(n.) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
(n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
(v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
(v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks.
(n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.
(n.) A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
(n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.
(n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.
(v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
(v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
(v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
(n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
(n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
(a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(2) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(3) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(4) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
(5) It was also shown that after a shock at 44 degrees C teratocarcinoma cells were able to accumulate anomalous amounts of hsp 70 despite hsp 70 synthesis inhibition.
(6) Six of 7 SAO shock rats treated with U74006F survived for 120 min following reperfusion, while none of 7 SAO shock rats given the vehicle survived for 120 min (P less than .01).
(7) The shock resulting from acute canine babesiosis is best viewed as anemic shock.
(8) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
(9) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
(10) It is unclear if the changes in high-energy phosphates during endotoxin shock cause irreversibility.
(11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
(12) The first method used an accelerometer mounted between the teeth of one of the authors (PR) to record skeletal shock.
(13) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
(14) Induction of both potential transcripts follows heat shock in vivo.
(15) Passive avoidance performance of HO-DIs was, indeed, influenced by the age of the subject at the time of testing; HO-DIs reentered the shock compartment sooner than HE at 35 days, but later than HE at 120 days.
(16) In positive patterning, elemental stimuli, A and B, were presented without an unconditioned stimulus while their compound, AB, was paired with electric shock.
(17) Instead, an antiarrhythmic drug should be administered and another shock of the same intensity that defibrillated the first time should be applied.
(18) Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) have been reported to increase mean arterial pressure in animal models of sepsis and recently have been given to patients in septic shock.
(19) The aim of the present study was to explore the possible role of heat shock proteins in the manifestation of this heat resistance.
(20) Frequency and localization of spontaneous and induced by high temperature (37 degrees C) recessive lethal mutations in X-chromosome of females belonging to the 1(1) ts 403 strain defective in synthesis of heat-shock proteins (HSP) were studied.
Shocker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Philip Van Deusen, an analyst with Tigress Financial Partners, said: “They did say they would be cutting jobs, but the magnitude of them is definitely a shocker.” A number of global oil companies such as BP and ConocoPhillips have cut jobs after a fall of nearly 60% in oil prices over the past six months.
(2) The second shocker also showcased the Globes’s more offbeat taste: two big wins (best comedy series, best actor for Donald Glover) for Atlanta, about the city’s rap scene.
(3) Anyway, take it from me, the Arsenal man is having another shocker.
(4) Next came the enfant terrible of Portnoy's Complaint (1969), the late-60s comic sensation, dubbed "a wild blue shocker" by Life magazine.
(5) Hardly a week passes without Hodge's committee uncovering some new pay shocker that the Treasury has ignored.
(6) For your amazing, illustrious career of defying stereotypes – and most of all, for showing how to best use Twitter and shut up trolls who still have not learned that – shocker!
(7) Marcelo has been caught out of position time and again and Maicon and Dante are both having the mother of all shockers: missing some tackles and lunging carelessly into others.
(8) But before Argo, Affleck had pretty much had to retire from being a frontline movie star because he almost without exception ensured any movie's eternal epithet would be "the Ben Affleck shocker — ".
(9) ::goes to make coffee:: Oh look, what a shocker, Gonzalez strikes out Adam Wainwright.
(10) Though in evident pain, García was not seriously injured and was able to continue, yet Whelan's unpunished tackle was much more of a shocker than the recent one involving Kompany that hurt no one and led to the Manchester City captain being dismissed.
(11) The Wichita State Shockers , who surprisingly made the Final Four last year, won’t be flying under the radar this time around as the still-undefeated Shockers top the Midwest Region with a shock- er, um, impressive 34-0 record.
(12) Brian Murphy, head of lending at mortgage broker Mortgage Advice Bureau, said: "September's figures are a shocker – down on August, usually the quietest month of the year, down on last September when we were still in the grips of recession, and no sign of the traditional post-summer bounce in mortgage activity, which doesn't bode well for the rest of the year and early 2011."
(13) You can sit down and say, ‘I’ve had a shocker of a day.’ People do want to help.” She spends a lot of her time now visiting schools because – wait for it – she is writing a book about “character education”.
(14) He could not rely on it to go right, and was something of a scatter gun, combining the odd brilliant throw with a series of shockers that threatened anyone unfortunate enough to be in the vicinity of the infield.
(15) PwC's 2010 study in econometrics also came up with this shocker: "England remain a good bet for reaching the quarter-finals."
(16) The AEC, it must be said, has had a shocker of a year.
(17) Civil servants next: Porritt says working in Whitehall after years in business and non-governmental organisation groups such as Friends of the Earth and Forum for the Future has been a real shocker.
(18) Indeed, last week he brought forth some shockers of his own.
(19) Children's contained fewer shockers than last time , though Match of the Day might be in the relegation zone with a 20% fall.
(20) "Although in the this tournament, one never knows..." He's on three or more goals on this match Richard, he may yet be smiling ... 79 min Arshavin, who has had a shocker tonight, has a rare touch on the ball ... but his cross goes about 10 yards over Pavlyuchenko.