(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.
(1) Photograph: Fairfax Media via Getty Images Monis waged a campaign for years, writing letters to the families of Australian soldiers who had died in Afghanistan , labelling them child killers and their corpses unclean.
(2) The vendor asked $1m for the toilet, "uncleaned and in its original condition", writing: "Who knows how many of [his] stories were thought up and written while Salinger sat on this throne!"
(3) The exact cause of the deaths is not yet clear but officials said they suspected infection caused by unclean surgical equipment.
(4) Such actions would make some Muslims consider themselves unclean so they would stop praying.
(5) The aim is to make you feel guilty, unclean, a sinner in the eyes of God, and of course in the withering stare of the preacher.
(6) At the coronal cervix, the so-called uncleaned area, the path of the food bolus and its rubbing effect are said to be regulated by the coronal and gingival contours.
(7) It is dusty, unclean and you are given no cleaning stuff.
(8) 0.6 mm) on the cleaned than on the uncleaned sides.
(9) It was established that they enter the product by way of unclean production lines and implements, by the fermenting agent, by the air in the fermentation premises.
(10) The following variables were significantly associated with an increased risk of dehydration, after adjustment for age and other confounding variables: absence of the father from the home; low paternal education level; young age; maternal age 25-29 years or less than 20 years; mother of mixed race; high birth order; short birth interval; low birth weight; stunting, underweight and wasting; lack of breast-feeding; presence of other under-5-year-olds in the home; families with 4-5 members; lack of antenatal care; less than three doses of diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus or poliomyelitis vaccine; previous admission to hospital; use of medicines during the fortnight prior to the episode; and living in an unclean home.
(11) Histologic study revealed patchy chronic inflammation at the surface of uncleaned filters but only benign fibrous tissue reaction for the cleaned filters.
(12) Histologic examinations after 4 weeks revealed bacterial growth on dentinal walls in 9 of the uncleaned and in 2 cleaned cavities.
(13) Anxious patients may overclean or overtreat sensitive genital skin in the belief that they are unclean or harbour a sexually transmitted disease.
(14) "For the church fathers, homosexuality is the most disgusting and unclean sin," he railed in a nine-page missive made public last week.
(15) Each year, millions of people acquire this infection by drinking unclean water.
(16) Community participation could be followed by a health education program aimed at the prevention of infectious diseases caused by an unclean environment and consumption of contaminated food.
(17) Vilks' cartoon caused outrage because dogs are considered unclean by conservative Muslims, and Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet for fear it could lead to idolatry.
(18) In addition, this test turned out to be an effective educational tool for heightening the awareness of people towards dangers of unclean drinking water.
(19) The root cause of the region’s smog problems, from a long-term perspective, is an unclean industrial and energy mix, which requires big changes,” said Chen Jining, China’s environmental minister, adding that he “felt guilty” about the toxic haze.
(20) The capitalist drive to convince us that female body hair is unnatural and unclean has been alarmingly successful.