(a.) To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively.
(n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked.
Example Sentences:
(1) Just a few months ago, a director-level position job for Sears was floated by me from the department store chain's headquarters in Chicago.
(2) They revealed that Lance Corporal Craig Roberts, who died in searing temperatures on the Brecon Beacons, had been about to begin a new post in the office of the education secretary.
(3) It feels very much like the work of a cook born in Bordeaux, the place where they like to top their cote de boeuf with bone marrow, and sear it fast so that inside it is still the colour of raging knife cut.
(4) A confrontation between French and German passengers appears to resonate with disputes and tensions within the family; archive film shows searing images from the second world war, from Israel and Palestine, from the modern-day Odessa Steps.
(5) A Communist party-controlled newspaper has launched a searing attack on Donald Trump after the president-elect threatened a realignment of his country’s policies towards China, warning the US president-elect: “Pride goes before a fall.” The Global Times, a notoriously rambunctious state-run tabloid, was writing after Trump reignited a simmering row with Beijing by suggesting he might recognise Taiwan , which China regards as a breakaway province, unless Beijing agreed a new “deal” with his administration.
(6) That searing experience continues to shape the thinking of a generation of policymakers and peacemakers anxious that there should not be "another Rwanda" on their watch.
(7) Or take a free elevator ride to the roof of the old Sears Roebuck building ( southsideonlamar.com ) which is now loft housing.
(8) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
(9) A t the end of the long day's walk under the searing Moroccan sun, across endless expanses of sand, the Berbers slowed their camel and stopped.
(10) Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution documents the first months of the uprising, and The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria describes in searing prose her return visits to the “liberated” but bombed and fiercely contested north.
(11) First there was the one whipped up by the invasive glare of the TV cameras, zooming in on the respective engagement rings of Sears and Ester Satorova, Berdych’s fiancee.
(12) His condemnation of existing arrangements is the most searing criticism from the business establishment since Richard Lambert, then director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, two years ago warned bosses risked being viewed as "aliens [living in] a different galaxy from the rest of the community" because of the ever widening gulf between shopfloor and boardroom wages.
(13) The British No1 gestured to his courtside box, where Sears was filmed mouthing what appeared to be the words “fucking have it you Czech flash fuck” apparently in the direction of Berdych’s team.
(14) A theoretical analysis of pathway and kinetic cooperatively in this system is presented in the following paper (Sears, D.W., and Beychok, S. (1977), Biochemistry 16 (following paper in this issue)).
(15) Perhaps it was the searing heat , or perhaps it was the American magician dangling outside Tower Bridge in a box.
(16) Boeing is said to hope that Mr Sears's guilty plea will put an end to the scandal and revive the refuelling contract, which was put on ice by the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld.
(17) But first, following the searing criticism he directed at UK Athletics for its “ridiculous and wrong” decision to omit the union flag from the vests to be worn by British athletes , the 28-year-old talks far more personally and bitingly.
(18) Republicans stake their claim as Christie stresses credentials at CPAC Read more The 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference was in full swing, and at the end of Thursday afternoon, the crowd got what it had come for, in spades: three searing speeches from the main stage razzing President Barack Obama, damning “radical Islamic terrorism” and celebrating the United States as the best place on Earth in history.
(19) Documents found in the rubble of the Tazreen factory showed that garment users supplying goods to Walmart and Sears were using the plant at the time of the fire.
(20) Razor-sharp analysis and forensic questioning are her weapons, while jargon-free indignation sears her criticisms on the public mind.
Segar
Definition:
(n.) See Cigar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Joanne Segars, NAPF's chief executive, said: "The pressures on final-salary pensions are relentless and their rate of decline seems to be shifting into a new gear.
(2) Segars said: "There is no point in bringing people into a pension if their savings are going to be eaten away by fees and charges which they can't understand.
(3) Joanne Segars, chief executive of the NAPF, said: "We're excited by the government's commitment to try to make it easier for pension funds to back major infrastructural projects.
(4) Speaking ahead of an NAPF conference to help employers prepare for auto-enrolment, the NAPF chief executive, Joanne Segars, said: "Whilst carving out or pushing back the start date for small employers might have short-term political temptations in the current economic climate, the longer term effects would be highly damaging to the nation's retirement prospects.
(5) NAPF chief executive Joanne Segars said: "People are wary of pensions, and that is a big threat to auto-enrolment.
(6) A very popular suggestion was Brazilian forward Creedence Clearwater Couto , whose parents were - fortunately - big fans of the American songsters, while there were also calls for former England internationals Harry Daft and Segar Bastard (who, incidentally, refereed an FA Cup final, played cricket for Essex and owned a racehorse).
(7) Then, with what Fire head coach Frank Yallop called "one of the worst calls I've ever seen”, referee Geoff Gamble gave Sébastien le Toux a chance to equalize from the spot, with Gonzalo Segares left to rue this call: With the conversion, Philadelphia moved even with New England for the East's last playoff spot.
(8) "Quitting could mean losing tax breaks and employer contributions which are, in effect, 'free money'," says Joanne Segars, chief executive of the National Association of Pension Funds .
(9) Segars said the government had already examined and dismissed the idea of letting savers access their pensions early.
(10) Joanne Segars, NAPF's chief executive, added: "The exodus is especially noticeable in the private sector, where confidence in pensions is running at a record low.
(11) Its chief executive, Joanne Segars, said: "A pension can only be spent once, and this policy could end up leaving retirees out of pocket.
(12) Joanne Segars, chief executive of the National Association of Pension Funds We are pleased the chancellor has listened to our argument for a much simpler and more radical solution.
(13) Simon Segars, chief executive of ARM, said the deal was good for Britain.
(14) Its chief executive, Joanne Segars, said: "Moving to a new career average scheme is a sensible approach that will help protect the lower paid.