(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.
Wheelie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of this analytical study of wheelchair wheelie performance can be summarized into two wheelchair design equations, or rules of thumb, as developed in the paper.
(2) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
(3) Wheelie balance is the other aspect of performance considered; where the user balances the wheelchair on the rear wheels for going down curbs or just for fun.
(4) Thus, a simple test of determining the shortest length of rod one can balance in the palm of the hand (plus measuring handrim force capability and simple reaction time) may indicate if a wheelchair user will find it easy to do a wheelie balance.
(5) The former wheelchair basketball player, British junior powerlifting champion, tennis contender (he reached 69th in the world), l eading face of the famous BBC ident (featuring three wheelchair dancers, spinning and doing wheelies) actor and TV presenter is visiting the tiny terrace road where he grew up in Newham, east London.
(6) And one of those wheelie suitcases, the Trunki, I liked that too.
(7) People were smoking heroin in the open in the yard, bubbling up hooch in wheelie bins, taking ecstasy.
(8) The wheelie bins overflowed into the courtyard every single week.
(9) About five minutes after wiping the sweat from her brow and drop-kicking her placenta into a nearby wheelie bin, she stuck on a tabard and poached enough cleaning clients to buy all the bum cream her little heart desired.
(10) Yeah if I don’t take insulin for three days … you’d a had to carry me out in a wheelie bin,” he said.
(11) However, balancing a rod is done primarily by using visual perception, whereas wheelie balance involves human joint proprioceptors and visual plus vestibular (inner ear) perception.
(12) He had strapped a pink and purple umbrella to a small wheelie suitcase that held, he said, his “whole kit and caboodle”.
(13) Phil Mitchell’s Rock Bottom sounds like a tip for the 2.15 at Lingfield, but as he realised the pink wheelie suitcase buried beneath the rubble belonged to his runaway daughter Louise, he hit it hard.
(14) Three men on motorcycles arrived and performed death-defying wheelies.
(15) The equation containing the significant parameters involved in popping a wheelie for curb climbing is: fh = 0.8 mg theta c.g.
(16) Tensions were still high: wheelie bins were set on fire, a police van was attacked with bricks, a female officer was injured, and a police dog bit a 14-year-old boy.
(17) Timothy’s passion is industrial strategy, Godfrey specialises in pensions, housing and longterm care – while one of few survivors from the Cameron era, special adviser Sheridan Westlake, who famously persuaded Eric Pickles to focus on the unglamorous issues that suburban voters cared about, such as the Daily Mail obsession with wheelie bins .
(18) It can be used for a variety of jobs from cleaning cars and bikes to patios, decking, fences, guttering, garden furniture and even smelly wheelie bins.
(19) I've even seen a picture of a giant wheely trash can in pepto bismol pink with a ribbon on it.
(20) A couple of minutes from now, I'll be trundling my little wheelie suitcase out of the door, stepping into a taxi for one last interview while being driven back to obscurity.