Tease in a sentence as a noun

Learn to tease apart the fact from the opinion.

If Cupertino's latest was a tease, than Windows 8 is full frontal.

I firmly believe there are certain cities full of women who just tease - they string you along as friends but no more.

I feel like the US is one big democratic tease, pretending to be a bastion of free thought and high ideals.

You need to start your customers expectations building, whet their appetite, and tease them.

A body shot, pole dance, strip tease, doesn't warrant kissing, groping, or fingering, period.

A/B testing with proper cohort analysis can let you tease this out and decide accordingly.

Tease in a sentence as a verb

One of the presenters called him on stage and tried to tease him a bit, but he was utterly un-phased by it, and gave intelligent, straightforward replies.

That's enough to tease out some interesting, statistically significant correlations.

You can combine multiple radar measurements to tease a signal out of the noise floor, and model the orbital mechanics to achieve better spatial resolution than your instrument can actually resolve.

But that's a complaint about fb giving your information to apps, and while it's a lot harder to tease out the motivations there, I think they still derive a greater benefit from that in terms of retention and usage than they do in terms of advertising.

""Successfully repeating this experiment in poor black and latino populations a few times would go a long ways towards convincing the skeptical... "I'm all in favor of repeating the experiment in whatever populations, ideally the general one on a large enough sample size to tease out demographic information.

Why aren't sites taking my history of voting/flagging and running some machine learning on the the contents of the stories associated with that history to try to tease out patterns in what I appear to approve and disapprove of?For myself personally I wouldn't care if I ever read another article on coffescript or libertarian politics.

The psychologists I know best are very aware of critiques of their own discipline[3] through the readings we discuss in the journal club, and more generally aware of the general critique of the current conduct of science,[4] so they redouble their efforts to do their science better, and to check their methodology as they try to tease out the complex web of causes of human behavior.

Tease definitions

noun

someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

See also: teaser annoyer vexer

noun

a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men

See also: coquette flirt vamp vamper minx prickteaser

noun

the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances; "he ignored their teases"; "his ribbing was gentle but persistent"

See also: teasing ribbing tantalization

verb

annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"

See also: badger pester beleaguer

verb

harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie"

verb

to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them; "The advertisement is intended to tease the customers"; "She has a way of teasing men with her flirtatious behavior"

verb

tear into pieces; "tease tissue for microscopic examinations"

verb

raise the nap of (fabrics)

verb

disentangle and raise the fibers of; "tease wool"

See also: loosen

verb

separate the fibers of; "tease wool"

See also: card

verb

mock or make fun of playfully; "the flirting man teased the young woman"

verb

ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect

See also: fluff