(a.) Moving by jerks and starts; characterized by abrupt transitions; as, a jerky vehicle; a jerky style.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see the stitching in Igglepiggle's blanket; you sense (you'd be right) that the jerky Pontipines are manipulated by magnets, like the players in an old-fashioned toy theatre.
(2) Therefore, in the present study, the slow phase of CN during convergence was analyzed in 7 patients horizontal and jerky type CN.
(3) She also had contractures of hips, knees and ankles, and bilateral spasticity and jerky movements.
(4) The main form of translocation on laminin was a jerky cycle of prolonged lamellipod extension followed by rapid (approximately 200- less than 500 microh h-1) movement of the cell body into the extended lamellipod.
(5) Electronystagmographic study showed that this jerky eye movement appeared especially with changes of fixation of the eyes.
(6) When she violates his expectancy for rhythmic interaction by presenting a still, unresponsive face to him, he becomes visibly concerned, his movements become jerky, he averts his face, then attempts to draw her into interaction.
(7) In addition to the consistent neurological abnormalities described previously in this syndrome, the infant had a striking neurological constellation, absence of primitive reflexes, jerky eye movements, failure to habituate to repeated stimuli, inadequate behavior development, and absence of orientation responses to visual or auditory stimuli.
(8) This ambulatory piece of salmon jerky can offer himself up for public service and it’s treated as totally normal.
(9) Jerky nystagmus of latent typ was the most frequent form, pendular nystagmus the next.
(10) The defects included abnormal OKN (86%), jerky pursuit (76%), ocular dysmetria (57%), slow saccades (43%), abnormal VOR or VVOR (43%), and fixation instability (19%).
(11) "It tastes a bit like beef jerky; it goes well with a cold beer."
(12) The influences of lift velocity and jerky movement on lumbar stress are quantified.
(13) Seven patients (group I) developed an oculomotor syndrome in the sound eye characterized by jerky nystagmus in abduction, adduction fixation preference, and head-turn toward the side of the fixating eye.
(14) Huntington's Disease, a severe disease lasting about 10 years and involving personality changes, jerky movements, paranoia, dementia, inability to think cognitively, and eventual death, shows up between the ages of 30-50.
(15) He's still got it, and offers to fetch it from his Hampstead hallway, but he's been leaping up and down all morning chasing coffee and cakes, and every jerky movement is accompanied by a quiet groan, only half-stifled.
(16) During ECC, the pressure on the sternum was maintained for about 0.5 sec (sustained pressure technique), flow and mean arterial pressure were improved by 32 and 20%, respectively, as compared with flow and pressure obtained with a quick and more jerky compression.
(17) Spastic contractions of the striated sphincter during detrusor contraction were observed in 8 patients with an intermittent and jerky urinary stream.
(18) About half were indistinguishable from wild type; the others exhibited "jerky" or "twirly" movements instead of relatively straight paths.
(19) d-Tc increased ambulation and caused jerky side-to-side movements.
(20) Expiration is attended by a specific component of a vomiting reaction--jerky contraction of the abdominal muscles directed at evacuation of the food from the gastrointestinal tract.
Limp
Definition:
(v. i.) To halt; to walk lamely. Also used figuratively.
(n.) A halt; the act of limping.
(n.) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
(a.) Flaccid; flabby, as flesh.
(a.) Lacking stiffness; flimsy; as, a limp cravat.
Example Sentences:
(1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(2) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(3) He limped around in the beginning but the injury worsened.
(4) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
(5) Despite the 2 operations and extensive medical treatment with vasodilators, anticoagulants, and other medication, the pain and limp persisted and a cutaneous necrosis of the 1st and 5th left toes was observed.
(7) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
(8) The Bruins, on the other hand, limped into the playoffs, with everyone wondering where their firepower had gone.
(9) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
(10) The girl's mother, who I learned later, had recently arrived in Danané with her daughter after escaping the fighting in Abidjan, lifted the limp body and carried it out of the house to where we were parked.
(11) Their composure was shattered from the moment Alex McCarthy gifted the visitors an equaliser, all authority wrested away in the blink of an eye and Liverpool , suddenly focused where previously they had been limp and ineffective, the more persuasive threat in what time that remained.
(12) This team may have limped to the 50-point mark with their draw against the champions, but they have been pining for the end of this campaign for months.
(13) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
(14) If that happened, he could get up and limp across the street to the safety of the Indymedia centre, where he had spent the past three days filing reports on the G8 summit and on its violent policing.
(15) To determine whether limping is associated with decreased bone mineralization, the trabecular and integral bone densities (BDs) of 18 Caucasian children exhibiting computed tomographic evidence of tarsal coalition (14 boys, 4 girls, aged 9 years, 5 months to 16 years, 3 months) were compared with those of an age- and sex-matched control group.
(16) By then Wenger's frown lines had deepened in the wake of some heavy limping on Mikel Arteta's part.
(17) Today, he suffers from partial paralysis on the left side of his body, and has a limp and limited use his left arm.
(18) An analysis of the incidence and significance of leg shortening, limping, and abductor lurch is presented and some observations made on trochanteric overgrowth and the effect of surgery on the rate of femoral head reconstitution.
(19) In cultured cells, the general immunostaining patterns observed in vivo were maintained during the duration of the primary cultures for all five LIMPs.
(20) For Manchester City, Yaya Toure will return to their starting line-up, having been suspended for their match against Bayern Munich, but Micah Richards will miss today's game after limping off against Bayern with a hamstring injury.