(v. i.) To contend, contest, or altercate, esp. in a pertinacious manner on insufficient grounds.
(v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
(v. t.) To separate, as combatants; hence, to quiet, to appease, as disputants.
(v. t.) To intervene in; to stop, or put an end to, by intervening; hence, to arbitrate.
(v. t. & i.) A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.
Example Sentences:
(1) No one's skipping around European landmarks when a screaming toddler needs a Capri-Sun opened or a Stickle Brick removed from its nose.
(2) No one knows yet where Hollande stands, but the signs are he will favour flexibility over German stickling for the rules.
(3) Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) binding characteristics in pituitaries of stickle-backs under different physiological conditions were studied using D-Arg6-Pro9-salmonGnRH-NEt as labeled ligand.
(4) Stickl's method of oral treatment of acne vulgaris with antigens has been carried out on 26 test persons.
(5) High extracellular calcium (1 mM) completely reverses this inhibition and also significantly extends the time course of O2- production in both quin-2 and control cells (Stickle et al., 1984).
Strickle
Definition:
(n.) An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.
(n.) An instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.
(n.) An instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.
(n.) A templet; a pattern.
(n.) An instrument used in dressing flax.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several already published samples form a part of the present study, but their appellation do not correspond to the previous one; stricklingly, only few B3 (new appellation) have been described in the literature, which let one think that they might be undetected using classical grouping tests, and thus considered as normal B.
(2) Other larger than life figures include an EU commissioner, Neelie Krooes , who’s clearly enjoying her last few months in the job and saying pretty much whatever she likes ; Larry Strickling, the US assistant secretary at the Department of Commerce – when he opens his mouth, everyone else closes theirs, the better to parse every word and interpret them in a self-serving fashion later – and ICANN’s charismatic CEO, Fadi Chehadi, whose silver tongue could charm anyone, but just the once.