(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.
Pave
Definition:
(n.) The pavement.
(v. t.) To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.
(v. t.) Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise.
Example Sentences:
(1) It paves the way for Iran to get nuclear weapons.” Under the deal, Iran committed to reducing the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds, capping its level of uranium enrichment well below the level needed for bomb-grade material, reducing its enriched uranium stockpile from around 10,000kg to 300kg for 15 years, and submitting to international inspections to verify its compliance.
(2) And those who hope to lead Labour now seem to be agreed on one thing: that the path back to power will be paved with talk about aspiration .
(3) The two companies have pooled their software development resources to create MeeGo, a free software platform which they reckon will pave the way for the next generation of wireless communications devices.
(4) Cameron is hoping Thursday’s EU talks over dinner will pave the way for a deal by February, allowing him to have a referendum next year.
(5) • Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has accepted a proposal by the German chancellor, Angel Merkel, to set up a “fact-finding mission” that would pave the way for some form of political dialogue in the crisis, according to the German government.
(6) The rest of the EU will have a chance to give its response on Friday at talks between senior officials, paving the way for EU leaders to meet in Brussels next week.
(7) Perhaps it could help pave the way for the collaboration essential to coping with climate change.
(8) Turkey has issued a decree paving the way for the conditional release of 38,000 prisoners in an apparent move to make jail space for thousands of people who have been arrested after last month’s failed coup .
(9) The gates may be open but the road to the church that calls itself a friendship and reconciliation centre is not paved with sleek cars or thronged with believers.
(10) Although E.ON has said it will not increase bills for customers before the end of 2012, fears are growing that SSE's action will pave the way for other suppliers to increase their prices.
(11) The success of Capote paved the way for bigger and more nuanced parts for Hoffman, his turn as the villain in Mission: Impossible III (2006) notwithstanding.
(12) The above-mentioned findings suggested that the Er:YAG laser could pave the way for the cavity preparation with acid-resistant cavity margin.
(13) His treatment was largely traditional and he tended to ignore contemporary advances in medical science, but his meticulous records of patients and of their response to treatment paved the way for the clinical approach which was to prevail in the future.
(14) The following year he played a philosophising, brutal hitman in the film True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino , which paved the way for his lead role in The Sopranos, the gangster family saga that ran for six seasons from 1999.
(15) Iran's invitation to Syria talks marks significant shift for US and allies Read more Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, has insisted that Assad must go and that, in the first instance, a transitional government agreed to by the regime and the opposition should pave the way for peace.
(16) It is almost six months since Michael Grade said he would step back from the executive chairman's role, paving the way for a new chief executive.
(17) His refusal to endorse evolution hardly distinguishes him from the other Republican presidential hopefuls, but Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal can point to an unmatched achievement as he formally kicks off his campaign: signing a law that paved the way for creationism to be taught in schools.
(18) The most significant of these appointments was Philip Hammond as foreign secretary, who will pave the way for attempted reforms in the UK's relationship with the EU.
(19) But that was a clear demotion, unlike Hague whose decision to stand down at the election paved the way for a less onerous cabinet post.
(20) For his meeting with Angela Merkel and François Hollande , meant to pave the way to next month’s EU summit, the Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi chose the historical site of Ventotene, off the coast of Naples.