(n.) Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
(n.) Anything filthy or vile.
(n.) Money; -- in contempt.
(a.) Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.
(v. t.) To manure with muck.
Example Sentences:
(1) The muck-raking website Lifenews.ru, which has close links to the FSB, Putin’s former spy agency, has pointed the finger at Nemtsov’s colourful love life.
(2) Their 12-year stewardship transformed an obscure theatre notorious for the austerity of its seats into a fashionable address renowned for its rollcall of stars - including Ralph Fiennes, Diana Rigg, Juliet Binoche and Cate Blanchett - all of whom were eager to muck in with communal dressing rooms and a minimum wage.
(3) 'They don't use tractors, they use cow muck as fertiliser; and they have low-tech irrigation systems in Kenya.
(4) As we picked our way along stream-side bushes, pulling off hard little rosehips and stripping elders of their berries, the scent of September filled the air; the smell after muck-spreaders had been out in the fields.
(5) He's not mucked it up today – he's not really been given the opportunity.
(6) It goes from being a load of muck to being made into a household object.
(7) Time, then, for another "D" word: "decent" Tories and Liberal Democrats, he says, will be expected to muck in.
(8) Billy Ivory (Common as Muck) Okay, well, the BBC drama department still produces, consistently the best drama on TV: Criminal Justice, Occupation, Freefall, All the Small Things, Doctor Who, Revelations, Life on Mars.
(9) Metal-contaminated muck soil (5700 micrograms g-1 Ni, 650 micrograms g-1 Cu and 90 micrograms g-1 Co) was obtained from a farm adjacent to a nickel refinery in southern Ontario and was placed on a field test plot at Brampton, Ontario, during the summer of 1984.
(10) We have previously described a visual area situated in the cortex surrounding the deep infolding of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus of the cat (Mucke et al.
(11) We are in power and therefore we have got a bit of muck on our hands.
(12) And one of the things I had wanted to do for ages was get stuck into a bunch of things that I had been mucking around with that didn't fit into the Radiohead zone.'
(13) Local villagers came out to see them, and Joe, as always was mucking around.
(14) I will leave you in the hands of Gregg Bakowski (gregg.bakowski@theguardian.com if you want to get in touch), and with this video of me and Gregg mucking about outside Guardian Towers earlier.
(15) He got his sleeves rolled up and mucked in like everyone else.
(16) His philosophy of journalism coincided closely with that of guiding Eye spirit, legendary muck-raking reporter Claud Cockburn who dismissed the popular assumption that "facts" lay around like gold in the Yukon waiting to be picked up by a reporter.
(17) "In reality, it gets reported but only as part of the generally muck and mire of grease-blotter journalism."
(18) A real tiny twitch of a balk that Buck and Muck Carver don't spot or understand October 31, 2013 We've got a few more innings to go here so.... 2.01am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 6, bottom of the 5th Kevin Siegrist, whom you may remember from that game one Ortiz homer, starts the inning for St Louis.
(19) We had five sets of contestants and we got it down to four, so one fewer round in the show, which meant there was much more time for us to muck about.
(20) But under all the scars and muck, there's a soulfulness to McCann's performance.
Sot
Definition:
(n.) A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.
(n.) A person stupefied by excessive drinking; an habitual drunkard.
(a.) Sottish; foolish; stupid; dull.
(v. t.) To stupefy; to infatuate; to besot.
(v. i.) To tipple to stupidity.
Example Sentences:
(1) AES in all three concentrations produced the least clinical necrosis, no histologic necrosis, and resolved faster than SOT or HS.
(2) After addition of ouabain (1 microM) the after potentials, after contractions, and SOP and SOT amplitude were significantly increased.
(3) Right atrial (RA), left atrial (LA), and aortic pressures, mixed venous (SmvO2) and aortic (SaO2) oxygen saturation, and whole-body oxygen consumption (VO2) were measured, and systemic blood flow (Qs), systemic oxygen transport (SOT), and oxygen extraction were calculated before and after occlusion.
(4) These data suggest that: O2 saturation cannot be predicted or calculated accurately from measured Po2, but must be measured directly, 2,3-DPG, hemoglobin concentration, and P50 fluctuate to stabilize arterial oxygen content, SOT is determined primarily by cardiac output in subjects who are adapted chronically, O2 extraction rises, due to a fall in venous O2 content, to maintain VO2 as transport falls, below a critical level of SOT, O2 extraction ceases to rise and VO2 falls with further reduction in transport.
(5) The decreased firing rate during the reward period was greatly attenuated in the no-reward tasks (n = 29) and was blocked by electrophoretic application of a beta-adrenoceptive antagonist [sotalol (SOT), n = 26].
(6) From 1981 through 1986, BW, hip height, and scrotal circumference (SC) measurements were obtained on 329 bulls at the start of a 140-d gain test (SOT) and every 28 d to the end of test (EOT).
(7) Its massive $5bn battery factory in partnership with Panasonic is expected to cut the sots of cells for its car by 30%.
(8) A study was conducted to determine the effect of preventive educational efforts among 621 female prostitutes in Mae Sot, Tak Province, in 1989.
(9) Four interexaminer and one intraexaminer agreement studies were performed on specific diagnostic tests commonly employed within sacro-occipital technique (SOT).
(10) A survey of 15-34 year old men in Mae Sot, Tak, was conducted in December 1989 to determine their knowledge about AIDS, HIV transmission, and sexual behavior to guide future AIDS prevention programs.
(11) The effects of ryanodine on (1) ventricular arrhythmias in guinea-pigs in vivo, (2) delayed afterpotentials and aftercontractions and (3) spontaneous oscillations of the membrane potential (SOP) and of resting tension (SOT) of guinea-pig papillary muscle under ouabain intoxication have been studied.
(12) Analysis of covariance was used to evaluate the SOT scores (by group, vision, and surface condition) and the GUGT scores.
(13) Only one patient did not undergo definitive closure of his defect because of a marked decrease in Qs and SOT with a significant rise in RA pressure.
(14) A survey of persons aged 60 years and over in Mae Sot in Tak Province, Thailand was conducted in 1989 to determine the prevalence of socio-economic, functional and medical problems.
(15) The SOT and GUGT may be useful in the field to establish criteria for screening elders in a fall-prevention program.
(16) A new, not previously reported, characteristic case of SOT is presented in connection with a review of the literature.
(17) The symposium was sponsored by the Inhalation Toxicology Specialty Section of SOT, and was organized to integrate evidence from various disciplines concerning health effects from acid aerosols in ambient air.
(18) This is the seventeenth case of SOT to be reported and the first reported case related to a lower unerupted canine.
(19) It also stimulates the frequency with which linear plasmid DNA transforms Escherichia coli to antibiotic resistance (Sot function).
(20) Conversely, the microscopic characteristics of SOT are clearly defined: numerous islands of benign squamous epithelium scattered in an apparently mature connective tissue, absence of peripheral columnar cells with palisading nuclei, and absence of stellate reticulum.