(v. t. & i.) To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mackle left the company and carried on in the trade on his own, but is said to have remained loyal to his old friend.
(2) When customs officers uncovered the fraud for which Mackle was said to have been responsible, Fairbairn concocted a panic plan to cover it up.
(3) The unexpected visitor to Mackle's cold store last year was the environmental health officer (EHO) from the local district council, as Freeza's commercial director, Jim Fairbairn, recalled much later in a colourful appearance before British MPs investigating the horsemeat scandal at the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) select committee.
(4) This wasn't Fairbairn's first star turn – he had also played a prominent role in the Beef Tribunal, alongside Mackle.
(5) MPs also wanted to question Goodman himself, along with Mackle and McAdam, but they declined to come.
(6) Goodman said he had been unaware of any illegality and blamed Mackle as a rogue subcontractor in charge of a couple of his abattoir boning halls for falsifying weights while acting without authority.
(7) "I have a desire to do more business over time using the O2 proposition, but I wouldn't be naive enough to think I could reach the dizzy heights of 100%," says Feilim Mackle, the group's sales and service director.
(8) Mr Goodman was never friends with Mr Mackle and has not spoken to or met him in over 20 years, making the article's characterisation of him being an "old friend" difficult to sustain.
(9) The cold store was owned by Freeza Meats , a supermarket burger-making company founded some 40 years ago by a well-known meat man, Eamon Mackle, and still run by his family.
(10) Among other misapprehensions, the second article gives the impression of an axis of corporate and personal relationships between Eamon Mackle of Freeza Meats and ABP's chairman Larry Goodman.
(11) With the adulteration crisis spreading rapidly across Europe, drawing in more and more companies, the UK regulators remembered the parcel in the Mackles' Newry cold store and picked it up again.
(12) Had Mackle and Fairbairn engaged recently in similar activity to that of the 1980s, repacking and relabelling what turned out to be horse at Freeza Meats?
Macle
Definition:
(n.) Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. See Chiastolite.
(n.) A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.
(n.) A twin crystal.
Example Sentences:
(1) These measures were compared with a well-documented generic questionnaire, the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), and a similarly well-documented mood scale, the Mood Adjective Check List (MACL).
(2) Self-rated pain sensation differed 36% between responders and nonresponders, and the pain measures of all pain patients correlated with total mood disturbance on the MACL and with its dimensions for depression and fatigue.
(3) GFS, STAI-Trait, and MACL discriminated levels of general fearfulness, anxiety and mood fluctuations that can impact on dental fear.
(4) Small changes in subjective mood (MACL) were found.
(5) A modified form of the Nowlis Mood Adjective Checklist (MACL, Nowlis, 1965, 1970) and a discomfort measure were used in assessing through recall the affective course predicted by the theory.
(6) The Mood Adjective Check List (MACL), consisting of 71 mood-associated adjectives and measuring 6 bipolar aspects of mood, was used.
(7) Two self-assessment questionnaires: the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP part 1) and the Mood Adjective Checklist (MACL) were answered by the patients 6 and 12 months after fracture and compared with functional status (ADL, and walking ability) 4 months after fracture.
(8) The Corah Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and a general Geer Fear Scale (GFS) were filled out by all subjects, while 80 patients with highest dental fear scores were also tested before and after dental fear treatment with the following scales; a Getz Dental Belief Survey (DBS), Dental Fear Survey (DFS), and a Mood Adjective Checklist (MACL).
(9) These concerned disease activity (C-reactive protein, Lansbury articular index), physical joint function (Keitel index), mood (Mood Adjective Check List, MACL), and overall health (Sickness Impact Profile).
(10) John MacL (@Celticsleftwing) @ianmccourt "anyone out there ?"
(11) Pre-operatively, patients were given a neuropsychological screening evaluation, the Mood Adjective Checklist (MACL), the Zung Depression Scale, the Anxiety Inventory Scale, and the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ).
(12) Participants responded twice to a Mood Adjective Check List (MACL) and the Stroop Color-Word Test.
(13) The lowest value of explained variance was noted for MACL, and the highest for C-reactive protein.
(14) Both responder (n = 23) and nonresponder (n = 31) pain patients demonstrated extensively worse physical and psychosocial function on the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP) and worse self-rated mood disturbance on the Mood Adjective Check List (MACL) than a control population sample.
(15) Normotensives and hypertensives on drug or placebo did not differ on MACL and Stroop scores.