(v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
(n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
(n.) Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.
Example Sentences:
(1) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
(2) The more frequent causes of a stunted growth were ruled out previously (systemic and chronic diseases, metabolic disorders, genetic alterations, etc.).
(3) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
(4) Uptake was also investigated in 17 children with right-to-left cardiac stunts and 18 children with left-to-right shunts undergoing corrective or palliative cardiac surgery.
(5) "No, it's a stunt, a fraud," cry Lib Dems, Clegg's leftie critics included.
(6) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
(7) Malnutrition is the underlying cause of death for at least 3.1 million children a year, accounting for 45% of all deaths among children under the age of five and stunting growth among a further 165 million, according to a set of Lancet reports published last week.
(8) Thomas Mazetti and Hannah Frey, the two Swedes behind the stunt, said they wanted to show support for Belarussian human rights activists and to embarrass the country's military, a pillar of Lukashenko's power.
(9) The results also revealed that stunting, wasting and stunting together and overweight were more common in young workers who were both anaemic and had evidence of parasitic infection than those who were anaemic only or had parasitic infection only.
(10) Words like "trivialisation" and "stunt" were bandied about, especially after the Channel 4 documentary that dwelt as much on the players as the results.
(11) The stunted and wasted child is likely to be at greater risk than a similarly stunted but normally proportioned or overweight child--both could be underweight for age.
(12) Stunted children were randomly assigned to supplementation or not.
(13) The aim of this study is to identify fetal organs and developmental periods sensitive to stunting induced by maternal exposure to dexamethasone (DEX).
(14) At a press conference in New York , Norman Siegel, lawyer for Eunice Huthart, Angelina Jolie's sometime stunt double, said they had spoken to a number of people who claim they have been hacked by journalists working for News Corp.
(15) An editorial in the Saturday edition of the English language Global Times, which is run by the Communist party, said the students’ travel plans were little more than a publicity stunt.
(16) Like his wind turbine though, discreetly taken down some months later, many people are now concluding that Cameron's promise to lead the " greenest government ever " was little more than a fraudulent gimmick, a PR stunt from a man schooled in the PR industry.
(17) A performance art group called the Centre for Political Beauty claimed to have organised the stunt.
(18) A recent multi-country study showed that for every 10% increase in levels of stunting among children, the proportion of children reaching the final grade of school dropped by almost 8%.
(19) It follows a stunt by Spanish police divers who were photographed showing the flag while inspecting the controversial concrete reef.
(20) The effect of malabsorption syndrome (stunting or runting syndrome) on the thyroid function of broilers was investigated in control and inoculated broilers from 1 to 29 days of age.
Sturt
Definition:
(v. i.) To vex; to annoy; to startle.
(n.) Disturbance; annoyance; care.
(n.) A bargain in tribute mining by which the tributor profits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of them proceed from crossings between psychiatric case register and death-register, and concern inpatients only (Brook, Giel, Saugstad, Mortensen, Herman, Haugland, Rorsman, Sturt, Winokur, Zilber).
(2) An Australian Greens MP, David Shoebridge, told NSW parliament it was “offensive in the extreme” that Dines was associated with Charles Sturt University’s policing programs.
(3) Gove also announced the appointment of a new director of prison security, Claudia Sturt, that governors in four prisons will be allowed maximum autonomy under current legislation from July, and urged governors to make greater use of the temporary licence release scheme.
(4) A pattern similar to that previously found in a younger sample (Sturt, 1981) was evident.
(5) Dines declined to comment on his role at Charles Sturt University.
(6) Tuesday 21 June Details Sydney Date: Wednesday 15 June Times: 7pm-8.30pm Location: Giant Dwarf, 199 Cleveland Street, Chippendale Price: $30 Melbourne Date: Tuesday 21 June Times: 7pm-8.30pm Location: The Coopers Malthouse Theatre, 113 Sturt Street, Southbank Price: $30 Returns policy Tickets are non-refundable.
(7) In 2010, he was hired by the Australian graduate school of policing and security at Charles Sturt University, near Sydney, where he is the associate head of school.
(8) Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian “Was Charles Sturt University aware of John Dines past before they employed him?
(9) The University of Technology, Sydney, the Australian National University and Charles Sturt all provided estimates of 30% to Guardian Australia, while the University of Canberra predicted a 20% rise.
(10) A morphogenetic map based on these sturt distances resembles more closely in size and shape that of a single thoracic segment than that of two or more adjacent segments, suggesting that the eye-antenna disc is derived from a single embryonic body segment.
(11) Victorian artist Robert Ingpen included seven petals on the sturt desert rose when he designed the flag – one for each of the six current states and one, sitting at the top, representing the north as the inevitable seventh.
(12) Tobias Sturt was head of creative at the Guardian’s digital agency and is now creative director of Graphic.
(13) The Guardian can reveal that for the past five years he has been working at Australia’s leading graduate police college at Charles Sturt University in Sydney where he is a course director on training courses.
(14) Led by Tobias Sturt and Adam Frost from Graphic, a specialist data visualisation agency, this fantastic class comprises a series of lectures and workshops, plus opportunities to get expert feedback on your work.
(15) Victorian artist Robert Ingpen included seven petals on the sturt desert rose when he designed the emblem in 1978; a petal for each of the six current states and one – at the top of course – for the North as the inevitable seventh.
(16) The Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, said he feared Abbott was “far more concerned about Christopher Pyne’s job [in the SA seat of Sturt] than the jobs of hundreds of Victorian shipbuilders”.
(17) We examined the pattern of gynandromorph mosaicism and determined the "sturt distances" between 42 different structures of the head, antenna, and maxillary palpus.
(18) He must cease any involvement with teaching police in this state before a similar apology is needed by the New South Wales police.” Charles Sturt University’s executive dean of the faculty of arts, professor Tracey Green, said Dines’s role at the university as a business manager was “solely administrative” and did not involve police training.