruffily dressed in apres-skate attire, including an uncomfortably jaggy-looking pair of trousers that seem to be made from flour sacks.
(5) Survival in both dose regions was assessed by clonogenic assays; the low-dose studies were facilitated by a Cell Analyser (B. Palcic and B. Jaggi, Int.
Naggy
Definition:
(a.) Irritable; touchy.
Example Sentences:
(1) MacFarlane hurls the affection right back: "You need somebody who is really going to be able to make the point that her character has to make but not come off naggy.
(2) The agar disk diffusion method cannot be used for the "routinary" assay of susceptibility of Campylobacter, because it is a "naggy" microaerophilic organism.
(3) Once you voice the idea that women ask for rape and can't have careers, the next stage is to get rid of naggy old human rights because women don't count as human anyway.
(4) "Jack was interesting though: we did introduce women into the story more than is generally the case with this fairytale: we have quite a lot of incidental characters who are female and voiced by girls, rather than just the traditional naggy mum and housekeeper."
(5) "Mrs Lessing leaves one with the really terrible impression of a woman - shrewish, naggy, self-righteous and impossible to live with."