(v. i.) To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.
(n.) The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.
(n.) Any sorrowful cry or sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) "After I saw you there, I just went out and sobbed.
(2) The results suggest that (i) the SOS response of E. coli and the SOB response of B. subtilis are strikingly similar from both a phenotypic and a regulatory standpoint and that RecA and LexA protein analogs exist in B. subtilis, (ii) the Recbs protein is capable of regulating its own production, and (iii) SOS-inducing (RecA-activating) signals are generated in B. subtilis following either DNA damage or the development of physiological competence.
(3) Effects of amygdaloid lesions on the switch-off behavior (SOB) and behavioral changes induced by a delayed reinforcement (DR) for SOB were investigated in 12 cats.
(4) Acts of kindness move Langham to tears, and before long another memory has him sobbing.
(5) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(6) No one photographs the child with learning difficulty, sobbing as the teaching assistant they worked with for the past three years is booted out.
(7) He is very kind, honest, funny,” she said on Monday, sobbing as she remembered her only child, who had been flying home from Malaysia, where he was studying.
(8) In a televised meeting that has gone viral, the German chancellor rubs the shoulder of a sobbing teenager after telling her she was one of “thousands and thousands” of refugees that her country was unable to help.
(9) Since then, the cursing and sobbing have been plentiful.
(10) "This depressing morning has now got me questioning my pitiful existence," sobs James Dodge.
(11) She is generally a happy person, but in the last few weeks she has been showing signs of deep anxiety, phoning me sobbing with fear.
(12) The 56-year-old held a tissue to her face and sobbed during a five-minute hearing at City of Westminster magistrates court in central London.
(13) Liam Stacey , 21, of Pontypridd, south Wales, sobbed as he was taken away after the failed appeal hearing at Swansea crown court.
(14) The paper's "special investigation", headlined "No ID, no checks … and vouchers for sob stories: the truth behind those shock food bank claims", suggested that claims about the scale of Britain's welfare problems had been exaggerated.
(15) I sobbed for the last 30 pages but not, perhaps, for the reason you'd expect.
(16) Naturally I confronted them about it, halting their child's progress with a foot on the front bumper, loudly berating their crass behaviour while impressed pedestrians looked on, cheering and punching the air and chanting my name until Audi boy's parents fell to the ground, clutching pitifully at my trouser-legs and sobbing for forgiveness.
(17) 4.59pm BST "My fiancee have decided to get married in whichever country wins the World Cup so this game really has me torn," sobs Nate Philipps.
(18) She was followed by several women who must have been relatives or neighbours living nearby; the cries and sobs were so loud they could be heard clearly over the shooting and chanting from the street.
(19) "It's just so depressing this whole situation," sobs Angus Chisholm.
(20) One hand held the corner of the tomb and he sobbed uncontrollably into the other.
Sol
Definition:
(n.) The tone itself.
(n.) A sou.
(n.) The sun.
(n.) Gold; -- so called from its brilliancy, color, and value.
(n.) A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale.
(n.) A silver and gold coin of Peru. The silver sol is the unit of value, and is worth about 68 cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chronic stimulation of the denervated SOL resulted in twitch times-to-peak and half-relaxation times that varied in a graded manner between values longer than those in the normal SOL to values as fast as those in the normal EDL, depending upon the pattern used.
(2) The activity patterns in self- and cross-reinnervated flexor digitorum longus (FDL) and soleus (SOL) muscles were examined during natural movements in awake, unrestrained cats in which electromyographic (EMG) electrodes, tendon-force gauges, and muscle-length gauges had been chronically implanted under anesthesia and aseptic conditions.
(3) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
(4) 1) Short term follow-up study: Perfusion of the limb with Fluosol-DA solution significantly minimized edema formation and leakage of skeletal muscle enzymes (GOT, CPK) into the serum 5.5 hours after revascularization as compared to Collins sol., lactated Ringer's sol.
(5) As his supporters gathered to demonstrate in Puerta del Sol square in central Madrid on Thursday evening, many claimed there was a conspiracy to bring down one of the world's best-known human rights investigators.
(6) SOL was the most affected, and GST was least affected.
(7) A parallel investigation was carried out on the temporal characteristics of the facilitation of the H-reflex that precedes onset of Sol contraction, in an attempt to point at the different functional organization of the two motor tasks.
(8) A comparison of the solubility of uncarbamylated and heavily carbamylated HbS at Co saturations ranging from 3 to 61 percent showed that the larges difference in [Hb]sol occured at the lowest ligand saturation rather than at intermediate states of ligation.
(9) In a resected specimen that including 4 SOLs that had been detected by operative US, 6 early HCCs, an HCC of the Edmondson grade I + II, and 2 AAHs were found.
(10) We study a sol-gel mechanochemical model for cellular cytoplasm.
(11) We’re all a bit unsure,” says Martin Wilson, from Warrington and now living in the Costa del Sol town of Nerja with his family.
(12) We are encouraged that the DoJ will be investigating the Chicago police department and anticipate useful information will result,” Aislinn Sol, a leader of the Chicago chapter of Black Lives Matter, told the Guardian.
(13) It uses colloidal metal sols (gold or silver) stabilized with Tween 20 and adjusted to pH 3.
(14) By generating local osmotic gradients, these ion transport processes may regulate the depth of the periciliary sol layer.
(15) Labeling in growing muscles progressively increased to peak levels (approximately 250% of control) at 72 h postexercise, whereas mature muscles exhibited an earlier peak (approximately 250% of control) at 24 (m-SOL) and 48 (m-EDL) h, followed by a more rapid decline to control levels by 120 h postexercise.
(16) To study the role of innervation in the expression of the sarcoplasmic AChE, we cross-reinnervated the extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle with the soleus (SOL) nerve and vice versa (X-EDL, X-SOL).
(17) Spindles of the slow SOL and fast EDL muscles had similar features, whereas differences were observed in the organization of the proximal (SOL and EDL) and distal (LUM) muscles.
(18) Standing and holding onto a frame strongly decreased the amplitude and the frequency of occurrence of both early responses and ARs only in the TA muscle, while all Sol responses were not affected.
(19) Functional coupling of the opposing ML and LL SOL and TA muscle responses was confirmed by the nearly coincident onset times and significantly correlated EMG response areas.
(20) In order to understand the process of executing a voluntary standing movement, the parameters latency (AEA-LT), duration (AEA-DUR) and amplitude (AEA-AMP) of the anticipatory electromyographic (EMG) activity (AEA) in the tibialis anterior muscle, Hoffmann (H) reflex amplitude in the soleus muscle (Sol) prior to the onset of EMG activity in that muscle, and EMG reaction time (EMG-RT) were measured during heel raising from the standing position.