(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.
Seduction
Definition:
(n.) The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; specifically, the offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity.
(n.) That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of leading astray; as, the seductions of wealth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
(2) It is 17 years since Klein, then aged 30, published her first book, No Logo – a seductive rage against the branding of public life by globalising corporations – and made herself, in the words of the New Yorker , “ the most visible and influential figure on the American left ” almost overnight.
(3) It was ambitious, experimental and sometimes downright odd – but seductively, compulsively readable too.
(4) These originated in the Bou Denib oases in Morocco, and have a fine flavour and seductively smooth texture.
(5) But the opposite dentition can also dictate a fixture installation in the posterior region for a good occlusal stabilization: a specific modality of fixture installation in the pterygoid region has provided a seductive alternative.
(6) Other reasons for using a chaperone included a patient with emotional problems, a history of rape or sexual abuse, a seductive patient, an uncomfortable patient or physician, a first pelvic examination, and medicolegal issues.
(7) At the moment, alternative treatment start to emerge such as selective vascular catheterism with ejectable balloon which become more feasible and seductive.
(8) This was a man who publicly stated: ‘No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical, or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep, burning hatred for the Tory party.’ In today’s political climate, where politicians are careful, tentative, scared of saying what they feel for fear of alienating a part of the electorate; where under the excuse of trying to appear electable, all parties drift into a morass of bland neutrality; and the real deals, the real values we suspect, are kept behind closed doors – is it any wonder that people feel there is very little to choose between?
(9) I half expected it to end with the Houser brothers dressed as Papa Lazarou from League of Gentlemen staring into the camera and whispering seductively, "you all live in Los Santos now".
(10) A few of us went to see my friend Norman (Fatboy Slim) play at a nightclub called Seduction in Patong recently.
(11) Chris – lassoed from a parallel universe where Tom Cruise gave Hollywood a swerve to focus on taking his guitar-alt-musings to open mic spots instead – looks on, coldly dissecting technique and cutting to seduction tips.
(12) The third style, which included respondents most satisfied with their sexual responsivity, was characterized by women who were more aware of physiological changes during sexual arousal and who enjoyed gently seductive erotic activities, breast stimulation, and genital stimulation.
(13) He brought movement to modern architecture, and invented a version of it that was expressive and seductive , clearly not functional, and clearly different from the Germanic glass box of the Bauhaus.
(14) There had been some whispered talk leading up to this match of that seductive vice known as Messidependencia , with some fearing this team might become too centred on its No10, soft-pedalling to its detriment those other high-end attacking talents.
(15) His side were at their seductive best only once, on the stroke of half-time.
(16) There are also personal revolutions: the idea of the equal, committed, but "open" relationship, as practised by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir , for whom "the game of love" – the rondo of seduction, rejection and change – never had to end.
(17) The user of audiovisual methods not only has to consider the special needs of the psychic ill, but also has to face critically the seduction ways of this potential medium.
(18) By means of seduction or its opposite, intimidation and the use of threats, the object is made to believe the content of the denying persons's inner or external world.
(19) More than 27m of the books, which tell of a billionaire's seduction of a college student, were sold in the UK and Commonwealth countries, Vintage Books said, with more than 45m copies sold in the US, and one million or more sold in Germany, France, Spain, Brazil, and Holland.
(20) "It's very seductive and I've done it a certain amount, but it does take a terrific toll.