(v. i.) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
(v. t.) To walk on slowly or heavily.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thrasher Mitchell: Then why is that idiot Bernard Hogan-Howe getting a knighthood when his plebby plods tried to stitch me up?
(2) In one way they were right to state the obvious – because Celtic were utter plod at the back – but hubris is best not displayed until you are beyond the reach of vengeance, as opposed to being about to walk into the fortress of the foe you have just mocked.
(3) Certainly Alan has far warmer feelings towards the Kop hero than whoever it was that compared him to Leicestershire's premier plodding lad rockers.
(4) The plodding football we saw earlier in the season has been replaced by the old, thrilling excitement and the volume was turned high.
(5) But now, of course, everyone's doing it – and if you can really contemplate spending an entire evening out of your painfully short life watching Ocean Colour Scene plod through Moseley Shoals then, honestly, get some help.
(6) What I actually did was marry the mind-numbing tedium of a second-rate reality show, with the plodding boredom of a sub-standard pub quiz.
(7) He is remarkable for his ineptitude.” “I suggest that you know perfectly well how addressing an officer as PC Plod what would have been his reaction.” “You accept a possibility that you said that to him and if you did as I suggest you did, it shows a complete insensitivity to the police providing your protection.” Later, Browne asked him about another incident, when a trip from Kenya to Somalia was delayed and he was said to have launched into a foul-mouthed tirade and “exploded”.
(8) And I think if we get 10, 15 or 20% buy-in in the schools, getting the results by building students who are independent, imaginative and resourceful, then plodding along behind will be central government and policymakers who will design a policy to support it.
(9) I believe that a lighthearted exchange could have taken place.” “PC Plod is the Toyland constable in the Noddy stories isn’t he?” Browne said.
(10) 7.31pm BST Meanwhile it's still very plodding from Barcelona.
(11) In one post, Jack ponders how the beat cops of 15 years ago have evolved from Doc Martens-wearing, wooden-stick carrying plods into tooled-up, taser-wielding "imperial stormtroopers".
(12) The plodding Najib's overriding objective is winning the general election expected next year, possibly within a few months.
(13) But more than any previous visit by an American president, yesterday was charged with history - deep history, that is, dating back to the American revolution of 1776; a sense of restlessly creative America embarking on an adventure while the ancien régime plods on the edge of fin-de-something.
(14) The first thing they’re going to say is: “It wasn’t the Brummie Boardwalk we were promised!” Look them in the eye and respond: “Oh, so you wanted it to plod through two seasons of stodgy plots bogged down by political machinations no one but a policy wonk could get excited about before really getting going in seasons 3 and 4?” Then wait for the applause anyone within earshot will give you.
(15) Right now, there’s a kind of plodding earnestness to Seattle’s approach play as they dutifully rather than artfully switch the point of attack.
(16) We do not believe four more years on the same plodding course toward economic recovery is the best path forward for Texas or the nation.
(17) As time plodded on and an understanding of the biological complexity increased, the task seemed bigger and bigger.
(18) Gary dons his board shorts and plods gingerly to the pool.
(19) It is a bit plodding but it does achieve its objective at the end of the day.” Campaign concerns There are concerns that the campaign lacks a heart.
(20) Could the Times and the Sunday Times plod on losing perhaps £60m a year between them, with editorial staffing maybe 200 more than the Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph ?
Pod
Definition:
(n.) A bag; a pouch.
(n.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.
(n.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals.
(v. i.) To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Middle component particles of bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) containing small protein subunits with a cleaved C terminus were used to produce monoclonal antibodies (MAbs).
(2) The length of small intestine, large intestine and caeca and the weight of gizzard expressed per kg of body weight increased with an increase in the level of carob pods meal, which is rich in fibre, in the diets.
(3) The other group of patients (n = 52) received CsA from the first POD, together with AZA and steroids.
(4) The anastomotic index was similar on postoperative day (POD) 1, 4, and 7; but on day 28 all handsewn anastomoses had larger diameters than the widest CEEA anastomosis.
(5) Sleep in the grand house (B&B doubles from £90) or in a yurt, eco-pod or your own tent.
(6) The trypsin inhibitor of Phaseolus vulgaris L. pods is thermosensitive but stable at low pH.
(7) The peroxidase-(POD)-thiocyanate-hydrogenperoxide-system is a well-known antibacterial system, which has been demonstrated to exist, for example, in milk and saliva.
(8) The other drowned patient (53 years) died on the 3rd postoperative day (POD) from ARDS.
(9) One farmer in Hebei province built seven buoyant steel-and-fibreglass "survival pods" in his garage.
(10) All control animals showed destructive grade 4 changes by POD 7.
(11) For the custard 4 egg yolks 400ml double cream 60g caster sugar 1 tbsp cornflour 1 tsp vanilla essence (or ½ vanilla pod, split) 1 Whisk the egg yolks for a minute in a largish heat-proof bowl (you need to be able to whisk the hot cream in later without worrying about it spilling over.)
(12) Long respiratory care was continued after tracheotomy, and finally he could wean from the mechanical respiratory care utilizing acetazolamide (carbonic anhydrase inhibitor) on 59 POD.
(13) Dimethylsulfoxide (15%) does not alter the LMG conversion rate of free POD, whilst a rate loss by 60% was observed for the immobilized enzyme.
(14) All patients with unfavourable neurological outcome were considered POD if absolute or relative contraindications to organ procurement were absent.
(15) We report here on a paternity analysis, using DNA fingerprinting, of mother-fetus pairs and males sampled from complete pods.
(16) I've just been in the pod listening to Sid Lowe talking about the possible Real Madrid players that Arsenal may be able to shake out of the Bernabéu in a Gareth Bale deal.
(17) In normal livers, only occasional sinusoid-lining cells were stained, whereas in SHN following POD or presumed viral hepatitis, hepatocytes of variable morphology showed significant immunoreactivity.
(18) Yang told the South China Morning Post that his biggest customers are businessmen from coal-rich Shanxi province; they have decided to remain anonymous for fear that panicked neighbors will try to steal their pods.
(19) At 53 days POD, lymphoblastic neoplastic cells in the dermis reacted with anti-T lymphocyte monoclonal antibody by the avidin biotin peroxidase complex method.
(20) The POD-like behavior of different DMEP esters indicates that specific attachment of the R group to the C-4 glucoside moiety is required for VM26-like activity.