(n.) A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.
(n.) A prick or stab which a pointed instrument.
(n.) A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd.
(v. t.) To thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anatomists involved with studies of the hippocampal formation are being prodded by computational modelers and physiologists who demand detailed and quantitative information concerning hippocampal neurons and circuits.
(2) When exposed to the nonelectrified prod after 24 h, total burying time was reduced in the 2mA group but still significantly longer than in the 0mA group.
(3) New Jersey environmentalists credit Jackson with prodding Governor Jon Corzine to adopt environmentally friendly policies.
(4) Both in the presence and absence of bedding material, rats explored the nonelectrified prod and showed a small increase in plasma NA and CS contents.
(5) While the Nexus One's single-finger prodding works well enough, there's none of the pinching action to zoom into maps and photographs that makes the iPhone feel so advanced, nor its realistic-feel friction.
(6) Barratt, a housebuilder not always associated with design quality, has built the St Andrews and Barrier Park projects in east London, albeit only after prodding from the London Development Agency, the public body that sold it the land.
(7) Unfortunately for the assembled crowds, Ting kept his powder dry, despite much prodding and questioning, revealing nothing about the year's worth of data from AMS except to say that they would be "important" results and would be made public when he submitted them to a scientific journal within a few weeks.
(8) Lamine Koné pounced on a knockdown from Jan Kirchhoff in the penalty area, evaded a tackle and squared for the substitute to prod home from seven yards and prompt scenes of unbridled jubilation in the away end.
(9) Olsson, totally unmarked, had the simple task of prodding over the line.
(10) Stun guns, shock batons and cattle prods are electric shock devices which can be used as weapons against the human body.
(11) While the degree of anxiety is measured by burying behavior, elicited by the novelty of prod shock, immobility was the prevalent response of WKY rats.
(12) Cut through the fine print and this is the bottom line: p eople with children over the age of six will be prodded back into the workforce.
(13) In microsomal fractions, enzyme activities measured were pentoxyresorufin O-dealkylase (PROD), ethoxyresorufin O-dealkylase (EROD), and epoxide hydrolase (mEH).
(14) They don't even get to go home for a sleep because dough requires contant prodding, waiting, more prodding and worrying.
(15) The enriched Clara cell fraction possessed (per 10(6) cells) greater P-450 and reduced GSH contents and higher enzyme activities (i.e., NADPH- and NADH cytochrome c reductases, benzyloxy (BROD)-, pentoxy (PROD)- and etoxyresorufin (EROD)-O-dealkylases, GSH transferase, GSH peroxidase, GSH reductase and NADPH quinone oxidoreductase) than either the enriched type II cell or endothelial cell preparations.
(16) UN officials said in advance they hoped new commitments from the big industrialised states, such as Japan and China, would prod other countries into action so that they not be seen as the spoilers of a potential deal at Copenhagen.
(17) It will need lots of tweaking to avoid annoying people – it's already being prodded to see whether it takes more or fewer clicks to reach the phone-dialer (more), and whether you can still set wallpaper (no, but your friends do with their picture – you may need to prune your friends).
(18) The Arsenal defender was caught in possession on the edge of the box by the striker Haris Tabakovic and he crossed for Kamberi who could only prod wide.
(19) Superstars where they attended college, hopefuls suddenly find themselves in unusual situations – as lambs in the middle of an Indianapolis field, being poked, prodded, measured and assessed; then as masters and conquerors, listening to famous GMs and coaches playing salesmen and extolling the virtues of their organisation.
(20) Funding for Lending lets the banks borrow billions at just 0.25% interest to prod them to loosen the purse strings, especially for first-time buyers who face huge hurdles when finding loans.
Trod
Definition:
(imp.) of Tread
() of Tread
() imp. & p. p. of Tread.
Example Sentences:
(1) Apart from that, nothing much to write home about, except that Whelan was lucky to escape a booking when he trod on Olivier Giroud's ankle and Erik Pieters possibly took the rap a few minutes later, picking up a caution for a less obvious foul on the same player.
(2) Cinematically, RED SORGHUM achieved a fantastically rich colour palette in its politically less-than-correct depiction of Chinese peasant life – blood and earth predominate – and trod a careful political line by focusing on atrocities by the invading Japanese rather than internal repression.
(3) Sir Chris took the side of those who backed the zipwire as a novel and exciting way of attracting new and younger visitors to the fells which William Wordsworth and the 20th century guidebook master Alfred Wainwright trod.
(4) Last year 12 Years a Slave trod this path ; in the past Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech and Argo (which was runner-up to Silver Linings Playbook at Toronto) also followed suit.
(5) For much of the 60s, Fanfani - having failed to become president of the Republic in 1964 - trod water, but always at a high level: he was foreign minister (1965-66), president of the UN assembly (1965), and president of the Senate (first term 1968-73).
(6) In the postgame interviews Cards manager Matheny trod a fine line of disappointment.
(7) Harrison said the BBC's plans trod on the toes of commercial radio stations already broadcasting and investing in local news and content.
(8) 9.21pm BST 79 min: There could have been a few red cards so far in this game, including one just now for Lewandowski, who trod on Boateng's ankle as the defender was grounded after a tackle.
(9) Five minutes later his low cross from the left should have seen Juan Mata open the scoring, yet with only Heaton to beat from close to the penalty spot, the Spain player trod on the ball and ended up on the floor.
(10) The Washington Post trod the same road, and is sold with hope but nil guarantees to a rich man who needs his favours.
(11) Rogers spread his arms in a "you're kidding" gesture that trod the fine line between disbelief and dissent and exchanged words with Bairstow as he returned to the pavilion in one last Ashes spat for the summer.
(12) The band's first release since 1991's classic Loveless trod a familiar path, but it was still one that only they have the map to follow.
(13) The “New Democrats” shifted to the centre, and trod on the toes of the established party leaders.
(14) The technical obstacles which delayed too long the achievement of reasonably safe and anatomically complete resections of lung are discussed, and the circuitous route trod by pioneering surgeons in their struggle toward that desired goal is described.
(15) Many observers say that Humphrey and Yu were prudent, experienced businesspeople, and they were detained because it was likely that their investigation trod on the toes of someone powerful.
(16) The referee Mark Clattenburg had struggled to control order in a bad-tempered game in which there were continual flashpoints, most notably just before half-time when Mousa Dembélé appeared to rake his finger nails across Diego Costa’s eyes and Érik Lamela trod on Cesc Fàbregas’s fingers towards the end.
(17) During the campaign, the magazine trod a fine line, saying she was still working for them but not at editorial conferences or decision-making.
(18) Cameron trod a fine line during his 22-hour visit as he pushed British business interests while raising concerns over human rights.
(19) The novel trod on sensitivities among studio bosses, who were afraid of public attention being drawn to the pervasive Jewish influence in movies.
(20) The time-resolved optical density (TROD) and time-resolved circular dichroism (TRCD) spectra of the lowest triplet state of 4-thiouridine (4t-Urd) in aqueous solutions of tRNA are reported.