(n.) A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer.
(n.) A sick person.
(v. i.) To sigh.
(n.) A sigh.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sikes also explained that he had continued to depress the brakes until "finally they started smelling really bad and I had metal sounds coming in the car".
(2) The driver, 61 year-old James Sikes, called Highway Patrol officers on his mobile phone after the 2008 Prius suddenly began to accelerate of its own accord while he was driving down the Interstate 8 freeway outside San Diego.
(3) Earlier models, such as Sikes's, were not included in this recall.
(4) "I pushed the gas pedal to pass a car, and it just did something kind of funny … and it just stuck there," Sikes told a news conference outside a Highway Patrol office following the incident.
(5) The Antibody Binding Test, a new technique for the evaluation of inactivated Rabies vaccines, developed by Arko, Wiktor and Sikes, was compared with the NIH- and Habel Test.
(6) Slaty Sike is a catchment that copes well under normal weather conditions but when the area is hit by bigger storms experiences a rapid flow of water down the steep hillsides, washing debris and stones into Haltwhistle Burn.
(7) Sikes said the accelerator pedal was stuck, and that the car would not stop even though he was pressing the brake with all his force.
(8) Sikes told reporters that he had taken his car to a local Toyota dealership about two weeks ago for a service, and was told his car was not on the recall list.
(9) Located at Slaty Sike, a tributary of Haltwhistle Burn, the scheme stems from research being carried out by Newcastle University into natural flood management (NFM) - natural engineering which works with the landscape to slow, store and filter water after heavy rainfall.
(10) Once the car slowed to 50mph Sikes was able to turn off the engine.
(11) The highway patrol team drove alongside the Prius, and instructed Sikes to engage the hand brake while simultaneously holding down the foot brake.
Tike
Definition:
(n.) A tick. See 2d Tick.
(n.) A dog; a cur.
(n.) A countryman or clown; a boorish person.
Example Sentences:
(1) When highly purified preparations of the anticoagulant activity from the Tike-Uba tree were examined in specific blood coagulation enzyme assays utilizing chromogenic substrates, the highest inhibitory potency was found versus thrombin, followed by factor Xa.
(2) The arrow poison was prepared from the bark of a tree, known locally as Tike-Uba.
(3) Tracing the story of Tike and Ella May Hamlin, "hardscrabble farmers" in Texas, it is a "searing portrait of the Panhandle and its marginalised Great Depression residents".