(v. t.) To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.
(v. t.) To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.
(v. t.) To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
(n.) One who teases or plagues.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
(2) "My great ambition is to be president of a golf club where I am playing," he teased .
(3) I used to tease him with the suggestion he had chosen me as walking companion because I had no mathematics at all and so he was safe from prying questions, but in fact now and then he did used to tell me about what he was doing – and how clear it all seemed when he spoke!
(4) To examine this proposal VIP concentrations in plasma from arterial, gastric venous and intestinal venous blood were measured in healthy conscious lambs before, during and after teasing with, and sucking of milk.
(5) Teased-fiber techniques were used to record from 28 CMHs that innervated the hairy skin of upper or lower limb in anesthetized monkeys.
(6) When the behavior of the nontarget partners was controlled, children initiated more physical aggression, nonverbal teasing, and regression after experiencing negative social comparison with the partners than after following the other treatments.
(7) Paxman claimed that at the same lunch Morgan had teased Ulrika Jonsson about the details of a private conversation she had had with Erikson, who was England manager at the time.
(8) A teased fiber technique established that the ratio of internodal distance and fiber diameter in urodele nerves was essentially similar to that in Anolis.
(9) He teased readers by adding: “By the time you read this I will know whether it has worked.” The American Academy of Neurology is sceptical about the treatment .
(10) At one point he teases us with the intro to 'When You Were Mine' at another he wittily picks out the theme to The Beverly Hillbillies .
(11) We did not perform a sexy version of oppression or create a teasing "naughty" campaign.
(12) Surgery should be performed ideally before the early school years, when the child is subjected to the most teasing, provided both parents and the patient have realistic expectations and really want the major reconstruction.
(13) Her teenage sons, who haven't read the book, tease her often, which is jolly; her mother, though distressed to find that Christian and Anastasia never seem to shower after sex, is delighted; even her father-in-law likes the book.
(14) As soon as he could, Coltrane escaped to art school in Glasgow, where he had much more fun – despite being teased for sounding posh – but discovered he wasn't an artist.
(15) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
(16) At 12 h and 24 h after crush, however, no ovoids were apparent and the number of incisures present was determined from teased fibres by light microscopy using oil immersion.
(17) Zidane, however, was in the mood to tease his admirers.
(18) The histological study using the teasing method demonstrated the existence of unmyelinated fibres, in the thoraco-cervical region of the vagus nerve, becoming progressively myelinated from the periphery to the nodose ganglion.
(19) The most common finding in teased fibres from each leprosy type was paranodal demyelination affecting successive internodes.
(20) Functional properties of neurons regenerating axons into the grafts were studied by recording from single regenerated fibers teased from the grafts.
Tense
Definition:
(n.) One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.
(a.) Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.
Example Sentences:
(1) The poll – which sets the stage for a tense and dramatic run to referendum day – suggests that, among the undecideds, more are inclined to vote Remain than Leave.
(2) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(3) Bostock, who is long thought to have had a tense relationship with chief executive Marc Bolland , is departing by "mutual consent to pursue other interests" on 1 October, when she will also leave the M&S board.
(4) After five days watching birds illegally shot down and becoming embroiled in tense stand-offs with the police and hunters, Packham was summoned to a police station and interviewed for five hours.
(5) Although excessive eye movements caused 30% of the subjects to be removed from the analysis, it was still possible after the experiment to differentiate between subjects who gradually tensed their agonist during the foreperiod and subjects who did not.
(6) Peroneal nerve traction does not result in abnormalities of the dorsalis pedis pulse, pain on passive muscle stretch or a tense anterior tibial compartment.
(7) Security North Korea has a long history of tense relations with other regional powers and the west – particularly since it began its nuclear programme.
(8) A health committee meeting in Sacramento, the state capital, on Wednesday turned into a tense showdown between lawmakers seeking to argue that the science is unequivocally on the side of universal vaccination, and activists accusing them of being in the pocket of unscrupulous big pharmaceutical companies.
(9) However its depth and tense, cystic feeling on palpation, were considered somewhat unusual.
(10) It was found, contrary to expectation, that the prevalence was 2.96% and preponderant symptoms seemed to be worrisome, tense, irritable and depressive.
(11) 7:23pm: Out trudge the players, looking tense - perhaps because of the stakes of the match, or maybe because of all the formalities Fifa make them endure before kick-off.
(12) The categories used for the auditory assessment were preutterance vocalizations, abnormal initiation, rough voice, breathy voice, tense voice, voice tremor, intraphonemic disruption and pitch break.
(13) It was very tense, they were very angry, but we tried to be respectful, while explaining that I was doing my job taking photos.
(14) While arguments will persist over the rights and wrongs of publishing, what seems certain is that the incident will inflame already tense relations between Buckingham Palace and the European media.
(15) China and the Philippines had a tense maritime standoff at a shoal west of the main Philippine island of Luzon early this year.
(16) Tense scenes followed on Sunday as a large crowd gathered in the town of Bastia, about 12 miles (19km) away, seeking to enter the Lupino district, which is home to a large North African community.
(17) Men arrested for the first time for driving while intoxicated were more tense, depressed, angry and fatigued during the month preceding their arrest than were men arrested for the second time for the same offense.
(18) The protest grew after several hundred people left a rally opposing the election of Donald Trump as president and joined with others chanting: “Hands up, don’t shoot.” Earlier this year the University of Cincinnati, which fired Tensing shortly after the incident, reached a $5.3m settlement with DuBose’s family .
(19) The scope and numbers of Anaconda are no match for the Russian exercises that go on all the time just across the border.” War game map But Zaborowski also acknowledged that the backdrop to the exercise was “tense, and accidents can happen”.
(20) Lower esophageal sphincter pressure (LESP) was measured in 10 biopsy-proved cirrhotics with esophageal varices and tense ascites before and after diuresis to evaluate of ascites might play in the development of variceal bleeding.