(a.) Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.
(a.) Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
(2) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
(3) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(4) She knows you can’t force the opposition to submit to your point of view.
(5) The isoelectric points (pI) of E1 and E2 for all VEE strains studied were approx.
(6) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
(7) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(8) A one point dilution enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure suitable for determining immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody levels to Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) in community seroepidemiological surveys is described.
(9) Subsequent isoelectric focusing in sucrose revealed an isoelectric point of 9.0-9.2.
(10) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(11) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
(12) A Monte Carlo simulation was performed to characterize the spatial and energy distribution of bremsstrahlung radiation from beta point sources important to radioimmunotherapy (RIT).
(13) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.
(14) He said Germany was Russia’s most important economic partner, and pointed out that 35% of German gas originated in Russia.
(15) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
(16) In 11 of the 22 cells PAI-1 mRNA and in 6 of the 22 cells PAI-2 mRNA was found, pointing to a possible role of plasminogen activator inhibitors in the tumor-related plasminogen activator activity.
(17) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(18) Recent studies point to the involvement of regulatory peptides in diseases of the gut and lung.
(19) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.
(20) The starting point is the idea that the current system, because it works against biodiversity but fails to increase productivity, is broken.
Rapier
Definition:
(n.) A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bloody-minded defending was switched to a rapier attack in the blink of an eye.
(2) Rapier added that the money announced in the White House initiative on Monday was not a large amount “in dollars” but was vital in terms of the principle of exploring a new approach to a problem that is “devastating” for those it affects and has blown up relatively recently in some areas.
(3) Until now it has been suggested that he bled to death within a couple of minutes, stabbed only once by a rapier.
(4) As the day went on the column revealed their bewilderment at David Cameron’s resignation, their shock at the Twitterstorm of “keenly worded, rapier-sharp attacks” from remainers, and their son’s suggestion of a therapeutic game of Monopoly.
(5) Rapier said it was the first time law enforcement and public health experts would specifically work together under a federal program to tackle the “new heroin epidemic”.
(6) The ABC report said the soldiers were hunting an insurgent bombmaker codenamed Rapier.
(7) Last weekend’s assault on the social and cultural centre in Hammersmith was carried out with a can of paint, but cut through the west London Polish community like a rapier, until the tip reached Jan Black.
(8) Depay, expected to start instead of the suspended Robin Van Persie but left on the bench in favour of underwhelming Jeremain Lens, added a second at the end from a rapier-like Arjen Robben run and cross.
(9) My consultant's notes refer to the tests simply as "bloods", which sounds nicely cavalier ("Huzzah, sir, pick up your rapier!")
(10) A Rapier short-range air defence system at Blackheath, London, in 2012.
(11) It seeks to use state power as a rapier not a bludgeon.
(12) Rapid rise of heroin use in US tied to prescription opioid abuse, CDC suggests Read more Rapier, who is from a federal law enforcement background, said many police officers had to come around to the idea that many drug addicts need a second or third chance to kick heroin without punishment, and controversial services such as public needle exchanges can work.
(13) The flower-in-buttonhole and smiling anecdote, the rapier mind, the warmth and generosity were his hallmarks.
(14) This is not a regular law enforcement initiative; we don’t just want to put people in jail,” Frank Rapier, the director of the Appalachia regional office of the federal high-intensity drug trafficking area program (HIDTA), told the Guardian.
(15) Everyone is in their own ‘silo’ and there are walls and barriers, which we don’t want in this fight Frank Rapier Experts are scrambling to deal with the rise in overdose deaths sparked by large numbers of people who had become dependent on prescription opioid painkillers then switched to heroin as a result of crackdowns on the flow of illegal or over-prescribed pills and the availability of cheap heroin.
(16) In a characteristic play on his words, Carr has called his current show Rapier Wit.
(17) He was selling some byproducts of Britain’s lucrative shooting industry (byproducts because the main product is “fun”): woodpigeon and 14 woodcock , their rapier-like beaks tucked inside their carcasses.
(18) The cost of insuring loans issued by Greece, Portugal and Ireland soared after Moody's interrupted the wrangling in the EU over how to bail out Greece for a second time with a Rapier missile.