(v. i.) To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle.
(v. i.) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
(v. t.) To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle.
(n.) A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal.
(n.) That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle.
(n.) A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, the verse itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) There isn't a huge amount of production going into this, but even so, there are jingles, and adverts alerting prisoners to support and rehab services.
(2) It can take all of a parent's ingenuity to get though a shopping trip without unwillingly picking up a tin of Barbie spaghetti shapes, a box of cereal with Lightning McQueen smirking from the front, or a bag of fruit chews with a catchy jingle.
(3) There's a scene in Friday Night Dinner when Adam, a jingle writer by trade, gathers the family around a radio to hear his ditty for a car-insurance company.
(4) Now it hosts the headquarters of BBC Scotland and Scottish Television and something called The Hub, which seems to be a honeycomb of "units" and "pods" for people who want to make animated short films and radio advertising jingles.
(5) Another Guangzhou lawyer, Tang Jingling, may also be missing.
(6) You must have known,” Price says – laconic, nasal, one leg casually hitched up on the bench, endlessly jingling coins in his pocket – “that to give a senior public figure an arrest warning could lead to a complaint direct to the commissioner’s office.” Do you not see how important Mr Mitchell is?
(7) It's 6.30pm and I'm on the sofa, watching an overgrown blue woolly person with a red security blanket and a bell in his foot, who is squeaking and jingling through a sun-dappled wood in the company of a large, excitable dolly - her hair stands on end when she's especially thrilled - who says, 'Ooh!
(8) In jingle thinking the subjects internally jumped every second word in a nine-word circular jingle.
(9) The infamy did not come from the fact that the company was using a catchy jingle to get people addicted to carcinogens.
(10) Jingle shells … Dustin Hoffman, Judi Dench and a tortoise star in the BBC adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot.
(11) Nonetheless there is more than a jingling ring of truth to his argument.
(12) The prisoner's final words as he was put to death by a massive overdose of pentobarbital, obtained from an unnamed Oklahoma compounding pharmacy, were: “I feel my whole body burning.” The Apothecary Shoppe makes up – or compounds – medication customised to individual customers under the jingle “the most important thing we did today was fill your prescription”.
(13) There are breast shampoo dispensers and a holiday gag gift you can’t unsee called Jingle Jugs .
(14) Other finds include an amber charm in the shape of a gladiator's helmet, which may have been a good luck charm for an actual gladiator; a horse harness ornament combining two lucky symbols, a fist and a phallus, plus clappers to make a jingling sound as the horse moved; and a set of fine-quality pewter bowls and cups, which were deliberately thrown into a deep well.
(15) If you want to get anywhere in life, jingle the coins.
(16) The party’s name – which echoes not just Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign slogan, but also a TV jingle for Spain’s European and World Cup-winning football team – came during a car journey a few months after the forming of the initial pact between Iglesias and Urbán.
(17) 'Sometimes the script is wrong, and Andy has to write on the hoof, sitting in front of the screen, and he makes up whole little jingles ... it all comes out.
(18) The digital sky with clouds that curdle before your eyes is unsettling and there’s a sitcom-like jingle playing on a tortuous loop.
(19) Inspired by Iona and Peter Opie's classic studies of the playground in the 1950s , which had documented the incorporation of advertising jingles and TV theme tunes into clapping and singing games, the researchers discovered children's games based on dance routines from Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor .
(20) To mark the new programme, which goes out between 11am and 1pm, there are some jazzy, slinky jingles and a revised acronym for the Togs.
Metal
Definition:
(n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc.
(n.) Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.
(n.) A mine from which ores are taken.
(n.) The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper.
(n.) Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.
(n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.
(n.) The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.
(n.) Glass in a state of fusion.
(n.) The rails of a railroad.
(v. t.) To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(3) Our recurrences are due to local infections, removing the metal strut too early, i.e.
(4) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
(5) These results indicate that the inhibition of CarAc by heavy metals occurs by binding of the sulfhydryl on the enzyme by the metals.
(6) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.
(7) In general, enzyme activity was strongly reduced by heavy metal inorganic cations; less strongly by organometallic cations, some anions, and certain pesticides; and weakly inhibited by light metal cations and organometallic and organic compounds.
(8) EGTA was ineffective in removing calmodulin from particulate preparations, but treatment with the tervalent metal ion La3+ resulted in a loss of up to 98% of calmodulin activity from these preparations.
(9) Sift the cocoa powder over the top and lightly but thoroughly fold it in with the metal spoon.
(10) The results also suggest that both alkali metals most probably have been delivered to the suckling pups and some of their toxic effect was retarded.
(11) The radioprotective action in E. coli ATCC 9637 of ascorbate added to media containing the weak sensitizer, tetracycline (effect described by Pittillo and Lucas (1967)), was found to be dependent on the presence of metal catalysts of the autoxidation of ascorbate.
(12) This study introduces a simple in vitro arrangement to measure current densities of implant metals.
(13) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
(14) Since the enzyme requires a metal ion (Co2+) we suggest that the RNA and heparin are inhibitory by virtue of their capacity to chelate the Co2+.
(15) Lesions of allergic contact type could not be induced in the oral mucosa to any of the metal salt preparations.
(16) As yet the observations demonstrate that workers exposed in their occupation to heavy metals (cadmium, lead, metalic mercury) and organic solvents should be subjected to special control for detection of renal changes.
(17) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
(18) While a clearcut relationship cannot be established between heavy metal music and destructive behavior, evidence shows that such music promotes and supports patterns of drug abuse, promiscuous sexual activity, and violence.
(19) The physiologically important metal ion for catalysis is Mg2+; however, Mn2+ supports in vitro activity, though at a reduced level.
(20) We support the view that catalysis by metalloenzymes may be a reflection of the chemistry of the metal ion itself as a Lewis acid, and that perhaps too much emphasis has been placed on supposed special characteristics (such as strains, "entasis") of the enzyme-metal ion association.