(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.
Yerk
Definition:
(v. t.) To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.
(v. t.) To strike or lash with a whip.
(v. i.) To throw out the heels; to kick; to jerk.
(v. i.) To move a quick, jerking motion.
(n.) A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results were in agreement with the Yerkes-Dodson law in that the optimal physiological activation level for rapid performance varied with the degree of task difficulty, relatively lower activation being more favorable the more difficult the task.
(2) Chromobacteriosis caused by Chromobacterium violaceum was diagnosed as an Assam macaque, Macaca assamensis, that died 4 days after receipt of the Yerkes Primate Center, It was received from a primate facility in Florida where it has been housed with a group of rhesus monkeys for 5 years.
(3) The Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center has successfully bred chimpanzees since 1930.
(4) The results are discussed within the theoretical framework of the Yerkes-Dodson Law, which states a relationship between drive level, performance and different degrees of task difficulty.
(5) This paper describes the incidence of multiple births in the Yerkes Chimpanzee colony for a period of about 63 years.
(6) Greater than 75% of the sooty mangabey monkeys at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center are naturally infected with SIV without any apparent clinical symptomology.
(7) The apparatus was modified Yerkes discrimination apparatus.
(8) The relationship between arousal and efficiency of the brain is shown by the inverted U of the Yerkes-Dodson curve.
(9) The infants and their mothers lived as members of a captive social group at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center.
(10) The American Psychological Association Committee on Precautions in Animal Experimentation was founded in 1925 at the instigation of Walter B. Cannon, with Robert M. Yerkes as the first chair.
(11) Healthy mangabey monkeys in a colony at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center were found to be infected with a retrovirus related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
(12) This article also reviews the literature on memory for stressful events with respect to two major theories: the Yerkes-Dodson law and Easter-brook's cue-utilization hypothesis.
(13) The results indicate that most if not all SIV-seronegative mangabeys from the colony at the Yerkes Primate Center are in fact infected with SIVsmm despite their lack of humoral immune response, confirming previous immunological and virological observations made by our laboratory.
(14) The analysis of behavioural sequences makes it probable that, according to the criteria of Yerkes and Hassenstein, we are dealing with problem-solving behaviour guided by regrouping of engrams.