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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.

Mather


Definition:

  • (n.) See Madder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The continent is fertile ground for WPP, which owns the agencies Ogilvy & Mather and Young & Rubicam, and counts Germany as its fourth largest market and France as its seventh largest.
  • (2) Several attempts to resolve the site's problems have failed to come to fruition, including masterplans by Sir Terry Farrell, Lord Richard Rogers and the late Rick Mather who drew up the last scheme in 2000.
  • (3) At the core of the Ashmolean Museum 's spectacular new £5m Ancient Egyptian and Nubian galleries, designed by the architect Rick Mather and displaying one of the greatest collections outside Egypt, there lies a man who died almost 3,000 years ago – and has just been revealed as having no heart.
  • (4) Internal candidates who could succeed Sorrell include Dominic Proctor, the head of WPP's media-buying arm, Mindshare, and Shelley Lazarus, boss of Ogilvy & Mather.
  • (5) The Scottish energy minister, Jim Mather, said this morning that the 181-turbine project , which would have dominated the moors of northern Lewis, would have had "significant adverse impacts" on rare and endangered birds living on the peatlands – a breach of European habitats legislation.
  • (6) The Scottish energy minister, Jim Mather, said the £10m Saltire prize was the world's most valuable government-funded prize for technology innovation, but critics complained that it was a wasteful "vanity project".
  • (7) Campaigners against the HS2 rail line Pat Mather and John Keleher in Pickmere, Cheshire.
  • (8) Speaking in a rare TV interview, Eminem seemed woefully uninterested in his forthcoming record, The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
  • (9) Ogilvy & Mather created a public service advert last year to encourage drivers to use seatbelts by showing a group of transgender hijras at a red traffic light.
  • (10) The farm was bought by Mather's family 60 years ago: now, HS2 will take away 19 of their 23 acres, and 60% of land that they rent close by, along with their farmhouse and outbuildings.
  • (11) The model is compared with Mather's polygenic balance theory, with models that include mutation-selection balance, and others that have been proposed to study the role of linkage disequilibrium in quantitative inheritance.
  • (12) The new galleries are the second phase of the Ashmolean's redevelopment and follow the dramatic internal overhaul of Britain's oldest museum by architect Rick Mather.
  • (13) Other companies to sign up this year include Ogilvy & Mather, the global communications company, the food company Nestlé and Heart of Midlothian football club.
  • (14) The report and accounts also reveal that WPP, which owns the US offshoots J Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather, has agreed to contribute to the expenses of maintaining Sorrell's apartment in New York as he is required to spend a considerable amount of time there "due to the size of the company's business in the US".
  • (15) Case studies Katrina Mather Katrina Mather's teachers have predicted her a stunning four A*s in her A-levels .
  • (16) Cavanagh and Mather (1989) reviewed literature concerning the possible distinction between short- and long-range processes in motion perception and concluded that the distinction cannot be supported.
  • (17) The Spectator , the right-leaning political weekly, has appointed the ad agency Ogilvy & Mather to develop a campaign to support a revamp later this year.
  • (18) Sorrell, who has been chief executive since 1986, embarked on a string of acquisitions and WPP's vast family of companies now includes the advertising agencies JWT and Ogilvy & Mather, the buyers Mediacom, Kantar market researchers and the public relations firms Hill & Knowlton and Finsbury.
  • (19) The Marshall Mathers LP 2, released 13 years after the seven-times-platinum Marshall Mathers LP, will be released on 5 November .
  • (20) The data could not be fully analyzed because of the failure to fulfill Mather's first criterion for an adequate scale.

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