prod的意思|prod的解释-里氏词典

Prod \Prod\, n. [Cf. Gael. & Ir. brod goad, prickle, sting, and
E. brad, also W. procio to poke, thrust.]
1. A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a
goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.

2. A prick or stab which a pointed instrument.

3. A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled
prodd. --Fairholt.

Prod \Prod\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prodded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Prodding}.]
To thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with
something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to
prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a
student. --H. Taylor.

To rivals, IBM's reluctance to detail its new technology, coupled with its eagerness to warn that others will have a hard time legally matching it, is an effort to stir doubts about clones and thereby prod customers into buying Big Blue.
The latter have mushroomed all over Spain with good results but there is room for more growth. The retail excitement will prod the office sector into activity sooner rather than later.
The LTV case helped prod Congress into tightening controls on sponsors of insured plans, and eventually led to a Supreme Court decision against the company that established some limits on what a bankrupt can get away with.
Rep. Dingell is trying to prod the Big Board, American Stock Exchange and National Association of Securities Dealers, which regulates the over-the-counter market, into agreeing on a uniform shareholder-voting rights standard.
Israel abducted the Shiite clergyman to try to prod Hezbollah into agreeing to a prisoner exchange.
After letting uninspiring car-sales figures nick the dollar Wednesday, the market allowed a slightly better-than-expected jobless claims report yesterday to prod it into buying back the U.S. currency.
The world community that opposed Saddam's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait should be trying to encourage a settlement of Iraq's grievances against Kuwait while trying to prod Iraq to withdraw its troops from the country, he said.
Yeutter said the complaint _ and previous success under GATT rules last year _ helped prod Japan into accepting an expansion of beef and citrus imports.
The vote, Kasich hopes, will prod the Bush administration into indicating the future of the program and what level of funding it will accept.
The moral of the story, says one investment banker: Sometimes "the generals who run American industry" need a prod from a self-interested raider.
Apart from seeking validation of the four-part agenda that stresses human rights, arms control and cooperation in resolving regional disputes, Reagan will prod Gorbachev for a renewed promise to withdraw all Soviet forces from Afghanistan by Feb. 15.
Spawning actually begins when females join the males in very shallow water, usually between midnight and dawn, and the males prod the females into dropping her eggs.
In a communique signed by its senior five commanders, the FMLN called the attacks a limited operation to prod President Alfredo Cristiani's rightist government back to negotiating.
She said that states "have always had a central role in health and safety" and often prod the federal government to take action against certain pesticide uses.
Besides technology, the craze has had a prod from capitalism.
Sources close to the government suggested they might even prod him to seek a graceful exit if the country seemed to be in a governmental limbo.
The Democrats say they have enough votes to pass the bill, and they intend to use it to try to prod the negotiators to come to terms.
However, we can prod.
The administration argues that the Contras must be kept intact to prod the Sandinistas to make democratic concessions.
The move would be disappointing to some issuers of commercial paper, who had hoped to prod the SEC into relaxing the proposed 5% rule to allow funds to hold as much as 20% of the lesser-grade paper.
Democratic members of the committee tried several times to prod Greenspan into criticizing the ecnomic assumptions underlying the Bush budget, which forecasts sharply lower interest rates and brisk economic growth.
"He always looks slightly pained, as if he's been hit with an electric cattle prod," says Jack Ohman, of the Portland Oregonian.
A source close to GM said that Mr. Perot's explicit campaign to prod GM began last June, when he wrote a letter to Mr. Smith "that basically said, 'Either let me run EDS the way I want to or buy me out.'"
Mr. Shultz came here to initiate negotiations at a "rapid clip," he said, hoping that concern over the turmoil in the West Bank and Gaza would prod Israel and its neighbors toward peace talks.
They say Wells Fargo's success could prod other banks to sell portions of their so-called highly leveraged transaction portfolios, which regulators have forced many banks to write down.
But increasing numbers of critics say the unions should prod bureaucrats more aggressively to improve housing, salaries and working conditions.
Japan's official discount rate currently stands at a post-war low of 2.5%, partly because of government efforts to prod domestic demand in line with agreements with other major monetary nations that have called on Japan to reduce its huge trade surplus.
The Office of Technology Assessment said in a report to be issued today that Congress may have to urge regulators to prod market officials into taking a longterm view of market development.
Angelo Catani, president of Olin's ordnance division, alleged that the Energy Department had used Olin as a "stalking horse" to prod Mason & Hanger to improve its performance as Pantex manager.
Mr. Icahn, who owns a 13.3% stake in USX, is waging a proxy battle against the company to prod management into splitting up the steel and energy operations.

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