(1) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
(2) Our data and the model developed to interpret them in terms of fluctuations provide an explanation of the puzzling sharp reduction of water order near the chain-ordering phase transition.
(3) And David Ngog was a pointless signing too – one which puzzled us all.
(4) That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling.
(5) This latest one continued developer Revolution Software’s run, sending you on the hunt for a stolen painting with puzzles and a well-worked storyline to hold your attention.
(6) Unexplained physical distress, when associated with alexithymia, becomes a diagnostic puzzle leading to prolonged investigation, ineffective treatment, and psychiatric referral.
(7) This scheme is used to rationalize previously puzzling data about the enzyme mechanism.
(8) With wearable computing just around the corner cracking integration with you, and indeed the organic-body, is critical for Apple and a final piece in the puzzle.
(9) Leanne Bowden, a mother of three on her way home on the school run, looks puzzled by the inquiry.
(10) The treatment of obesity remains a puzzling challenge because long-term maintenance of weight loss--one of the most suitable goals--is rarely achieved with conventional methods.
(11) It includes a reference to Banks's puzzling repeated insistence in media interviews that he "did not come up the river in a cabbage boat".
(12) In his letter responding to the resignation, the prime minister calls himself “puzzled and disappointed”.
(13) A persistent puzzle in our understanding of hemostasis has been the absence of hemorrhagic symptoms in the majority of patients with Hageman trait, the hereditary deficiency of Hageman factor (factor XII).
(14) "What was popular then was the puzzle: such qualities as psychological truth or even atmospheric location were secondary to it.
(15) A more pronounced decrease was produced by subjects working on puzzles than those working on mental calculation and by subjects working on easy tasks than those working on difficult tasks when the easy preceded the difficult ones.
(16) "We find it puzzling that the Department of Health would want a group that is opposed to abortion and provides no sexual health services on its sexual health forum."
(17) This MA lag of at least 2 years is consistent with the MA lag previously found on strategic games and puzzles.
(18) The boys attempted to solve two different sets of 10 find-a-word puzzles, one set following exposure to solvable puzzles, and one set following exposure to insolvable puzzles.
(19) That’s where blaming government failure fits into his ideological jigsaw puzzle.
(20) Some hypotheses about the cause of schizophrenia are based on the puzzling tendency for mental illness to affect the same sex when two close relatives become psychiatrically ill. Sex-concordance rates were examined in 71 schizophrenic probands, who had at least one first-degree relative suffering from the same disorder, in order to test this tendency in a population of recently admitted patients.
Tickler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, tickles.
(n.) Something puzzling or difficult.
(n.) A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity.
(n.) A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe a system using an addressograph card and tickler file to facilitate the lending and returning of radiographic jackets, which brings into accountability both the borrower and the lender.
(2) This study investigates the influence of a microcomputer tickler system on the ordering of mammograms.
(3) Use of "tickler files" or scanning of computerized records are considerably less common practices.
(4) The reversal of these contact-sex roles (female tickler vs. male cuddler) did not affect the developmental preference for less cuddling stimulation of the 3 oldest groups of girls; however, the youngest girls now avoided male cuddlers, while the boys were found to prefer male cuddlers at all 4 age levels.
(5) Many was the time I had felt the Tickler in her hand.
(6) Since then it's been a parade of leading chanteuses, from X Factor winner Leona Lewis to ivory-tickler Alicia Keys, with even some rockers entering the fray.
(7) This developmental decrease was most prevalent, for both boys and girls, when the contact agents were a female cuddler versus a male tickler.
(8) Then it was up and over, every man, to shake the hand of a foe as a friend, or slap his back like a brother would; exchanging gifts of biscuits, tea, Maconochie's stew, Tickler's jam … for cognac, sausages, cigars, beer, sauerkraut; or chase six hares, who jumped from a cabbage-patch, or find a ball and make of a battleground a football pitch.
(9) Unlike the Oscars, the Globes split their key categories in two – and the classification of Birdman as a rib-tickler rather than a mordant study of middle-aged failure may have helped catapult it to the frontrunner at this year’s awards, with seven nominations.
(10) He will have to do it (Clarkson's Australian accent is a rib-tickler) on Skype.