(v. i.) To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.
(v. i.) To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.
(v. t.) To bewail audibly; to lament.
(v. t.) To afflict; to distress.
(v. i.) A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.
(v. i.) A low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.
Example Sentences:
(1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(2) "A lot of people think, 'you're in work, what are you moaning about?'
(3) I was moaning about something, he was moaning about something.
(4) His department has formally complained to the BBC head of news, Helen Boaden, about the broadcaster's "carping and moaning".
(5) She thinks it's simple sexism, though she is loth to spell this out: "You can say that, but if I do, I'm just seen as moaning, playing the woman card again.
(6) That pitted him against the Democrat Jack Conway in November as the Republican elite moaned that such Tea Party rebellions would cost them seats.
(7) Jeremy Corbyn sweeps to victory increasing his mandate as Labour leader - Politics live Read more MPs who refuse to sit on the frontbench do not need to sit around moaning about Corbyn nor limit their ambition to avoiding deselection.
(8) This man's lawyers say he was then severely beaten: they allege that the initial blows, and their client's moans, can be heard faintly at the end of the video.
(9) Most moans 1 The Wright Stuff, Channel 5 (2,220 complaints) Matthew Wright uses Taggart catchphrase when talking about a suspicious death in the Western Isles.
(10) Ilike to go on Facebook and moan to friends about how awful Twitter is these days.
(11) When he is out socially he sometimes tells people that he works for the Post Office (it stops them soliciting invitations to send him scripts, and moaning about the kind of comedies they hate).
(12) He waits, outside, hearing "piteous, animal moans".
(13) No doubt if she worked on the checkout in Tesco you’d be telling her to resign over the company’s financial fraud investigation or the moans about how it treats its suppliers.
(14) Elias said: "There was shouting, moaning – even screaming – coming from the TDF [temporary detention facility] from time to time during the detention, according to some witnesses."
(15) G4S staff are relaxed about this, noting simply: “Prisoners moan.
(16) For me that is one of the most important battles for fairness.” During the presidential campaign he was caught moaning about “intellectual women who think they are downtrodden”, or who talk about their “ compañera ” cleaning lady, “when she is really the servant”.
(17) The video showed at length the interactions between Ms Dhu and police in the station , including moments when she can be heard crying and moaning in pain and asking for medical attention.
(18) Would anybody have any sympathy for the casino manager if he then started moaning that he’d lost £25,000?
(19) Stop your moaning about equal-rights this, maternity that, childcare the other.
(20) This isn't a sub-Rhodesian moan about Britain going to the dogs.
Null
Definition:
(a.) Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
(n.) Something that has no force or meaning.
(n.) That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
(v. t.) To annul.
(n.) One of the beads in nulled work.
Example Sentences:
(1) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
(2) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
(3) In this report we describe an improvement upon the design by Stanton and Lightfoot for a simple photographic null method to determine the kVp of a diagnostic region x-ray source.
(4) At least two (Rh null and the McLeod type) are responsible for congenital hemolytic disorders.
(5) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
(6) The analysis also involved statistical tests of a modified null hypothesis, the generation of confidence intervals (CIs) and a meta-analysis.
(7) The null potential of both responses became more and less negative with a decrease and an increase, respectively, in the extracellular potassium concentration.
(8) The null mutation of algR was generated in a mucoid derivative of the standard genetic strain PAO responsive to different environmental factors.
(9) Endoneurial fluid pressure (EFP) was recorded by an active, servo-null pressure system after a glass micropipette was inserted into rat sciatic nerve undergoing wallerian degeneration.
(10) In thymo-deprived mice (nude mice and B mice) the percentage of null cells increases during the stage of regeneration, and B mice develop a large number of Ig +-bearing cells.
(11) Alkaline phosphatase activity was elevated in the lymphocytes from T-CLL, cord blood and tonsils and the blast cells from Null-ALL.
(12) Analysis of ldlA cells has identified three classes of mutant alleles at the ldlA locus: null alleles, alleles that code for normally processed receptors that cannot bind LDL, and alleles that code for abnormally processed receptors.
(13) Putative null sup-38 mutations cause maternal-effect lethality which is rescued by a wild-type copy of the locus in the zygote.
(14) Null cells of patients with hypoplastic anemia did not produce erythroid colonies under any culture conditions.
(15) Comparison of simulated versus actual inheritance data demonstrates that the so-called null structural alleles actually produce functional globins.--The genetic controls in Peromyscus may be analogous to those in primates.
(16) A null zone and associated sudden phase-reversal of RSA were observed in stratum lucidum of CA3.
(17) When the stimulus is placed at a position approximately 80 degrees dorsal to the eye axis, there is no response; this area is called the null region.
(18) Northern blot analysis showed that Adh-1 mRNA was synthesized at wild-type levels in immature seeds of the null mutant, but dropped to 25% in mature seeds.
(19) Two tumours were null cell adenomas with PIs less than 0.1 and 0.2%.
(20) Thus this methodology offers the potential to study naturally occurring ADH electromorphs and null alleles independent of enzymatic activity assays.