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Lather


Definition:

  • (n.) Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
  • (n.) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
  • (n.) To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.
  • (v. i.) To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.
  • (v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From the beginning of time, man has had the instinct to pour things in wounds to kill microorganisms and enhance healing, and..... "wounds are still lathered, bathed, and sprayed with various notions, potions, and lotions".
  • (2) He has also moved towards building up a sense of culture shock through withholding information rather than lathering on baroque descriptions.
  • (3) In the Commons and in the media, commentators and politicians got themselves in a lather about matters that were undoubtedly important, but not exactly uppermost in the public mind.
  • (4) And Twitter must get into a lather about something.
  • (5) The American people would probably even take a good court case over mortgage-backed securities, though it has been at least a year since anyone got in a good lather about derivatives.
  • (6) In training ground car parks where the football stars of the 1970s were doing well to park a Cortina, it is common now to see Bentleys and Porsches being lathered and valeted by young lads, ready for when the top players finish training and come back out.
  • (7) In a two-part series, Claire Lathers and colleagues highlight some of the current questions in this field.
  • (8) The employment rights and financial speculation tax plans that get the British chauvinistic press in such a lather are the kind of things people in Britain mostly like about the EU.
  • (9) That is where this all ends up.” Clegg said the Conservatives are in such “a total lather about Ukip” that they are even “bizarrely tearing up their own homework” as their own former prime minister Margaret Thatcher oversaw the formation of the common market.
  • (10) Lather, as a result of fusion of cleavage vesicles, curvature of the plasma membrane in the spore initials returns to their original state.
  • (11) Aside from being a hermit, you can reduce your infection rate by ensuring you – and your family – wash your hands regularly and properly (lathering both sides with soap for at least 20 seconds).
  • (12) In this second article in the two-part series on pharmacology in space, Claire Lathers and colleagues discuss the pharmacology of drugs used to control motion sickness in space and note that the pharmacology of the 'ideal' agent has yet to be worked out.
  • (13) Subjects took a single shower employing a whole body lather with approximately 7 gm of soap containing 2% 14C-triclocarban on a soap basis.
  • (14) For detailed review articles, the reader is referred to the following references: Gillis et al; Gillis and Quest; Roberts et al; Lathers and Roberts; Farah and Alousi; Benthe; Levitt et al; Smith and Haber; Somberg; Lee and Klaus; Mason; Schwartz.
  • (15) Murdoch, rambling away to Sun journalists off the record , probably lathered on the soft soap too hard.
  • (16) Lathers and Schraeder (1) have shown that autonomic dysfunction is associated with epileptogenic activity induced by pentylenetetrazol while Vindrola et al (2) found increased D-ALA2 methionine-enkephalinamide (DAME) levels in the rat brain after pentylenetetrazol-induced epileptogenic activity.
  • (17) "I'm just as comfortable with a chapati in my hand as a bag of chips," says the characteristically subdued headline, leading into text that celebrates Yousaf as "the motorbike-riding, kilt-wearing nationalist who also cooks a mean curry", and gets in a lather about his "'united colours of Benetton' family home".
  • (18) But next month they may be getting in a lather about the slow growth caused by the austerity programmes they themselves have necessitated.
  • (19) Puttnam denied that the BSkyB outcry was a case of the "liberal chattering class getting itself into a lather over its favourite straw man".
  • (20) And what thrills lay in store – each week, a pig was seized from the fields and brought to the pub, where it had its tail lathered in soap.

Latter


Definition:

  • (a.) Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.
  • (a.) Of two things, the one mentioned second.
  • (a.) Recent; modern.
  • (a.) Last; latest; final.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
  • (2) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
  • (3) The latter result indicates that the dexamethasone block is upstream from release of esterified arachidonic acid.
  • (4) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
  • (5) Uptake could be supported either by substrate oxidation or by adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), and was inhibited in the former case by antimycin or cyanide, in the latter case by oligomycin, and in both cases by 2,4-dinitrophenol.
  • (6) This suggests that the latter group does not possess the genetic equipment (Ir genes) to recognize the antigenic determinants and to synthesize the corresponding antibodies.
  • (7) If the latter is not readily correctable or if the patient is bleeding actively, anticoagulation with intermittent administration of heparin by the intravenous route is indicated.
  • (8) Only IgG2a and IgG2b myeloma proteins bound readily to IC-21 Fc-receptors, the former in nonaggregated as well as aggregated form, the latter only as aggregated complexes.
  • (9) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
  • (10) The authors consider the latter mechanism preferable.
  • (11) F pili could be seen on cells of the latter strain but not on those of the parental strain or the strain bearing pColVF54 luminal diameter r. Pili other than F pili were not seen on cells of the strains bearing pF54 in either form.
  • (12) In the latter case, a sensitivity of 0.2 pCi l-1 is obtainable for 24-hr exposures.
  • (13) The corticotectal cells in the motor cortex differed from those in the premotor cortex in their size distribution; the former being small, the latter both small and large.
  • (14) In the case of the latter, it show either a more or less typical appearance of radicolography only or, more rarely, a picture which combines opacification of the epidural space with the subarachnoid passage of the contrast medium.
  • (15) Preventive care is closely linked with curative care, the latter must in future be mainly in the home rather than in hospital.
  • (16) TLC showed that the latter contained 2 components which had characteristics similar to TBOH and its metabolites, and thus were at least partly drug-related metabolites.
  • (17) The latter appears to reflect methodological problems since both fat-free determinations depend upon TBW rather than somatic proteins.
  • (18) However, our theory differs in several important respects from the latter efforts.
  • (19) These two latter techniques were developed in an attempt to restore normal left ventricular geometry.
  • (20) In the latter groups, specimens were taken from both polyp tissue and adjacent nasal mucosa.