(v. i.) To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.
(v. i.) To snore.
(v. i.) To laugh out loudly.
(n.) The act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting.
(v. t.) To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disposition of radiolabeled cocaine in humans has been studied after three routes of administration: iv injection, nasal insufflation (ni, snorting), and smoke inhalation (si).
(2) Symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, a potentially life-threatening disorder, include excessive daytime sleepiness and sleep attacks, nocturnal breath cessation, and snorting and gasping sounds.
(3) In this case a 29-year-old White man presented to the emergency room 3 days after he 'snorted' approximately 200mg of colchicine powder.
(4) The Ohio native suffered from PTSD and a traumatic brain injury, his lawyers say, and he had been drinking contraband alcohol and snorting Valium – both provided by other soldiers – the night of the killings.
(5) Further evidence of apnea can be obtained by determining the presence of the additional signs of loud nocturnal snorting and gasping sounds and nocturnal breath cessations.
(6) The execution of Joseph Wood in Arizona, which left the convicted killer “gasping and snorting” for two hours as the state put him to death, is the third botched delivery of capital punishment this year.
(7) It has moments of snort-out-loud laughter (the paddle steamer named the Wonderful Fanny, the Jane Austen vignette – see below).
(8) Spall's performance has been much celebrated for its emotional depth, despite Turner's vocabulary in the film often consisting of grunts, snorts and spitting saliva onto the canvas.
(9) She won’t say if she’d quit the party if he won, “because it’s not going to happen”, but when later I ask if she would defect from the Tory party today, had she not done so in 2013, she snorts: “Not if Raheem were leading the party.
(10) Most of the time the cast hadn't seen the script until this moment, so the frequent snorts of laughter were music to our ears.
(11) "Nothing to celebrate on the Champs Elysees," snorts Paul Griffin.
(12) Since that time he has been gasping, snorting, and unable to breathe and not dying.
(13) When asked about his inclusion, in 1995, on New York Magazine’s 100 Smartest New Yorkers list, he snorted.
(14) In Crank, famously, he is injected with a poison that will kill him if his adrenaline level drops, leading him to snort cocaine, get in a lot of fights and have sex with his girlfriend in front of a crowd of cheering tourists.
(15) In this study, we are interested in the character of the mucosa and their changes as affected by long-term injury from the trauma of the inspiratory and expiratory air currents, which, on sniffling or snorting, may reach hurricane speeds.
(16) The STS gene has been localised by deletion mapping to the distal tip of the snort arm of the X chromosome, and is of interest in that it appears to escape X-inactivation.
(17) Does the public have an “interest” in what all politicians once said, drank, smoked or snorted, or what they got up to with their lovers or stockbrokers?
(18) They nudge the soft earth or a companion before snorting and continuing on up through the paddocks to the shed.
(19) Recreational cocaine abuse via intranasal "snorting," "free-base" smoking, "body-packing," or intravenous injection can be lethal.
(20) Jon Stewart, who has taken to the story of the crack-smoking mayor like Ford to the pipe, laughed at the city council's apparent toothlessness when attempting to strip him of his mayoral position: "That's justice, Canadian style," he snorted.
Sort
Definition:
(n.) Chance; lot; destiny.
(n.) A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
(n.) Manner; form of being or acting.
(n.) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
(n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
(n.) A pair; a set; a suit.
(n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
(v. t.) To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.
(v. t.) To reduce to order from a confused state.
(v. t.) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
(v. t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
(v. t.) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
(v. i.) To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
(v. i.) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Translation: 'We do less, you get yourself sorted.'"
(2) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(3) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(4) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
(5) After induction the aIL2r positive and negative cell subpopulations were sorted and analyzed separately for morphology, lineage specific cell surface markers, and clonogenic cell numbers.
(6) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
(7) Luminal and myoepithelial cells have been separated from normal adult human breast epithelium using fluorescence activated cell sorting.
(8) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
(9) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(10) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
(11) By mixing old and young slg- BM cells, we found that, in general, this reduction was not caused by a suppressive effect of T cells or of any other cells, but rather to lack of some sort of supportive cell or factor in the aged BM.
(12) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
(13) On the other hand, unsorted cells and non-CD3+Leu7+ sorted cells either enhance responses or produce less than 10% suppression under the same conditions.
(14) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.
(15) These results suggest that besides the maternal leucocytes, sufficient trophoblast nucleated fetal cells can be obtained using cell enrichment by sorting.
(16) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
(17) How often do we use the term depressed to mean disappointed, mildly bummed out or sort of blue?
(18) "The sort of people they do business with do not want their deals in the spotlight."
(19) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(20) I’m perfectly aware of the import of your question, and what we have done, very firmly for all sorts of good reasons, since September 2013, is not comment on operational matters because every time we comment on operational matters we give information to our enemies,” he said.