(n.) The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Nickles (R-Okla) was interviewed in March in his Oklahoma City office on the 18th floor of the Liberty Bank Building.
(2) Serum nickle was estimated by atomic absorption spectrometer in 20 healthy controls and in 25 cases of acute myocardial infarction at 12 hourly intervals upto 48 hours, after the onset of chest pain.
(3) Among the most high-profile books challenged lately was bestselling author David K Shipler’s The Working Poor: Invisible in America, targeted by a group of parents in Texas during Banned Books Week, and Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickle and Dimed: On (not) Getting by in America, which explores the challenges of low income and refutes the myths around poverty and supposed fecklessness.
(4) A custom, platinum-iridium, exposed helical screw electrode (Medtronic, Inc.), 4.5-mm long, with a 17.8-mm2 surface area, was designed with a polyurethane covered 4 filar MP35N nickle conductor lead.
(5) Valvulotomy was accomplished with a retrograde "cutter" valvulotome, and endoluminal cannulation of 84 SV tributaries was performed with a shape memory metal alloy (nickle-titanium), electronically steerable catheter under angioscopic surveillance.
(6) Intense handling of nickle-contaminated metal objects did not induce any visible eczematous activity.
(7) Nonetheless, Senator Nickles, a young and energetic man in his early forties, was relaxed and in no apparent rush.
(8) The life of Dr. Samuel Nickles 1833-1908, medical practitioner and teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio, is written almost entirely from information found in a collection of letters, personal papers, clippings from newspapers and journals, and other personal possessions donated to the author by Martha Nickles, Samuel's 89-year-old daughter.
(9) In casting of high-fusing alloys such as cobalt-chrome and nickle-chrome alloys, the reaction between the investing mold and high-fusing molten alloys suffers the disadvantage of the scale formation.
(10) The nickle dose given is probably in the upper limit of the presently known daily intake of the metal, but should be considered to be within the physiologic range.
(11) (electron-paramagnetic-resonance) spectra of ubisemiquinone (QH) organic radicals and all of the known iron-sulphur centres were studied in normal and 'nickle-plated' pigeon heart mitochondria, submitochondrial particles and submitochondrial particles from which succinate dehydrogenase had been removed.
(12) Oral administration of nickle in a double-blind test provoked an aggravation of the hand eczema in nine of the twelve patients, and in seven of the patients this was accompanied by secondary eruptions including outbreaks of earlier, healed eczema.
(13) The nickle (Ni) concentrations of blood plasma, urine and scalp hair do not differ between hypersensitive and non-hypersensitive subjects.
(14) Despite its favorable mechanical properties, however, the high nickle content of Wiron 88, as it has been in use up to now, must be considered as a drawback, because it may produce allergic reactions in patients.
(15) 213 women and 26 men out of 7835 persons examined in the course of 9 years (1967--1975) had a positive reaction to nickle sulfate.
(16) Mr Lott's current deputy, Don Nickles of Oklahoma, was the first Republican senator to call on Mr Lott to resign and spare the party any pain.
(17) Nickles, still the youngest Senator in Washington, has been a US Senator for 11 years.
Tickle
Definition:
(v. t.) To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
(v. t.) To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
(v. i.) To feel titillation.
(v. i.) To excite the sensation of titillation.
(a.) Ticklish; easily tickled.
(a.) Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.
(a.) Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
Example Sentences:
(1) The current script is still being tickled every day.
(2) However, nurturers of Britain’s nascent wine industry with an eye on an emerging market, where appreciation of wine is a status symbol, might hope that senior communist party palettes will have been tickled by the Ridgeview Grosvenor 2009, a sparking English wine originating in West Sussex.
(3) In man, lesions of the posterior columns cause an increase in pain, tickle, warmth and cold.
(4) "I'd be tickled to death if it would make 50 bushels (1.5 tonnes), if we don't have rain," he said.
(5) They remember his louche looseness with the facts , his willingness to invent stories of EU straight-banana absurdity to tickle the prejudices of his readers back home.
(6) "We got together in LA without her, just to see what we got, like we could seduce her in the process, come up with something that would tickle her ears and she'd go: 'Oh wow, you guys are really up to something good here'.
(7) Four profoundly hearing-impaired adults who did not meet current selection criteria for implantation at the University of Melbourne were each fitted with a wearable multichannel electrotactile speech processor (Tickle Talker).
(8) He was tickled, once, while walking through Greenwich Village, to see "a guy came along the street wearing a muscle T-shirt, very tight.
(9) The children were able to use tactile input to achieve higher scores on three speech feature subtests of the PLOTT test when using the Tickle Talker plus hearing aids as compared to hearing aids alone.
(10) Now, I love this sort of thing – it's my job to be tickled by it – but there comes a point when you finally have to ask, where is your movie, Mr Verbinski?
(11) The recording tickled him because it sounds nothing like a car, but exactly like the sound of a cow mooing.
(12) For myself, it’s not something I’ve been accustomed to experimenting with.” Spy review – uproarious Paul Feig comedy tickles SXSW Read more Feig wrote the part especially for Statham.
(13) Although the subjects' stimulations were unaffected by looking at the gestures, the tactual stimulus elicited a tickle sensation.
(14) As part of a larger subject group, four profoundly hearing-impaired children enrolled in a total communication educational program were fitted with the University of Melbourne's multichannel electrotactile speech processor (Tickle Talker).
(15) To study these, Ss rated perceived "tickle-strength" in situations where they were tickled: (a) with their eyes closed; (b) with their eyes open; (c) with their own arm doing the tickling, but being moved by someone else; (d) by themselves.
(16) Leat was also seen lifting up and touching young girls in the playground and tickling and cuddling pupils in class.
(17) We examined separately tickle perception and pleasure and anxiety during sexual sequence of 40 dermapathic (20 men and 22 women) and 39 normal subjects (20 men and 19 women) aged between 35 and 40 yr.
(18) Pregnancy leads to modifications in sensitivity to tickle, specifically with regard to the right half of the body and to some extent in body schema.
(19) "His promised new party is far from certain to get into parliament, but depending on how well it tickles the fancies of some of the more radical, marginalised, and disillusioned voters and non-voters, the so-called Mega party could have a huge impact on who forms the next government."
(20) The biological baseline here is usually the laughter caused by tickling, which most of us assume to be some simple form of reflex action.