(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).
Switch
Definition:
(n.) A small, flexible twig or rod.
(n.) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
(n.) A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
(n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
(v. t.) To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
(v. t.) To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
(v. t.) To trim, as, a hedge.
(v. t.) To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
(v. t.) To shift to another circuit.
(v. i.) To walk with a jerk.
Example Sentences:
(1) We also demonstrated a significant difference in the Hb switching process between male and female newborns.
(2) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
(3) Nine years of clinical experience of the application of the Q-switched ruby laser to the removal of tattoos is presented.
(4) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
(5) It is hypothesized, furthermore, that the kinetics of emergence and loss of these various populations may reflect switching in the mode of immunity being expressed, particularly during the chronic phase of the infection, from that of a state of active immunity to one of immunologic memory.
(6) Police in Rockhampton have ordered residents to leave their homes as electricity is switched off in low-lying areas.
(7) The drug I started taking caused an irritating, chronic cough, which disappeared when I switched to an inexpensive diuretic.
(8) Our aim is to obtain evidence for trans-acting factors that regulate developmental hemoglobin (Hb) switching.
(9) Should such symptoms occur, the doctor has the choice of either switching to another first-step compound or reducing the dose of the first agent and combining it with one of other available drugs.
(10) I’ve warned Dave before to mind his ps and qs when the cameras are rolling, but the problem is you can never tell when the microphones are switched on.
(11) This modification improves the convergence properties of the network and is used to control a switch which activates the learning or template formation process when the input is "unknown".
(12) Usage of analyzing cardiac monitors with a signalling system switched on by the preset values of ST-segment depression prevented the evolution of myocardial ischemia and the development of exercise-induced anginal episodes.
(13) "It's very clear now that the administration agrees with us," said Wyden, hailing a switch from both the Bush and Obama administration stance that "collecting these records is vital to western civilisation".
(14) A programmable controller manages the olfactometer dilution stage selection, the odor stimulus switch and starts the peripheral devices required by the experiment.
(15) In hybrids before the switch, the gamma-genes are unmethylated.
(16) "The default switch should be set to release information unless there is an extremely good reason for withholding it.".
(17) A transistor radio activated by a mercury switch was used to reinforce head posture in two retarded children with severe cerebral palsy.
(18) The swi1+ gene is necessary for effective mating-type (MT) switching in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
(19) Consequently mother cells can switch their mating type whereas bud cells cannot.
(20) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.