(v. t.) To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
(v. t.) To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
(v. t.) To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
(v. t.) To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
(v. t.) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.
(v. t.) To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
(v. t.) To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.
(v. t.) To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.
(v. t.) To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.
(v. t.) To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.
(v. t.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
(v. t.) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.
(v. t.) To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.
(v. i.) To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.
(v. t.) An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.
(v. t.) A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.
(v. t.) One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread.
(v. t.) The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
(v. t.) A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.
(v. t.) The long pennant. See Pennant (a)
(v. t.) A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.
(v. t.) A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed.
(v. t.) A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.
Example Sentences:
(1) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(2) The then party whip, Norman Lamb, who is now a health minister, expressed his reservations at the time, although Clegg was able to restore his authority by forcing through changes to the original bill.
(3) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
(4) Mitchell was forced to quit his cabinet post as chief whip over claims he called officers "plebs" during an altercation in Downing Street, which he denies.
(5) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(6) Lovely play by Gervinho, muscling his way far too easily past Carvalho inside the box and then finding the ball whipped away at the last by Alves.
(7) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.
(8) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
(9) Their only win in that sequence was the less than convincing 3-2 triumph over Viktoria Plzen , the Group D whipping boys, in Saint Petersburg earlier in the month.
(10) They will whip you if you don’t pray.” In Damascus there is a new industry of “facilitators” who offer advice to Syrians who want to get out.
(11) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.
(12) Heidi Allen, the Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, abstained in last week’s vote but said she and others would defy the party whip if concessions were not offered.
(13) In the article, Hastings wrote: "The sacking of Michael Gove – for assuredly, his demotion from education secretary to chief whip amounts to nothing less – has shocked middle England.
(14) She added: “Jeremy then went on for the next two months refusing my insistence that he speak to Thangam, indeed refusing to speak to either of us, whether directly or through the shadow cabinet, the whips, or his own office.
(15) His free-kick was decent, he whipped the ball around the ball, but it was half-cleared before it could creep inside the far post.
(16) Intracutaneous sterile water injections have been reported to relieve acute labor pain and cervical pain in whip-lash patients.
(17) The strongly pro-EU and vocal Alistair Burt was whipped back into the Foreign Office where he had been before, while Steve Baker of the ultra-hardline anti-EU faction was made a minister in Davis’s department.
(18) The justice minister Dominic Raab said the Labour leader had promised a “kinder politics” but was now “whipping up a mob mentality”.
(19) The former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell was a Jekyll and Hyde character who employed a mixture of charm and menace, his libel trial against the Sun newspaper over the Plebgate affair heard.
(20) And almost on cue, just after a minute, City nearly concede, a ball whipped in from the right by Tiote, Cisse meeting it with a low swivel on the penalty spot, Hart parrying well.
Whiplash
Definition:
(n.) The lash of a whip, -- usually made of thongs of leather, or of cords, braided or twisted.
Example Sentences:
(1) To provide a perspective on "whiplash" injury in Australia by examining conflicting evidence, which suggests on the one hand that the disorder is a culturally conditioned and legally sanctioned illness and on the other, that it is an occult injury which can cause chronic pain.
(2) Whiplash, or cervical acceleration extension injury, is due predominantly to hyperextension and prolongation of the neck, with rebound flexion.
(3) Psychological tests and psychiatric evaluation indicated that organic brain pathology was present in the whiplash patients, although to a lesser extent than in patients with traumatic encephalopathy.
(4) PEMT as described is safe for domiciliary use and this study suggests that PEMT has a beneficial effect in the management of the acute whiplash injury.
(5) Contact with the tentacles of the jellyfish had produced characteristic whiplash-like weals on the skin.
(6) The special features indicating neck involvement include: whiplash trauma by history, reduction of range of movement in the neck, ipsilateral shoulder and--occasionally--arm pain, and, further, the fact that attacks can be precipitated mechanically by the patients (by neck movements) or by the physician (by external pressure towards circumscribed points in the neck).
(7) Our investigation shows that skeletal lesions after whiplash injury, although very few, are shown by plain skeletal radiography.
(8) This disturbance of retention is not observed when the acquisition is performed before the whiplash.
(9) Chronic rheumatic pain syndromes such as the fibrositis syndrome, 'whiplash' syndrome, low back pain syndrome and regional pain syndrome are common clinical disorders of unknown cause.
(10) Case reports are given to discuss the pathomechanism and therapy of emphysema as a result of injuries of cranium and larynx, dental treatment, whiplash injury, adenotonsillectomy and spontaneously in asthma.
(11) Risk factors which should alert the medical team to possible coexisting brain injury include history of loss of consciousness at original injury, history of trauma to the head, whiplash injury to the neck, multisystem trauma, and admission of memory or attention deficits by the patient.
(12) Acute whiplash injuries are a common cause of soft tissue trauma for which the standard treatment is rest and initial immobilisation with a soft cervical collar.
(13) This article reviews the literature on whiplash shaken infant syndrome since Caffey's original review.
(14) Laryngeal ruptures are caused by vertical traction on the larynx and trachea, mainly by pushing the chin upon a dashboard or by so called whiplash trauma.
(15) In this report are described chemically-induced ulnar neuritis from cortisone injections about the medial humeral epicondyle; pressure ulnar neuritis in patients with enforced bed rest and from improper positioning on operating table with permanent neural deficit and the relationship of such hypermobile ulnar nerves to extension-flexion (whiplash) trauma to the neck.
(16) The published English language literature derived from MEDLINE covering epidemiological, pathogenetic and psychological aspects of "whiplash" injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, abnormal illness behaviour and iatrogenicity; the Australian legal literature; the printed news media; the Transport Accident Commission of Victoria and the State Government Insurance Commission of South Australia.
(17) During flexion whiplash, the torque at the occipital condyle reverses its direction at about 25 ms after impact.
(18) These case reports illustrate both sides of the controversy on the organic versus psychogenic etiology of the cerebral symptoms following whiplash-injury of the neck.
(19) Whiplash injuries usually result in neck pain owing to myofascial trauma, which has been documented in both animal and human studies.
(20) Otoneurological examination showed abnormalities in 9 of 17 whiplash subjects.