(v. t.) To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
(v. t.) To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
(v. t.) To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.
(n.) The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of the wide range of human nasal anatomic configurations, some people sniff odorants against comparatively high resistances.
(2) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
(3) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
(4) When Defoe did get a sniff six minutes before half-time, capitalising on a Sylvain Distin slip, he was denied by Artur Boruc’s leg.
(5) His running here was unstinting and he doubled his tally with a clinical finish after a first touch too smart for Pogatetz, preening perhaps after giving Boro a sniff of reprieve.
(6) When there is upheaval within China’s own borders – riots, protests, vicious political power struggles – hardly a sniff of it will be found in the pages of the country’s heavily-controlled press.
(7) We characterized the relationship between mouth pressure (Pmo) and esophageal pressure (Pes) during sniffs performed with open, semi-occluded, and occluded nose.
(8) In such destructive form Ighalo needs only the slightest sniff at goal and typically his trusty sidekick, Troy Deeney, was the provider, heading down a crossfield pass from Almen Abdi.
(9) "Partition" test was used, in which two males of one line were placed in a common cage divided into two sections by a transparent partition with holes; this partition divided the animals but allowed them to see and sniff each other.
(10) The range of Pdi during maximal sniffs (82-204 cm H2O) had better defined lower limits than Pdi during PImax.
(11) But she railed against commercial success, and at the first sniff of a big hit – Paper Planes , which sampled the Clash's Straight To Hell, and made the US and UK top 20 – she recoiled.
(12) While they spurned several opportunities here, allowing tension to creep in before Tadic scored the second 17 minutes from time, their three centre-halves did not allow the Watford strikeforce of Odion Ighalo and Troy Deeney a sniff.
(13) To assess the relationship between sniff resistance and olfaction, ten subjects without nasal pathology or complaint were asked to estimate the perceived magnitude of the odorant, ethyl butyrate, at each of four concentrations and against each of four different resistances.
(14) Odors could produce spiking responses that were either nonhabituating (response to every sniff) or rapidly habituating (response to first sniff only).
(15) MRR was determined from 10 sniffs for Pes, Pnp, and Pmo before fatigue, and at intervals up to 10 min after fatigue.
(16) But in the early days of Corbyn’s charge, the readers rightly got a sniff that on occasions we weren’t taking him seriously enough.
(17) The toluene users were more likely to sniff only in a group setting, probably because of the long duration of intoxication.
(18) More than one third of the patients aspirated a solution into the middle ear with one or more sniffs by aspirating air from their middle ears, demonstrating eustachian tube patency rather than obstruction.
(19) Don’t sniff at any movie that makes $350m (£215m) in worldwide receipts on largely middling reviews.
(20) Subjects learned to inspire at two flow rates, one twice as great as the other, by adjusting (on a cathode ray tube) the transduced trace of a sniff-produced pressure change to match either of two target contours.
Snuffle
Definition:
(v. i.) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
(n.) The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.
(n.) An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
(n.) Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present results suggested that these P. multocida isolates were the causal agent of rabbits rhinitis (snuffles) in Japan.
(2) Inside was the world's biggest map, depicting all of New York state, laid out in sparkling terrazzo, across which troupes of acrobats and dancers would perform, and the animals of the kiddies' petting zoo would snuffle.
(3) In a double-blind study, diphenylpyraline (Lergobine) was given to 63 patients whose main symptoms were stuffiness of the nose, increased secretion of mucus, snuffling, sneezing and redness of the eyes.
(4) The younger infants had a higher incidence of jaundice and mortality, whereas joint swellings, skin rash, snuffles, anemia, and periosteal reaction visible in x-rays of long bones were typical findings among the older group.
(5) So, I will have to continue trudging down to one or other of the local hospitals for treatment, and get the snuffles, or worse, on the way.
(6) With silhouetted palms at sunset, capybaras bathing in streams, vivid birdlife and viscachas (a type of chinchilla) snuffling around the site at dusk, it’s a photographers’ paradise.
(7) "And Ben," notes his wife, indicating the spaniel snuffling at their feet.
(8) You are in the system, safe from the unregulated badlands of Nickelodeon and its oceans of advertising, the looping hours of Peppa Pig and American imports that run through the night so that other, feral children (not yours) can watch cartoons at 2am while snuffling from bowls of refined sugar.
(9) The other day I had a bit of a snuffle and Justine thought it wouldn’t be a good idea for me to go for a walk in Primrose Hill.
(10) The presence of "snuffles" has traditionally been ascribed, unproven, to an upper respiratory tract infection despite there being no other signs of an acute infection in the majority of infants with "snuffles".
(11) A counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE) test was applied to serotype 35 isolates of type D Pasteurella multocida recovered from 32 cases of atrophic rhinitis (in swine) and 3 cases of snuffles (in rabbits).
(12) She has some new bogeymen – shareholders – and is so determined they won't get a groat of her money, that she's sitting snuffling and shivering in her kitchen, by the hob, on the cusp of pneumonia, refusing to turn on her heating.
(13) The previously well-known snuffles, pseudoparalysis and bizarre radiological changes should now be brought to the attention of perhaps more than one generation of physicians who underwent their medical training at the time when the disease was a rarity.
(14) The presence of excess nasal mucus causing noisy nasal breathing with an obvious mucus discharge (snuffles) is a common problem in infants in the first three months of life.
(15) The results suggest that in some infants "snuffles" may be associated with impaired vasomotor control.
(16) Pigs snuffle at the detritus littering its margins.
(17) Four of fifty infants in the control group compared to 22 of 50 in the snuffles group demonstrated postural hypotension (Chi square 16.84, p less than 0.001).
(18) snuffles and being "chesty") in well infants during the first months of life with 32% of the control group having snuffles and 35% described as "chesty".
(19) At night, if I hear him snuffle or whimper in his cot, I sneak over using an iPhone as an impromptu light source so I can see if he needs resettling.
(20) Hepatic and splenic enlargement were present in 12 cases, and nine children had the "snuffles".