Music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when African-American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, psychedelic rock, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B)
Ещё
Draw back, as with fear or pain.
Синонимы
Examples for "shrink "
Examples for "shrink "
1 But perhaps money market funds need to shrink for the greater good.
2 As a result they no longer work and they start to shrink .
3 Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.
4 Its economy is expected to shrink this year due to austerity measures.
5 Investors paid up for companies that did not shrink potential future production.
1 However, the Vaqueros didn't flinch and drew within seven points at intermission.
2 She had never seen him flinch from the dangers his research entailed.
3 They didn't even flinch at the gunfire, just kept right on coming.
4 Erius gave no sign that he'd heard, but Tobin saw Korin flinch .
5 He took a step forward, but stopped when he saw her flinch .
1 Kiril fought a sympathetic wince ; they were neither of them young anymore.
2 It embarrassed the Collector; the girl did not so much as wince .
3 Often, she saw him wince , and she asked him concerning his expressions.
4 Tania had added more Tabasco than usual today, but Celeste didn't wince .
5 I wince , remembering a time when I was held down and forced.
1 She said, 'I suppose there will be a certain amount of recoil . '
2 This was a good weapon, well-balanced, large trigger, rubber grip, short recoil .
3 The recoil would bury it in the earth if they tried that.
4 But I was ashamed to recoil in the presence of the hunter.
5 Some recoil in terror before that test; others, feeble and affrighted, vacillate.
1 The quail on the side-hills were still sounding the clear water call.
2 Others ran up the mountain-side, and cowered in the brush like quail .
3 And Paul was not the most daring cock quail in the stubble.
4 Again he heard the distant report of the shot-gun from the quail - hunters .
5 A quail whistled from the tangle of blackberry briars by the roadside.
1 It's not great either, but it's far from an entirely cringe - worthy catastrophe.
2 I used to cringe whenever his name came up in history class.
3 They will make you cringe , cry and not question making better choices.
4 What is meant to look macho is actually the cringe of panic.
5 Within the treasure cards deck, there are three cringe - inducing Waters Rise cards.
1 Just saying that name makes my lips squinch up like I ate something bad.
2 She's no soft-heart to squinch at the sight of blood, and that sort of foolery.
3 They used to talk 'bout ha'nts and squinch owls.
4 Okada rose and bowed his squinch - owl bow.
5 That there's what comes o' being so dad-blame' hongry that ye can't squinch fair atween the gun-sights.
A state of nervous depression.
United States biochemist (born in Poland) who showed that several diseases were caused by dietary deficiencies and who coined the term `vitamin' for the chemicals involved (1884-1967)
Ещё 1 The chap in the near-by funk hole began to amuse me now.
2 From the opening dialled-up funk salvo of Music: Response I was hooked.
3 The funk does half the business in a man of that build.
4 Major misstep: an inexplicable lack of Brazilian favela funk tracks about butts.
5 Two days later, I'm still in a funk about my roommates' gay-bashing.
6 Constable Harris is in a dead funk , and has telephoned the sheriff.
7 Always I used to funk at the top of the Cresta run.
8 And I believe he is now gone to Matson in a funk .
9 The Canadians can find time to bring Martin's funk , but not CNN?
10 They had faith in their funk that they were going to die.
11 But could funk be undergoing something of a resurrection at the moment?
12 The controversy has done nothing to stop the popularity of baile funk .
13 I funk horribly, though I never get the least credit for it.
14 So take heed, kiddies: drugs will make you pledge allegiance to funk .
15 Maybe it's a set of reflexive behaviors freakishly short-circuited by the funk .
16 The air in the room was hot, stale, heavy with Whale funk .
Другие примеры для термина "funk"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Об этом термине Глагол
Изъявительное наклонение · Настоящее
Funk в диалектах
Соединенные Штаты Америки