(v. i. & i.) To listen or listen to; to hearken to.
(a.) Mild; calm; as, lithe weather.
(a.) Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis.
(a.) To smooth; to soften; to palliate.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is not as lithe as he was, however, and he had to leave the field immediately after injuring his back in the act of scoring.
(2) Long before the Syria vote, Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper complained of misogyny, and not just from the Mail , which was more interested in Kendall’s “lithe figure” than her politics.
(3) The acclaim for Riva and Amour are exceptional in an industry that has always preferred its mainstream stars to be fresh of face, lithe of figure and delivering their lines in English.
(4) He bounces into the room unaccompanied, a little stiff in the lower back perhaps, but otherwise breezy and lithe.
(5) While Attitude describes him as "tall and lithe and tanned with big brown eyes and a sexual charisma that envelops you like a kidnapper's sack over your head", the Daily Mail reckons Cooper is the "new Mr Darcy".
(6) Evolution of H2, however, occurs during growth at lithe intensities as low as 50 to 100 ft-c (540 to 1,080 lux), i.e., under conditions of energy limitation.
(7) The present case is the first one to expectorate bronchial lith without marked pulmonary diseases.
(8) This appears to be another patient with oligo-cone trichromasy (general cone dysfunction without achromatopsia), as described by Van Lith.
(9) He may be lithe and louche and blessed with a gossamer touch but he is fearless too, not just decorating this team but driving it on too.
(10) While recording from the statocyst nerve of Homarus americanus, we deflected the statolith hairs from the "rest" position they assumed after the lith was removed.
(11) Powerfully built, but lithe and flexible, Grosics was a key figure in Hungary's "Mighty Magyars" squad from 1947 to 1962.
(12) Ismene Brown, Daily Telegraph, 2001 "Liquid, lithe choreography that can draw the spectator into a spellbinding world of heightened sensation and scintillating body sculpture."
(13) A lithe and lethal finisher, he scored prolifically for Wolfsburg and Dinamo Zagreb before joining Bayern, for whom he struck on his debut to help win the German Super Cup.
(14) His camera has a tendency to linger on its subjects, their lithe, young, often barely clothed bodies lit with lush tones.
(15) Proteoglycan fractions isolated from cartilage extracted lith 0.15M-KCl separated into two main components on large-pore-gel electrophoresis with mobilities greater than those of proteoglycans extracted with 2.0M-CaCl2.
(16) The show was well reviewed by Rolling Stone : “No powerhouse band, no impossibly lithe dancing, no masterful guitar fireworks.
(17) The hotel is teeming with security: lithe gentlemen in loose slacks and dark glasses, trying not to kill the birthday vibe.
(18) He's stiff-backed and lithe, stamping his hardened feet on the ground.
(19) The sputum lith, 1 to 3 mm in diameter, were examined by microanalyser and by the method of X-ray diffraction, which revealed that the lith was composed of calcium carbonate and calcite in crystalline style.
(20) Sport benefits everyone, even those of us who don’t have a lithe, size 10 figure – indeed, us most of all.
Mitigate
Definition:
(v. t.) To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.
(v. t.) To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.
Example Sentences:
(1) In mitigation, Gareth Jones, defending, said: "The first comment [he] wrote was in relation to Fabrice Muamba.
(2) The small numbers involved (29) and the difficulties in matching subjects may have mitigated against demonstrating a statistically significant difference between the two groups.
(3) The news comes one week after Marshall announced, in an email to staff, that there would be a shift in research priorities, away from understanding the nature of climate change, and towards adaptation and mitigation.
(4) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(5) This has improved the capacity of the neuroanaesthetist to mitigate the inevitable fluctuations which occur and prevent their ill effects.
(6) The survey was designed to assess whether these individuals followed the 1986 EPA guidelines for follow-up testing and mitigation.
(7) Despite doing a study of mitigation options, no decisions are planned until 2012.
(8) The level of disruption to services will vary widely and depend on the number of staff joining the strike, the mitigating impact of the NHS’s contingency planning and how many patients need acute care, such as A&E care or surgery.
(9) Aid workers have warned that children in the disaster zone left by typhoon Haiyan are particularly vulnerable, as they set up child-focused services to mitigate the impact.
(10) Regression analyses suggested that such aggression-inhibitory effects of an apology were mediated by impression improvement, emotional mitigation, and reduction in desire for an apology within the victims.
(11) At present, however, technical and economic factors combine to mitigate against MRI.
(12) The IPCC is charged with providing a scientific, balanced assessment about what's known and what's known about climate change There are lots of organisations ringing bells The IPCC is more like a belltower, which people can climb up to get a clear view 8.41am BST Al Gore , the former US vice-president and winner of the Nobel peace prize for his work on climate change , has responded to the IPCC report by saying it shows the need for a switch to low carbon sources of energy (note his emphasis is on mitigation, i.e.
(13) Potential strategies to avoid the precipitating antigen antibody reaction or to mitigate the resulting effector cascade are described.
(14) The results of this study serve to mitigate concern over the possible carcinogenicity of MDA in the diet, since less than 10% of the MDA in several foods containing highly unsaturated fatty acids was found in the free form.
(15) The deputy president, William Ruto, said it is now up to the developed world to mitigate the fallout, suggesting that other countries including the UK should resettle the refugees who could soon be kicked out of Kenya.
(16) Application of the formula in 3 patients with the juvenile CLF, the M. Batten-Spielmeyer-Vogt, resulted in a mitigated course of the disease.
(17) "The one thing that we have come up with is the importance of adaptation and mitigation choices.
(18) There is an art as well as a science to accurately presenting devastating facts while mitigating potentially unnecessary emotional damage.
(19) The issue is the capacity of the law to mitigate it.
(20) Delivery of oxygenated autologous blood to the myocardium at risk during inflation may help mitigate this ischemia.