0 If an insect, plant, or animal stings, it produces a small but painful injury, usually with a poison, by brushing against the skin or making a very small hole in the skin:
1 to charge someone a surprisingly large amount of money for something:
2 a sudden burning pain in your eyes, on your skin, etc., or the ability to cause such pain:
3 a carefully planned and complicated plan which deceives people so that criminals can steal something :
4 a very short animation (= film using moving drawings) used as a form of advertising for a brand (= product name), TV channel, etc.
5 (esp. of insects, plants, and animals) to produce a small but painful injury by making a very small hole in the skin:
6 an operation in which police officers or others pretend to be criminals so they can catch people committing crimes:
7 a small but painful injury caused when an insect or animal makes a small hole in the skin:
8 to charge someone a large amount of money for something, especially when this is unfair:
In prospect theory, loss delivers this exaggerated sting because losses are measured against the actor's reference point, not the actor's net asset position.
Like a diabolic adder it stings the life of many innocent people and is the burning topic of discussion.
In the case of criminal justice, several stinging defeats for opponents of civil rights galvanized a powerful elite countermovement.
Nor is criterialism, properly or sympathetically understood, vulnerable to the semantic sting.
Excessive ventilation for which the jets of air issuing from the holes in the sting appreciably disturbed the cavity surface, had t o be avoided.
When the larva has been stung the female may withdraw her ovipositor, or wait with it in the cocoon.
I think we are entitled to wonder how desirable that transformation from a carrion-feasting hyena to a mosquito without a sting was.
Unless the female parasitoid prolonged its attack, host feeding wounds on adults could not be differentiated from host stinging alone.
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