(v. t.) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head.
(v. i.) To exalt one's self; to bear one's self loftily.
(a.) Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.
(v. i.) To peer; to look inquisitively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, between matches, players can test all their new perks and weapons via an easily accessible firing range – instead of having to try them out in a match.
(2) He had earlier seen little support for his push to cut EU pay and perks.
(3) A number of companies, including B&Q, Tesco and Morrisons have raised basic pay only to cut perks and premium payments for weekend, holiday or late working.
(4) The company previously attracted heavy criticism with plans to eliminate the morning perk of free tea and toast handed out to staff across 230 stores.
(5) We’re not asking for perks, just for recognition on how hard we really do work, and not taking a pay cut is part of this.
(6) July 8, 2014 Richard Perks (@RichardP_Mintel) Has M&S been switching space from furniture to clothing to make the clothing figures look better?
(7) However, BA believes it has tempered willingness to strike by the threat to withdraw travel perks and by running a robust contingency schedule during 22 days for strikes during March, May and June.
(8) VIPs, VVIPs or even VVVIPs – almost all government officials – can receive perks ranging from free housing in listed villas with staff paid by the government, bodyguards who act as personal assistants, free flights, unobstructed passage through airports or train stations as well as a significant degree of de facto legal impunity.
(9) Yet, the current proposal appears aimed at ludicrously legislating the economic cycle and creating ever higher fixed salaries and perks for those leading the largest banks.
(10) BA has offered to reinstate staff travel perks but without the seniority clauses that give long-serving cabin crew priority over junior colleagues.
(11) The authors previously reported morning-to-evening changes in ophthalmic measurements at 3 months and at 1-year after radial keratotomy in a self-selected group of patients in the Prospective Evaluation of Radial Keratotomy (PERK) study.
(12) They did, however, let the dog diner sit on the banquette to eat his lunch – quite possibly a first – and swiftly perked up when the owner came out to greet him.
(13) There are 30 new weapons, including a new class of marksman rifles; Perks now have a points system, allowing you to buy several weaker options or opt for one or two really meaty specials.
(14) She apparently thought she could “conscientiously object” and keep the perks of the job she conscientiously objects to performing at the same time.
(15) Always a good cook, she had a Damascene moment one day when, looking for a way to perk up a slightly flat pasta dish, she gave it a squeeze of lemon.
(16) Should pensioners forfeit perks or Labour impose a higher corporation tax?
(17) More highly myopic patients in the PERK population (-4.50 to -8.00 diopters [D]) demonstrated corneas that are 0.08 to 0.10 mm steeper than the less myopic population (-2.00 to -3.12 D).
(18) A proposed deal was reached in May, but one which included sanctions against crew who had been on strike and deprived low-paid staff of travel perks.
(19) These days the Radiohead frontman tries to calm himself down – and perk up his spirits – with yoga and meditation.
(20) The business's values, which include "putting the happiness of partners at the centre of everything we do", have not always been fashionable but the formula of rewarding staff – on top of the bonus staff will receive discounts and perks ranging from subsidised holidays to sailing clubs and theatre outings worth £120m this year – went from strength to strength during the recession.
Werk
Definition:
(v.) Alt. of Werke
Example Sentences:
(1) We made histometric volume analyses of hematoxylin and eosin stained paraffin sections of 43 human thyroid lobes by means of the electric integrating apparatus Eltinor 4 A (Optische Werke Rathenow).
(2) An additional comparison with a French RIA and an enzymimmunoassay (EIA) from the Serum-Werke Dessau confirmed an equal accuracy.
(3) Temmler Werke Pancreolauryl-Test was performed following manufacturer's instructions.
(4) Recently a commercially available test, based on immune-precipitation according to Mancini (9), has been developed (Behring-Werke, Partigen).
(5) C-peptide concentration was determined by a radioimmunoassay using Behring-Werke AE kits (FRG).
(6) The Kinderspital Salzburg has developed a telemetry system in cooperation with the Technische Versuchs- und Forschungsanstalt der Technischen Hochschule Wien and the Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm-Werke München.
(7) The autograft was incubated with the active CY derivative Mafosfamide (ASTA Werke, Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany) to reduce the number of possibly contaminating clonogenic tumor cells.
(8) Spleen cells incubated with specific influenza antigens obtained according to Nath's method were used for the experiments as well as cells incubated with staphylococcal staphylolysine (Boehring Werke).
(9) A double precipitation or a intensification method of immunodiffusion employing Partigen plates (Behring-Werke) has been applied for global IgE assay in routine laboratory work in the last months.
(10) A rapid method (Rapi tex-Hp-Test, Behring-Werke) was used.
(11) Activities of a glycolytic enzyme--lactate dehydrogenase, LDH, and two oxidative enzymes--citrate synthase (CS), a marker for TCA cycle entry, and 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (HAD), which indicates the capacity for beta-oxidation of endogenous lipids, were measured in fast (tibialis anterior, TA, and extensor digitorum longus, EDL) and slow (soleus, SOL) muscles of Sprague-Dawley rats with intact and limited blood supply, and following treatment with the xanthine derivative torbafylline (Hoechst, Werk Albert, Wiesbaden).
(12) Patients with cochleovestibular disorders of central and peripheral origin were treated with monothreane (produced by Luitpold Werk, FRG).
(13) The Luitpoldt-Werk Munich placed to our disposal 13 different GAGPS for tests.
(14) Skin uptake of salicylic acid methylester (SAM) by bathing in PERNIONIN -Teilbad (Krewel-Werke, Eitorf) and KNEIPP-Wacholderölbad (Kneipp-Werke, Würzburg) was researched with pigs and human volunteers.
(15) Long-term administration of adenosine and xanthine derivative (HWA 285, Hoechst, Werk Albert, Wiesbaden) increased blood flow in the heart and skeletal muscles and induced capillary growth in both.
(16) Ifosfamide was developed by investigators at Asta-Werke in Germany.
(17) The alkylating agent ifosfamide synthesized according to own method at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, Warsaw, was compared in biological evaluations with Holoxan (Asta-Werke's ifosfamide).