(n.) A gathering of people for social purposes; an informal party or reception; as, a church sociable.
(n.) A carriage having two double seats facing each other, and a box for the driver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its buildings, arranged around a sociable courtyard and a slice of towpath, also nourish a community of businesses that sustain between 250 and 300 jobs, all of which could go if the site’s new owner, Galliard Homes, has its way.
(2) The sociable friendly infants received higher scores on both cognitive tests than the less sociable babies did.
(3) Emotionality, activity, sociability and impulsivity (EASI) and components of each trait were studied in a sample of 137 pairs of young twins (two to six years of age) and their parents (548 individuals).
(4) But fear not - if you'd like to find companionship or love, sign up here to view profiles of the kind of erudite, sociable and friendly folk who would never normally dream of going out with you.
(5) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
(6) If you’re not sociable you don’t last long,” says Alex, “but if you can get along with people you make friends for life almost immediately, from all over the world.” She isn’t alone.
(7) Manifest in the preschool years, autism always affects sociability, communication, and the child's repertoire of activities and interests.
(8) The multiple motive hypothesis of physical attractiveness suggests that women are attracted to men whose appearances elicit their nurturant feelings, who appear to possess sexual maturity and dominance characteristics, who seem sociable, approacheable, and of high social status.
(9) Tests set up with isolated mice of two groups (aggressive and "fearful") evidenced that diazepam and medazepam weaken the behavioral manifestations of the partner's avoidance, increase sociability in "fearful" mice and help to regain the ability for elementary intraspecies contacts.
(10) The results have shown the improvement not only in movement possibilities of the patients, but also the improvement in majority of the psychological parameters (IQ, emotionality, sociability scale etc.
(11) I can understand why this blurring of boundaries has happened: TV is a very informal, sociable industry.
(12) She's sociable, she loves children - we've got four.
(13) Measures of the home environment were, however, correlated with measures of infant sociability (assessed inside and outside the test situation): sociable infants had sociable mothers.
(14) Their sociability is seen in their attraction to peers, their directing to peers of such distinctively social behaviors as vocalizations, smiles, and gestures, and the predominantly friendly nature of their behavior.
(15) Strong relationships were found between both measures of sociability and both measures of cognitive competence.
(16) Secure classification in the Strange Situation was associated with quality of secure-base behavior at home (i.e., higher Q-sort security scores) and with sociability, but not with dependency scores.
(17) Individual unfolding that depends on the sociable conditions is mainly discussed in two parts of interrogation: What form and idea of aged people does the society have?
(18) He's a very nice chap and very sociable, but I don't think at this stage he's of any use to the newspaper," he confesses.
(19) It also made them feel more alert, steady, sociable, and strong.
(20) ; millions of excess neurons = 8900, 8650, 8550; IQ = 107, 100, 85); maturational delay (age to walk alone, age of first intercourse, age of death); sexual restraint (ovulation rate, intercourse frequencies, sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS); quiescent temperament (aggressiveness, anxiety, sociability); and social organization (law abidingness, marital stability, mental health).
Unsociable
Definition:
(a.) Not sociable; not inclined to society; averse to companionship or conversation; solitary; reserved; as, an unsociable person or temper.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The hours were long and sometimes unsociable, and I knew of just two people who had been offered permanent jobs.
(2) It was also hypothesized that the study of extrinsic and intrinsic factors for pathological unsocialized physical aggression may improve the design of treatment programs.
(3) Mainly, anxiogenic effect, unsocialized aggressive behaviour and explosive aggression were dramatically increased in comparison with the same symptoms present before and after treatment.
(4) For example, junior doctors will not be forced to work longer or more unsocial hours - it’s only the payment for these hours that are up for discussion.
(5) The new minimum came into force in April but a number of retailers and other businesses have offset the rise in basic pay by cutting other benefits such as special rates for unsocial hours or overtime .
(6) Recognition of unsocial hours as premium time, and paid as such.
(7) The BBC's latest offer also included technical changes to its unpredictability working allowance, which compensates staff for working often unsociable and inflexible hours.
(8) The symptom load as parameter for the degree of severity of a disorder was significantly different to the disadvantage of the unsocialized in the 13 year olds between the CD without and with socialization, but was not so in the children and young adults.
(9) NOFT infants were found to be more fussy, demanding, and unsociable.
(10) Meanwhile, sector-wide bargaining arrangements and collective agreements are being weakened by constant local pressure from employers to reduce key conditions, from sick pay to car allowances, redundancy pay and unsocial hours payments, while still maintaining pay "discipline" through centralised bargaining arrangements.
(11) I can’t work out where or how I am supposed to be working harder or longer unsociable hours.
(12) Baxter provides childcare, often at unsocial hours, for one of her daughters, a nurse and single mum with four children under the age of seven.
(13) Maniac temporality is an improductive and unsociable furious flight toward.
(14) There was no significant relationship between anomaly score and obstetrical history or 5-month infant temperament; low significant correlations were found between newborn DBH and 1) infant irritability and unsociable response and 2) 1-year anomaly scores and reported activity levels.
(15) And children miss out seeing their parents or their grandparents who work unsociable hours.
(16) Among the girls, these same behaviors were compressed in a single set, primarily relating energy level but also unsocialness, excitability, and cooperativeness positively with mesomorphy and negatively with endomorphy and ectomorphy.
(17) This represents an impending political problem for the Conservatives: their welfare cuts will seriously hurt parents working long and unsociable hours in low-paid jobs to try to cover rent and bills.
(18) The impulsive and sociable doctors of either sex were less decided about their career plans than their relatively unsociable colleagues.
(19) The sex ratio for severe disorders was male dominated even in adolescence, which was a consequence of the high rate of unsocialized disturbances of conduct in boys.
(20) Ian Sinclair London • The suggestion of an NHS membership fee is the latest example of weird and unsocial reasoning.