(n.) A socket or bezel holding a precious stone; hence, a jewel or ornament worn on the person.
Example Sentences:
(1) The next day she came online to write the word "ouch" underneath a picture of a leg injury I had posted deliberately to make her say something girlfriendy.
(2) Amidases (acylamide amidohydrolase EC 3.5.1.4) from mutant strains (i.e., B6, AI3, AIU1N, OUCH 4 and L10) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were purified in one-step by ligand affinity chromatography using Epoxy-activated Sepharose 4B-acetamide.
(3) A case of Itai-itai (ouch-ouch) disease with reduced urinary kallikrein excretion and slightly enhanced renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is described.
(4) So perhaps it's all the snow's fault... Lorcan Roche Kelly (@LorcanRK) Ouch.
(5) Association of resistance to hydroxyurea inhibition with a mutation in the amidase structural gene of strain OUCH 4 was confirmed by transduction.
(6) Two down for Carlos Gomez, who is hit in the hand, ouch.
(7) ‘It’s heartbreaking to see their little faces with no hope,’ said Jose, aged six.” Ouch.
(8) The secretary of state in Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry, Ouch Borith, told the ABC a government working group had completed studying a draft resettlement proposal from the Australian government and was hoping to sign a deal “as soon as possible”.
(9) Adam Smith: Ouch, you're twisting my arm … Junt: I would like to draw a line under this sorry tale of confusion by announcing that my dear, dear friend Adam sadly and unexpectedly defenestrated himself an hour a go.
(10) Jones gets completely anihilated by Walker on the kickoff, ouch!
(11) Altered amidases from mutant strains AIU 1N and OUCH 4, selected for their resistance to inhibition of growth by urea and hydroxyurea respectively, had altered kinetic constants for inhibition indicating reduced binding capacity for the inhibitors.
(12) In 2003, the term was voted third most offensive that could be used relating to disability in a poll run for the BBC's Ouch!
(13) 1.45am BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, top of 1st Ouch!
(14) Asa Bennett of Huffington Post tweets the details, including veteran Labour MP Austin Mitchell apparently comparing Wheatley to Admiral Horatio Nelson ( of "I see no ships" fame ) Asa Bennett (@asabenn) Ouch.
(15) It would be an historic mistake if on these issues Britain were to continue to alienate its natural allies in central and eastern Europe ,” he said in a speech at Chatham House on Monday, “when you were one of the strongest advocates for their accession.” Ouch.
(16) The Sunday Herald's Iain Macwhirter even dismissed me as " the BBC Question Time's favourite tame lefty " (ouch).
(17) There was the first-choice left-back Jetro Willems going and getting himself ruled out of the tournament with ligament-ouch suffered in PSV's Eredivisie match against Feyenoord last weekend.
(18) By way of contrast Brown had positioned himself on the “compromise everything left” and “looks set to be a weak if extended interlude between you and Cameron.” Ouch.
(19) Worries about China, the endless drop in oil prices and even new geopolitical tensions pounded the markets, punishing risk assets with a flight to quality that was in full swing,” they wrote in a research note entitled “What’s the Chinese for ‘ouch’?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest China shares slipped again this week despite Beijing’s previous attempts to calm markets.
(20) Sixty-two autopsy cases with "itai-itai" or "ouch-ouch" (in English) disease and 50 control subjects were examined by static quantitative bone histopathology.
Sympathy
Definition:
(n.) Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.
(n.) An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.
(n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.
(n.) The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.
(n.) That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.
(n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.
(n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hulk Hogan’s status as a public figure, even one who holds forth often and at length about his sex life, may have kept him from getting the kind of sympathy that the subject of the escort story immediately received, but there’s no evidence Bollea intended for anyone to see the tape.
(2) Former Tory minister Edwina Currie has tweeted that she had "no sympathy" for food bank users, that they were just "opportunists".
(3) With Fury, I’m not going to have no remorse, I’m not going to have no sympathy.
(4) I have no quarrel with the overall thrust of Andrew Rawnsley's argument that the south-east is over-dominant in the UK economy and, as someone who has lived and worked both in Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne, I have sympathy with the claims of the north-east of England as well as Wales (" No wonder the coalition hasn't many friends in the north ", Comment).
(5) He added: “I have no sympathy for real paedophiles.
(6) But obviously if people have been injured or indeed killed that is a tragedy and our sympathies are with the victims and their families.” He added: “We never condone violence – whatever the cause.
(7) A Facebook page created for friends, family and well-wishers to write messages of sympathy was filling with tributes.
(8) Kafka's faceless and amoral heroes, on the other hand, inspire no sympathy at all.
(9) There was little sympathy from the Lib Dems' coalition partners in the Conservative party.
(10) A year after the establishment of the so-called caliphate by Islamic State , western governments are struggling for strategies to challenge sympathy among their citizens towards the militants.
(11) You could think the narrator's extreme failures of sympathy are despicable, but this would surely be beside the point.
(12) Its coverage was so vindictive and blatantly unfair that it succeeded in winning sympathy for the prime minister, not an easy thing to do these days.
(13) The curator Clare Browne has a certain sympathy for Bock – “he was a serious collector, and he saved many pieces which would otherwise certainly have been destroyed” – but even she is startled that he ran his scissors straight through the figure of Christ, sparing only the face, which ended up in the V&A’s half.
(14) Speaking at a press conference following the preview of his latest film, Melancholia, von Trier expressed sympathy for Hitler, remarked that Israel was "a pain in the arse" and jokingly confessed to being a Nazi .
(15) The Labour leader is determined to retain autonomy on policy and to avoid being dictated to by his party when he is not in sympathy with the message it is giving him.
(16) Too many of his answers start with, “I have some sympathy with what you say, but...”; he comes across as just another politician.
(17) He has little sympathy for those displaced along the way.
(18) This includes the carbon content of fuels, driver behaviour, infrastructure, as well as the potential of car connectivity and intelligent transport systems (ITS).” The industry’s position has won the sympathy of oil companies, which also oppose fuel economy targets for 2025 and 2030.
(19) "I've got a great deal of sympathy with the situationist position.
(20) Perhaps monstering earns underdog sympathy, with contempt for the press as rife as contempt for conventional politics.