(n.) An artifice; trick; stratagem; wile; fraud; deceit.
Example Sentences:
(1) He dictates the next rally and when Murray decides to go for another lob, Dimitrov is on to the ruse and swats a contemptuous smash away to seal the first set that flashed by in the blink of an eye!
(2) If so, it will provide the most compelling evidence yet that the News of the World's "rogue reporter" defence was a ruse designed to disguise the true extent of phone hacking at the paper.
(3) It is a ruse in order to get a second opinion … It is simply going nowhere.
(4) The ruse provoked a response from MLSsoccer.com , for whom Andy Edwards wrote: Whatever your feelings on USA Soccer Guy, your feelings toward the SFA should go something like this: We're sorry we beat you 5-1 last year , and we're also sorry that you're still bitter about it.
(5) Mackenzie, Tony Blair's former law and order adviser, was accused of setting up a ruse that allowed him to host events for paying clients.
(6) One ruse is to promise marriage to wealthy foreigners.
(7) In a further ruse to try to beat the counterfeiters, it has “milled” edges, with grooves on alternate sides.
(8) To do so, right under the noses of an often violent state apparatus, they will adopt all sorts of ruses to keep their identity secret or at least partly masked.
(9) The film is poignant because the man is an undercover FBI agent posing as a government official who has lured Chapman to the meeting under the ruse of getting her to pass a fake passport to another "illegal" – a spy who has embedded themselves in America society, outside the protection of the Russian embassy.
(10) Elections are due in 2015, but no one expects anything other than the same old ruses from Lukashenko.
(11) A new report by the International Crisis Group, a respected thinktank, found that Syrian rebel groups were playing up their Islamist credentials by growing Salafi-type beards, for example, as a ruse to secure arms from these conservative Gulf-based donors.
(12) This was an ill-conceived idea in its own time, and today a left-right compromise looks like nothing but a ruse to salvage a political class buffeted by Grillo's digital populism and widespread public contempt.
(13) Mackenzie, Tony Blair's former law and order adviser, was accused of setting up a ruse that allowed him to host events for paying clients, including on the terrace.
(14) In this view, expression of concern for human rights is not just hypocritical but a ruse.
(15) When Seigner's Wanda forces Almaric's Thomas to wear women's clothes at the end of Venus in Fur , it is hard not to wonder if this is another example of both disguised memoirs and masochistic ruse.
(16) But they have got into general circulation by an elaborate ruse.
(17) Sometimes the ruse plays upon a person's desire to make a profit from an outlandish investment proposal.
(18) To "fix" the region's unfixable Holocaust history, an array of cunning ruses was brought into play.
(19) But the government has adopted a culture of secrecy, as well as legal and parliamentary ruses, to hide from the public the extent that the NHS is being put up for sale to private healthcare companies.
(20) They see it as a Remainer ruse to stay in the EU in all but name.
Use
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use.
(v. t.) Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book.
(v. t.) Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility.
(v. t.) Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit.
(v. t.) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
(v. t.) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.
(v. t.) The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.
(v. t.) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.
(v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
(v. t.) To make use of; to convert to one's service; to avail one's self of; to employ; to put a purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use time; to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation.
(v. t.) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly.
(v. t.) To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business.
(v. t.) To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger.
(v. i.) To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to."
(v. i.) To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; -- sometimes followed by of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
(2) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(3) Therefore, these findings may extend the use of platelets as neuronal models.
(4) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(5) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(6) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(7) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(8) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(9) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(10) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(11) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(12) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(13) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
(14) At 36 h postsurgery, RBCs were examined by 23Na-NMR by using dysprosium tripolyphosphate as a chemical shift reagent.
(15) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(16) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(17) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
(18) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(19) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(20) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.