(n.) A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat; -- used by falconers in recalling hawks.
(n.) Any enticement; that which invites by the prospect of advantage or pleasure; a decoy.
(n.) A velvet smoothing brush.
(n.) To draw to the lure; hence, to allure or invite by means of anything that promises pleasure or advantage; to entice; to attract.
(v. i.) To recall a hawk or other animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
(2) Krell is also trying to lure Mothercare to the negotiating table.
(3) But will it be enough to lure the AstraZeneca board to the negotiating table?
(4) Cameron also believes the planned peace talks can lure Assad's acolytes to break with their leader by vowing that if he goes, the existing military and security services will be preserved, saying the aim was "to learn the lessons of Iraq".
(5) The wane in US power over the country it invaded eight years ago, coupled with a return to political prominence for Sadrists, seems to have been enough to lure Sadr back to Najaf, which he fled in 2004 after it was surrounded by US troops.
(6) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
(7) Experiment 2 showed that between 1 week and 6 months, both kinds of responses declined at a similar, gradual rate and that despite quite low levels of performance after 6 months, both kinds of responses still gave rise to accurate discrimination between target words and lures.
(8) Many of its best practitioners are lured into management and education, where direct patient contact may be minimal or non-existent.
(9) O'Donnell said higher pay for procurement specialists would help departments retain staff who were otherwise lured to better paid posts in the private sector.
(10) Days after The Guardian broke the news (despite whatever Sky sources might think) that Arsenal want to lure Jamie Vardy away, now Arsène Wenger apparently wants to take Riyad Mahrez too.
(11) However, by 1994 the increasingly restless veteran jock was lured away again to Capital, where he could be heard crashing his way through Pick of the Pops Take Three at weekends, and to Virgin Radio, which took up his rock show.
(12) "Decisions are being rushed, communities are not consulted or compensated and the lure of money from cutting emissions is overiding everything," says Rosalind Reeve of forestry watchdog group Global Witness.
(13) In its defence, Luxembourg quickly pointed the finger at other jurisdictions — Belgium and Ireland among them — claiming they too offered attractive but confidential tax rulings in an effort to lure inward investment.
(14) It lured Harry Enfield from the BBC in a big-money deal in 2000, but Harry Enfield's Brand Spanking New Show was a career low point.
(15) But he said others “are not necessarily deeply committed to and engaged with the Islamist ideology but are nonetheless, due to a range of reasons, including mental health issues, susceptible to being motivated and lured rapidly down a dangerous path by the terrorist narrative”.
(16) As for a more permanent solution, it’s now up to Cromartie and the Montreal Baseball Project to try to take advantage of the momentum, seek to form a would-be local ownership group, secure government stadium funding and begin the process of trying to lure the two teams with outstanding stadium issues, Tampa Bay and Oakland, over to Montreal.
(17) Honor Westnedge, a lead analyst at consultancy Verdict Retail, said: “ Mothercare must emphasise its needs-driven and essential product offer to new parents, as demand for this product is still there but price-led rivals will be luring shoppers away.
(18) Police say nothing at this stage identified the three girls as being at risk of falling for the lure of Isis propaganda.
(19) Russians lured by low taxes keep about €20bn in bank deposits in Cyprus.
(20) The rheotactism which appears as soon as the eyes are pigmented has been used for the presentation of lures, thus allowing the study of the stimuli releasing the feeding activity and the breeding of 913 individuals up to the alevin stage.
Popper
Definition:
(n.) A utensil for popping corn, usually a wire basket with a long handle.
(n.) A dagger.
Example Sentences:
(1) This article investigates this question by examining the views of the logical positivists, Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos, and concludes that the practice of science and psychotherapy involves metaphysics in (a) problem choice, (b) research and therapy design, (c) observation statements, (d) resolving the Duhemian problem, and (e) modifying hypotheses to encompass anomalous results.
(2) A report by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in 2011 noted that poppers did not produce “harmful effects sufficient to constitute a societal problem” and therefore should not be banned, a conclusion that was agreed with by the home affairs select committee .
(3) During his stay at the University of Prague, he was influenced by the famous people of his time, such as Einstein (physicist), Mach (physicist and psychophysicist), Lorenz (behavioral scientist), Popper (philosopher), Schlick (physicist and philosopher), Hering (physiologist), and others.
(4) Poppers users beware, a draconian and discriminatory law is on its way | Chris Ashford Read more Amid controversy and impassioned debate, the psychoactive substances bill passed its final stages in parliament this week and is expected to be signed into law by the Queen in April.
(5) And I was astonished to find that it’s proposed they be banned and, frankly, so were very many gay men.” As grateful as Addy was for Blunt’s intervention, he does not want poppers exempted from the bill.
(6) The psychotherapeutic implications of Husserl's method of inquiry are examined within the epistemological framework of Kuhn, Piaget, and Popper, which provides a model for both psychopathology and change in psychotherapy.
(7) The discussion of one classical (Popper) and one recent (Grünbaum) critique of psychoanalysis shows that the arguments are still broadly determined by Freuds own philosophical prejudice.
(8) They took three groups of children: one where the tonsils have been removed with both of the guillotines, then a group where only a Sluder was used, and the third group where only the Popper was used.
(9) It is seen as a safe product and we’ve already been selling it for 30 years, so surely the correct way to deal with it is to allow us to continue selling it until the review is published,” says Adams, who asks why the government took no time to examine poppers before passing the bill.
(10) His bedside drawer probably opens with the clink that characterises so many similar drawers belonging to gay men, as bottles of poppers nestle among the lube, condoms and a half-read Alan Hollinghurst novel.
(11) But philosophy is embroiled in the "Science Wars", where Popper's faith in progress by conjecture and refutation has been demonstrated by Thomas Kuhn to be naive in explaining why science undergoes revolutions - why theories persist when confronted by overwhelming contradictory evidence, and yet suddenly or prematurely collapse in the face of other, as yet untested, hypotheses.
(12) During the bill’s final stage in parliament, the Shadow Home Secretary, Andy Burnham, asked for an amendment that would have exempted poppers from the bill.
(13) A jury came back and decided [poppers] weren’t harmful.
(14) From the clinical point of view, the classification of drug-induced liver damage into predictable, unpredictable and simulated, has proved useful (Popper and Greim 1973).
(15) Buying sex is not an offence, the men were consenting adults, there was no use of cocaine and poppers are legal.
(16) Yorkshire is the poppers capital of Europe, with the largest and second largest manufacturers based in Huddersfield and Leeds respectively.
(17) A study in the Lancet, published in 2014, also claimed to have established a “clear cause–effect relationship” between the use of poppers and eyesight damage since the product’s main ingredient isobutyl nitrite was substituted for isopropyl nitrite following changes to legislation in 2006.
(18) Weed, ecstasy, speed, coke, acid, poppers, mushrooms, DMT and ketamine were all fine.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Conservative MP says he uses poppers in bid to prevent ban on psychoactive substances “The ACMD’s consensus view is that a psychoactive substance has a direct action on the brain and that substances having peripheral effects, such as those caused by alkyl nitrites, do not directly stimulate or depress the central nervous system.” The home secretary’s official advisers say that poppers, which have been widely used as recreational drugs since the 1970s, are “not seen to be capable of having ‘harmful effects sufficient to constitute a social problem’.” They say concerns about impaired sight and risks of lower blood pressure are rare but should be carefully monitored.
(20) We have examined the abuse patterns of nitrite inhalants (poppers) in several different groups.