(superl.) Being in proper time; timely; seasonable; favorable; as, tidy weather.
(superl.) Arranged in good order; orderly; appropriate; neat; kept in proper and becoming neatness, or habitually keeping things so; as, a tidy lass; their dress is tidy; the apartments are well furnished and tidy.
(n.) A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like.
(n.) A child's pinafore.
(v. t.) To put in proper order; to make neat; as, to tidy a room; to tidy one's dress.
(v. i.) To make things tidy.
Example Sentences:
(1) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
(2) Yet when it comes to awarding marks for effort, spotless Singapore really should score high on any list given the way it enforces cleanliness and tidiness.
(3) After hours of grilling in senate estimates, assistant health minister Fiona Nash insists there was no conflict of interest or breach of standards in her office because her former chief of staff, Alister Furnival, did not act like a man who had a conflict of interest, did everything required of him to avoid conflicts, and he can’t help it if his accountant forgot to tidy up his paperwork.
(4) While breads might abound in the world's cuisine, whether they are employed as a means of making a reasonably tidy portable meal limns the sandwich classification.
(5) He described the allegation as "totally false" and said that he only tidied up quotes.
(6) A public who once knew, saw or heard little about learning disabled people and assumed that it was still the NHS and local authorities providing for them now seems to have woken up to the fact that much of our social care system is now run at a very tidy profit by executives who think more of feeding a racehorse than meeting the needs of a young woman with autism.
(7) His guests have all left his property clean and tidy – and the money has come in handy.
(8) GSK is selling its oncology products for up to $16bn (£9.5bn), a tidy sum for cancer-treatment business ranked 14th in the industry.
(9) No 10 insists Cameron was kept in close contact with the talks from his offices a quarter of a mile away in Downing Street, but it was not necessary for him to be personally present since the substantive talks had already occurred, and the purpose of the Letwin meeting was purely to tidy up aspects of exemplary damages.
(10) This was a relatively tidy Sunderland performance and for a while they even looked like marking their new manager’s debut with their first clean sheet of the campaign, but then that costly hapless streak resurfaced and they found themselves in the familiar position of ending a match with no points.
(11) The early status showed tidy results, but some weeks later marginal ulceration occurred again.
(12) Neat and tidy orchards, well-stocked farms lined the wayside, and the British soldier did not fail to admire the place and its inhabitants.
(13) Keiron Reeves, 29, who treating severe epilepsy with cannabis oil, said: "I feel much healthier and more confident in addressing everyday tasks like washing, shopping, tidying, all those things most people take for granted.
(14) Alas, the Spaniard no longer has the pace that he used to and was nudged off the ball by Marc Wilson before Asmir Begovic tidied up.
(15) This year at least some of the people who think going to the police is a tidy solution may have learned that the police can be incredulous, unresponsive, abusive, or ineffective.
(16) The staff in the back office started to put their coats on and tidy their desks.
(17) Shortly after her arrival, Scardino tidied up Pearson's conglomerate structure, for example selling off its historic stakes in investment bank Lazard, and focused the business on education and publishing.
(18) But Keep Britain Tidy said the number of Quality Coast Awards (QCAs) – recognition for the best-managed beaches which may not reach blue flag standards for water quality – had increased since last year.
(19) Southampton have strengthened an already tidy squad by spending £34m on their spine, with Dejan Lovren, Victor Wanyama and Pablo Osvaldo coming in.
(20) Toys are neatly tidied away, and outside the kitchen window, baby clothes are drying on the line.
Trig
Definition:
(v. t.) To fill; to stuff; to cram.
(a.) Full; also, trim; neat.
(v. t.) To stop, as a wheel, by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.
(n.) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Triglyceride (Trigly) in female dogs, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (GPT) and urea nitrogen (Urea-N) in male dogs tended to increase.
(2) This trig pulse controls the acquisition of the ultrasound images.
(3) Monthly measurements were conduced of the following activities, in the period between post infection days 160 and 400: total protein (TPR), albumin (ALB), cholesterol (CHOL), triglycerides (TRIG), Zn and Cu concentrations as well as sorbitol dehydrogenase, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (alpha-HBDH), gamma-glutamyltransferase, aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), creatine kinase (CK), alkaline phosphatase and fructose-1,6-diphosphate aldolase (ALD).
(4) These were SBP with age, Hct with T Ca, and T Chol with Trig.
(5) For the men only, Hgb was correlated with HDL-C, Trig, T Ca, and P; and HDL-C was correlated with Trig.
(6) But days later she had become critically ill from meningitis trigged by the lingering virus in her nervous system.
(7) Testing-Eating Frequency was associated with HA1C and Injection was associated with TRIG; in both cases better adherence was associated with better metabolic control.
(8) SBP, DBP, Hgb, and Trig of the women were lower than those of the men; and HDL-C and phosphorus of the women were higher.
(9) The results indicated that bereaved parents' intensity of grieving scores were generally higher than those reported on the TRIG norms.
(10) Systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) pressures and heart rates (HR) were recorded, and 24-ml blood samples were obtained from an antecubital vein and analyzed for hemoglobin (Hgb), hematocrit (Hct), HDL-C, total cholesterol (T Chol), triglycerides (Trig), total calcium (T Ca), ionized calcium (Ca++), and phosphorus (P).
(11) TPR, ALB, TRIG, and CHOL were reduced by day 400, in conjunction with disorders of digestion and absorption.
(12) Failure to absorb dietary fat is managed by a low-fat diet and by medium-chain trigly-cerides which are absorbed in the absence of intestinal bile salts.
(13) 2 Go through the gate on the right and follow the surfaced path through the ancient ramparts of the hill fort to the summit trig point.
(14) Serum CK and ALD activities as well as TRIG and TPR concentrations may serve as aids to specific diagnosis of paratuberculosis, particularly in the advanced stage of the disease.
(15) In the period between PI day 160 and 400 fifteen biochemical parameters were measured monthly, TRP, ALP, TRIG and CHOL were reduced by day 400, pointing to disorders of digestion and absorption.
(16) The influences of the apolipoprotein E (Apo E) polymorphism and of gender on the distributions of plasma levels of total cholesterol (Total-C), 1n triglycerides (1n Trig), HDL cholesterol (HDL-C), and apolipoproteins AI (Apo AI), AII (Apo AII), 1n E (1nApo E), B (Apo B), CII (Apo CII), and 1n CIII (1nApo CIII) were studied in 507 unrelated individuals representative of the adult population of Rochester, MN.
(17) The main conclusion of the study is: In the lymphocytokinetic system the T lymphocytes must play a guiding role as an afferent vector, trigging the B fractions which thus constitute the efferent vector of the system.
(18) Activities of the iron complexes of evolutionary importance like K4[Fe(CN)6], K4[Fe(CN)5(gly)], and K4[Fe(CN)5(trigly)] have been tested towards some redox reactions of biological significance, namely, decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, dehydrogenation of NADH and ascorbic acid both coupled with reduction of methylene blue.
(19) In October, the country opened fire at giant balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets floated across the border by South Korean activists, trigging an exchange of gunfire with South Korean troops.
(20) But bear in mind You'll need sturdy footwear, and should keep to the path at alltimes to avoid the 150m-drop 60m from the trig point.