(a.) In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(2) Right from the beginning, I had been mad about movies.
(3) "This will be not only be a postcode lottery, but a States vs Europe lottery and that would be madness."
(4) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(5) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(6) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
(7) If you’re against the RFS, you’re going to make Iowans mad, you’re going to [have] some Iowans question you but the beauty of Iowa is you can take your case to the people,” said Kaufmann.
(8) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.
(9) Yes, we can assign more or less responsibility – I blame Austria-Hungary and Germany for their mad determination to destroy Serbia knowing that a general war might result – but there is still plenty of room for disagreement.
(10) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
(11) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
(12) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
(13) Maleic acid dimethylester (MAD) was investigated in acute and subacute dermal toxicity studies, for sensitization potential, and for in vivo and in vitro genotoxicity.
(14) Or maybe it's the other way round - the constant touring is a manifestation of their madness.
(15) And while one may think that the bishops of the Church of England don’t quite have the sex appeal of Russell Brand, we think that we should counter it.” While the bishops stress that their letter is not intended as “a shopping list of policies we would like to see”, they do advocate a number of specific steps, including a re-examination of the need for Trident, a retention of the commitment to funding overseas aid and a reassessment of areas where regulations fuel “the common perception of ‘health and safety gone mad’”.
(16) He still thinks Labour was mad to get him of all people to work inside the system.
(17) That has changed over the past few years as wallpaper has made a comeback and women have remembered that they like wearing madly patterned dresses – particularly leopard-print ones, or ones with huge flowers.
(18) Seeing the performance later in Edinburgh, I was impressed by Briers' ability to encompass the hero's rage and madness.
(19) It would be hard to allow working from home if I thought that they were all watching box sets of Mad Men.
(20) People thought she'd gone mad, but in retrospect it's clear that this was precisely what she needed in order to move forward.
Medly
Definition:
(v. t.) See Medle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absence of MGMT activity in D425 Med and D458 Med is likely due to the absence of the protein, resulting from a lack of transcription of the MGMT gene.
(2) Photoprotection by constitutive and facultative pigmentation is reviewed with minimum erythema dose (MED) as the end point.
(3) With each method there is an individual optimal light dose of 1--2 MED that gives healing.
(4) No increase in transepidermal water loss, indicating damage to the epidermal barrier, could be recorded by evaporimetry except on the area irradiated with 3 MED of UVB, where 4 subjects showed a moderate increase after 2 weeks.
(5) London aided Ankara by closing down the Kurdish TV station, MED-TV, in the same month that BAE Systems, Britain's largest arms company, struck an arms deal with Turkey.
(6) These results suggest that the MED is not an accurate method to determine protection against UV-induced immunologic damage.
(7) Death in the Med prompted 2,000 calls to the BBC, a quarter of them part of a lobby organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign website.
(8) The calmodulin-dependent guanylate cyclase of Tetrahymena pyriformis was shown previously to be localized in surface membranes (ciliary and pellicular membranes) (Kudo, S, Nakazawa, K, Nagao, S & Nozawa, Y, Japan j exp med 52 (1952) 193) [21], whereas in a recent report Schultz et al, (Schultz, J E, Schonefeld, U & Klumpp, S, Eur j biochem 137 (1983) 89) [12] demonstrated the localization of this enzyme in ciliary membrane, arguing against its presence in pellicular membrane.
(9) The tumor frequency increased 8.5-fold after the drug was discontinued (New Engl J Med 318: 1633-1637, 1988).
(10) The MMD was greater than the corresponding MED for individuals of all JST classes.
(11) Part 1 of this two-part series in clinical pharmacokinetics (J Natl Med Assoc 1985; 77:475-482) introduced the clinician to the basic principles required for rational therapeutic drug management at the bedside.
(12) A novel computer-aided receptor modeling method, REMOTEDISC [J. Med.
(13) Perfusion of normal rat kidneys with 5% human albumin in a balanced salt solution bubbled with oxygen yielded medullipin I (Med I) in the renal venous effluent.
(14) Constitutional skin color was also not a good predictor of the measured MED and MMD values but did appear to correlate with the steepness of the dose-response curves for erythema and for pigmentation.
(15) Stages examined were 3-5 wk (prior to reinnervation, no-re), 5-6 wk (low-re), 9-10 wk (med-re), and 9 mo (long-re, preceding paper) after nerve section.
(16) Med I is a promising therapeutic agent for hypertension.
(17) To test whether these pathological properties are caused by a primary Schwann cell defect, nerves were transplanted from MED and wildtype (WT) animals onto WT recipients.
(18) P536, a UDP-glucose analog which was previously described as an antiviral agent (M. J. Camaraza, P. Fernández Resa, M. T. García López, F. G. de las Heras, P. P. Mendez-Castrillón, B. Alarcón, and L. Carrasco, J. Med.
(19) Color of untanned skin and hair were also independent predictors, and were included in the final prediction rule, which correlated 0.55 with MED.
(20) Electrical stimulation of two brain stem regions in the decerebrate neonatal rat brain--the mesencephalic locomotor region (MLR) and the medioventral medulla (MED)--were found to elicit rhythmic limb movements in the hind-limb-attached, in vitro, brain stem-spinal cord preparation.