(v. i.) To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness.
(v. i.) To wear the customary garb of a mourner.
(v. t.) To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.
(v. t.) To utter in a mournful manner or voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(2) Those with shallow roots are least likely to mourn change.
(3) Asked by television reporters outside the church for comment on the officers’ decision to turn their backs, Lynch said: “The feeling is real, but today is about mourning, tomorrow is about debate.” Pressed on the point, Lynch said: “We have to understand the betrayal that they feel.
(4) Coping with dying patients and mourning are also basic family tasks.
(5) A bereavement during pregnancy is difficult to mourn: a pregnant woman is so increasingly preoccupied with the new life that mourning is interrupted and often impossible to resume later.
(6) Ten days after the consulate was stormed, thousands of Benghazi residents, some carrying American flags and placards mourning Stevens, stormed the base of Sharia, setting it ablaze.
(7) A model of transition that accounts for individual differences is used to discuss the potential interaction among variables associated with the mourning process.
(8) "Whilst business will not mourn the passing of many of the bodies announced today, some were doing valuable work which must not be lost amidst the widespread cull."
(9) Apart from a few diehards, it will be hard to mourn the defeat in 2010 of a political party that lost its moral bearings in its bid to woo middle England, slavishly reflecting back what it believed this narrow constituency wanted to hear.
(10) It also examined the needs of dispensers of care and relatives (whether mourning or not) of these persons.
(11) Despite the findings of this study, it was suggested that future dove management strategies consider the possibility of disease outbreaks involving white-winged doves and susceptible populations of mourning doves.
(12) The mourning period has caused controversy – while many laud him for his contributions to building Singapore into a wealthy city state, others have criticised his rule as one where the media was controlled and dissent was crushed.
(13) The Afghan government has declared three days of national mourning.
(14) If the internet allows us all to participate in collective mourning , then it should also demand that we do so more creatively.
(15) It was the third day of mourning for a young man named Issam.
(16) In order to escape from guilt he retreated once more to the protection of the organization and it is this which prevented him mourning his lost objects.
(17) As a sport, we mourn for Kirsty and remember her great contribution to swimming and the Loxton community.” Boden was a keen traveller and said she was “just your average dreamer, with a full-time job and a constant longing to go where I haven’t been”.
(18) Finally, Germany also mourned the death of four people in a car accident in Hamburg.
(19) 9.51pm BST And now, we prepare for retribution: David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) No Senator who heeledtoday on the NRA's command should have the gall to issue mournful statements the next time gun violence strikes.
(20) Last month saw impassioned protests from immigrant representatives after the mayor refused to declare an official day of mourning for three Chinese drowned in floods.
Ring
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
(v. t.) To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
(v. t.) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
(v. i.) To sound, as a bell or other sonorous body, particularly a metallic one.
(v. i.) To practice making music with bells.
(v. i.) To sound loud; to resound; to be filled with a ringing or reverberating sound.
(v. i.) To continue to sound or vibrate; to resound.
(v. i.) To be filled with report or talk; as, the whole town rings with his fame.
(n.) A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating metals; as, the ring of a bell.
(n.) Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
(n.) A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
(n.) A circle, or a circular line, or anything in the form of a circular line or hoop.
(n.) Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring.
(n.) A circular area in which races are or run or other sports are performed; an arena.
(n.) An inclosed space in which pugilists fight; hence, figuratively, prize fighting.
(n.) A circular group of persons.
(n.) The plane figure included between the circumferences of two concentric circles.
(n.) The solid generated by the revolution of a circle, or other figure, about an exterior straight line (as an axis) lying in the same plane as the circle or other figure.
(n.) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
(n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.
(n.) A clique; an exclusive combination of persons for a selfish purpose, as to control the market, distribute offices, obtain contracts, etc.
(v. t.) To surround with a ring, or as with a ring; to encircle.
(v. t.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots.
(v. t.) To fit with a ring or with rings, as the fingers, or a swine's snout.
(v. i.) To rise in the air spirally.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Tyr side chain had two conformations of comparable energy, one over the ring between the Gln and Asn side chains, and the other with the Tyr side chain away from the ring.
(2) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
(3) The teeth were embedded in phenolic rings with acrylic resin.
(4) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
(5) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
(6) These results coupled with previous studies support activation of benz[j]aceanthrylene via both 2 and cyclopenta ring epoxidation.
(7) TK1 showed the most restricted substrate specificity but tolerated 3'-modifications of the sugar ring and some 5-substitutions of the pyrimidine ring.
(8) Endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine and endothelium-independent relaxations to nitric oxide were observed in rings from both strains during contraction with endothelin.
(9) Aortic rings from the rabbit were similarly potently antagonized by the protein kinase C inhibitors, however, K(+)-induced contractions were also equally sensitive to these agents in both rat and rabbit tissues.
(10) The intracellular distribution and interaction of 19S ring-type particles from D. melanogaster have been analysed.
(11) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
(12) In all cases Richter's hernia was at the internal inguinal ring.
(13) Seventy-five hands showed normal distal latency, in which cases, however, the SNCV of the ring finger was always outside the normal range, while the SNCVs of the thumb, index and middle fingers were abnormal in 64%, 80% and 92% of cases respectively.
(14) The cells are predominantly monopolar, tightly packed, and are flattened at the outer border of the ring.
(15) Defects in the posterior one-half of the trachea, up to 5 rings long, were repaired, with minimal stenosis.
(16) A new analog of salmon calcitonin (N alpha-propionyl Di-Ala1,7,des-Leu19 sCT; RG-12851; here termed CTR), which lacks the ring structure of native calcitonin, was tested for biological activity in several in vitro and in vivo assay systems.
(17) The chemical shift changes observed on the binding of trimethoprim to dihydrofolate reductase are interpreted in terms of the ring-current shift contributions from the two aromatic rings of trimethoprim and from that of phenylalanine-30.
(18) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
(19) Both adiphenine.HCl and proadifen.HCl form more stable complexes, suggesting that hydrogen bonding to the carbonyl oxygen by the hydroxyl-group on the rim of the CD ring could be an important contributor to the complexation.
(20) Serial sections from over a hundred such structures show that these are tubular structures and that the 'test-tube and ring-shaped' forms described in the literature are no more than profiles one expects to see when a tubular structure is sectioned.