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Aitch


Definition:

  • (n.) The letter h or H.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 10.12pm GMT Patriots 3-20 Broncos, 2:25, 3rd quarter Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt It's over.
  • (2) In the gloom of Aitches ale house, a favourite watering hole for oilmen coming ashore after working on the North Sea rigs, the barman spoke for well-paid customers who want things to stay the way they are: " It's all no in here, mate.
  • (3) Updated at 10.26pm GMT 10.14pm GMT Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @LengelDavid Can't wait to see Philip Rivers 'scream and scream until he's sick' next time there's a delay of game.
  • (4) Updated at 11.21pm BST 11.19pm BST QPR have signed Niko Kranjcar and Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Tom Carroll, Aitch confirms through his car window, natch.
  • (5) A few days later, drop your aitches, or talk as if English is not your first language, and see if you receive the same service.
  • (6) Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt @Paolo_Bandini "Unsportsmanlike Premiership-style simulation, no.1, offense."
  • (7) Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @GdnUSsports @HunterFelt @LengelDavid The baseball season is still going?
  • (8) Iain Aitch, a Margate-born journalist, has helped make a series of “Ukip put me off my beer” beermats to distribute around local pubs.
  • (9) 10.48pm BST Tweets Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt Akin to last night, RISPs and LOBs will make or break @Dodgers tonight.
  • (10) Maggie Aitch (@FreeBesieged) Seems to me #Miliband is talking about things that REALLY matter to ordinary folk - not the scapoegoats being pushed by #Tory media .
  • (11) Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt This just doesn't look like the Dodgers night, again.
  • (12) Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt Kershaw needs to stop bouncing pitches or, with men on base, 'there may be trouble ahead'.
  • (13) As we have seen with the “three aitches” – Hinkley , Heathrow and HS2 – May is putty in the hands of any costly pressure group that pops over the horizon and gets itself tabloid support.

Hitch


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
  • (v. t.) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.
  • (v. t.) To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
  • (v. t.) To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.
  • (v. t.) To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.
  • (n.) A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.
  • (n.) The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.
  • (n.) A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.
  • (n.) A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.
  • (n.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.
  • (n.) A small dislocation of a bed or vein.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But there is one hitch: the four-storey building in Hammersmith is already home to more than 20 voluntary groups working with refugees, the homeless, former young offenders and a range of ethnic minorities including Kurds, Iranians and Iraqis – and they will have to move.
  • (2) One bleeding of 200 ml from a wounded intercostal vessel ligated with a clip was the sole operative hitch.
  • (3) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
  • (4) Successful reconstruction of a neoureter was performed easily with the Boari bladder flap coupled with nephropexy and a psoas hitch.
  • (5) Follow-up observations revealed the presence of VUR in 2 patients who underwent surgery by the initial form of Boari's method and in 1 patient who underwent surgery by the psoas-hitch method.
  • (6) It is suggested that spontaneously occurring cryptic lesions that are themselves unable to induce the SOS system are subject to translesion synthesis under these conditions and trigger a burst of hitch-hiking mutations that are therefore effectively umuC dependent.
  • (7) They – we – had come by bus, plane, train, car and hitch-hiker's thumb to demonstrate to ourselves and a watching world that there was a better, more righteous America than the Birmingham of Bull Connor who had set the dogs and fire hoses on black children.
  • (8) Nine patients underwent adjunctive procedures in addition to bladder augmentation, including a Young-Dees-Leadbetter procedure in 4, an artificial urinary sphincter in 3, transureteroureterostomy and psoas hitch in 1, and a Mitrofanoff procedure and bladder neck closure in 1.
  • (9) We can’t complain if we’re not involved.” Buhari, the first opposition candidate with a realistic chance of defeating a sitting Nigerian president, was accredited without a hitch using the card reader in his hometown of Daura, in northern Katsina state.
  • (10) When I asked “What about the women?” I was told I could hitch a ride in a team car and watch.
  • (11) In most instances, DM are noncentromeric and distributed by a 'hitch-hiking' mechanism at mitosis; in one colcemid-resistant SEWA line, however, we have shown that the DM carry active centromeres.
  • (12) Combining the bladder-psoas hitch Boari-flap technique makes it possible to replace the entire ureter.
  • (13) George Osborne has had to go to China to get them to bail out this project, hitching our nuclear energy future to the Chinese state for 100 years,” he said.
  • (14) All this meant it had finally found a consistent identity and could hitch a ride as digital radio’s takeup grew.
  • (15) Nine patients with injury to the pelvic portion of the ureter successfully underwent the psoas-bladder hitch procedure and tunnelization as an antireflux measure.
  • (16) Simon Burnton is taking over for a while, you can email him at simon.burnton@the guardian.com Updated at 8.15pm BST 8.10pm BST Herrera is still on, just a technical hitch AS English (@English_AS) Man Utd's reps have just left the LFP offices without leaving Herrera's buy-out clause, apparently they need to sort out more paperwork.
  • (17) The acting director of the Australian Antarctic division of the department of environment, Jason Mundy, said the rescue was carried out without a hitch and it was a relief to have all passengers on board the Aurora Australis.
  • (18) Wing Commander Matt Radnall, 42, the very last British serviceman to depart, said: “To see the Afghans step up to the plate without any hitch or delay, as briefed, as rehearsed and as expected, it was just fantastic.” From that moment of the helicopters’ departure, the base was under Afghan command – a prospect that many believe will lead to the Taliban attempting to breach its 24-kilometre perimeter.
  • (19) The psoas hitch procedure is a simple and effective alternative in the management of distal ureter length defects.
  • (20) Continuity and good functional result was achieved with a Boari flap and psoas hitch to the renal pelvis.

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