(v. t.) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
(v. t.) To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
(v. t.) To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
(n.) A knot; a protuberance; a song.
(n.) A check or rebuke; an intended slight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
(2) Some observers believed the story was planted by Netanyahu aides in order to show the president in a poor light for snubbing the leader of one of America's closest allies.
(3) That followed Pyongyang's snubbing of Beijing's wishes when it conducted a missile test in late 2012, followed by the underground detonation of a nuclear device last spring.
(4) "I didn't come here to apologise," Bush told world leaders in a defiant seven-minute speech, even as the IPS daily conference newspaper Terra Viva led off with the story in an arresting headline: "US President Snubs His Nose at Rest of the World."
(5) His critics have variously attacked him for not bowing low enough at the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday , appearing not to sing the national anthem at a service and “snubbing” the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony by turning down an invitation to attend.
(6) That spirit of co-operation represents a drastic change from the calamitous Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, when diplomatic snubs and general distrust between the two countries wrecked any prospect for a deal.
(7) Speaking at a graduation ceremony for international students, Erdoğan finally broke his silence after voters snubbed his plans to change the constitution in order to extend his grip on power.
(8) Ukraine winger Yevhen Konoplyanka has insisted he has no regrets over snubbing the Premier League in favour of a move to Sevilla this summer, describing La Liga as the best in the world.
(9) It was supposed to be a small snub to the group and the Conservative party,” he says.
(10) Swedish frustration with Saudis over speech may jeopardise arms agreement Read more The snub was compounded when Arab League foreign ministers backed the Saudis and expressed “condemnation and astonishment” at her planned remarks, which were “incompatible with the fact that the constitution of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is based on sharia [law]”.
(11) Postwar, the Mosleys set up Euphorion Books to publish his anathemised writing, although printers snubbed them.
(12) At the time it was a relatively new medium, snubbed by some of his contemporaries as crassly commercial and distorting of reality.
(13) But although last week's reporting suggested that a huge number of stay-at-home mothers are "betrayed" by the government's snub to the 1950s family, the ratio of working to SAH mothers means the great majority of working parents will be more preoccupied with its continued failure to help ordinary families pay for some of the most costly childcare in Europe.
(14) Earlier this month, the Tories announced they had hired M&C Saatchi to work alongside Euro RSCG, in a move that was widely interpreted as a snub to their original agency.
(15) Washington Wizards break .500 If there has been any sort of major All-Star snub it might be that the Washington Wizards' John Wall deserved to be among the Eastern Conference All-Star starters over Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers .
(16) True, as we were reminded last week, members of the EDL have miraculously survived all such conditioning; equally, these extremists now risk being righteously snubbed in Mens' Socks.
(17) Regardless, with all the signs of maturity MLS has shown, the All-Star "snub" may be the most logical.
(18) 5 February 2009 : Sri Lanka snubs the international community's call for a ceasefire, saying troops will not suspend their offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels.
(19) November 8, 2015 Grenville Wilson (@GBHeritage) Corbyn's bow at the Cenotaph was virtually nonexistent, more of a twitch, obviously a deliberate snub November 8, 2015 Others were quick to claim that the rightwing media and Conservative supporters had leaped on the footage to politicise the Remembrance Sunday service.
(20) However, activists say the deteriorating human rights situation under president Xi Jinping means the IOC should snub China’s bid for the event, to be held in February and March 2022.
Triangular
Definition:
(a.) Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.
(a.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem.
Example Sentences:
(1) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(2) Based on a limited experience we have found that triangular flap ureteroplasty is a worthwhile means of repeat reimplantation of the obstructed ureter and perhaps provides a better alternative than transureteroureterostomy.
(3) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
(4) Accurate rotational osteotomy is especially difficult in a triangular bone such as the tibia.
(5) Findings at surgery included chondromalacia of the ulnar head (19), tears of the triangular fibrocartilage complex (11), and excessive mobility of the ulnar head (10).
(6) Standardized steps or criteria for designing a triangular flap do not always fit for all types of cleft lip repair.
(7) The characteristic triangular face, stubby nose, peripheral pulmonic stenosis, a history of prolonged neonatal jaundice and evidence of hepatic parenchymal disease were present as well as bilateral small kidneys and delayed puberty.
(8) Each contained four triangular boluses of different widths and of a specific iodine concentration.
(9) Dilated, triangular cisterns are often seen at the points of interconnections between longitudinal and transverse elements.
(10) We have investigated whether a correlation exists between the quality of graft epithelialisation and three types of suture: triangular sutures, continuous and interrupted sutures.
(11) This paper describes the external ear anomalies found in this syndrome: short wide pinnae, often cupped and asymmetrical; distinctive triangular concha; discontinuity between the antihelix and antitragus; and 'snipped-off' portions of the helical folds.
(12) The first type included large multipolar neurons with triangular or polygonal perikarya and typically 3-5 dendrites emerging from the poles of each cell.
(13) Transverse loading tests demonstrated that the triangular fibrocartilage is less stiff in neutral forearm rotation.
(14) Silver-Russell's syndrome is a condition characterized by pre- and postnatal growth retardation, a triangular face, clinodactyly of the 5th finger, café au lait patches and hemihypertrophy.
(15) Analytic, functional and traumatological study of the medial compartment of the wrist, showing the role of cohesion of the triangular ligament and its radialis and ulnaris fibrous expensions.
(16) England had started with some well-executed set piece moves, a triangular formation in midfield initially foxing Australia, but it was the Wallabies’ ability to react in open play that marked them out: Foley’s first try, after Israel Folau, otherwise subdued on the night, ran through Robshaw, came after he noticed Ben Youngs had drifted too wide and cut inside the scrum-half and Joe Launchbury before wrongfooting Brown.
(17) Similar to previous cases in the literature this girl presented with proportionate intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, normocephaly, triangular face with bulbous nose, long eyelashes, short upper lip, small vermilion border of upper lip, dorsally rotated ears, deep nuchal hair line, hirsutism, and clinodactyly of little fingers.
(18) While the arteries show a long stretched spinle or lancet like form they change over blunt, oval, triangular or rhomboid forms into polygonal cells with spiked border lines at the venules.
(19) The histological examination and microangiogram after combined coaxial exposure of CO2 and Nd: YAG lasers revealed triangular avascular or oligovascular zones in the edematous tissue, in which the surviving vessels were narrowed.
(20) It is concluded that the physical performance of sedentary people, athletes and patients with impaired cardio-pulmonary function can be more precisely qualified in quantitative terms by means of computer assisted rectangular-triangular ergospirometry.