(v. t.) To touch gently, as with the elbow, in order to call attention or convey intimation.
(n.) A gentle push, or jog, as with the elbow.
Example Sentences:
(1) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(2) His report was widely rubbished at the time for lack of supporting evidence, and the addition of Osborne's sweeteners (or nudges, perhaps?)
(3) There may, however, be a large section on "the nudge unit", otherwise known as the cabinet office's behavioural insights team .
(4) So it must be very tempting to introduce "nudge" legislation.
(5) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
(6) Nicholls, who had qualified automatically for the final, scored 85.5 from the judges on his first run but was eventually nudged out of the medals.
(7) When Javier Hernández scored from close range to make it 3-0 after his captain Rafael Márquez had nudged on a corner, Mexico and their army of supporters had everything they wanted and more.
(8) With climate change and energy use nudging the top of political and commercial agendas, these are companies that have a stake in how our world develops.
(9) Walters, all alone in the crowd, nudged home after a slight pause.
(10) Breyer, who is on the lefter side of the bench with Ginsburg, nudged her at least eight times during the ceremony, according to the Washington Post .
(11) That should have ended it but Griezmann eventually did, nudging over the line after Saúl had headed Turan’s perfect pass across the face of the goal.
(12) As for Disney’s ‘pressure’ to lose weight, she should be even more grateful for being nudged to get healthy.
(13) Geoff Mulgan, a former head of the strategy unit at No 10, where Halpern once worked, and who is now the head of Nesta, said the partnership with the nudge unit allowed for talent sharing and international expansion with cities around the world.
(14) Rooney is nudged over by Friedrich, 40 yards out, just to the right.
(15) Schools prove the point: per capita funding falls but free schools and Theresa May’s grammars get (relatively small) financial nudges.
(16) "Governments whether right or left have become commissioners in chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of," said Iannucci.
(17) The unit may offer contracts based on risk and reward so that if its advice to public- or private-sector bodies does lead to significant savings, the nudge unit gets a share.
(18) Someone nudged their friend so I said: "Who do you bank for?"
(19) If the nudge unit has discovered anything, it’s that an understanding of human behaviour is vital for almost all public policy.
(20) Every magistrate hears idiotic excuses from stupid criminals, but this is the DWP's unsubtle nudge that all claimants are fraudsters beneath the skin.
Signal
Definition:
(n.) A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action.
(n.) A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
(a.) Noticeable; distinguished from what is ordinary; eminent; remarkable; memorable; as, a signal exploit; a signal service; a signal act of benevolence.
(a.) Of or pertaining to signals, or the use of signals in conveying information; as, a signal flag or officer.
(v. t.) To communicate by signals; as, to signal orders.
(v. t.) To notify by a signals; to make a signal or signals to; as, to signal a fleet to anchor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(2) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
(3) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
(4) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
(5) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(6) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(7) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
(8) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(9) Here, we review the nature of the heart sound signal and the various signal-processing techniques that have been applied to PCG analysis.
(10) The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that the decreased Epi response following ET was due to 1) depletion of adrenal Epi content such that adrenomedullary stimulation would not release Epi, 2) decreased Epi release with direct stimulation, i.e., desensitization of release, or 3) decreased afferent signals generated by ET itself.
(11) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(12) In fact, you might read it as a signal … that the president might well lose on this,” she said.
(13) Further study both of the signaling events that lead to MPF activation and of the substrates for phosphorylation by MPF should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the biochemistry of cell division.
(14) After several months, a temporal discrimination was well established, as shown by maximum suppression toward the end of the signal period.
(15) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(16) Protein kinase C (PKC) is activated rapidly and transiently following ionizing radiation exposure and is postulated to activate downstream nuclear signal transducers.
(17) During that time they have repeatedly demonstrated the likely existence of signalling molecules or morphogens that control the pattern of development in the embryo.
(18) Recently, we have designed a series of simplified artificial signal sequences and have shown that a proline residue in the signal sequence plays an important role in the secretion of human lysozyme in yeast, presumably by altering the conformation of the signal sequence [Yamamoto, Y., Taniyama, Y., & Kikuchi, M. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 2728-2732].
(19) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
(20) The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the signaling behaviors of female Long-Evans rats varies over the estrous cycle.