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Yer


Definition:

  • (prep.) Ere; before.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kömür santrallerinin yarattığı tehdit yerli yerinde duruyor ve çevre köylerden biri olan Tarlaağzı sakinleri derin kül çukurları kazılmasından ve hava kirliliğinden endişe ediyorlar.
  • (2) Along with Mark Ravenhill ’s Shopping and Fucking , Sarah Kane ’s Blasted , Jez Butterworth ’s Mojo and Jonathan Harvey ’s Beautiful Thing , Dealer’s Choice heralded the dawn of a loose dramatic movement which earned the title “in-yer-face” drama.
  • (3) During the day, I knew, Adam was Adam Shefki, a la w yer.
  • (4) "Make as much noise as yer like," he continues, leeringly, over the incessant crraaang of the mechanised looms.
  • (5) I am very emotionally moved Yer've come 'ere with a lorra heart and that From the start of this competition you have acquitted yourself very ably Hawaaaaayyyyy the girls!
  • (6) Yer man Ian McCourt wrote the rest, and here's one of his bits: Some people knock on wood.
  • (7) I think I heard Dennis Skinner growl: "On yer exercise bike!"
  • (8) "Yer all orphans and bastards," snarls dastardly foreman Charlie Crout (Craig Parkinson) as oppressed urchins gulp and clench their bumcheeks.
  • (9) Hilary is less than enthusiastic: "Yer know, I don't think I could live with me'self if something happened to you," she says, rather reasonably.
  • (10) hueandcry.co.uk On first listening, the Iran team’s national anthem “Soroud-e Melli-e Jomhouri-e Eslami-e Iran” sounds like yer standard pomptastic European 19th-century neo-classicism.
  • (11) Last month he told Newsnight that unemployed people in Merthyr Tydfil would be well advised to take the bus to Cardiff to look for work, an echo of Norman Tebbit's "On yer bike" remark from 1981.
  • (12) In others he introduces us to Joe Craddock, his school German teacher, lamenting that Craddock's insistence on excellence ("Yer utterly useless!"
  • (13) These are some of the clever adaptations Generation Yers have developed to cope with distance.
  • (14) MORON July 6, 2014 Here's the article that has vexed him so , and I'm not entirely convinced that yer man has read it properly.
  • (15) "Yer goin' ter be a gennelmun in Lunnun,' cried Joe.
  • (16) Yer's alreet on the sleur ones, but whatzza racket am I hearing noo, man?
  • (17) klebs, yers) can use several mechanisms to overcome tolerance in their host.
  • (18) While in office, Hawke signed off a testimonial video for his mate with the words "Good on yer, Kerry, you've been true blue [loyal]."
  • (19) Earlier this month, he made fun of the Sinn Féin culture minister in the Stormont parliament with the words: “curry my yoghurt can coca coal yer” – a send-up of the Irish for “thank you, speaker.” Despite complaints from Sinn Féin as well as the SDLP and Irish-language organisations, Campbell continued to mock Gaelic.
  • (20) That's yer lot from me, thanks for your time and your emails.

Yerk


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.
  • (v. t.) To strike or lash with a whip.
  • (v. i.) To throw out the heels; to kick; to jerk.
  • (v. i.) To move a quick, jerking motion.
  • (n.) A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results were in agreement with the Yerkes-Dodson law in that the optimal physiological activation level for rapid performance varied with the degree of task difficulty, relatively lower activation being more favorable the more difficult the task.
  • (2) Chromobacteriosis caused by Chromobacterium violaceum was diagnosed as an Assam macaque, Macaca assamensis, that died 4 days after receipt of the Yerkes Primate Center, It was received from a primate facility in Florida where it has been housed with a group of rhesus monkeys for 5 years.
  • (3) The Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center has successfully bred chimpanzees since 1930.
  • (4) The results are discussed within the theoretical framework of the Yerkes-Dodson Law, which states a relationship between drive level, performance and different degrees of task difficulty.
  • (5) This paper describes the incidence of multiple births in the Yerkes Chimpanzee colony for a period of about 63 years.
  • (6) Greater than 75% of the sooty mangabey monkeys at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center are naturally infected with SIV without any apparent clinical symptomology.
  • (7) The apparatus was modified Yerkes discrimination apparatus.
  • (8) The relationship between arousal and efficiency of the brain is shown by the inverted U of the Yerkes-Dodson curve.
  • (9) The infants and their mothers lived as members of a captive social group at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center.
  • (10) The American Psychological Association Committee on Precautions in Animal Experimentation was founded in 1925 at the instigation of Walter B. Cannon, with Robert M. Yerkes as the first chair.
  • (11) Healthy mangabey monkeys in a colony at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center were found to be infected with a retrovirus related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
  • (12) This article also reviews the literature on memory for stressful events with respect to two major theories: the Yerkes-Dodson law and Easter-brook's cue-utilization hypothesis.
  • (13) The results indicate that most if not all SIV-seronegative mangabeys from the colony at the Yerkes Primate Center are in fact infected with SIVsmm despite their lack of humoral immune response, confirming previous immunological and virological observations made by our laboratory.
  • (14) The analysis of behavioural sequences makes it probable that, according to the criteria of Yerkes and Hassenstein, we are dealing with problem-solving behaviour guided by regrouping of engrams.

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