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Shaken


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Shake
  • (a.) Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough.
  • (a.) Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2.
  • (n.) Impaired, as by a shock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) under one year of age) a pattern emerged which has previously been described as the 'shaken baby syndrome'.
  • (2) Everybody has been shaken by the death of Ann Maguire and the notion that any teacher should lose their life in the classroom.
  • (3) The net lag periods determined spectrophotometrically varied inversely with temperature and were shorter at 5 and 10 degrees C for cultures from shaken versus from statically grown inocula.
  • (4) Lebanon Ever volatile Lebanon has been shaken by documents showing close links between the pro-western government and the US.
  • (5) With two exceptions, the decreases in mRNA levels were dependent on developmental conditions and were not seen when cells were shaken in starvation buffer.
  • (6) Series of 1,3-dihalogeno-5-nitrobenzenes, 3- and 3,5-halogenoanilines, and 2,6-dihalogeno-4-nitroanilines were tested for fungitoxicity against Aspergillus niger, A. oryzae, Trichoderma viride, Myrothecium verrucaria, and Trichophyton mentagrophytes in shaken culture by using Sabouraud dextrose broth enriched with yeast extract as the test medium.
  • (7) When both specimens became positive at the same time, 88% of the shaken cultures had higher growth indices than their nonshaken counterparts.
  • (8) AIDS), and the failure to find single causes even for some well-known diseases, has shaken the widespread conviction that the universe of disease is finite, and that every disease will have a cure.
  • (9) Years of failed talks and prevarication by industrialised countries have shaken his belief in the UN process.
  • (10) But Allardyce’s self-belief isn’t shaken: he moves to Bury as a part-time coach, before being handed his first big management chance in Ireland.
  • (11) Instead he realised that while his teammates were wrestling him on the ground in celebration, he hadn’t yet shaken hands with his opponent, David Goffin.
  • (12) And it has shaken the changes consolidated by Clement Attlee, that deeply uncharismatic but honourable and far-sighted politician.
  • (13) Bahrain, a small Gulf island state where the Shia majority is ruled by the Sunni Al Khalifa dynasty, was shaken in February 2011 by protests known locally as the Pearl Revolution, which ended when Saudi led-forces intervened.
  • (14) Dubbed the Switzerland of South America for its relative wealth and stability, its image would be shaken up with a former guerrilla and self-described "hot head" in charge.
  • (15) If you haven’t seen it,” Clinton said, “you need to see her speech in New Hampshire.” Michelle Obama denounces Trump's rhetoric: 'It has shaken me to my core' Read more In fact, Obama’s oratory was a Clinton campaign highlight Thursday, a much-shared, widely tweeted and overwhelmingly celebrated defense of girls’ and women’s rights not to be demeaned or assaulted by anyone, not a construction worker on the street or the man who would be president.
  • (16) After the vial was sealed and shaken by hand, 1 ml of its headspace gas was taken by disposable syringe and injected into the gas chromatograph.
  • (17) Low-Earth orbit is quickly becoming the realm of the private sector – including the loose agglomeration of companies known collectively as NewSpace, which have shaken human spaceflight progress out of a sluggish period.
  • (18) Twenty known penicillic acid (PA)-producing Aspergillus and Penicillium cultures were grown under various conditions in shaken flasks to determine the highest yielding strains and their requirements for maximum toxin production.
  • (19) The revelations haven shaken one of the stalwarts of Japanese industry.
  • (20) Greater viable-cell counts resulted with the cells that were shaken in lactose buffer than with the control cells when each was incubated at 5 C for several weeks.

Shaven


Definition:

  • () of Shave

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But normally, shaven-headed and shaven-faced, he could pass for a jumbo-sized Bob Crow .
  • (2) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
  • (3) My shaven-headed Barbie was a squealing contestant.
  • (4) In terms of the public eye since the departure of Jeremy Paxman from Newsnight, we are now back to an entirely clean shaven BBC TV newsreading workforce too.
  • (5) That's what they were doing when an impassive, shaven-headed Lemtongthai stood in the dock to receive the strictest sentence ever imposed in South Africa for wildlife crime: Framing the rhino as a symbol of Africa and poaching as an affront to African pride, Judge Prince Manyathi sentenced him to 40 years.
  • (6) His shaven head shows off the fine, sculpted skull.
  • (7) Because of a continued requirement by the U.S. Army for clean-shaven faces, a significant racial furor and hostility has been aroused, and definitive medical care has been difficult to achieve.
  • (8) Police wearing black balaclavas raided Udaltsov's Moscow flat at around dawn, before carting the thin shaven-headed activist away for questioning at the investigative committee's headquarters.
  • (9) Nor is there much sign of Thanos, the studio's go-to background baddie, though his minion Nebula turns up in the form of Doctor Who's shaven-headed Karen Gillan.
  • (10) A total of 27 tests were conducted, covering three brands of half-mask respirators; facial hair on test subjects ranged from clean-shaven to bearded.
  • (11) The in vivo photodegradation of chlorpromazine (CPZ) in the skin was investigated after systemic administration of 3H-CPZ to shaven Wistar rats and exposure to UV-A.
  • (12) Stocky and shaven-headed, Clapper is part boardroom, part boxer.
  • (13) After 6 hr the dressing was removed, the shaven area was washed with ethanol and the dressing and washings were counted for 14C.
  • (14) He was filmed holding his left hand to his bloody, shaven head while continuing to drive with his right hand until it was safe to stop.
  • (15) The Beard Liberation Front has lamented the decision to go clean-shaven, saying: "We support people's right to dress and appear as they want so, while we regret Jeremy Paxman's decision to shave off his gravitas-adding beard, the choice should be entirely up to him, BBC pogonophobia notwithstanding."
  • (16) When the Guardian met Liu Xia around that time, she might have passed for a grad student despite her 49 years: a slight figure with a shaven head and a cigarette between her fingers.
  • (17) He's not quite clean shaven, his cropped hair a little grown out, and white bristles show through.
  • (18) Shaven and unshaven rats were exposed to a cold stress at 4 degrees C for 6 hr (SE and UE).
  • (19) But none of these events, not even Andy Murray reaching the final of the Australian Open, has generated half as much hullabaloo as the appearance on a stage in San Francisco of an ill-shaven old boy in jeans and sneakers to present his latest commercial product to the world.
  • (20) Georgios is a stern man, still strong, smartly shaven and dressed in a clean green polo short and jeans.

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