(n.) A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) When communism collapsed at the end of the 1980s and the sledgehammers started to thud into the Berlin Wall, the future for laissez-faire economics was brighter than it had been since 1914.
(2) Danielle thudded out a bass beat, somehow keeping her guitar baying at the same time.
(3) Konoplyanka had already thudded a free-kick against the upright, with Joe Hart and the entire City defence anticipating a cross, before the Ukraine international opened the scoring on the half-hour, capping off a 10-minute spell of concerted pressure.
(4) The ball thudded off the woodwork and Arsenal rocked on their heels.
(5) The earphones were with Eva, 11, who was listening to the soundtrack of Glee at a loud enough level to produce that particularly annoying mixture of hiss and thud.
(6) A wild lunge fortunately didn’t fully connect with the Barcelona forward – had it done so he could have been seriously injured – but it still sent him tumbling into the air before thudding into the Bernabéu turf.
(7) Martin drops the bullet in a plastic pan with a hollow thud.
(8) In the 1970s, David Rosenhan and seven other persons were hospitalized in twelve different psychiatric hospitals, pretending having heard voices uttering such words as void, hollow, thud.
(9) His neck muscles were tensed, the ball thudded off his forehead and English football’s man-of-the-moment had another extraordinary story in an increasingly bulging file.
(10) There's an almighty thud as a piece of rock hits the coffin, everyone gasps and one of them says: "Bloody 'ell, Barry!
(11) The guns thudded continuously and there was a new rattling sound.
(12) The event is ostensibly to promote tourism, but it’s also thudding domestic propaganda.
(13) And then shortly thereafter you could hear the planes overhead and you could feel the bombs thudding, thudding, thudding.
(14) They had barely threatened before Carroll attacked Aaron Cresswell’s cross from the left brilliantly, thudding a header low to David Ospina’s left, and the roof nearly flew off Upton Park when the striker equalised in stoppage time.
(15) Flying over the same spot again a few days later, Commander Jason Tieman, a reservist in the National Coastguard, explains over the thudding din of the 19-seater Sikorsky helicopter that the big problem was spotting the oil: "It's very hard to see from the air.
(16) The first half was absorbing without being eventful, but after 45 minutes of the usual derby thud and blunder two things were evident.
(17) When he snapped Groves’ neck back with a thudding overhand right early in the ninth, it appeared the Londoner was in trouble.
(18) Schmeichel had produced two fine saves to deny Danny Welbeck after he had replaced Rooney on the hour and England can also look back on the chance, set up by the overlapping Ashley Cole, that Sterling thudded against a post during one of their few moves of real incision in the first half.
(19) - a thudding, sample-filled track about the malign influence of popular culture on black communities, as a defining influence.
(20) *THUD* Updated at 10.26pm GMT 10.14pm GMT It’s all over until next year!
Thus
Definition:
(n.) The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.
(adv.) In this or that manner; on this wise.
(adv.) To this degree or extent; so far; so; as, thus wise; thus peaceble; thus bold.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5-HT thus appears to be the preferred substrate for uptake into platelets and for movement from cytoplasm to vesicles.
(2) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(3) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
(4) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(5) Trifluoroacetylated rabbit serum albumin was 5 times more reactive with these antibodies and thus more antigenic than the homologous acetylated moiety confirming the importance of the trifluoromethyl moiety as an epitope in the immunogen in vivo.
(6) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
(7) Thus, saponin and ammonium chloride can be used to isolate whole infected erythrocytes, depleted of hemoglobin, by selective disruption of uninfected cells.
(8) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(9) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(10) Thus, a dietary 'no observable effect level' for subchronic ingestion of C. obtusifolia seed in rats was less than 0.15%.
(11) Thus, our study confirmed that male subjects with a history of testicular maldescent have an increased risk for testis cancer, although the magnitude of this risk was lower than suggested previously.
(12) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
(13) Thus, it appears that neuronal loss may account for up to roughly half of the striatal D2 receptor loss during aging.
(14) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
(15) Thus, mechanical restitution of the ventricle is a dynamic process that can be assessed using an elastance-based approach in the in situ heart.
(16) Thus, B cells that grow spontaneously from the peripheral blood of SS patients spontaneously produce a B-cell growth factor.
(17) No significant fatty acid binding by proteins was detected in S. cerevisiae, even when grown on a fatty acid-rich medium, thus indicating that such proteins are not essential to fatty acid metabolism.
(18) This investigation is thus indicated in patients with neurological symptoms.
(19) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(20) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.