(v. t.) To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.
(v. t.) To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.
(v. t.) Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was made of the dynamics of the changes occurring in the curve of restoration of the test response amplitude in the thalamo-cortical fibers to the pared stimulation of the medial lemniscus with various actions on the somatosensory ared.
(2) I loved that attention to detail, everything pared down to the bone."
(3) However, the announcements made at the tail-end of the Labour administrations have been pared back or delayed as ministers attempt to balance public spending cuts with infrastructure improvements.
(4) In recent weeks, repeated efforts had been made to pare down and modify the legislation to placate the rebellious conservatives in the party.
(5) Canada and Australia feel the squeeze in wake of Chinese economic slowdown Read more Japan’s Nikkei brushed aside an unexpected drop in the country’s industrial output to close up 2.7%, paring losses for the quarter to 14.1%, its deepest since 2010.
(6) It has not passed audit since 1994 and makes Britain's Ministry of Defence seem a haven of cheese-paring efficiency .
(7) These radical reactions should be considered when using human nail parings to estimate accidental exposure to ionizing radiation.
(8) The fact markets pared back this bounce soon after the announcement may in some respects reflect growing market concern that central banks are delving into a tit-for-tat currency devaluation war,” said Angus Nicholson at the online trading firm IG in Melbourne.
(9) Her first BBC series since her drug revelations and split from Charles Saatchi, it promises a “new pared-down approach to cooking and eating”.
(10) The NHS has pared back so much over the last 20 years, it now carries almost no flab.
(11) The cure rate was 84% for sheep that were only footbathed, 72% for those foot pared and footbathed, 72% for those foot pared, footbathed and given penicillin, and 88% for those vaccinated and footbathed.
(12) Yes, we all understood that he was the metaphorical Naked Chef because of the pared down bish-bash-bosh style of cookery, but he might as well genuinely have got his kit off for all the difference it made.
(13) The work and pensions secretary believes that restricting child benefit, which could save £1bn a year, could help Osborne achieve his cuts rather than “cheese paring” all benefits.
(14) The assumption that problem-oriented records help teach critical thinking was tested by co-paring clinical recordings and case study data for a group of beginning nursing students who were taught problem-oriented charting with a group who were taught traditional charting.
(15) It was assumed that the pared-down track programme compared with Beijing, stripped of most of the meaningful endurance events, might work to Great Britain's disadvantage, but the opposite appears to be the case.
(16) It is not possible that doing nothing will be cheaper than doing something; that budget cuts, pared-down services and postcode lotteries will yield anything but higher costs and more human misery.
(17) However, when the upstream sequence was pared down to base number -118, the regulatory response to O2, H2, and Ni levels was negated.
(18) Thus, it is the presence of noisy, incoherent dot motion, rather than brief lifetimes, that causes such poor performance on the stimulus of Newsome and Pare (1988).
(19) But while the Bank has only slightly pared back its growth forecasts since its last Inflation Report in August, the same can’t be said of inflation.
(20) The director of such high-risk projects as the National Theatre's runaway hit War Horse and its more recent smash, The Curious Incident Of the Dog in the Night-Time , as well as the dark, pared-down Port , which recently opened at the Lyttelton, she has never knowingly opted for a theatrical safe bet.
Parle
Definition:
(v. i.) To talk; to converse; to parley.
(n.) Conversation; talk; parley.
Example Sentences:
(1) Updated at 5.02am GMT 4.48am GMT A tweet from the Australian Financial Review’s political correspondent Phillip Coorey: Phillip Coorey (@PhillipCoorey) Thunderstorm brewing over Parl House.
(2) The semi-final saw Germany go down 3-1 to the home team, Sweden, and Walter was badly hurt by Parling.
(3) It is concluded that the parl-r mutation in strain 4810P affects a component of the mitochondrial ribosome, possibly by altering the 15S rRNA or a protein of the small ribosomal subunit.
(4) Previous reports indicate that the two-allele ER PvuII polymorphism could be associated with ER expression in breast cancer (Hill et al., Cancer Res., 49: 145-148, 1989) as well as with patient age at time of tumor diagnosis (Parl et al., Breast Cancer Res.
(5) Graphic England Brown, Watson, Joseph, Barritt (Burgess 65), May (Ford 41), Farrell, B Youngs (Wigglesworth 50), Marler (Vunipola 50), T Youngs (Webber 61), Cole (Brookes 55), Launchbury (Kruis 70), Parling, Wood, Robshaw, Morgan (Easter 58) Sin-bin Farrell 71 Tries Watson Cons Farrell Pens Farrell 2.
(6) Ribulose-1,5-diphosphate carboxylase (carboxydismutase) was prepared from Chinese Cabbage [Brassica petsai (Parl)] and the K(m) values and molecular weight were determined.
(7) If it happens all the same, does that mean the UK Parl officially no longer matters?"
(8) #Rehn frowns April 17, 2013 Bruno Waterfield (@BrunoBrussels) Even @ sharonbowlesmep is roasting #Rehn and blasts #ECB over liquidity 'loan-sharking' April 17, 2013 Karen Coleman (@karencolemanIRL) MEPs in Euro Parl demand answers on how orig idea to levy small depositors in #Cyprus was made.
(10) The further elucidation of the functions in the ribosomes that are modified by the parl-r mutation was hampered by the inability of current preparations of yeast mitochondrial ribosomes to translate efficiently natural messenger RNAs from the several sources tested.
(11) Troika get slammed for botched bailout April 17, 2013 Karen Coleman (@karencolemanIRL) @ nigel_farage on #Cyprus accused Olli Rehn & Troika of being 'common criminals' & that EU is the new communism - fiery debate here at EP April 17, 2013 Karen Coleman (@karencolemanIRL) @ sharonbowlesmep tells Olli Rehn at Euro Parl 'act in haste, repent in leisure'- delivers strong criticism of #cyprus bailout deal April 17, 2013 10.20am BST UK unemployment: early reaction Economists and City investors are disappointed by today's weak UK unemployment data, with some warning that the labour market has caught up with the lack of growth in the economy.
(12) This chart shows how Spanish industrial production has been hit by its long recession: Photograph: INE 9.41am GMT Greek MPs are demanding answers over the decision to send the riot police into the offices of state broadcaster ERT this morning ( via university lecturer and crisis watcher Spyros Gkelis ) spyros gkelis (@northaura) Ind.Greeks MP Kapernaros now in Parl.
(13) England : Brown; Watson, Barritt, Burgess (Ford 69), May; Farrell, B Youngs (Wigglesworth 49); Marler (M Vunipola 60), T Youngs (Webber 66), Cole (Brookes 71), Lawes (Launchbury ht), Parling, Wood, Robshaw (capt), B Vunipola (Haskell 62).