(v. i.) To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
(v. i.) To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc.
(v. t.) To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
(v. t.) To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
(v. t.) To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
(v. i.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
(v. i.) The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
(v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
(v. i.) A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
(v. i.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
(v. i.) A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
(v. i.) See Paddle staff (b), below.
Example Sentences:
(1) These people would be out of their depth in a paddling pool, and couldn’t be more unfit to run a modern political party.
(2) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(3) We have found it to be efficacious in taking a proximal skin paddle, which decreases donor site morbidity and allows for a long vascular pedicle.
(4) Also, one or two skin paddles for cover and lining flaps are carried either by the cutaneous scapular and parascapular branches of the circumflex scapular vessels or by surgically split segments of the latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap.
(5) Following the recent announcement from Naoto Kan, the prime minister, that Japan would "start from scratch" with regard to future nuclear power expansion, we can be sure that there is plenty of paddling in Tokyo.
(6) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
(7) Although there was partial epithelial loss of the skin "paddle" in 7 cases, in each case the surviving dermis became resurfaced with epithelium.
(8) On each trial subjects were instructed either to produce the syllable "pa" or not respond when they detected movement of a small paddle held between the lips.
(9) Paddling along the densely wooded coastline, the view ahead was suddenly broken by asymmetrical shapes rising up from a grassy headland.
(10) Uricult dip-slide paddles provide an inexpensive, efficient way to screen urine.
(11) We address the chief safety issues in helicopter defibrillation by providing measurements of the transient leakage current resulting from contact with a paddle and tested in-flight electronic interference and survey the defibrillation experience of helicopter programs.
(12) Paddle past women washing their colourful saris in the waterways, farmers herding their swimming ducks to pastures new and see wildlife that would otherwise have been scared away, before taking a dip to cool off.
(13) A technique of intraabdominal paddle placement for internal countershock has been used to successfully manage this complication.
(14) Each of these bones is fully differentiated by Gosner stage 31 (hindlimb in paddle stage) during premetamorphosis.
(15) SWANSEA CITY Accounts for the year to 31 May 2014 Ownership Martin Morgan, 23.7%; Brian Katzen, 21.1%; Swansea City Supporters Society Limited (supporters trust) 21.1%; chairman Huw Jenkins 13.2%; Robert Davies 10.5% Turnover 13th highest, £99m (up from £67m in 2013) Match income £9m Media £81m Commercial and other £9m Wage bill Joint 14th highest, £63m (up from £49m in 2013) Wages as proportion of turnover 64% Profit before tax £1m (down from £21m in 2013) Net debt Nil; £2m cash in the bank Interest payable £0.015m Highest-paid director Huw Jenkins, £550,000 State they’re in The Swans’ epic paddle from bottom division and insolvency to Premier League and new stadium owned by a consortium of fan-businessmen, including 20% held by the supporters trust, was committed to documentary with A Jack to a King.
(16) The cadaver injections were evaluated to determine the size and shape of the skin island used to reconstruct defects of the head, neck, and upper trunk with an extended skin paddle off the pectoralis major muscle.
(17) There was septal damage in the heart of one paddle dog.
(18) Both DZP and PTZ elevated paddling and wall progression, but only PTZ elevated head and body tremor scores.
(19) The emulsions were prepared by paddle mixing as a method of low-shear emulsification.
(20) It has moments of snort-out-loud laughter (the paddle steamer named the Wonderful Fanny, the Jane Austen vignette – see below).
Shallow
Definition:
(superl.) Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
(superl.) Not deep in tone.
(superl.) Not intellectually deep; not profound; not penetrating deeply; simple; not wise or knowing; ignorant; superficial; as, a shallow mind; shallow learning.
(n.) A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
(n.) The rudd.
(v. t.) To make shallow.
(v. i.) To become shallow, as water.
Example Sentences:
(1) Intestinal glands are not observed until 8.5cm, and are shallow in depth even in the adult.
(2) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
(3) Those with shallow roots are least likely to mourn change.
(4) In comparison gradients of transcript levels are more shallow in either lytically or persistently infected cultured cells, where the transcripts of the fifth MV gene are only about five times less abundant than those of the first.
(5) With commonly used experimental procedures, it is difficult to know whether a shallow psychometric function slope is a true reflection of the sensory process, or is a result of "averaging" a highly variable underlying function.
(6) The lesions varied in length from 0.5 to 2 cm and were very shallow, generally 1 mm deep.
(7) Further purification of the fraction by equilibrium centrifugation on shallow sucrose gradients reduces further the contaminating activities and results in a PA distribution that closely parallels the distribution of the membrane enzyme, 5'-nucleotidase.
(8) A case of acute angle-closure glaucoma precipitated by oculomotor nerve palsy in a patient with shallow anterior chambers is reported.
(9) From the shallow pool of talent to the lack of a definable playing style and questions over whether they can handle the step up from qualification to tournament football, this is now England.
(10) In Experiment 1, it was found that deviations of observed recognition failure from predictions of the Tulving-Wiseman function (Tulving & Wiseman, 1975) were produced by shallow, nonsemantic encoding.
(11) Recordings from single neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex of the monkey during force regulation between the fingers showed following characteristics: the existence of classes of discharge patterns similar to those in motor cortex, but with differences in their distribution, a late onset of activity changes in relation to force increase and a linear relation to force, but with shallow mean rate-force slope.
(12) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
(13) Angiotensin II induced a weak secretion of both adrenaline and noradrenaline, with a threshold of 10-100 pM and a shallow concentration-dependence up to 10 microM.
(14) The threshold of instantaneous change of stage 2 to shallower stages due to the sound of a passing truck was at the peak level at less than 55 dB (A), and that of stage REM to other stages at 55 to 60 dB (A).
(15) Maybe this is symptomatic of how the possibilities of social media have just made our friendships shallower, an economy of “likes” and thoughtless “adds”.
(16) In addition, it was a shallow event with a source that was only 11km below ground.
(17) Some of the stomata overlie a deep pit; others overlie a shallower pit in which the surface of another cell can be seen beneath the opening.
(18) Initially each primordium forms a shallow depression in the ectodermal surface.
(19) Under the scanning electron microscope, the clear dentine tubules in the resorption lacuna, the shallow, unclear resorption lacuna with deposition of the hard tissue and the various steps between them were observed.
(20) We found shallow serpiginous, longitudinal ulcerations in the descending colon at the first examination of a 17-year-old female patient with Crohn's disease.