(interj. & adv.) Good-by; farewell; an expression of kind wishes at parting.
(n.) A farewell; commendation to the care of God at parting.
Example Sentences:
(1) 8.25am BST As the day draws to a close it is time to bid the readers adieu and wrap up the live-blog for the day.
(2) 1.35am GMT Email Resins Man bids us adieu: Well I was two innings too early.
(3) The Liverpool team coach snaked out of Goodison Road with police vans for an escort and irate Evertonians lining the route to bid it adieu.
(4) However, I have chosen today to bid adieu to this profession that I have loved so much.
(5) Vidic and Giggs were on the bench, alongside the 21-year-old defender, Michael Keane, while Rio Ferdinand and Patrice Evra were not in the 18, and so were maybe denied a last home adieu as each may depart this summer.
(6) His task was to get himself out of a hole of his own making on Britain’s potential exit from the European Union, woo back Tory voters attracted by Ukip and manage those of his increasingly militant backbenchers whose goal is to say adieu to EU membership.
(7) Cannes contenders Grace of Monaco (director Olivier Dahan, the opening night film); Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas); Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello); Kis Uykusu (Nuri Bilge Ceylan); Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne); Mommy (Xavier Dolan); Captives (Atom Egoyan); Adieu au Langage (Jean-Luc Godard); The Search (Michel Hazanavicius); The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones); Futatsume No Mado (Naomi Kawase); Mr Turner (Mike Leigh); Jimmy's Hall (Ken Loach); Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller); Le Meraviglie (Alice Rohrwacher); Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako); Relatos Salvajes (Damian Szifron); Leviafan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
(8) The cover of Monday's influential news weekly Der Spiegel declares "Adieu Greece", arguing that it is time to kick the country out of the euro.
Cheerio
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) When Jonathon Porritt – official government green adviser – this week left his Whitehall office after nine years trying to crash the gears of the machine of state, his staff of 60 in the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) didn't just say cheerio; they hired an old ship on the Thames, formed a blues band and sang him out to a Muddy Waters tune: For nine long years this green guru reigned Watching over Whitehall, his eye keenly trained Tree-hugger-in-chief or simply JP However you know him you should start to see He's a true ninja of sustainability Porritt stood to one side of the crooning SDC backing singers, delighted but emotional at his send off.
(2) Thirty-two subjects, 7 to 14 months of age, were observed grasping Cheerios from styrene surfaces that provided different amounts of support to the infants' hands.
(3) Calculations are reported which clearly indicate that there is general agreement in the magnitude of the fractal dimension from the "Cheerios" model, the "Discovery" experiment with those determined with the automatic sedimentimeter.
(4) Italy packed parmesan, olive oil and prosciutto; while the USA team brought oatmeal, Cheerios, peanut butter and A1 Steak Sauce.
(5) In this part of the study, "Cheerios" (trademark General Mills) are used as a macroscopic model.
(6) Join Barry Glendenning for what could be another early exit – Cameroon v Croatia – but from me, cheerio!
(7) If it is the 'common touch' we're after, then David Cameron munching breakfast Cheerios with his family is surely enough (I think he has my sofa, by the way).
(8) A Cheerios challenge where you didn’t have to put cereal on a sleeping baby’s forehead.
(9) On the flipside, she understands the moral outrage felt by millions in the developing world when the west wags its finger at them for wanting Cheerios for breakfast.
(10) In person, Bateman has the pleasing facial symmetry of a catalogue model and he delivers this damning verdict of Cera in the same nonchalant tone with which he talks about his current uncharacteristically swishy hair (“It’s ridiculous now; I look like a Bee Gee”) and his memories of working as a child actor in advertisements for Honey Nut Cheerios (“Ahh, I still remember having to follow that fake little bee around with my eyes …”).
(11) Ain't it grand that we'd sooner say there are too many human beings in the world than too much Coca-Cola, Honey Nut Cheerios or Special K?
(12) In order to examine the effect of rouleaux formation, the "Cheerios" are stacked one on top of another and then glued.
(13) Boxes of Cheerios cropping up on Citizen Kane's dining table?
(14) While a milky bowl with stray Cheerios communicates at least some mental competence, it is clear that the Woman Who Made up Her Mind, further evidenced by her painful gurning, really does have trouble processing abstract thoughts and, at the same time, providing her husband with a nutritious, if simple, breakfast – whose detritus he has now left her to wash up.
(15) It is interesting that a random sampling of "Cheerios" has the same volume distribution curve that is found for erythrocytes with a Coulter Sizing Apparatus.
(16) One minute you're absorbed by another gripping instalment of quality TV drama; the next, you're wondering why there's been a box of Cheerios hogging the shot for five minutes, or why all the characters are driving the same brand of car, or why that otherwise credible teenager is using Bing as their search engine.
(17) One patient had bizarre pelvic radiolucences ("Cheerios" in the pelvis) upon x-ray presentation.
(18) As a stunt for the the TV cameras they took generic boxes of Cheerios and repackaged them as ObamaOs and Cap'n McCains and sold them for $40 a pop (there's a venture capital firm in New York that keeps a box of ObamaOs in their conference room as a sad reminder of what happens when you don't see the potential in something – Airbnb pitched them early on and they turned them down).