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desperate (medicine)


desperate


1. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. "I am desperate of obtaining her." (Shak)

2. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.

3. Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort. "Desperate expedients."

4. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality. "A desperate offendress against Nature." (Shak) "The most desperate of reprobates." (Macaulay)

Synonym: Hopeless, despairing, desponding, rash, headlong, precipitate, irretrievable, irrecoverable, forlorn, mad, furious, frantic.

Origin: L. Desperatus, p. P. Of desperare. See Despair, and cf. Desperado.

Source: Websters Dictionary


notch(1) (iou)



notch noun. L16.
[Anglo-Norman noche, perh. formed as NOTCH verb. Cf. NATCH noun1 & verb, NITCH noun1.]
A V-shaped indentation or incision made, or naturally occurring, in an edge or across a surface; spec. (a) each of a series of holes for the tongue of a buckle etc.; (b) each of a series of indentations marking graduated points on a regulating dial etc.; (c) a slit in the ground made to take the roots of a seedling tree; (d) an incision made in a twig to stimulate the growth of a bud lower down the twig. L16.
sciatic notch: see SCIATIC adjective 1.
J. Wilkins A little wheel, with some notches in it, equivalent to teeth. W. C. Bryant Grasping the bowstring and the arrow's notch He drew them back. C. S. Forester Randall put his eye to the notch; through the sights of his rifle..he had seen something. L. McMurtry Wilbarger..automatically loosened his horse's girth a notch.
A nick made on a stick etc. as a means of keeping a score or record. L16.
J. Bradbury To register every exploit in war, by making a notch for each on the handle of their tomahawks. A. Christie Six notches in her gun representing dead Germans.
b. A run in cricket. slang. M18.
An opening; a break, a breach; spec. (a) N. Amer. a narrow opening or defile through mountains, a deep narrow pass; (b) an opening extending above the water-level in a weir or similar structure placed across a stream or current. M17.
fig. A point in a scale; a step, a degree. Now colloq. L17.
Cape Times The notch for appointment will depend on previous experience. J. Raban An upper working class of semi-skilled mena clear notch or two above the Baluchis.
Comb.: notchback (a motor car with) a back that extends approximately horizontally from the bottom of the rear window so as to make a distinct angle with it; notch-bar test Engineering = notched-bar test s.v. NOTCHED (a); notch-brittle adjective (Engineering) susceptible to fracture at a notch when a sudden load is applied; notch-brittleness Engineering the state or degree of being notch-brittle; notch effect Engineering the increase caused by a notch in the susceptibility of a specimen to fracture; notch filter Electronics a filter that attenuates signals within a very narrow band of frequencies; notch-house slang a brothel; notch-planting = NOTCHING noun 3; notch-sensitive adjective (Engineering) characterized by a high notch-sensitivity; notch-sensitiveness, notch-sensitivity Engineering the ratio of apparent increase in stress in a material due to a notch etc. to that predicted by a theory of stress concentration; notch-toughness Engineering resistance to fracture at a notch; spec. the result (in units of energy) of a notched-bar test on a specimen.