(v. t.) To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
(v. t.) To soil with mud or foul matter.
(v. i.) To stick in mire.
Example Sentences:
(1) For decades, resource extraction on First Nations land and chronically underfunded schools have left many of these communities mired in poverty, alcoholism and disease.
(2) Our computer-based corneal topography analysis system was used to study the keratoscope photographs (keratograms) from two patients with classic pellucid marginal degeneration and a third patient with no inferior corneal thinning, whose keratoscope mire pattern was suggestive of the condition.
(3) With an out-of-session Congress deadlocked over immigration reform and right-wing lawmakers hell-bent on “sealing the border”, the White House faces intense pressure to do something – anything – about immigration, after years of burying a civil rights crisis in a mire of political tone-deafness and jingoistic bombast.
(4) A leading thinktank has forecast that Britain will remain mired in recession this year, and slashed growth forecasts for almost all members of the G7 group of leading industrial nations.
(5) The European commission released a statement about the situation later on Wednesday, less than two weeks after agreeing a rescue deal for Greece that was meant to prevent Italy and Spain being dragged into the mire.
(6) The discovery of "serious failings" in the sale of these so-called interest rate swaps comes as the banking industry is mired in controversy about manipulating interest rates following the record-breaking £290m fine slapped on Barclays on Wednesday.
(7) Since the incumbent, Ilham Aliyev, inherited power from his late father 10 years ago, Azerbaijan has become mired in rampant corruption , and the ruling regime has grown ever more authoritarian and ruthless .
(8) The French president, François Hollande , will have 25 minutes on primetime television on Sunday evening to convince his nation that he will keep his election pledges and drag his country out of the economic mire.
(9) But I was wrong to peg Let’s Be Cops down in the mire with the Scary Movie franchise.
(10) Mired in a deepening recession, with the economy projected to shrink by at least 2.4% this year, Italy also posted more bad news, with retail sales figures for July showing a 3.2% fall on a year ago.
(11) Dismayingly, the elected government of the president, Ashraf Ghani, like that of Hamid Karzai before it, has proved incompetent, divided, and mired in corruption .
(12) Hunt also argued that the current "sink or swim system" in which free schools, academies and academy chains were managed by Whitehall, had left the school landscape mired in incoherence, confusion and lack of accountability.
(13) A government investigation into his death has become mired in controversy after a judge nominated to head the probe said he would not participate.
(14) The economy has been mired in recession for six consecutive quarters - the longest slump in history – but the CBI now expects output to grow by 1.2% in 2010 and by 2.5% in 2011.
(15) This is an attempt to increase choice and drive digital switchover, which is mired in difficulty but another key duty.
(16) Companies have cut staff and costs to the bone , but demand remains sluggish in the US, and Europe is still mired in a financial crisis of historic proportions.
(17) Her response on a Seattle cable channel to Barack Obama’s state of the nation address in January, in which she accused the president of betraying Americans mired in poverty , spread via the internet and reinforced her growing reputation among activists outside Seattle.
(18) The margin of victory was still a comfortable 95 runs, and the win lifts Warwicks well out of the relegation zone, while leaving Kent deeper in the mire.
(19) One small shareholder, who introduced himself as Captain Hawker, said BP had stepped into a “PR nightmare” by handing out such largesse when the rest of the country was mired in austerity.
(20) Last year 87% of the 900,000 migrants making the journey to Europe came through Greece but, following the European Union’s new deal with Turkey , smugglers’ gangs are already sizing up Libya – which is mired in the chaos of civil war – as an alternative route.
Moire
Definition:
(n.) Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering.
(n.) A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces.
Example Sentences:
(1) The frontal facial moire photographs of 50 male and 50 female young adults with esthetic face strictly selected from Chinese population on the basis of the standard were taken and analysed three-dimensionally.
(2) Moire topography provides one-step contour line maps.
(3) "Columnist Jan Moir's comments on the singer's shocking death sparked an extraordinary online response using sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
(4) The use of moire topography was found to be comparable to measuring the weight of impression material retained between the denture base and master cast.
(5) A tweet from Fry has become a key mobilising force for campaigns from saving Bletchley Park to the outrage over Jan Moir's Daily Mail column on Stephen Gately.
(6) Moir, who has won a British Press Award, made a statement defending her column late on Friday, saying it was not her intention to offend, blaming a "heavily orchestrated internet campaign" for the furore and adding that it was "mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones".
(7) 16 October 2009 The day before Gately's funeral, Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir writes an article that describes events leading up to his death as "sleazy" and "less than respectable".
(8) But some Twitterers, he says, published Jan Moir's home address.
(9) Moir's article , which was published on Friday, the day before Gately's funeral in Dublin, has so far attracted more than 25,000 complaints.
(10) Moir's column was first published online with the headline "Why there was nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death" but Mail Online changed this to match the print version after complaints.
(11) Moir had to wait for her results to come through before she could apply for Clearing.
(12) A couple of weeks later, on 16 October, the same Scott Pack read an article by Jan Moir in the Daily Mail about the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately.
(13) Of the Moir storm, writer Tim Brown has decried in Spiked Online "a spectacle of feelings, a seething mass of self-affirming emotional incontinence, a carnival of first-person pronouns and expressions of hurt and proxy offence".
(14) Moir's column called for "the truth" to emerge "about the exact circumstances of his strange and lonely death".
(15) 1983) and Moire fringes (Takasaki 1970, Xenofos and Jones 1979).
(16) Locker believes people are "actually quite selective about the bandwagons they jump on", but he is aware that "Scott Pack started the whole Jan Moir thing off with the intention of it becoming a trending topic.
(17) The PCC received more than 25,000 complaints, a record number, after Moir wrote about Gately's death, describing events leading up to it as "sleazy" and "less than respectable".
(18) Jim Moir, the man who turned BBC Radio 2 from granny's favourite station into a service that trendy thirtysomethings are happy to be caught listening to, has agreed to continue running the network for another year.
(19) Moir's article , which was published the day before Gately's funeral in Dublin, provoked widespread outrage on the web .
(20) The key to her success and power was her alliance with the previous controller, Jim Moir.