(n.) The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
(n.) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
(n.) A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough; as, the culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
(n.) A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
(n.) A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
(n.) In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
(v. t.) To strike with a lash ; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
(v. t.) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail.
(v. t.) To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
(v. t.) To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice.
(v. i.) To ply the whip; to strike; to utter censure or sarcastic language.
(n.) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten; as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back.
Example Sentences:
(1) The conclusions lead us to recommend wide surgical excision for those melanomas arising on the lash margins.
(2) His shot, though, was pawed on to the inside of the post by David Marshall and it was left to Victor Wanyama to lash the loose ball into the empty net.
(3) I look back at those moments with shame – you look to your parents to protect you so, when it seems they are falling apart, you lash out at them because you feel vulnerable.
(4) The initial effort was poor, hit straight into the wall, but Sánchez took out his anger on the rebound, lashing it through the wall on the volley and past Silvio Proto.
(5) Windshields, spectacles, contact lenses, lashes, an excessive tear meniscus, intraocular lens scratches, and posterior capsular opacification are possible causes that can be easily identified and treated.
(6) Everton were level as Barkley lashed the ball past John Ruddy with his left foot after Seamus Coleman had cut inside from the right flank.
(7) The head of the New South Wales taxi council has lashed out at Labor leader Luke Foley’s support for Uber, likening the system to “WorkChoices on steroids”.
(8) But the Brownlow Medallist missed other chances and appeared to lash out at Scott Thompson in a messy exchange, as Sydney missed the preliminary finals for the first time in four seasons.
(9) Intracutaneous sterile water injections have been reported to relieve acute labor pain and cervical pain in whip-lash patients.
(10) John Terry made the decisive contact, lashing in the loose ball, then quickly went back to making sure his own defence was not so generous.
(11) Meanwhile, a leading coal industry lobby group, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, dismissed the report as “unsubstantiated scare tactics and hyperbole” and lashed out at Obama for moving ahead on power plant regulations.
(12) The email also lashed out at the New York Times 's “sloppy” reporting, echoing a previous strategy of attacking the MSNBC network over its coverage of the so-called “Bridgegate” scandal.
(13) Exacerbations of signs and symptoms recurred when lashes regrew.
(14) Higuain picks up the ball and lashes a shot across the face of goal from the left.
(15) She was originally sentenced to 99 lashes, but her case was reopened when a court in Tabriz suspected her of murdering her husband.
(16) • This article was amended on 15 June 2015 to clarify that a letter Badawi dictated from prison was not published first by Der Spiegel, but is the preface to a book of his writings, 1,000 Lashes.
(17) Ribery lashes the thing towards goal with thunderous fury, Pyatov does well to get down and save, but Mamadou Sakho is on hand to tuck the ball home from close range.
(18) Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.
(19) But only now, when the world's biggest economies have been lashed by the fallout from the irrational exuberance of the markets, has the idea captured the imagination of their leaders, including Gordon Brown , right.
(20) Morgan Tsvangirai , the principal challenger to Robert Mugabe for the presidency of Zimbabwe, has said a credible election next week is all but impossible and lashed out at the head of the African Union for backing his rival.
Tester
Definition:
(n.) A headpiece; a helmet.
(n.) A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb.
(n.) A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.
(n.) An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.
Example Sentences:
(1) As compared with solvent-treated control, no significant increases were observed in the number of revertant colonies in all tester strains in both systems with and without mammalian metabolic activation (S9 Mix).
(2) Gamma-ray-induced reversions in the Ames Salmonella tester strain TA2638 have been studied for their dependence on a number of experimental parameters.
(3) In addition to the fatigue tester and the pulse duplicator, a signal conditioner, a DC amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital microcomputer comprised the essential hardware.
(4) Exogenous IC-DH in the incubation for LMA did not alter the mitotic crossing-over and the mitotic gene conversion of dimethylnitrosamine (DMNA) and AR2MNFN (a nitroimidazo[2,1-b]thiazole) in the tester D7 strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
(5) These results suggest that nickel is unable to induce basepair or frameshift mutations in Salmonella tester strains and are discussed in relationship to the low binding affinity of Ni(II) for DNA.
(6) In Drosophila melanogaster new tester strains for the somatic mutation and recombination test (SMART) in the wing were constructed with the aim of increasing the metabolic capacity to activate promutagens.
(7) Vibratory sensitivity was strongly related to height when measurements were made with either the vibration sensitivity tester (P = .02) or the biothesiometer (P less than .01); however, there was no relation between thermal sensitivity (as measured with the thermal sensitivity tester) and height.
(8) Trials with Escherichia coli ATCC and Staphylococcus aureus ATCC strains have been carried out using a point-acting tester as generator of negative oxygen ions.
(9) In addition, the depression of prophage induction observed when the drugs were combined with aflatoxin B1 may be indicative of a common target site of action in the tester strains.
(10) The newly engineered acetyltransferase-enhanced Salmonella tester strain YG1024 (TA98(pYG219] demonstrated greatly enhanced sensitivity to the mutagenicity of 2,4-DAT.
(11) A study was conducted to evaluate the potential of the Testark system in comparison with a commercially available pulp tester.
(12) The stiffness tester and torque meter were found to yield nearly the same measurements of bending deformation for orthodontic wires as small as .007 inch diameter, provided the different bending apparatus are calibrated to each other.
(13) Results establish a revised expression for Young's modulus and show that either the stiffness tester or the torque meter will yield essentially the same measured values of bending properties.
(14) These findings indicate the necessity for using the same tester when effects of treatment are evaluated.
(15) To aid linkage analysis and mapping studies in Dictyostelium discoideum, we have constructed several tester strains with easily scored mutations characterizing the six currently identified linkage groups.
(16) Chromotest agar dishes yielded optimal results after 16-18 h incubation, presumably because of the agar growth characteristics of tester strain PQ37.
(17) The two strains were crossed individually to normal sequence tester strains and the sizes of the proximal and distal segments were followed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
(18) Despite the strong, positive mutagenic response of fecanpentaenes using Ames tester strains TA 98 and TA 100, no increase in nuclear aberrations, taken as a measure of genotoxicity in colonic epithelial cells, was observed over control levels.
(19) The deficience can be restored, giving respiratory sufficience, in crosses with rho0 testers.
(20) The mutants have also been crossed to mit- testers with defined genetic lesions.