(n.) A utensil for popping corn, usually a wire basket with a long handle.
(n.) A dagger.
Example Sentences:
(1) This article investigates this question by examining the views of the logical positivists, Karl Popper and Imre Lakatos, and concludes that the practice of science and psychotherapy involves metaphysics in (a) problem choice, (b) research and therapy design, (c) observation statements, (d) resolving the Duhemian problem, and (e) modifying hypotheses to encompass anomalous results.
(2) A report by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in 2011 noted that poppers did not produce “harmful effects sufficient to constitute a societal problem” and therefore should not be banned, a conclusion that was agreed with by the home affairs select committee .
(3) During his stay at the University of Prague, he was influenced by the famous people of his time, such as Einstein (physicist), Mach (physicist and psychophysicist), Lorenz (behavioral scientist), Popper (philosopher), Schlick (physicist and philosopher), Hering (physiologist), and others.
(4) Poppers users beware, a draconian and discriminatory law is on its way | Chris Ashford Read more Amid controversy and impassioned debate, the psychoactive substances bill passed its final stages in parliament this week and is expected to be signed into law by the Queen in April.
(5) And I was astonished to find that it’s proposed they be banned and, frankly, so were very many gay men.” As grateful as Addy was for Blunt’s intervention, he does not want poppers exempted from the bill.
(6) The psychotherapeutic implications of Husserl's method of inquiry are examined within the epistemological framework of Kuhn, Piaget, and Popper, which provides a model for both psychopathology and change in psychotherapy.
(7) The discussion of one classical (Popper) and one recent (Grünbaum) critique of psychoanalysis shows that the arguments are still broadly determined by Freuds own philosophical prejudice.
(8) They took three groups of children: one where the tonsils have been removed with both of the guillotines, then a group where only a Sluder was used, and the third group where only the Popper was used.
(9) It is seen as a safe product and we’ve already been selling it for 30 years, so surely the correct way to deal with it is to allow us to continue selling it until the review is published,” says Adams, who asks why the government took no time to examine poppers before passing the bill.
(10) His bedside drawer probably opens with the clink that characterises so many similar drawers belonging to gay men, as bottles of poppers nestle among the lube, condoms and a half-read Alan Hollinghurst novel.
(11) But philosophy is embroiled in the "Science Wars", where Popper's faith in progress by conjecture and refutation has been demonstrated by Thomas Kuhn to be naive in explaining why science undergoes revolutions - why theories persist when confronted by overwhelming contradictory evidence, and yet suddenly or prematurely collapse in the face of other, as yet untested, hypotheses.
(12) During the bill’s final stage in parliament, the Shadow Home Secretary, Andy Burnham, asked for an amendment that would have exempted poppers from the bill.
(13) A jury came back and decided [poppers] weren’t harmful.
(14) From the clinical point of view, the classification of drug-induced liver damage into predictable, unpredictable and simulated, has proved useful (Popper and Greim 1973).
(15) Buying sex is not an offence, the men were consenting adults, there was no use of cocaine and poppers are legal.
(16) Yorkshire is the poppers capital of Europe, with the largest and second largest manufacturers based in Huddersfield and Leeds respectively.
(17) A study in the Lancet, published in 2014, also claimed to have established a “clear cause–effect relationship” between the use of poppers and eyesight damage since the product’s main ingredient isobutyl nitrite was substituted for isopropyl nitrite following changes to legislation in 2006.
(18) Weed, ecstasy, speed, coke, acid, poppers, mushrooms, DMT and ketamine were all fine.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Conservative MP says he uses poppers in bid to prevent ban on psychoactive substances “The ACMD’s consensus view is that a psychoactive substance has a direct action on the brain and that substances having peripheral effects, such as those caused by alkyl nitrites, do not directly stimulate or depress the central nervous system.” The home secretary’s official advisers say that poppers, which have been widely used as recreational drugs since the 1970s, are “not seen to be capable of having ‘harmful effects sufficient to constitute a social problem’.” They say concerns about impaired sight and risks of lower blood pressure are rare but should be carefully monitored.
(20) We have examined the abuse patterns of nitrite inhalants (poppers) in several different groups.
Stuff
Definition:
(v. t.) Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
(v. t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
(v. t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
(v. t.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
(v. t.) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
(v. t.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
(v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
(v. t.) Paper stock ground ready for use.
(n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
(n.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
(n.) To fill by being pressed or packed into.
(n.) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
(n.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
(n.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
(n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
(n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
(n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
(v. i.) To feed gluttonously; to cram.
Example Sentences:
(1) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(2) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
(3) It’s good stuff.” Opening markets to US-made products overseas is one of the better things that could happen for US small business and their employees, said Obama.
(4) A Tory spokesman said: “This is feeble stuff from a party with no economic plan and a leader who just isn’t up it.
(5) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
(6) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
(7) I don’t buy any of the horse race stuff,” Bush said Tuesday.
(8) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
(9) Real people, by contrast, care more about their jobs, where they live, and the fuzzy stuff of security, happiness and a sense of belonging.
(10) He must have had PR training – didn’t it stretch to not saying stupid stuff?
(11) "A lot of this stuff we inherited and had to continue," a Downing Street source said.
(12) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
(13) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
(14) He says he did write grown-up stuff – Joking Apart in the 90s and Coupling in the 00s, sitcoms that riffed on his own sexual history.
(15) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
(16) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?
(17) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
(18) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
(19) "Good stuff this from City as they're effectively playing with ten men," opines Paul Ruffley.
(20) If you pushed them on Hitler you got the most extraordinary stuff: "He was mah-vellous.