(v. i.) To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.
(n.) A girl who indulges in boisterous play.
(n.) Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Patriots eventually beat the Colts 43-22, but it wasn't quite the romp that that final tally would suggest, as the Colts cut it to a one-score game in the third quarter.
(2) Our assays amplified a 500 bp fragment from the gene encoding the rOmp B protein of Rickettsia rickettsii.
(3) The first part of the evening saw the singer romp through hits including Let's Go Crazy alongside new songs such as Fixurlifeup with his band 3rdEyedGirl.
(4) Arevalo flicks a couple of one-twos down a romp along the inside-left channel, first with Forlan, then with Suarez.
(5) Jen (from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) In Ang Lee's gravity-defying martial arts romp, women take most of the major roles, virtuous or villainous.
(6) It was a sado-masochistic romp and I was given a copy in France in the 1960s when it was probably illegal in England.
(7) With nine out of 10 Greater Manchester councils run by or dominated by Labour, the Labour candidate is expected to romp to victory unless a celebrity Mancunian like Noel Gallagher comes to the fore and steals the show.
(8) The votes are in for next month's Reading Group choice, and following a late surge, Bleak House has romped home.
(9) Welbeck romps down the inside-left channel but slices a poor shot high into the stands.
(10) Running against the US's Tyson Gay, who has disappointed in these Games, you had the feeling that Blake was never going to allow his friend and training partner anything other than a victory romp to the line.
(11) A romp through the kinky silliness that’ll be marketed at our grown grandchildren, their poor glazed eyes consensually replaced with tiny computers.
(12) Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget.
(13) Iam a bit worried I might be a massive racist because last week at a preview screening* I laughed like a hallucinating pig several times during Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , a preposterous cartoon romp through the laugh-a-minute world of slavery.
(14) Southampton’s Sadio Mané joins treble of doubles in 6-0 romp at MK Dons Read more Asamoah, selected ahead of Carlisle’s leading goalscorer Jabo Ibehre, had gone close to converting Alex McQueen’s low cross as his side responded to their manager’s call for greater intent.
(15) He has also romped as Casanova , probed as DI Carlisle in the TV musical-drama Blackpool , theorised as cerebral scientist Arthur Eddington in Einstein And Eddington (stick a pair of specs on him and he's as dull as the next man), played Hamlet quite beautifully (awkward and paranoid, yet graceful) and appeared in a number of none-too-impressive movies.
(16) 65 min: Di Maria dances, shimmies, shakes and makes other disco-friendly movements down the right, before cutting inside, romping into the area, and whacking a low shot goalwards.
(17) From finally breaking his two year drought in the friendly against Germany (which lest we forget came on the back of a worryingly easy romp of a win for Belgium in the first friendly of this five game sequence), Altidore's goals turned out to be worth 7 of the 9 points the US amassed in their surge to the top of the standings.
(18) Smith romped home with an 11% swing and immediately, national Liberal poll ratings almost doubled.
(19) It's not something that has been done before: even Whedon opted for a breezy romp which used humour to paper over the preposterous logic cracks in his bombastic superhero ensemble.
(20) Yet Klopp still managed to be a breath of fresh air, a ball of pent-up fury when Liverpool were wayward in the early exchanges, a beaming, tracksuited, slightly messy creator of happiness and fun when they romped away with the points thanks to late goals from Coutinho and Benteke.
Streak
Definition:
(v. t.) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
(n.) A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.
(n.) A strake.
(n.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character.
(n.) The rung or round of a ladder.
(v. t.) To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.
(v. t.) With it as an object: To run swiftly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
(2) Data from cases with myocardial bridges show that both fatty streaks and raised lesions are seldom observed in the region distal to myocardial bridge.
(3) Evx-1 RNA is first detected shortly before the onset of gastrulation in a region of ectoderm containing cells that will soon be found in the primitive streak.
(4) Gonadoblastoma is an unusual tumor that typically arises in a streak gonad or an abnormal testis of an individual having a Y chromosome.
(5) This study focuses on the expansion and maturation of the fatty streak in the aorta of Watanabe Heritable Hyperlipemic rabbits and comparably hypercholesterolemic fat-fed rabbits between 2 and 6 months duration of hypercholesterolemia.
(6) Fatty streaks were observed in 2nd decade involving only 7.5% of the total intimal surface and reaching to a maximum of 22.2% in the 3rd decade, followed by a gradual rise to 9.2% in 7th decade.
(7) Immunoreactivity in fatty streaks was located around collections of foam cells.
(8) The streaking phenomenon, as well as the tendency toward randomness, was discussed in terms of attentional anomalies.
(9) The high frequency of angioid streaks observed in patients with beta thalassemia and the severe complications observed in one patient render a thorough ophthalmoscopic examination and follow-up of such patients necessary for both early diagnosis and possible therapeutic intervention.
(10) On the back of some appalling results, including a six-game losing streak, the atmosphere at the game against Cardiff was toxic and the abuse intensely personal.
(11) As development proceeded during primitive streak stages, the visceral and parietal endoderm became positively stained.
(12) The mean survival period after angiography was 3.8 months, and the prognosis was not favorable in patients having "thread-and-streak" sign on angiography.
(13) A diet containing 0.3% cholesterol was given to male New Zealand rabbits for 16 weeks; this produced atherosclerotic lesions (fatty streaks) on 80% of the intimal surface of the thoracic aorta and on 45% of the intimal surface of the abdominal aorta.
(14) The area of highest density formed a nasal-temporal band suggestive of a visual streak.
(15) The horizontal streak of high rhodopsin levels is preferentially reduced in this retinopathy.
(16) Density distribution maps for neurons in the ganglion cell layer and the photoreceptor layer reveal the presence of a putative area centralis and a horizontal visual streak.
(17) Atherosclerotic lesions (mostly fatty streaks but some fibrous plaques) were present only in groups C and CL and were absent in groups L and N. The percentage of atherosclerotic intimal involvement was significantly greater in group CL than C (P less than 0.001).
(18) A unique pattern for a carbohydrate antigen is displayed by cells of the primitive streak; antigenicity is lost with de-epithelialisation and ingression, but is regained in a pericellular distribution on the mesoderm cells that emerge from the primitive streak.
(19) Grossly visible fatty streaks and fibrous plaques were not found in any of the swine aorta.
(20) The cluster lies just posterior to the definitive primitive streak in the extraembryonic mesoderm, separated from the embryo by the amniotic fold.