(n.) A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.
(v. t.) To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.
Example Sentences:
(1) The news that ITV1 plans to continue Midsomer Murders despite the retirement of John Nettles – through a cousin of the central detective, introduced last night – is not surprising.
(2) A frequent cause of contact urticaria is skin exposure to the common stinging nettle (Urtica dioica).
(3) The footpaths I followed became swamped with knapweed, bramble and nettle.
(4) The UCI should have grasped that nettle a long time ago and put credibility back into our sport."
(5) They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy ditch, where the nettles grew tall.
(6) Dairy farmer Dave Lawrence took the Guardian to the spot where the beavers are usually seen, close to an island in the river thick with nettles, willow and thistles.
(7) He does not come to this court with clean hands,” Nettle said.
(8) 35% by three pollens responsible for the so-called spring pollinosis, and 50% by weeds (plantain, nettle, mugwort) the cause of late summer pollinosis.
(9) The committee declined to grasp this nettle for no better reason than "the media industry itself is not united on the desirability of privacy legislation" – well, it wouldn't be, would it?
(10) The precise relationship between sea nettle venom and the observed clinical responses is not known.
(11) Very low amounts of pigweed-type and nettle pollen appear in April.
(12) The urticaria is accompanied by a stinging sensation lasting longer than 12 h. Little is known of the cellular and molecular mechanism of stinging-nettle urticaria.
(13) Dudgeon, who appeared alongside Caroline Quentin in the BBC comedy Life of Riley, will play a cousin of Nettles' character Tom Barnaby, John Barnaby, who also works in the police force.
(14) A comparison of methods for preparing a jellyfish nematocyst suspension from sea nettle (Chrysaora quinquecirrha) fishing tentacles at the beachside was conducted.
(15) After Application of a tourniquet (180 - 200 mm Hg) to test persons no weals were formed after contact with nettles in a period of 10 minutes.
(16) Ninety-eight individuals took part in a double-blind randomized study comparing the effects of a freeze-dried preparation of Urtica dioica (stinging nettles) with placebo on allergic rhinitis.
(17) The cardiotoxicity and polypeptide content of sea nettle (Chrysaora quinquecirrha) polyps and cysts were studied.
(18) Products Revitalift, PerfectSlim, Age Perfect, Lancôme, Maybelline, Helena Rubinstein, Kiehl's, Ellnett, Studio Line, Kerastase, Redken, Giorgio Armani, Ambre Solaire, Fructis They say "Fights the changes that threaten the youthfulness of your face" (Revitalift) "After eight days, skin is 41% firmer and 89% more toned" (PerfectSlim, test on 24 women) "Fights sagging" (Age Perfect) Celebrity faces Natalie Imbruglia, Milla Jovovich, Beyoncé Knowles, Claudia Schiffer Advertising "Because I'm worth it" (Jennifer Aniston, Andie MacDowell) Products Carrot Daily Hydrating Moisturiser, Grape Seed Glossing Serum, Hemp Face Protector, Seaweed Moisture Cream, Nettle Oil Balance Shampoo They say "You are a woman.
(19) While poor Craig was foraging for nettles and chip scraps in the wilderness (the grass next to the railway viaducts), something strange was happening.
(20) It’s about people taking responsibility and grasping the nettle of their own independence.” “We’re increasingly sceptical about big sweeping changes,” added Mike Adamson, chief executive of British Red Cross.
Rankle
Definition:
(a.) To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.
(a.) To produce a festering or inflamed effect; to cause a sore; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a splinter rankles in the flesh; the words rankled in his bosom.
(v. t.) To cause to fester; to make sore; to inflame.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would be foolish to bet that Saudi Arabia will exist in its current form a generation from now.” Memories of how the Saudis and Opec deliberately triggered an economic crisis in the west in retaliation for US aid to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur war still rankle.
(2) One thing that still rankles is Flav's decision to make some fast cash via reality TV.
(3) Barbara Shaw, the Alice Springs-based anti-Intervention campaigner, speaks of how welfare quarantining particularly rankles with Indigenous people who remembered the not-so-distant past: “There are a lot of people out there who, when they were young fellas, they only got paid rations.
(4) It's hard to say whether Sejusa's suspicions of an assassination plot are credible, but certainly Kainerugaba's rapid rise through the ranks to become a brigadier at only 39 has rankled many in the armed forces , where it is common to remain a major or captain even after 20 years of service.
(5) Yet the experience of being forced to change her outward appearance clearly rankled with her for years afterwards.
(6) The Times is famous for telling its staffers that they are nothing without the Times, and, after a while, that probably rankled Silver.
(7) Let's not forget that some of its voters were once communist supporters, and shoring up a corrupt anti-communist tycoon is bound to rankle them.
(8) Though cautious overall, some of his remarks, notably a critique of hereditary succession , must have rankled in Pyongyang.
(9) The failure to bring Biggs home and the subsequent jollity that the "slip-up" afforded the media continued to rankle.
(10) Similar criticism rankled when Britain pulled troops from Basra in 2007.
(11) By Tuesday, the Saudi obstruction had even begun to rankle with other members of the Arab League, campaign groups said.
(12) Thirty-three years later, the response to Thy Neighbor’s Wife still rankled Talese.
(13) It rankles in the sense that it sends out the wrong message,” Ouseley said.
(14) Alex Padilla, California’s secretary of state, said they were “unbecoming” for a president-elect and seemed to show that Trump was rankled by losing the popular vote.
(15) It does rankle, and a lot of people think I'm a single mum, but I've got to the stage where it's not worth arguing about.
(16) And it is his views on domestic violence, which he maintains is primarily an issue of disadvantage, not misogyny, which seemed to rankle most.
(17) "I think that's why its problematic elements rankle – not because I'm 'offended', but because it seems lazy, repetitious.
(18) As very young novelists, both wrote books – Drabble's first, A Summer Bird-Cage (1965) , and Byatt's second, The Game (1967) – about rivalrous sisters, which, more than 40 years on, still rankles, at least for Drabble (Byatt apologised for The Game , she says now).
(19) As the discussion devolved into a confrontation the senator, clearly rankled, offered testy responses to questions and jeers from the crowd.
(20) As this fact becomes not an idea but a reality – as we move into Act Three – it seems highly likely that the basic unfairness of this is going to become more and more evident, and more and more rankling.