(a.) Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.
Example Sentences:
(1) That shows the level of support for us.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Retired health manager Margaret Alexander, pictured with husband Gordon: ‘Why can’t our government find the money?’ Photograph: Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian Up the road at the village of Nether Stowey, retired health managers Gordon and Margaret Alexander, 84 and 78 respectively, were admiring the flowers outside Coleridge’s old cottage .
(2) Nether glucagon-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity nor [125I]iodoglucagon binding could be detected in the poorly differentiated hepatomas.
(3) By this research the percentage of school-children living in a mainly rural district in Nether Saxony whose carriage is endangered is to be stated and besides that it is to be examined whether and how far orthopedic training, practised by special nurses for physical training, can help to improve their carriage.
(4) The deaths occurred in what was described in court as "the nether world" of alcoholic vagrancy into which the death of her husband plunged her.
(5) I don't take much notice: as a frontline sergeant in a busy multicultural town in the nether regions of England, there isn't anywhere worse they can put me, and nothing they do will change the nature of my work.
(6) There were other people on the beach, including picnicking families, but it was not packed, and they were mainly in the water, with their nether regions hidden.
(7) He shows us its hollowed-out nether regions and parson’s nose in a deliberately obscene way.
(8) Nearest station to Nether Stowey is Bridgwater – take the bus to Williton and Minehead.
(9) It is nether possible nor desirable for analysis to adopt the neutral attitudes and techniques of the natural science observer.
(10) (Nether Alderley, Cheshire) Professor Alistair Stanyer Burns.
(11) Recently, as the morning sun stretched towards my bedroom window, my mind became stranded in that nether world between sleep and waking.
(12) The French have always suspected we were a treacherous bunch, but they've just received a poke with a sharp stick to the vinous nether regions.
(13) Nether the trust nor its subsidiaries are registered by the National Secretariat for Non-Governmental Organisations, a prerequisite for any such project.
(14) On a scale of one to childbirth, waxing your nether regions is a minor blip.
(15) You've just had a baby and 28 stitches in your nethers?
(16) Nether Stowey butcher Andrew Pope, who lives on a farm next door to the site, was more relaxed.
(17) OS Map: Explorer OL2: Yorkshire Dales: southern & western areas Coleridge's cottage to Wordsworth's house Somerset Quantock Hills at Coleridge Way nature walk, Nether Stowey, Somerset.
(18) Nether thrombosis nor stenosis of the renal veins and the inferior vena cava was present.
(19) Terkel disliked this nether region beneath the skyscrapers.
(20) Have a look at Danny's website - it's top notch ... and I'm not just saying that because he's blowing smoke up my nether regions.
Vex
Definition:
(v. t.) To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
(v. t.) To make angry or annoyed by little provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease.
(v. t.) To twist; to weave.
(v. i.) To be irritated; to fret.
Example Sentences:
(1) De Boer's successor's first tasks will be to keep the US aboard the negotiations and to clear up the vexed question of the legal status of the Copenhagen accord , the deal struck at Copenhagen by a small group but not endorsed by a majority of countries.
(2) There is also the vexed question of what should be the legal form of any Paris agreement, a subject likely to keep negotiators up late into the night at the conference, and some anxiety among the hosts over whether the text of a deal can be formulated in due time.
(3) But the bigger question, the one that has vexed historians, biographers and holocaust experts for eight decades, is why she was there.
(4) Cs (2 mM) reduced diastolic depolarization (DD) at different [Ca]O and in 10.8 mM [Ca]O revealed an oscillatory potential (VOS) and the decay of a prolonged depolarization (Vex).
(5) The past few days have been vexing ones for reporting guidelines, voluntary or legal.
(6) The present data also highlighted the vexed relationship between stress and seizure control, which needs to be further investigated.
(7) Another vexed national question in the coming months will be this one: who is the most worthy winner of BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
(8) Delivery of monoclonal antibodies to solid tumors is a vexing problem that must be solved if these antibodies are to realize their promise in therapy.
(9) Pathologists without considerable experience in the diagnosis of bone tumors find this question especially vexing.
(10) Caffeine (5 mM) abolishes Vos and Ios and increases Vex and Iex (as DOXO does), and adding DOXO slightly increased Vex and Iex.
(11) Posttraumatic joint stiffness is particularly vexing in the small joints.
(12) In this spirit, a vignette is offered from a clinical area in which questions of "health" and "illness" are particularly vexing at present.
(13) Some might argue that our eyes weren't quite on the ball back in '89: never mind the cataclysmic political upheaval in eastern Europe – the results of which still echo around the world – let's devote ourselves to a page concerned with vexed questions such as: why is water wet?
(14) The draft provides scant details on the vexed subject of accountability for emission reduction programmes.
(15) Nowhere was the commission’s balancing act more finely weighted than on the vexed question of bioenergy, which Cañete admitted was “a clear problem”.
(16) The top Chinese negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, said there was also a possibility of advances on the vexed issued of transparency – how to monitor, report and verify each nation's emissions to ensure they are honouring their pledges.
(17) But now it’s Isis who are the insurgents,” leaving the peshmerga with the vexing challenge of defending and holding territory.
(18) On the vexed issue of longer term finance, the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi presented an offer to reduce developing country demands by 75% to $100bn a year from 2020, in return for guarantees of how the money would be distributed.
(19) Discussed here are some contours of the vexing problem of adequate minority participation in the health professions and a brief discussion of some programs that appear to be working.
(20) After the creed and some Benjamin Britten, and a blessing and a long round of applause, the man charged with holding together the fractious global Anglican communion as it struggles with the vexed issues of women bishops and same-sex marriage processed out of the cathedral and into the bitterly cold spring afternoon.