(n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sorkin described himself as "this side of being a Luddite", and said he had been on Facebook while he making the film, but had since given up his account.
(2) Where do you stand on the DAB sceptics – are they Luddites or realists?
(3) 7.51am BST "Get a grip" One imagines that using the term "get a grip" in a GCSE essay about pioneering industrialists cracking down on Luddites would be unlikely to win the writer bonus marks.
(4) When I meet people who have a mobile phone as basic as mine, they'll indulge in a bit of mock-Luddite banter ("Got this in a pound shop … No extra features but the date and time, and they don't work").
(5) No flexibility … We were the same as the Luddites."
(6) But technology is changing, and even this Luddite bench has noticed.
(7) She binned her Blackberry, gave away her laptop and closed down her Twitter account with the words "I am now a neo-luddite.
(8) What infuriates him most is the luddite smear, when in fact Aslef is protesting against outdated technology.
(9) In the studio, it soon became apparent that his newfound feel for slick pop and rhythm machines was greatly at odds with the Luddite Peppers’ spontaneous attitude (he dismayed them, too, with the comment that the Gang’s seminal first two albums were “bought by a few lunatics”).
(10) These are not Luddites or fogeys, they are not enemies of business or of the new, but they share simple shock at the thoughtlessness with which change on this scale is happening.
(11) Catherine Deneuve and 30 young actors and directors signed a petition against what they called the government's Luddite approach and "missed opportunity".
(12) There’s some wilfully Luddite posturing happening here – it’s digital detox as status symbol, like vinyl records or vintage bikes – but there’s truth too.
(13) She was anxious not to appear either a luddite or an over-anxious parent.
(14) "iPads are here, apps are here: there's no way of being a Luddite any more!
(15) At one point more British soldiers were being deployed to deal with the Luddites who smashed the new machinery than to fight Napoleon.
(16) Most of the families at the co-op, on the other hand, were Mennonites, Luddites or allergic to peanuts.
(17) Now I'm starting to sound like a real Luddite, but taking a minute to think about the consequences before diving in seems like a pretty good idea in general.
(18) Shout too much from the sidelines, or even take direct industrial action, and you can be quickly sidelined and branded as militant luddites, stuck in the past and lacking the slick reforming zeal in which all governments like to clothe themselves.
(19) People thought I was a bit of a luddite, but people buy the magazine because they can't get it for free."
(20) I'll leave the final word to Phillip Stott, who not unreasonably wonders "how the neophyte neo-luddite (91 min) will watch the tape with no telly…" Please join my colleague Scott Murray for the Spain v Germany final on Sunday.
Yap
Definition:
(v. i.) To bark; to yelp.
(n.) A bark; a yelp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment of Daudi B lymphoblastoid cells with interferon (IFN)-alpha or -beta has been reported (Yap, W. H., Teo, T. S., and Tan, Y. H. (1986) Science 234, 355-358) to cause a transient increase in the level of diacylglycerol, which is the endogenous activator of protein kinase C (PK-C).
(2) The plasma was activated with zymosan (ZAP, n = 4), yeast cells (YAP, n = 4) or yeast with 3 microM indomethacin (Indo + YAP, n = 3).
(3) In addition, she had discontinued chewing betel nut that was used daily by virtually all of her fellow islanders on Yap.
(4) DNA-affinity blots of proteins from YAP1 cells suggest the presence of additional TGACTCA-binding proteins other than GCN4 and yAP-1.
(5) I was surprised by the soundman's impatient intrusiveness and yet more surprised as I stood just off set, beside the faux-newsroom near the pseudo-researchers who appear on camera as pulsating set dressing, when the soundman yapped me to heel with the curt entitlement of Idi Amin's PA.
(6) The amino terminus of yAP-1 is homologous to the carboxy-terminal DNA-binding domains of GCN4 and c-Jun.
(7) Better to look at how Conservative MPs with elections to win responded rather than listen to the yapping of their followers.
(8) And just as Mikey-Michael is reckoning that Eranga has yapped himself out of focus, he hammers down one that's absurdly short and outside leg, so Ali gets right on top of it and spanks a swivel-pull around the corner for four.
(9) Yorkshire terrier Duffy is yapping away, the silver pillars are being polished and plastic sheeting being torn off surfaces.
(10) Soon enough, Giroud is making a nuisance of himself down the left, yapping at Odemwingie's heels, the Nigerian striker having chased back to mop up a loose ball.
(11) Also note-worthy is that GCN4 can bind to a GCN4 recognition element (GCRE) and to the ARE with approximately equal affinities; yAP-1, however, has a much lower affinity for the GCRE than the ARE, suggesting that yAP-1 can discriminate between these elements in vivo.
(12) At other points of the match, Mourinho could be seen gesturing for Wenger that it was time he stopped yapping away at the officials.
(13) Near the exit, as Rudd makes his way towards the bar, a dog yaps in the corner.
(14) Perfused dog lung lobes were exposed to plasma activated with yeast (YAP) or zymosan (ZAP).
(15) Recently, using molecular hybridization techniques with albumin [3H]cDNA, we have determined that in normally fed rats 98% of total liver polyribosomal albumin mRNA sequences are found in membrane-bound polyribosomes (Yap, S. H., Strair, R. K., and Shafritz, D. A.
(16) Musicians accounted for seven of the 10 most popular YouTube channels in the second half of 2013, with Katy Perry, One Direction, Rihanna and Thai music channel GMM Grammy joining MÜ-YAP and Miley in the upper reaches of the YouTube rankings.
(17) PGI2 biosynthesis was negligible in the control period, but started immediately after exposure to ZAP or YAP.
(18) Recently, we (Klein & Levi, 1987; Levi, Klein & Yap, 1988) suggested that two sensory processes may serve to limit position acuity, and thus contribute to Weber's law for position.
(19) More than 300 YAP clients have been interviewed regarding sexual behavior, suicide attempts, drug use, and experiences in disclosing their homosexuality to peers and parents during their high school years.
(20) Information obtained from clinical experiences of the University of Minnesota Youth and AIDS Project (YAP), a primary AIDS prevention program for gay and bisexual males ages 14-21, is described.