(n.) A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.
(n.) Anything light and filled with air.
(n.) A puffball.
(n.) a kind of light pastry.
(n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
(n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.
(n.) To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
(n.) To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
(n.) To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.
(n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
(n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
(v. t.) To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
(v. t.) To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
(v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.
(v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
(a.) Puffed up; vain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 68C intermolt puff of Drosophila melanogaster contains a cluster of three glue protein genes, Sgs-3, Sgs-7, and Sgs-8.
(2) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(3) Neurons in deprived puffs and interpuffs were generally similar in size to those in nondeprived regions, although CO-reactive cells were significantly smaller in the deprived puffs of monkeys enucleated for 28.5 or 60 wks.
(4) In regions without temperature-induced puffs RNA synthesis and its transport are apparently delayed under influence of heat shock.
(5) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
(6) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
(7) These two puffs are located at the end of the E12 inversion.
(8) The results that while in the control T3L and T2L nuclei (22 degrees C), the 93D puff shows a higher level of transcriptional activity than in the Oregon R+ or compound stocks used as controls, in T3L and T2L nuclei from heat-shocked sets (37 degrees C), 93D does not show further induction compared with heat-shocked controls, and the 87C puff is 2.8 times more active than the 87A puff.
(9) A previously described smoking apparatus (20) was used for measurement of puff volume and inhaled tar.
(10) Similar to area 17, more GABA- and glycine-labeled neurons were observed within the puff regions than in nonpuff regions.
(11) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
(12) Male volunteers for mass radiography examination, aged 40 or more, were questioned about their sputum production, smoking habits, and, when applicable, their method of smoking cigarettes.Of 5,438 cigarette smokers 460 (8.4%) smoked their cigarettes without removing the cigarette from the mouth between puffs ("drooping" cigarette smokers) whereas the rest smoked in the normal manner.Persons who admitted to producing sputum from their chests on most days of the year or on most days for at least three months of the year for a minimum of two years were classified as chronic bronchitics in the absence of other causative disease.The rate of chronic bronchitis among the "drooping" cigarette smokers (41.5%) was considerably greater than that among those smoking cigarettes in the normal manner (33.6%).
(13) In experiment 3, average puff volumes and CO boosts were examined during smoking periods with short (3, 10, and 30 minutes) deprivation intervals.
(14) The home side lost Raheem Sterling, who injured a groin in a challenge with Juan Mata, and even when they pinned back their opponents for periods of the second half it was a lot of huff and puff without too much guile.
(15) These data support previous suggestions indicating a substantial contribution of transcriptional products from small puffs and interbands to the whole transcriptional system of polytene chromosomes.
(16) The number of NPY-containing neurons in the puffs is substantially less than that expected in an equal volume of the interpuffs (X2 = 13.86; df = 1; P less than 0.001).
(17) The rearing of insects at a temperature of 29 degrees resulted in puff changes: the activity of some puffs increased or depressed, some puffs were inhibited, other puffs were induced newly.
(18) The CO yields were found to increase with puff volume and tobacco moisture, decrease with increased paper porosity, but remain essentially constant with puff duration.
(19) T he Japanese have a saying”, said Willi Hartenstein, pausing for a reflective puff on a cheroot.
(20) Dosage for an acute attack in children is 1 puff (200 micrograms), repeated within 5 minutes if necessary; in adults 1-3 puffs can be given.
Pull
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
(v. t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
(v. t.) To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
(v. t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
(v. t.) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
(v. t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
(v. t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
(v. i.) To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
(n.) The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
(n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
(n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
(n.) A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
(n.) The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
(n.) The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
(n.) Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.
(n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I pulled the microphone in front of my seat, not a knife.
(2) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(3) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
(4) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(5) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
(6) The effect of 5 beta- and 5 alpha-reduced progestins on luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) release was examined using either an in vitro superfusion or an in vivo push-pull perfusion (PPP) technique.
(7) The person responsible for pulling the trigger was equally likely to be a friend, a family member, or the victim.
(8) The cull in 2013 required a policing effort costing millions of pounds and pulling in officers from many different forces.
(9) Asymmetries occur less often whilst using the low-cervical-pull according to Sander, due to the reduced friction between the two plastic parts of this headgear system.
(10) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.
(11) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(12) All the others, all that bullshit, they just want to pull me down from the top but I will not go.
(13) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(14) A Zliten hospital spokesman told Associated Press that 60 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, though Fozi Awnais, from the health ministry in Tripoli, later said 47 people had died and 118 more were injured.
(15) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
(16) Last week, Cohen estimated the militants were still earning “several million dollars per week from the sale of stolen and smuggled energy resources” – down on what they pulled in before the coalition air strikes, but still a substantial amount.
(17) The comedian Daniel O’Reilly, who gives laddish advice on how to “pull birds” under the guise of a deliberately provocative character in the ITV2 series, has proved controversial for lines such as “Just show her your penis.
(18) The second national multiplex was handed to 4 Digital, but was handed back after Channel 4 pulled out.
(19) AJ Green was waiting just behind him, and the receiver gratefully pulled in the softly fluttering ball.
(20) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.