(v. t.) To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away.
(n.) A scampering; a hasty flight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Again Beasley scampers forwards down the left, but Torres does well to tackle at full stretch.
(2) But everyone knows that the scars of their 3-0 loss to the Americans in the 1930 World Cup are still fresh, so expect the Belgians to scamper around like puppies in a pile of bones play like men with the weight of the world on their shoulders tonight, and for the American Outlaws to be making pointed references to Uruguay 30 from the stands throughout.
(3) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
(4) And the abiding image of this game will be of Argentina's No10 scampering past opponents like the fastest kid at school evading his pursuers in a game of tag; somehow being faster with the ball than without it.
(5) 8.50pm BST 18 min: After solid possession play by Real, Bale scampers past three defenders and into the box.
(6) 83 min: Messi scampers in from the right and drills a low shot towards the near post, but Cech plunges down and gets the lightest of fingertips on the ball to push it on the post!
(7) 3.14pm BST 12 min: Now it's West Ham's turn to threaten, as Downing scampers behind the City defence on the right.
(8) As it scampered towards its subsequent escape, fans substituted 'cat' for 'attack' as they chanted: "A cat, a cat; a cat, a cat, a cat!"
(9) But we go to deuce and Dimitrov will be pleased to see how much he's making Murray scamper around the baseline.
(10) Bayern’s only real mistake in the first half came in the form of Benatia’s poor positioning and mistimed challenge after Frank Lampard had clipped the ball over the top for Agüero to scamper clear.
(11) He looks half decent when he gets on the ball, the little scampering lad.
(12) 38 min: Welbeck sashays and scampers down the inside-right channel, making himself space just to the right of the D and dragging a shot across the face of goal and out on the left.
(13) Yet, much like floaters in your eye, try to focus on these toxins and they scamper from view.
(14) Firstly, Parker lost possession after going down in midfield and, as he bawled for a free-kick, Adnan Januzaj scampered away with the ball before passing to Van Persie, who, again with no Fulham defenders in attendance, smashed into the net from 15 yards out.
(15) This humble artefact turns characters into cat form, scampering up walls, scratching away enemies and becoming around 60% more adorable – clearly created with internet fandom in mind.
(16) Kicking it seemed the easier option, but he decided to get down on one knee and head straight at Bravo, who had time to recover, scamper across his line and save well.
(17) 5.05pm BST 3 min: St Zuber goes on a freewheeling run up the left wing and loses the ball, prompting a hoofed thump from City in an attempt to find Aguero as he scampers into the box.
(18) A scrawny black dog wanders into the road, sizes up his human visitors and scampers back into the woods.
(19) Gareth Bale defiant over fans’ criticism of Real Madrid’s European exit Read more It was now back to square one, and Real again attacked primarily through Marcelo: he scampered forward and played a good low cross for a Bale chance, then his one-two with Ronaldo produced another Bale opportunity, this time a far-post header.
(20) Kids steamed past on scooters, ran around in fields, scampered through a forest, all red-cheeked and brazenly healthy.
Shuffle
Definition:
(v. t.) To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
(v. t.) To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.
(v. t.) To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
(v. i.) To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
(v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
(v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
(v. i.) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
(n.) The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
(n.) A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
Example Sentences:
(1) When randomly shuffled herpes virus sequences were examined each algorithm detected many such patterns but the scoring algorithm found fewer than the selection algorithm.
(2) The kinetics of appearance of the slowly-dissociating form, and its dependence upon ionic strength, are fully consistent with the shuffling model.
(3) By shuffling constant region domains between IgG3 and IgG4, we showed that sequence variation in the CH3 domain is responsible for WMac-derived RF differentiation of IgG3 and IgG4.
(4) The new channel, which has been developed under the code name Project Shuffle, will allow viewers who missed the first live broadcast of Channel 4's most popular shows the opportunity to catch up with them over the next seven nights.
(5) The data thus obtained are compatible with those produced in previous exon-shuffling experiments, but permit a much more precise definition of recognized epitope(s).
(6) The job shuffle follows a major restructure of ITN last November, as part of a move to bring the company back to profitability, which included ITN Productions bringing together the multimedia production arms of ITN On, ITN Factual and ITN Consulting.
(7) Gene segment duplication and exon shuffling may have contributed to the evolution of this cell type-specific transcriptional regulatory gene.
(8) Sometimes, it is because a senior minister will not accept the sideways shuffle that is envisaged for them, and sometimes it is simply because the prime minister loses his nerve.
(9) Thirty-six percent of the cases displayed at least 1 of the following "parkinsonian symptoms": bradykinesia, tremor, rigidity, loss of postural reflexes and a shuffling gait.
(10) That rock-star treatment then gets paid off with stale one-liners from the previous decade that sound like they were organized by shuffling notecards.
(11) By shuffling nucleotides in a given sequence or by substituting selected nucleotides to alter various positions in both periodic and aperiodic sequences, we have found that an excess or deficiency of a given nucleotide at one of the three positions in a triplet reading frame can simulate the periodic characteristic.
(12) Her stooped figure shuffles slowly in, manoeuvring a giant shopping trolley around the door.
(13) Analysis of protein sequences shows that many proteins in multicellular organisms have evolved by a process of exon shuffling, deletion and duplication.
(14) Leaders who are particularly nervy end up rearranging the Whitehall furniture to try to keep everyone happy – removing energy from trade and industry, or science from education, to create new fiefdoms; or adding such responsibilities back in to try to convince ministers disgruntled at not being shuffled up that they are instead being promoted through the expansion of their empire.
(15) These divergences involve entire peptide subsegments and are concentrated in the same domains as are encoded by alternatively spliced exons, suggesting that exon shuffling may have contributed to the evolution of troponin T.
(16) We have chosen to carry out the exon shuffling experiments between these two different types of class I genes, because they are structurally similar and did not evolve to carry out identical functions.
(17) This review also discusses site-directed mutagenesis and exon shuffling studies and the effect of these changes on the function of Ia genes.
(18) Comparison of the sequences of the 5' ends of the lck and c-src genes suggests that divergence of these two genes involved exon shuffling and that a homolog of the neuronal c-src(+) exon is not present in lck.
(19) The ball is in Cameron's court – or in someone else's court when his Conservative-led coalition shuffles off into history.
(20) Here, we report the first direct evidence for exon shuffling.