(superl.) Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Worried that the song was too short, Gabler asked pianist Sonny White to improvise a suitably stealthy introduction.
(2) Having experienced a hands-on session with Hitman: Absolution at a pre-E3 event around a month ago, I'm pleased to say that it's retained all the slow, stealthy, hiding-in-a-cupboard-until-you-kill-someone gameplay of the previous titles.
(3) But there may be a stealthy way to play the gender card.
(4) 63 min: After more incisive work by Robinho, Luis Fabiano misdirects Jun Il with a stealthy touch ... and then hammers the ball high and wide from 10 yards.
(5) Trump has criticized the Pentagon’s top acquisition priority, a hugely expensive and advanced, stealthy, multipurpose combat jet that three US military services and key US allies, including the UK, are purchasing.
(6) But as negotiators tussle, in this trade deal and in every other, the sharpest of eyes need to be on the lookout for the stealthy influence of big tobacco.
(7) Economic ministers have previously said the government must address bracket creep because it was a stealthy “inflation tax” that would detract from economic growth and workforce participation.
(8) This may not be a slow and stealthy change, but an immediate and radical explosion.
(9) What had been invisible to Sheikh and other residents of Barawe was the stealthy advance of navy Seal team six – the same unit that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan – in a speedboat towards the Somalian coastline before first light.
(10) Alinejad told the Guardian she had been bombarded with messages and pictures since launching Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women .
(11) Outrage within the Democratic party over the stealthy manoeuvre has tarnished Renzi’s image and he was forced to backtrack.
(12) There are conflicting reports of how Ikrima survived Saturday's stealthy assault on Barawe by the same US navy Seal unit that killed Osama bin Laden.
(13) Cocks crow and partridges strut through nearby fields, food for stealthy farm cats.
(14) The good-looking, fork-tongued incomer is stealthy and ambiguous.
(15) Even in the recent snow and ice I stayed upright, although less by stealthy cat-like grace than by steadfastly refusing to leave my house.
(16) This case showed a possible threat of 'stealthy' and migrating foreign bodies, such as very fine acupuncture needles.
(17) And when Obama went to this kind of ‘let’s move away from hard power into the more soft power and more stealthy approach’, the numbers skyrocketed.” Carofano is right that total deaths from terrorism dipped after 2007, but they rose above those levels only after the beginning of the Syrian civil war, in 2011 .
(18) This is a system that can detect adversaries at quite a phenomenal distance and is stealthy so it is very, very difficult to find,” Johnston said.
(19) Defunding of the NHS and stealthy privatisation will introduce vested financial interests that will trump clinical needs.
(20) It was a stealthy act of digital anti-promotion that would prove massively successful, relying on news sites and social media to spread the word.
Torpedo
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
(n.) An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.
(n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore.
(n.) A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.
(n.) A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it.
(n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal.
(n.) An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.
(n.) A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
(v. t.) to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ATP content of the cholinergic electromotor nerves of Torpedo marmorata has been measured.
(2) The mRNA produced in vitro was injected into Xenopus oocytes with the mRNA encoding the Na+,K+-ATPase beta subunit of Torpedo electroplax.
(3) • Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.
(4) Comparison of the binding of AD and control IgG to Torpedo cholinergic NF-H revealed that AD IgG bind to this neurofilament protein more than control IgG.
(5) In contrast with the membrane fragments of Electrophorus, however, those of Torpedo give dose-response curves of in vitro excitation that shift towards higher concentration of the agonists by one to two orders of magnitude compared with the actual binding curves of agonists to the receptor sites.
(6) Two-phase systems consisting of water, dextran and poly(ethylene glycol) have been used for partition of membranes obtained from Torpedo marmorata electric organ.
(7) Chemiluminescent detection was applied to measure the continuous spontaneous Ca2+-independent liberation of acetylcholine (ACh) from Torpedo electric organ synaptosomes.
(8) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
(9) The affinities of 125I-alpha-bungarotoxin for the calf and human peptides were 15- and 150-fold less, respectively, than for the Torpedo peptide.
(10) At pH 7.4, the apparent Kd for a dodecameric peptide (alpha 185-196), consisting of residues 185-196 in the alpha-subunit of the nAChR from Torpedo californica, was 1.4 microM.
(11) Acetylcholine (AcCho) release from purely cholinergic Torpedo synaptosomes was evoked by K+ depolarization in the presence of Ca2+.
(12) The cellular and subcellular distribution of 5'-nucleotidase in tissues of the electric ray Torpedo marmorata has been investigated by means of an antiserum raised against the native enzyme purified from the electric organ.
(13) Crotoxin also blocks the increase of 22Na+ efflux caused by carbamylcholine from excitable microsacs prepared from Torpedo marmorata electric organ.
(14) N,N-dimethylanatoxin (DMAnTX), the quaternary derivative of the potent nicotinic agonist (+)-anatoxin-a (AnTX), has been evaluated for potency and efficacy at nicotinic acetylcholine receptors of frog motor endplates and Torpedo electric organs.
(15) Torpedo dystrophin was also crosslinked at the same concentrations as were effective for the 43-kD protein and gamma subunit.
(16) Assembly of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) subunits was investigated using mouse fibroblast cell lines stably expressing either Torpedo (All-11) or mouse (AM-4) alpha, beta, gamma, and delta AChR subunits.
(17) In optimal conditions of reduction but with the minimal concentration of BAC that permitted 100% alkylation of the human AChR's alpha-bungarotoxin sites, only 74% of the Torpedo AChR's binding sites were alkylated.
(18) Amino acid sequence data comparisons suggest that D2 encodes a serine esterase with strong sequence identity to Torpedo acetylcholine esterase and a Drosophila esterase.
(19) We investigated the enzymatic properties of phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) from Bacillus cereus towards glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol anchored acetylcholinesterase (AChE) from bovine erythrocytes and Torpedo electric organ as substrate.
(20) Some regions of the delta subunit molecule, including the region containing the putative disulphide bridge and that encompassing the clustered putative transmembrane segments M1, M2 and M3, are relatively well conserved between calf and Torpedo.