(v. t.) To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.
(v. t.) To beat; to strike.
(v. t.) To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off.
(v. t.) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone.
(v. i.) To make a sudden motion; to move with a start, or by starts.
(v. i.) To flout with contempt.
(n.) A short, sudden pull, thrust, push, twitch, jolt, shake, or similar motion.
(n.) A sudden start or spring.
Example Sentences:
(1) The EMG silent periods (SP) produced in the open-close-clench cycle and jaw-jerk reflex were compared for duration before and after treatment with an occlusal bite splint.
(2) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
(3) In reflex-induced jerks this negative transient could be recognized as a component of the sensory evoked potential.
(4) A dynamic optimization technique to minimize jerk cost under the constraint on jerk input was applied to interpret the results, assuming that a major goal of skilled movements was to produce optimally smooth movements.
(5) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(6) Results from animal experiments and neuropathological studies suggest that the abolition of jerks in such cases is probably due to loss of facilitating influences from the cerebral cortex and central grey nuclei.
(7) Surgery caused or aggravated unilaterally diminished knee or ankle jerks in 3% and 10% of cases, respectively.
(8) This is a gladiatorial display – that is what people go to see.” Bray added: “The popular knee-jerk reaction will be we should ban airshows, but it’s very rare for such a crash to take place.
(9) High-frequency trading may or may not distort markets, but surely a knee-jerk reaction by banning it is not the answer.
(10) In order to overcome various drawbacks of the conventional polygraphic study of a relationship between myoclonus and EEG, the EEG preceding and following the myoclonic jerk was simultaneously averaged by the CNV program.
(11) Compared with the myoclonic-serotonergic syndrome evoked by 5-hydroxytryptophan in rats with 5.7-dihydroxytryptamine lesions, harmaline+5-hydroxytryptophan-treated rats displayed more continuous and greater axial myoclonic jerks and some postural differences.
(12) The effects of electrical stimulation and microinjection of sodium glutamate (0.5 M) in the sympathetic pressor areas of the dorsal medulla (DM), ventrolateral medulla (VLM), and parvocellular nucleus (PVC) on the knee jerk, crossed extension, and evoked potential of the L5 ventral root produced by intermittent electrical stimulation were studied in 98 adult cats anesthetized with chloralose and urethane.
(13) The knee jerk itself is seen as a "physiological artefact," resulting from a mode of stimulation that does not occur in life, with the normal function of its underlying circuitry still under debate.
(14) The patients did not significantly differ from controls on catch-up saccade amplitude, square wave jerk rate, or anticipatory saccade rate.
(15) It was confirmed that the technique of jerk-locked averaging with a backward averaging program was useful for detecting cortical spikes in association with the spontaneously occurring myoclonus, which are not recognized on the convential polygraph, and for evaluating the temporal and topographical relationship between the spike and the myoclonus.
(16) The typical electrophysiological correlates of myoclonus in Alzheimer's disease are similar to those of cortical reflex myoclonus, with a focal, contralateral negativity in the EEG preceding the myoclonic jerk.
(17) The analgesic effect of morphine in the rat tail jerk assay was enhanced by the serotonin uptake inhibitor, fluoxetine.
(18) In focal epileptic status, the single dose stopped paroxysmal activity and the associated clonic jerks for a few seconds.
(19) The occurrence of horizontal jerks with larger amplitudes than on Earth was observed during vertical optokinetic nystagmus in astronauts tested throughout a 7-day spaceflight.
(20) Only one patient felt his knee to be unstable (he had a positive pivot jerk).
Maniac
Definition:
(a.) Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
(n.) A raving lunatic; a madman.
Example Sentences:
(1) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
(2) I’m a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly,” he deadpanned.
(3) The question of the psychogenesis of schizophrenia-like, maniac or depressive psychoses in epileptics until now cannot be answered because the psychosocial patterns which might condition them have not jet been investigated upon.
(4) The French unit also has proposals for a new film from Dutch genre icon Paul Verhoeven and a remake of 1988 cult horror Maniac Cop on its slate for Cannes.
(5) "There is no consistency in the outlook of the Nigerian maniacs: they use weapons produced by the very capitalist system they claim to deplore, for instance.
(6) Similarly the hypermotility of a maniacal type has a smooth and purposeful character, as far as the relation to a particular situation is concerned, which suggests that the respective topological functional structures are preserved.
(7) And that is how I became a religious maniac and a total hedonist at the same time.
(8) Umar, a childlike 30-year-old from Rebo with a maniacal laugh, was diving for tin in exactly the same manner when his four metre-deep underwater ditch collapsed around him, knocking away his mask and air tube.
(9) The antidepressive effects of SAMe have been evident and statistically highly interesting, precocious, free from collateral effects and maniacal rebounds.
(10) And as for Boris, the other main outer – he’s a cycling maniac from Islington.
(11) If the automatic budget cuts are a brick wall, the Democrats and Republicans are the addled maniacs fighting for control of the wheel as they drive straight for it.
(12) He's a maniac, and he's on first after another base hit - Martinez strolls into third base so that means there are runners at the corners with one out and here's Alex Avila trying to put the Tigers on top early.
(13) 12 min: The two sides of Argentina: they put together a sublime 20-pass move which nearly ends in Sorin being found free in the box with a threaded pass from Veron; then Batistuta slides into Cole like a maniac.
(14) There have been attacks on our Russian and Soviet diplomats, but not something this dramatic.” Kosachev said the repercussions of the killing on Russian-Turkish relations would depend on the details of the incident: “It could have been a planned terrorist attack by extremists or it could be the work of a lone maniac.
(15) Those are the kinds of questions Trayvon Martin had to ultimately defend himself against posthumously, despite the fact the unarmed 17 year-old was killed by a gun wielding maniac (who’d eventually walk away free and later harm women ).
(16) Why do Trump’s supporters have so little faith in America’s freedoms as to think them vulnerable to a few homicidal maniacs, egged on by his friends in the gun lobby?
(17) A couple of years back, Jackie Calmes published research for Harvard’s Kennedy School about the ways in which conservative media’s maniacal “anti-establishment” orientation made it impossible for conservatives to govern.
(18) He said the president was “ maniacally focused ” on fulfilling his campaign promises and predicted a daily fight against the media, airing grievances against what he called the opposition party.
(19) Now, it’s entirely possible that these Republicans are endorsing Clinton because Trump is an unhinged maniac who has given people of all political persuasions plenty of reason to not want him anywhere near the levers of power.
(20) Combined investigation in patients with maniac-depressive psychosis revealed the close relation of depression to the direction in which changes of central and peripheral links of bodily neurohumoral system occur.