(n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.
(n.) Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of his three substitutions appeared to inflame Anfield: Ryan Babel was jeered on while Paul Konchesky was almost laughed off.
(2) There are other arguments too, including the assumption that a return to the pre-euro Babel of currencies would see the resurrection of tariffs and protectionism, jeopardising the single market.
(3) Meanwhile, the folk four-piece Mumford & Sons shot straight to the top of the album chart with Babel.
(4) Kapoor said one of his references was the Tower of Babel.
(5) The very use of the term "assassination" - however inappropriate - and the insertion of the arch, anachronistic phrase "the coward" sends a subliminal message to the audience that this is art, that the Brad Pitt up there on screen is not the Brad Pitt of Mr & Mrs Smith or Oceans 13, but the Brad Pitt of Seven Years in Tibet and Babel.
(6) The event also saw Daniel Glass of Mumford & Sons' US label Glassnote Entertainment Group appear on stage to voice his support for Spotify and streaming music, citing the 600k first-week US sales of the group's ast album, Babel, as proof.
(7) Babel was signed by the former Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez from Ajax for £11.5m after impressing at the European Under-21 championships.
(8) The Liverpool forward Ryan Babel has completed his move to Hoffenheim after signing a two-and-a-half-year contract, according to the German club.
(9) Liverpool's dependence on Torres and the lack of back-up – Dirk Kuyt, Ryan Babel and David Ngog have just eight league goals between them – has led to speculation that Benítez may look to buy the Real Madrid striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, but a lack of funds makes a move difficult.
(10) Out Fernando Torres (Chelsea, £50m), Nathan Eccleston (Charlton, loan), Ryan Babel (Hoffenheim, £6m) , Victor Palsson (Hibernian, undisc), Stephen Darby (Notts County, loan), David Amoo (MK Dons, loan), Paul Konchesky (Nottm Forest, loan).
(11) DSM-III, in addition to pointing the way out of the era of psychiatric Babel, has suggested empirical studies which have challenged its assumptions.
(12) It has become a diplomatic Babel of grandstanding, war-mongering, neo-imperialism and general half-heartedness, its signatures the missile strike and the punitive sanction.
(13) Babel has requested a personal hearing, which will take place on Monday 17 January.
(14) For anyone not familiar with the early parts of the Bible, these be the facts: God created everything in six 24-hour days; Adam and Eve were the first humans; all the bad stuff in the world, from murder to animals eating other animals, is a result of Eve's choice of afternoon snack; Noah built an ark to house two of every kind of land-dwelling animal (including dinosaurs) and his extended family, while God wiped everything clean with a worldwide flood; then God linguistically confused Noah's descendants and dispersed them around the world with the Tower of Babel incident.
(15) For McCarthy this was a kind of justice 12 months late — Ward had been sent off here on Boxing Day last year with the Wolves manager adding pithily that ‚ÄúPepe Reina had run 70 yards to make sure he was dismissed.‚Äù At Old Trafford earlier in the season, Wolves had been denied a point in the final minute, which saw McCarthy kick a nearby water bottle a sight harder than Babel kicked anything last night.
(16) It seems likely that no one individual even knows what this Babel of documents actually contains.
(17) Liverpool's endeavour was an unsatisfactory alternative for the command demanded of aspiring champions, but their spirit did deserve to be saluted when Yossi Benayoun, with his second goal, levelled in stoppage time after Javier Mascherano and the substitute Ryan Babel gave him the opening.
(18) Ajax should have scored when Ilkay Guendogan needlessly lost possession to Ryan Babel in the 12th minute, only for Weidenfeller to block Christian Eriksen's shot.
(19) The Colossus of Rhodes was destroyed by an earthquake after standing for only a few decades, and the Tower of Babel was, the book of Genesis tells us, constructed to glorify those that constructed it.
(20) The motley babel of Paul’s Jag and the wheezing camaraderie of the old VW were experiences so cheerful and unusual that, looking back, I remember them better than Paris itself.
Bible
Definition:
(n.) A book.
(n.) The Book by way of eminence, -- that is, the book which is made up of the writings accepted by Christians as of divine origin and authority, whether such writings be in the original language, or translated; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; -- sometimes in a restricted sense, the Old Testament; as, King James's Bible; Douay Bible; Luther's Bible. Also, the book which is made up of writings similarly accepted by the Jews; as, a rabbinical Bible.
(n.) A book containing the sacred writings belonging to any religion; as, the Koran is often called the Mohammedan Bible.
(n.) A book with an authoritative exposition of some topic, respected by many who are experts in the field.
Example Sentences:
(1) Liekens, who has been called the "leading lady in sexology", has written several books including The Vagina Book, The Sex Bible and Her Penis Book.
(2) The Bible treats suicide in a factual way and not as wrong or shameful.
(3) It’s no good me swearing on a Bible; I don’t share your faith.” Morrison said: “I will do it, Ray, but I think it’s a very offensive thing for you to ask me to do but I’ll do it if that’s what you require...if you insist I will.” Hadley did not persist with the demand.
(4) On Tuesday, Obama was sworn in with his palm on the same velvet-covered Bible used by Lincoln in 1861, but he had no bible with him at the re-run.
(5) It was a reference to a Bible passage in the New Testament.
(6) A jury is empanelled, 11 of them swearing on the Bible, one on the Qur’an: six women, six men.
(7) I suspect that means he does in fact hew pretty closely to what the Bible says.
(8) Justin Chang, a reviewer for the film industry bible, Variety magazine, called the film a "compelling psychological profile" of Tilikum.
(9) The proposal aims to help pupils learn about the Bible's impact "on our history, language, literature and democracy" and will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the authorised version's publication, Gove said earlier this year.
(10) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
(11) There have been dozens of inundations in the course of the world's history, and whoever wrote this bit of the Bible had probably experienced one.
(12) A systematic search was made in the Hebrew Bible for expressions of emotional distress.
(13) People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality.
(14) Both men would take Bibles, he said Indonesians should be too familiar with death to support executions | Laksmi Pamuntjak Read more At midnight, a handful of former art students of Sukumaran and other supporters held a small prayer vigil at the prison door.
(15) It follows the fatal shootings of nine black church members , including a state senator, at a Bible study in Charleston.
(16) I had to read the Bible and other religious books to the priest and answer questions to show I understood them.
(17) "So, as I read the Bible, I am convicted that men and women are equal and different.
(18) "It is often said that 'Queen of the South' is the only team mentioned in the Bible - but I can find many mentions of 'Bury' (starting in Genesis 23) and 'Reading' (Acts 8:28), and, stretching a point, 'Hearts' and 'Wolves' also get some space.
(19) In the Bible God describes His involvement with this dramatic movement … We will learn that the Gay Pride movement would successfully develop as a sign to the world that Judgement Day was about to occur," he writes.
(20) Passages in the Bible attribute one and the same 'life' ('soul') to both (Book of Proverbs 12: 10) and presuppose 'salvation' or 'preservation' of the two (Psalm 36:7c).