(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.
Parr
Definition:
(n.) A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; -- called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling.
(n.) A young leveret.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike many music hack days, this is a commercial contest: the winning hack – as judged by Slash, BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen and investor Ben Parr – will earn its creator an autographed guitar, $1,000 and “the chance to have Slash use the winning hack with the release of his new album”.
(2) The sale should be stopped unless the bank’s special status is protected.” Doug Parr, policy director at Greenpeace, added: “A Green Investment Bank that is privatised needs to have its green credentials written in stone.
(3) The wave functions of the bases are computed by Pariser--Parr--Pople's method taking into account all the singly excited configurations.
(4) Friend leukemia complex (FLC), and Rowson-Parr virus (RPV) infections of donor mice depress the production of background antibody-forming cells by splenocytes cultured in the absence of specific antigenic stimulation.
(5) Writing about Tulsa in The Photobook Volume 1 , authors Martin Parr and Gerry Badger say that the "incessant focus on the sleazy aspect of the lives portrayed, to the exclusion of almost anything else – whether photographed from the 'inside' or not – raises concerns about exploitation and drawing the viewer into a prurient, voyeuristic relationship with the work."
(6) Serum cortisol concentrations were measured in juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) undergoing the parr-smolt transformation in fresh water, at either 1 year (S1 population) or 2 years (S2 population) after hatching.
(7) The Nigeria international won a penalty in the dying minutes when he was brought down by Jonathan Parr, enabling Hatem Ben Arfa to complete the scoring.
(8) Craig Parr, secondary school teacher, London I think this is partly about ensuring teachers have the freedom to get on with the job.
(9) To obtain more information on the role of prolactin and growth hormone during the parr-smolt transformation of Atlantic salmon, a population of fish in fresh water was sampled from January to June during two consecutive years.
(10) Dr Doug Parr, chief scientist at Greenpeace UK, said: "We're pleased to see the growing recognition that our inefficient, centralised electricity grid is losing over half of its energy in waste heat.
(11) Doug Parr, Greenpeace UK's chief scientist, welcomed the proposals.
(12) Increased glycogen and lipid breakdown, and concomitant decreased glycogen and fatty acid synthesis would contribute to the lipid and glycogen depletion observed in salmonid species undergoing parr-smolt transformation.
(13) The status of circulating growth hormone and prolactin during the parr-smolt transformation and during seawater adaptation of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) was investigated in relation to changes in plasma levels of thyroxine, triiodothyronine, and cortisol, and in hypoosmoregulatory ability.
(14) In the mature male parr, plasma GH levels increased after 24 hr, when the levels were almost five times those of the freshwater controls.
(15) They seriously threatened only twice – David de Gea saving in a cluttered first half when Chris Smalling diverted a Jonathan Parr header goalwards and then denying Cameron Jerome, on as a substitute, an equaliser shortly after Van Persie's goal – and remain two points above the bottom three.
(16) With a foreword by Martin Parr , the man who matters most in the world of the photobook, it arrived in Arles with buzz attached from the recent photobook festival at Bristol co-curated by Parr.
(17) Evidence of the core domain-domain interaction to stabilize the Fe-S bond, combined with the kinetic studies by G. R. Parr and H. Taniuchi, has led to a model of two alternative folding orders of the core domains for the horse type I complex: domain 1----3----2----4 or 1----2----3----4.
(18) To elucidate the ultrastructural modifications of the gill epithelium during smoltification, gills of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) were examined by electron microscopy at three stages of this process, which were defined as follows: "parrs" were freshwater fish that had not yet started their transformation; "freshwater smolts" were freshwater fish that were ready to enter seawater; and "seawater smolts" were smolts that had been transferred from fresh water and maintained for 4 days in seawater (35%).
(19) T4 and cortisol treatment stimulated lipid mobilization in parr.
(20) These results implicate thyroid hormones in the expression of adult forms of hemoglobin during the parr to smolt transformation of juvenile salmon.