(n.) Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.
(v. t.) An omen.
(v. t.) To bode; to foreshow.
(v. i.) To be ominous.
Example Sentences:
(1) From London to New York to Hong Kong, many are crammed into micro-apartments that cost hundreds of pounds or dollars a month to rent, unsure when they will be able to afford a more permanent abode.
(2) Factors that militated against successful rehabilitation were the severity of the patients' illness at presentation, unemployment coupled with poor educational status and distance from the hospital of patient's normal abode.
(3) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don't drink as a rule, but one proud little abode cowering in the shadow of the monstrosity that is the Beetham Tower is a lovely little old Manchester boozer.
(4) Socially, the majority of these were lonely and many of these had no fixed abode.
(5) Once home to Princess Margaret until she died in 2002, Apartment 1A – a 21-room abode over four storeys – has since been used as office and storage space.
(6) Ruling initially accepted by foreign secretary, Robin Cook, but a "feasibility study" ordered into the potential return June 2004 UK government tries to block return of islanders through two orders in council, royal decrees which declared no one had right of abode May 2006 The high court overruled the orders in council, describing their use to expel an entire population as repugnant 2007 Foreign office appeal rejected
(7) A Greater Manchester police spokesman said: "Gregory Horan, 26, of no fixed abode, has been charged with being drunk in an aircraft and Lee Patrick Byrne, 28, from Dublin, Republic of Ireland, has been charged with a racially aggravated public order offence."
(8) Homeless people in London residing in bed and breakfast and private sector leased accommodation, residing in hostels, and of no fixed abode.
(9) It sounds boring and wonky, but amounts to a situation in which, as the former Treasury advisor Jonathan Portes wrote last week , “owners of grand and very valuable properties pay little more than those in humbler abodes”.
(10) But on Thursday the president would have found men shooting hoops near his future abode.
(11) On the contrary, the extracts of animals dwelling in the sea of Okhotsk possess the activating effect, except for sponges of genera Haliclona whose sample extracts display a significant activating effect independently of their place of abode.
(12) "In a semi-permanent-looking abode between two walls and a vending machine was Heidi Launne, a Swedish industrial design student at Aston University in Birmingham, who had been due to take a Scandinavian airlines flight to Helsinki at 6pm on Saturday.
(13) To do so, they need to have a national insurance number, which can only be allocated to people with a fixed abode – difficult for Roma, who tend to move about even within their own countries.
(14) In his dissenting judgment, Lord Bingham declared as void and unlawful a 2004 order to declare, without the authority of parliament, that no person had the right of abode in the Chagos islands.
(15) We can see where people lived, the household structure of each abode, their ages, where they were born, whether they had any disabilities, their occupations and how many children the family had (again, we find that not everybody had lots of children living in a single room, and how many children you had could depend on where in the country you lived).
(16) Those of no fixed abode constituted only 0.3% of all new patients seen in one year.
(17) Oskar Pawlowicz, 30, of Mitcham, and Dawid Tychon, 29, of no fixed abode, both pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary.
(18) Except for this, the ice has been unusually quiet, and it is closed in tightly round the ship,” Nansen reports, “Since the last strong pressure we have probably 10 to 20 feet of ice packed in below us.” In his book Farthest North (Tandem Books, 1975) he writes: “The Fram is a warm, cosy abode.
(19) It is a huge loss to the family and a big loss for the wider community.” On the Masjid Al Aqsa mosque’s Facebook page, a picture of Akram was shared with the message: “We share not only the picture but also the pain and grief of his departure from this world to the eternal abode of bliss.” Bolton MP Yasmin Qureshi tweeted: Yasmin Qureshi MP (@YasminQureshiMP) Saddened to hear that a young man from #Bolton was amongst those killed in tragic Saudi crane collapse.
(20) Naypyidaw, the grand but empty capital Myanmar’s generals built for themselves, means “abode of kings”, a hint at their aspirations.
Waiting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wait
() a. & n. from Wait, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can't wait to see what Christie and her patriarchy-smashing pals do next.
(2) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(3) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(4) It is possible that the high level of radiolabeled phospholipid found in the plasma membrane arose via the de novo pathway following the cleavage of an acyl group as we have found cytidine diphosphocholine phosphotransferase in the plasma membrane fraction (Wang, P., DeChatelet, L.R., and Waite, M. (1977) Biochim.
(5) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(6) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
(7) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(8) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
(9) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
(10) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(11) If there’s a fire in the house, you don’t sit there saying we’re going to wait until the fire commissioner comes,” she said.
(12) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
(13) According to Nigerian government figures, there were more than 7,000 spills between 1970 and 2000, and there are 2,000 official major spillage sites, many going back decades, with thousands of smaller spills still waiting to be cleared up.
(14) At posttreatment, subjects in both active treatments reported significant improvement on self-report and interview measures of depression while subjects in the waiting list condition reported minimal change.
(15) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(16) Separate calculation of changes in prolactin after the course of medical treatment, pregnancies or 'just waiting' periods showed mean PRL concentrations to be significantly lower only for 'functional' patients after pregnancy.
(17) It's also worth noting that if the Help to Buy scheme really does inflate house prices, by waiting five years before you buy you run the risk of not actually being able to save enough for a 10% deposit, because you'll need a bigger amount than you now need.
(18) Would I be stupid not to wait another six months or so, to get a 90% mortgage given the cons of Help to Buy?
(19) A group placed on a waiting list for 3 weeks was used as a control group.
(20) "I don't think that people are waiting for the wrong solution."