(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).
Shook
Definition:
(imp.) of Shake
() of Shake
() imp. & obs. or poet. p. p. of Shake.
(n.) A set of staves and headings sufficient in number for one hogshead, cask, barrel, or the like, trimmed, and bound together in compact form.
(n.) A set of boards for a sugar box.
(n.) The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
(v. t.) To pack, as staves, in a shook.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sadler shook her head again when Cameron repeated the much-used statistic that enough water to fill Wembley Stadium three times was being pumped from the Levels each day.
(2) Scoble shook his head, suggesting that by showing his Glass to "more than 600 people: bus drivers, school teachers..." he (and thus Google) is getting feedback from a wider demographic group.
(3) In 2003 Mayweather allegedly punched two friends of his then-partner (and the mother of several of his children) Josie Harris in a nightclub and shook a female security guard.
(4) Djami Marika stood at the edge of a pristine Arnhem Land beach and shook his head at the boat moored across the channel.
(5) The Indianapolis Star reported that after the debate, Donnelly, the Democratic senate candidate, "shook his head over" Mourdock's comments.
(6) He shook his head from side to side, whispering or humming the same three-note tune.
(7) From the early pamphleteers – Tom Paine for one – to the muckrakers who fought injustice such as Nellie Bly; from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to Ralph Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed ; from Mother Jones to the Pentagon papers, the words that shook America mostly came from passionate reporters with a cause to champion.
(8) Ukip shook the can before Tory MPs handed it to Cameron for opening, thereby spraying himself and his party in a sticky political mess.
(9) Bias's death not only shook the sporting world, its ramifications are still being felt today both in and out of the sporting world.
(10) Saturday’s attacks are likely to increase the tension and fear of instability that have endured since an attempted coup in July shook the country.
(11) Five years after the event that shook the very foundations of Norway’s national identity, the site of the 22 July massacre – the deadliest ever shooting by a single gunman in history (who also killed eight more people in Oslo with a car bomb earlier that day) – has been transformed into a place that tells the story with stark, stirring power.
(12) French police have charged a father with child abuse after he allegedly shook and beat his month-old baby because he could not bear the infant's crying – and then posted a photo of the baby's bruised face on Facebook "for a laugh".
(13) The pair shook hands before the meeting, which went on for several hours in a round-table format, and then also met one-on-one for two hours late in the evening.
(14) Then there were the plastic domes with Mao inside that rained gold flakes when you shook them.
(15) He shook hands with some of his fellow defendants as he left the dock to begin his life sentence.
(16) United will reflect on other chances, such as when Vidic's header shook the post from a first-half corner.
(17) The first decade of the 21st century shook the international order, turning the received wisdom of the global elites on its head – and 2008 was its watershed.
(18) One of the most forthright members of the new crossbench, the Tasmanian PUP senator Jacqui Lambie, shook hands with the leader of the government in the Senate, Eric Abetz, despite declaring in a weekend media interview that she did “not like the man” (she told News Corp Abetz was part of a “little men’s group” of Coalition senators who lacked achievements).
(19) Because ever since Nick Clegg shook hands with David Cameron on the steps of 10 Downing St and formed the coalition, doing well in byelections – hitherto the Liberal Democrats’ forte – has been beyond them.
(20) His death prompted protests and rioting that shook the city and caused millions of dollars in damage, and has since come to symbolize the broken relationship between the police and the public in Baltimore, and the treatment of black men by police in the US.