(a.) Involving surds; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; radical; irrational; as, a surd expression or quantity; a surd number.
(a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180.
(n.) A quantity which can not be expressed by rational numbers; thus, Ã2 is a surd.
(n.) A surd element of speech. See Surd, a., 4.
Example Sentences:
Surf
Definition:
(n.) The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.
(n.) The bottom of a drain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(2) Others, such as Guardian TV critic Charlie Brooker's recent show, even attracted a large teenage audience - who, if industry orthodoxy is to be believed, are more likely to be surfing the internet than watching TV these days.
(3) The iPad is a 9.7in tablet computer with a virtual keyboard which can surf the web, do email, display ebooks and play video.
(4) Climbing Table Mountain and hitting the nightlife are on the agenda too, as well as surfing Cape Town’s more challenging spots, from Long Beach to Kommetjie.
(5) José Mourinho ended this breathless contest on his knees with a sliding, turf-surfing celebration that was fuelled by relief as much as joy.
(6) Lord Freud revealed his futuristic vision of how people could soon claim benefits, suggesting ultimately claimants might take advantage of the development of internet eye-glasses by Google – which allows users to surf the internet on the lens of a pair of glasses, using eye movement to navigate the web and make benefits claims.
(7) The eggs of the surf clam Spisula solidissima have a built-in mechanism that prevents polyspermy: the eggs show a 70 percent decrease in sperm receptivity 5 seconds after fertilization, and become completely resistant to sperm by 15 seconds.
(8) The Surf's Up Surf School has been operating from the beach for 15 years and has an experienced team of instructors (including a former New Zealand national-level coach, Kelly O'Toole) who are prepared to work with everyone from complete beginners to elite riders.
(9) The Northern Region Surf Lifesaving Association Helicopter Rescue Service is one of the few aeromedical services in Australia mainly funded and staffed through the voluntary efforts of a local community.
(10) Download downturn That in turn carries serious risks for the music industry, which for some time has surfed along on the iPod sales boom, warns Mark Mulligan, vice-president of the global media practice at the analysis company Forrester Research .
(11) The Surf-3 gene (which could code for a basic polypeptide of 266 amino acids) is a highly expressed member of a pseudogene-containing multigene family.
(12) Yet it seems to be that aspect of the invisibility of the URLs that's really troubling the people who are lobbying Mandelson (because this is obviously not something he's discovered from surfing the net; I do, a lot, and I've not seen anyone complaining about the Evil of Cyberlocker Copyright Infringement).
(13) While university students at Kim Chaek University of Science and Technology and the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology also have carefully monitored internet access – and are under strict instructions to access only educational materials – most North Koreans have never surfed the web.
(14) Since these characteristics of the starfish egg poly(A)+ RNA are similar to those of cyclin mRNAs from sea urchin and surf clam eggs, we synthesized a 50-mer antisense-cyclin oligonucleotide probe coding for a part of the sea urchin cyclin cDNA and used this to screen starfish RNA.
(15) Surfing the Heaviest Wave in the World - Teahupoo Pipe dreams 4.
(16) Father, rather creepily, joined him on his gap year and the two went surfing and enjoyed the wacky backy.
(17) We’re mostly Brits, with a sprinkling of Canadians, Dutch women and a guy from Dubai, and of mixed abilities; some have been surfing for years while others, like me, have barely stood up on a board before.
(18) RNase alters the in vitro assembly of spindle asters in homogenates of meiotically dividing surf clam (Spisula solidissima) oocytes.
(19) But that is not borne out if 97% of users will see no change – because their surfing habits will persist as before.
(20) While web surfing for possible names, Dalton says he realised that Mayo was born in Eccles, part of Salford.