(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.
Sorb
Definition:
(n.) The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
(n.) The fruit of these trees.
Example Sentences:
(1) The formation of phospholipid micelles was proved by linear dependence of the content of the sorbed phosphatidyl choline versus, the content of apoHDL bound to Sepharose.
(2) Relative contribution of integral intensity of the latter at 96 degrees C in sorbed water is about 4 times lower than in the liquid one.
(3) Aluminas, silicas and aluminosilicates were evaluated for their ability to sorb radiolabeled aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) from aqueous solution (in vitro).
(4) The results confirm the theory of cell volume regulation: volume changes of living cells in different solutions represent a balance between the tendency of intracellular proteins -- which exist in the fully extended conformation -- to polarize, sorb, and draw into the sac or cell more water and the opposite tendency to lose water from the sac or cell created by the lower level of the solutes in the cell or sac water than in the external medium.
(5) On the basis of the data obtained the nature of sorbing forces and structural properties of the albumine molecule concerned are discussed.
(6) The salt-protein, sucrose-starch, and salt-starch combinations sorbed less water than that predicted by calculated sorption values.
(7) This tube is connected to the permanent apparatus and the sorbed organics are thermally transferred to a small Tenex pre-column while the water vapor is vented.
(8) In aqueous media these compounds are reversible sorbed on the surface of the gel.
(9) Fourier transform infrared (FT IR) spectroscopy was conducted on solid samples of crystallin with and without irreversibly sorbed HCI gas.
(10) Pharmacokinetics and organe distribution of Methotrexate (MTX) in Gardner lymphosarcoma bearing C3H mice was investigated following two ways of drug administration: 1. intraperitoneal injection, 2. intratumoral implantation of 2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate gel with sorbed Methotrexate (localized chemotherapy).
(11) The powder-component (Bio-sorb, Surgikos) leads to an accelerated setting.
(12) The therapeutic AUVM effect is associated with the ability of these materials to rapidly sorb and eliminate inflammation-inducing mediators as well as the protective properties of the AUVM against secondary wound infections.
(13) Thus, the long-term (decades) efficacy of AC in sorbing radon in a soil environment will not be compromised by the blocking of its sorption sites by lead.
(14) For the less water soluble odorants (octane and amyl acetate), the uncut side did sorb significantly more odorant than the cut side.
(15) Immune lymphocytes sorbed on the surface of the target cells were characterized during the period of the first three hours of combined incubation by the presence of the electron-dense matrix, abundance of mitochondria and lipids; small lymphocytes had disseminated ribosome organized into polysomes in the medium lymphocytes forming individual cysterns of the granular endoplasmic reticulum in the large lymphocytes, this indicating active protein synthesis by these cells.
(16) It was also shown that the T-lymphocyte population forming "active" rosettes could be assessed by the number of SRBC sorbed on their surface.
(17) Besides these genes for known functions, three additional genes were discovered: sorC, coding for a transcriptional 40kD regulatory protein, and sorF and sorB, coding for two proteins of 14kD and 19kD, respectively, involved in transport.
(18) The AB-17-8 anionite and Ky-21-8 cationite are capable of adequately sorbing the poliovirus in pasteurized milk, but it is only from the cationite, and then only in a small amount, that eluation of the virus can be accomplished.
(19) The appearance of new TPF binding centres, alteration in fluorescence anisotropy of sorbed dye as well as inactivation of myosine ATPase of model fibres at high concentrations indicate that the cooperative phase of sorption is characterized by changes in the structure of contractile proteins.
(20) Comparing the metal content in oil fuel and waste gases showed that no more than 10% of the studied compounds are sorbed on the boiler walls, the remaining 90% being released into the atmosphere.