(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.
Singe
Definition:
(v. t.) To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.
(v. t.) To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
(v. t.) To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken or the like) by passing it over a flame.
(n.) A burning of the surface; a slight burn.
Example Sentences:
(1) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
(2) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
(3) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
(4) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
(5) All together now, sing “One Million More Migrants are On Their Way”.
(6) As a republican I, like Mr Corbyn, would be a hypocrite to sing this.
(7) If Summer had had a hard time singing Love To Love You (only when Moroder cleared the studio and dimmed the lights did she finally capture the voluptuous feel she was after), listening to the thing presented an even stiffer test.
(8) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
(9) She was presented as something superhuman but also unreal, sanitised, infantilised; she was more than just a woman singing a song, she was an Ideal, a Symbol.
(10) Few have joined loyal supporters such as Labour peer Lord Charles Allen, of Global Radio, and former minister Lord Myners in singing the party’s praises.
(11) – to either discuss [the new record], or even to sing any songs from [it].” Meanwhile, Morrissey conspiracy theorists have proposed another reason for the singer’s re-configured music deals: he is planning to bring back the Smiths.
(12) "There's this moment when they're all around me singing 'I love you' at me and I was sitting there in rehearsal thinking, 'I hope this doesn't come across as some giant ego trip.'"
(13) In the control group sings of irreversible damage appeared in 90 min, in the presence of phosphocreatine, 10 mM, these changes became apparent in 120 min.
(14) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
(15) Tonight the BBC's new singing contest The Voice goes head to head with Simon Cowell's Britain's Got Talent on ITV.
(16) Still, he has been taking singing lessons and he acknowledges that the end result "doesn't sound bad".
(17) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
(18) A full marching band moved through a sea of umbrellas, playing the Les Miserables song Do You Hear the People Sing.
(19) Sometimes she sings them songs the girls have learned at school and then sung to her down the phone.
(20) For a few short months, the long-divided radio industry appeared to be singing from the same song sheet with the BBC and commercial radio backing the creation of a new cross-industry body, the Radio Council.