(superl.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.
(superl.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.
(superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sitting on his stony porch, Rao asserts that he is not being romantic about the benefits of agriculture: “Here we earn more than 120,000 rupees [£1,170] a year, and our cost of living is one-fifth that of a city’s.
(2) Digital examination revealed that the prostate became stony-hard and larger 10 weeks after the initial BCG immunotherapy.
(3) Freed of the need to wave their tentacles around to hunt for food, the coral can devote more energy to secreting the mineral calcium carbonate, from which they form a stony exoskeleton.
(4) Not because the arts and humanities are especially hard to legitimise, but because everything is hard to justify when your opponent is standing there with crossed arms and a stony face.
(5) If someone’s able to keep such a stony-faced expression, it’s either high theatrics or they have no sympathy,” she added.
(6) It would face the same challenges and would continue to act in much the same way, steering the country towards new elections in late 2017 or 2018 and pursuing the stony path of incremental economic reform.
(7) We evaluated five enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays from Stony Brook (NY) University Hospital, Cambridge Bioscience (Worcester, Mass), Hillcrest Biologicals (Cypress, Calif), Sigma Diagnostics (St Louis, Mo), and Zeus-Wampole Scientific Inc (Raritan, NJ) and two fluorescent antibody tests (3M [Diagnostic Systems Inc, Santa Clara, Calif] and FIAX [Whittaker M.A.
(8) Without naming and shaming, during the USA's game against Portugal, I saw one leftwing tweeter ask with plaintive, stony-faced sincerity "how can anyone be supporting the imperialists?"
(9) No one is considered universally funny: there will always be someone stony-faced and dry-eyed in a room filled with hilarity, wondering what everyone else is laughing at.
(10) To a stony-faced audience at a conference organised by Learning Without Frontiers, she said: "We should recognise and embrace some of the good things that came out of the 19th century."
(11) The villages, whose populations range from a few hundred to 2,000, are scattered on stony land criss-crossed by busy roads, electricity pylons and cables and water pipes.
(12) Watched stony-faced by the Israeli delegation led by ambassador Ron Prosor, Abbas on Wednesday called for the international community to recognise Palestine as a state under occupation in the same way that countries were occupied in the second world war.
(13) If one of the first signs of ageing is being irritated by the young, I'd transformed into the ultimate short-fused, stony-eyed Methuselah.
(14) To help meet the need for physician manpower in preventive medicine a new residency was established at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in July 1983.
(15) The Stony Brook Child Psychiatric Checklist, a parent completed rating instrument based on DSM-III-R, was used as part of a psychiatric inpatient admission evaluation.
(16) At the School of Medicine of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the surgical clerkship became mandatory in 1976.
(17) Labour's riposte will be that the more difficult the economic news the stronger the yearning will be for a "change election" on the economy and the greater the premium on fairness in austerity – fertile terrain for Miliband, stony ground for the incumbent Cameron.
(18) The gland becomes stony hard, is not displaceable and, characteristically, the fibrous tissue penetrates the capsule and infiltrates into surrounding structures such as muscles, vessels, nerves and even the trachea.
(19) The liver was markedly enlarged and of stony consistency.
(20) The anti-Trident activists wave at the Faslane workers as they come and go; the workers remain stony-faced.
Warm
Definition:
(superl.) Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.
(superl.) Having a sensation of heat, esp. of gentle heat; glowing.
(superl.) Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.
(superl.) Fig.: Not cool, indifferent, lukewarm, or the like, in spirit or temper; zealous; ardent; fervent; excited; sprightly; irritable; excitable.
(superl.) Violent; vehement; furious; excited; passionate; as, a warm contest; a warm debate.
(superl.) Being well off as to property, or in good circumstances; forehanded; rich.
(superl.) In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed.
(superl.) Having yellow or red for a basis, or in their composition; -- said of colors, and opposed to cold which is of blue and its compounds.
(a.) To communicate a moderate degree of heat to; to render warm; to supply or furnish heat to; as, a stove warms an apartment.
(a.) To make engaged or earnest; to interest; to engage; to excite ardor or zeal; to enliven.
(v. i.) To become warm, or moderately heated; as, the earth soon warms in a clear day summer.
(v. i.) To become ardent or animated; as, the speake/ warms as he proceeds.
(n.) The act of warming, or the state of being warmed; a warming; a heating.
Example Sentences:
(1) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
(2) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(3) Changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were measured over 254 cortical regions during caloric vestibular stimulation with warm water (44 degrees C).
(4) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
(5) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(6) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
(7) "For a better world, not only for the Iranian people but for the next generation across the globe, I earnestly hope that President Rouhani will receive a warm welcome and meaningful responses during his visit to the UN."
(8) The quality of liver grafts was evaluated using an original, blood-free isolated perfusion model, after 8 h cold storage, or after 15 min warm ischemia performed prior to harvesting.
(9) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
(10) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
(11) Supermarkets are slashing the price of cauliflower because a relatively warm start to the year has produced a glut of florets.
(12) A patient with autoimmune hemolytic anemia of the warm antibody type developed a hyperacute hemolytic crisis with acute renal failure under conventional treatment with corticosteroids.
(13) "Thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming," the panel said.
(14) In short, it says the IPCC exaggerates the warming effect of CO2.
(15) Where Jim Broadbent stands as an inherently warm screen presence, his co-star's image is rather more flinty.
(16) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
(17) Treatment and prevention of menstrual disorders of women at high altitudes could be carried out by invigorating Qi, regulating blood, promoting the flow of Qi, by warming the channel and regulating Zang and Fu, etc.
(18) Day-0 rabbits kept for 1 h in a warm (41 degrees C), neutral 39 degrees C) or cool (28 degrees C) environment selected a different TE at 39.8, 39.5 and 37.3 degrees C, giving colonic temperatures (TC) of 40.8, 39.9 and 37.7 degrees C, respectively.
(19) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
(20) But for the mid Atlantic, the models showed that only human-driven global warming could explain the increase in saltiness – the first time such an explicit link has been made between climate change and salinity.