(n.) A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.
(n.) A small merchant vessel.
(v. t.) To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.
Example Sentences:
(1) First, Dr Collins is fear-mongering when he says that ‘lives will be lost’ as a result of our calculations.
(2) So far the doom-mongers, including wishful-thinking opponents of the monarchy, have been proved wrong.
(3) Ditto selecting the right setlist from a back catalogue that's prone to end-of-the-world doom-mongering.
(4) Meanwhile, those occasionally reliable rumour-mongers over at Latino Review have posited a third scenario.
(5) This pernicious fear-mongering is dangerous and frustrating to deal with, and its targeting of those most likely to face discrimination has led to trans issues being quietly eliminated from non-discrimination legislation before.
(6) CAP president Cathi Herrod is urging Brewer to sign the legislation and deriding what she called “fear-mongering” from its opponents.
(7) But restrictions create fertile ground for rumour-mongering.
(8) George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, delivered an economically illiterate, and fear-mongering, rant to the Tory conference claiming that Britain is drowning in a sea of debt.
(9) The chief's critics, however, say Timoney's handling of protests and gatherings in each of the cities he's served in are wrought with examples of police abuse, illegal infiltration tactics, fear-mongering and a blatant disregard for freedom of expression.
(10) Chancellor Angela Merkel in her new year address on Thursday asked Germans to see refugee arrivals as “an opportunity for tomorrow” and urged doubters not to follow racist hate-mongers.
(11) We’re bombarded with stats and figures and doom-mongering from people on the telly who we can’t connect with, but the decisions made by the people in charge affect our day-to-day wellbeing.
(12) He’s using fear-mongering reminiscent of Nazi Germany and Stalin.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘This is outrageous’: US Muslim leader condemns Trump’s call to ban Muslims A significant silence that had followed past outrageous statements by Trump – in which Republican elders have declined direct confrontation, and the targets of his remarks have seemed humiliated or intimidated – seemed finally shattered at the billionaire’s latest offense.
(13) It was an incredible turnaround from just a week before, even for the American fear-mongering machine.
(14) We must deal with intrigue-mongers and provocateurs.
(15) If they want to punish rumour-mongers, they should punish the state media, too."
(16) The roots of this fear-mongering are deep, and when Ebola finally landed it fell on fertile soil .
(17) Saving the nation was why he yoked his party to Cameron: this speech reprised his scare-mongering Greek comparisons.
(18) Many of these fears are a reaction to the scare-mongering of vested interest groups or a misunderstanding of how the tax will work.
(19) Other media have taken similar stands in public, with one private TV channel saying it intended to bar certain guests from its political programmes on charges of being “rumour mongers” – parlance for government critics.
(20) Acta 440, 765--771) and with those inferred from the decay at 4.2 degrees K of the triplet-triplet absorption after picosecond excitation (Parson, W.W. and Monger, T.G.
Specific
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice.
(a.) Specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement.
(a.) Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.
(n.) A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3.
(a.) Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(3) Anti-Leu 7 could not be considered as a specific marker for oligodendroglioma.
(4) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(5) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(6) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
(7) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(8) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(9) On the other hand, after exposure to BrdUrd, neuron specific enolase decreased in NB-1 and SK-N-DZ and increased in GOTO.
(10) Most of the radioactivity in spleen cells from these rats were associated with antigen-reactive cells which formed rosettes specifically with HO erythrocytes.
(11) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(12) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
(13) Proliferation assays using F3 showed that 15 (14 CD4+ and 1 CD8+) of the 18 isolated clones were specific for T. gondii.
(14) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
(15) Further studies are required to elucidate specific roles of the steroid-induced proteins in the effects of glucocorticoids on HTM and HS cells.
(16) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(17) Four other independent LCMV-GP2(275-289) specific H-2Db-restricted CTL clones also expressed V alpha 4 and V beta 10 gene elements.
(18) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(19) When compared with self-reported exposures, the sensitivity of both job-exposure matrices was low (on average, below 0.51), while the specificity was generally high (on average, above 0.90).
(20) The specific limited trypsinolysis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7RP) was performed in the presence of various components of the polymerase reaction and some GTP-analogs--irreversible inhibitors of the enzyme.