(v. t.) To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like.
(v. t.) To drench; to wet thoroughly.
(v. t.) To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture.
(v. t.) To make (its way) by entering pores or interstices; -- often with through.
(v. t.) Fig.: To absorb; to drain.
(v. i.) To lie steeping in water or other liquid; to become sturated; as, let the cloth lie and soak.
(v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter.
(v. i.) To drink intemperately or gluttonously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(2) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
(3) They shun cost-benefit analysis but soak up aid money, saying Haiti's state is incompetent and corrupt.
(4) Duodenal DM flow was estimated with the indigestible markers, Cr-mordanted cell wall, Yb-soaked whole crop oat silage, and Co-EDTA.
(5) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.
(6) But Nick Loening, owner of Ecoyoga in the Scottish Highlands, is evangelical about the benefits of a good soak and gently insistent that his guests make the most of the various bathing options at his retreat – regardless of the weather.
(7) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
(8) In this model, an endotoxin-soaked thread is implanted in the adventitia along the ventral side of the rat femoral artery.
(9) Aflatoxin content in grains increased considerably with the increase in duration of soaking.
(10) He's got a very, very good memory and he soaks it all up."
(11) Sponges soaked in distilled water were implanted as controls.
(12) They had soaked up his blood into the soles of their boots and stamped it around in footprints that anyone who cared to might examine.
(13) A sample is extracted with tetrahydrofuran containing an internal standard, by sonication or overnight soaking.
(14) A video, seen by Guardian Australia but which we have chosen not to publish, shows Omid standing in a clearing, soaked in a liquid believed to be accelerant.
(15) For the detection of anthrax bacillus, sterile swabs should be soaked in the fluid of the vesicles.
(16) Over the same period, employment in the private sector increased by 104,000, more than soaking up public sector job losses.
(17) The other structures were equilibrium experiments carried out by soaking crystals in substrate containing solution.
(18) There was no significant change in phytic acid content of beans after soaking at 25 degrees C for 22 hours.
(19) Central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements after instillation of H2O2 into the cul-de-sac and after wearing H2O2 soaked soft contact lenses (SLC) for 2 h using 60 ppm, 100 ppm and 300 ppm H2O2.
(20) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.
Taw
Definition:
(n.) Tow.
(v. t.) To push; to tug; to tow.
(v. t.) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge.
(v. t.) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
(n.) A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles.
(n.) A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Drawbacks of traction-absorbing wiring (TAW) in displaced fractures of the olecranon were observed in 29 out of 55 consecutive patients.
(2) A hybridoma secreting human monoclonal antibody (MAB) against Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A (PEA) was constructed by fusing Epstein-Barr virus-transformed peripheral blood lymphocytes with human B lymphoblastoid cell line TAW-925.
(3) We studied airway wall temperature (Taw) during dry air challenge of the canine lung periphery.
(4) Intravenous salbutamol (2.5 micrograms.kg-1) significantly attenuated the peak fall in Taw during airflow challenge and the peak rise in Rcs following challenge.
(5) Using a wedged bronchoscope technique, collateral resistance (Rcs) and airway wall temperature (Taw) were measured before and after a 2-min exposure to dry air.
(6) The dissociation between Taw and physiological response after indomethacin likely reflects a decrease in mediators released during challenge.
(7) In contrast, aerosolized salbutamol (50 micrograms) minimally decreased the fall in Taw during airflow challenge, while virtually eliminating AIB.
(8) Buddha fatigue can set in for travel-weary tourists, but I rallied myself to visit Sein Taw Ya, about 14 miles south of Mawlamyine, which is claimed to be the largest reclining Buddha in the world.
(9) The woman was then reunited with a man and a child who had been trapped in the car when the River Taw broke its banks and had been rescued by firefighters.
(10) After lowering Taw with cooled blood for 2 min, Rcs did not rise.
(11) The HAT (hypoxanthine, aminopterin, thymidine) sensitive and ouabain resistant human B lymphoblastoid cell line TAW-925 was obtained from 6-thioguanine resistant B lymphoblastoid cell line WI-L2.
(12) A significant negative correlation was found between Taw recorded during challenge and Rcs observed 5 min after challenge.
(13) By changing the temperature of blood perfusing the lobe it was possible to lower Taw without affecting either EHL or osmolarity.
(14) Soe Win’s uncle, Taw Phaya, a 93-year-old potential heir, and aunt, Hteik Su Phaya Gyi, 94, are the only surviving grandchildren.
(15) Contrast study of the wound canal, thoracoscopy, and diagnostic pneumoperitoneum make it possible to establish or reject the diagnosis of TAW in all patients examined.
(16) Day and night he walked the nearby cliffs and beaches or the high moors drained by the rivers Taw and Torridge.
(17) The TAW scenario proved more efficacious in determining affective components of attitudes than behavioral aspects.
(18) Two questionnaires were administered: MacDonald's Attitude toward Homosexuality Scale--Female (ATHS--F) and the TAW Attitude toward Lesbianism Scenario.
(19) Minor operative modifications in the TAW technique are suggested in order to avoid these drawbacks.
(20) As flow rate increased, Taw dropped and postchallenge Rcs rose.