(v. t.) To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
(n.) A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
(n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
(n.) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(2) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(3) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
(4) David Blunkett, not Straw, was the home secretary at the time the decision was taken to allow Poles and others immediate access to the British labour market.
(5) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
(6) 9.31am BST Jack Straw , the Labour former home secretary, was on the Today programme earlier talking about the "plebgate" affair.
(7) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(8) This paper investigates the effect of straw handling on the viability of 2-cell mouse embryos rapidly frozen in dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) solutions.
(9) "I have just seen a piece of straw flying over, which the hon lady is attempting to clutch at!"
(10) Jack Straw's detailed blueprint for a 300- strong, wholly elected upper chamber to replace the Lords appears to have been blocked at the last minute following resistance in cabinet.
(11) That was the straw that broke the camel's back and we thought it better to stop it dead in it tracks now.
(12) Straw meal integration had a gravidity-conditioned influence on the daily N balance.
(13) The highest level of contamination with fungi was observed in the concentrate feed mixture followed by clover hay and rice straw.
(14) Insemination with semen stored in 0.5-ml French straws was performed daily during the periovulatory period while the modified Insler score was 10 or greater out of 15.
(15) It’s still unclear which candidates will choose to compete in the straw poll and mount actual efforts to attract Iowans.
(16) Shortly after Blair and Straw issued their denials, Sir Richard Dearlove, who was head of MI6 at the time, said: "It was a political decision, having very significantly disarmed Libya, for the government to co-operate with Libya on Islamist terrorism.
(17) Hundred twenty three samples of bull semen fluid frozen at 196 degrees C including 83 plastic ampules, 20 granules and 20 plastic straws obtained from the containers of the insemination stations of 10 farms from the Sofia district were investigated.
(18) Mariah Carey 's need for a staff member to carry her drink and prop up the bendy bit of her straw is what makes me love her so much.
(19) Despite the freezing curve assayed, both the mini-straws and the bags depicted much shorter freezing point plateaus as compared to the maxi-straws.
(20) Even Jack Straw is trying to close down some of its overripe practices.
Wisp
Definition:
(n.) A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
(n.) A whisk, or small broom.
(n.) A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
(v. t.) To brush or dress, an with a wisp.
(v. t.) To rumple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Separating the distal anterior tip and lateral edges of an ingrown toenail from the adjacent soft tissue with a wisp of absorbent cotton coated with collodion gives immediate relief of pain and provides a firm runway for further growth of the nail.
(2) The water layer (2 ml = 5 ml milk) was injected onto a Polymer Laboratories PLRP-S column using a WISP autosampler with the solvent, 0.01 M pH 7.0 phosphate buffer (A).
(3) Nutritional status was evaluated according to Gómez, intellectual performance according to Weschler's scale (WISP and WISC tests), psychomotor development according to the Denver Developmental Screening Test and PSAC according to a numerical scale constructed from maternal I.Q.
(4) It’s hard to overstate how absurdly beautiful it is: the rhododendron trees are in full bloom, huge creamy magnolia blossoms hang alongside the path and wisps of cloud cling to the peaks.
(5) The structure stained is approximately spherical, but wisps of faint fluorescence also extend into the body of the spindle.
(6) Amyloid of the classical plaque periphery appears as amyloid wisps.
(7) Kewell looks like that kid from the TV show Third Rock from the Sun - he's an ineffective wisp of a player and they should rid themselves of his services next season.
(8) constant number of merozoites in mature schizonts,--the disposition of the pigment, well apart from the parasitic mass to which it is linked by a tiny wisp of cytoplasm,--the normal host erythrocyte, the shape, size and colour of which are unaltered.
(9) On my third day I was at the Médecins Sans Frontières treatment centre with my sister Katie, a documentary film-maker who was accompanying me, when I reached out to tuck a wisp of her hair that had come loose.
(10) Her hands wave violently around wisps of Afro that have escaped her do.
(11) The glowing doors of megastores are drawing us in with Pied Piped muzak and will-o’-the-wisp Christmas deals.
(12) When I visited, boards pinned with scraps of embroidery, squares of woven tweed and wisps of lace were stacked against Perspex boxes, containing archived clothes and accessories, towering towards the skylights.
(13) Most amyloid wisps are isolated between astrocytic processes proliferating and penetrating into the plaque.
(14) Filmy wisps of tissue, presumably intimal flaps, were commonly visualized after angioplasty.
(15) The scientists will not only look for wimps, but also weakly interacting slim particles, or wisps.
(16) Another option is a member of the wisp family of particles called an axion.
(17) They conjure up the skillet on the open fire; will‑o'‑the-wisps over a pitch black bog; the purple heath.
(18) Kicking off his own Twitter stream yesterday with a vintage image of himself and the words " hi im prince ", the Purple One proceeded to upload his very first selfie, which turned out to be a few wisps of smoke.
(19) Watch Kerry Godliman's routine here Jokes and standup routines are mercurial little will-o'-the-wisps.
(20) Normal collagen fibrils are infrequent; they are in part replaced by wisps of nondiscrete material, possibly immature collagen.