(superl.) Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
(superl.) Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
(superl.) Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
(superl.) Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
(superl.) Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
(superl.) Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
(superl.) Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
(superl.) Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you turn the bowl upside down, the whites should be stiff enough not to fall out.
(2) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(3) Current methodology for the in vitro determination of aortic and large artery stiffness is reviewed and involves three approaches: (1) the estimation of distensibility by pulse wave velocity measurement; (2) the estimation of distensibility from the fractional diameter change of a given arterial segment by imaging techniques (e.g., angiography, Doppler ultrasound) against pressure change; (3) the estimation of compliance by determining volume change against pressure change in the arterial system during diastolic runoff from the Windkessel model of the circulation.
(4) The maintenance of adequate blood circulation requires a sufficient ventricular contractility; in addition, to eject blood, the ventricles must first receive a sufficient volume, requiring a low diastolic stiffness.
(5) Stiffness was reduced in approximate proportion to the ramp stretch rate, and the reduction was confined largely to the elastic component.
(6) Proof stress, ultimate tensile strength, elongation, and plastic stiffness have been measured and results compared by use of analyses of variance.
(7) In other words, the stiffness of these areas was low and the recovery from deformation was fast.
(8) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
(9) The tension-length relation for the unstimulated (passive) cell is also linear between 1r and the elastic limit, but is displaced from the active tension-length curve and is of reduced stiffness.
(10) Bilaterals in summit seasons can be stiff exchanges, where digressions can carry risks: not enough said, too much said.
(11) We measured the stiffness of comparable configurations (1 or 2 bars) under axial compression, four-point-bending in two planes, and torsion.
(12) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(13) The bone stiffness also correlates strongly with the geometry (area) and slightly with bone mass; however, an unexpectedly low correlation was found between stiffness and density.
(14) Finally, fibrosis may paradoxically reduce passive stiffness if it leads to a thinning of the interventricular septum.
(15) A young male nephrotic patient, who was given small doses of clofibrate for hyperlipaemia, developed muscle pain, stiffness and very high serum levels of muscle enzymes.
(16) Impaired left ventricular stiffness may be an additional criterion for using corinfar in patients with coronary heart disease.
(17) The increase of elastic fibres following denervation and reinnervation represents an obviously meaningful reaction that may compensate for loss of tonic properties of muscle spindles without causing stiffness.
(18) Only the bone-patellar tendon-bone unit had maximum force and stiffness greater than that of the ACL.
(19) The initial stiffness is poorly described by material or catheter gauge.
(20) The stiffness tester and torque meter were found to yield nearly the same measurements of bending deformation for orthodontic wires as small as .007 inch diameter, provided the different bending apparatus are calibrated to each other.
Tiff
Definition:
(n.) Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.
(n.) A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.
(v. i.) To be in a pet.
(v. t.) To deck out; to dress.
Example Sentences:
(1) Continuing, unauthorised US drone attacks against insurgents inside Pakistan, a source of deep public outrage, formed the backdrop to a string of ensuing tiffs over visas, reductions in the CIA presence, and the "outing" of the CIA station chief.
(2) One tabloid describes that moment as "playful", unwittingly anticipating Saatchi's later claim that the photos of him with his hands around his wife's throat merely caught them in the middle of a "playful tiff" .
(3) And the Oscar may go to … 40 key movies in contention for 2016 awards Read more Sandwiched between the Venice and Toronto festivals, both of which also screen Oscar-hopeful fare (Venice recently premiered Tom Hooper’s new bid for hardware, The Danish Girl , which next screens at Tiff), Telluride boasts fantastic Oscar odds: six of the last seven best picture winners premiered at the festival – four of them (Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech, Argo, 12 Years a Slave) were world premieres.
(4) A program for achieving density profiles of Tiff images is described.
(5) Photograph: Tiff The Imitation Game , starring Benedict Cumberbatch as enigma codebreaker Alan Turing, is set for a Canadian premiere, suggesting it may debut elsewhere beforehand.
(6) It is designed to process sequences of sagittal tongue sections that are digitized in real time and stored in standard tagged image file format (TIFF).
(7) At one crucial point in the game Murray was incandescently upset with Jamie for standing in his sight line at one end of the court but the tiff subsided when the elder Murray moved as he was told.
(8) Photograph: TIFF Ben Mendelsohn schools Jack O'Connell in the art of prison life in David Mackenzie's powerful new drama.
(9) Trump had a well-publicized tiff with Fox News after one of the network’s top hosts, Megyn Kelly, challenged him during the first Republican debate.
(10) If this is what her husband calls a playful tiff one fears what a serious one might look like.
(11) Challenged over the shocking images published in the Sunday People, Saatchi responded that what appeared to be a brutal and humiliating instance of public violence was no more than a "playful tiff".
(12) Photograph: Tiff But many premieres are still to be announced – in North America as well as in Italy (Toronto drip-feeds its lineup in three batches).
(13) Trump’s victory makes the upset of Brexit look like a quaint tiff over a round of golf.
(14) "This is not a 'row'; it is not a 'tiff': it is an incidence of domestic violence," she said.
(15) Unfortunately for Tiff, which celebrated its 40th birthday this year, the slate was considered a bit of a letdown.
(16) Now the record's finished they say they never even tiff.
(17) To complicate things further, during a tiff with his record company Def Jam last year, Nash put out a free download album under his birth name.
(18) Yet while most British bands spend years slogging through magazine interviews, starting fake tiffs with other bands for column inches and touring the nation's Barflys in hope of some elusive buzz, Alt-J have somehow managed to find success without fame.
(19) Parameters evaluated at baseline and on the last day of treatment included (i) results of respiratory function tests (FEV1, IVC, FVC, TIFF, PEF, MEF75, MEF50, MEF25) performed before the stimulation test with nebulized water; (ii) total number of coughs during a 2-hour period after the stimulation test; (iii) bronchial responsiveness, quantified by calculating the volume of nebulized water required to induce a 20% reduction of FEV1 below the basal level.
(20) Charlie Kaufman’s breathtaking , Kickstarter-funded stop-motion romance had perhaps the best run of all the films to screen: it won Venice’s Grand Jury Prize during Tiff (it actually world-premiered at Telluride), and was acquired in a surprising move by Paramount Pictures, which intends to give it a qualifying run.