(n.) A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This Bafta was won not by me or them but by the production team.
(2) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
(3) Like 90% of the population, all I knew about him was that he was that bloke who’d worn a dress to the Baftas.
(4) ITV stars Ant and Dec also won their first ever Bafta, beating Harry Hill, Stephen Fry and the comedian Michael McIntyre to the entertainment performance gong for I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!.
(5) The four-minute video, directed by Bafta award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, seeks to reconstruct the specific force-feeding instructions set out in standard operating guidelines from Guantánamo leaked to al-Jazeera .
(6) It remains to be seen what Ross, 49, will do next, although he has said he will continue to host the Bafta film awards, which he presented on BBC1 last month, as well as BBC1's Comic Relief and his regular end of year appearances on Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz of the Year, which is produced by his production company, HotSauce, which also makes his BBC1 show.
(7) • The Golden Globe awards take place on 13 January, the Baftas on 10 February and the Academy Awards on 24 February.
(8) Life in short Born February 18 1946 Family Wife Christine, twin sons Career : Thomson Newspapers, Cardiff, 1967-69; reporter, Daily Mail, 1969-70; producer, BBC radio, 1970-71; reporter: HTV (West), 1971-72; BBC TV, 1973-76; correspondent, BBC TV: industrial, 1976-77; energy, 1977-79; Scotland, 1979-81; special correspondent and newscaster, 1981-83; Southern Africa, 1983-87; presenter, BBC TV News, 1988-2002; chairman, The Moral Maze Awards RTS TV Journalist of the Year and RTS News Award, 1984; UN Hunger Award, 1984; Bafta News Award, 1985; James Cameron Award, 1988; Science Writer of the Year Award, 1989; Mungo Park Award, RSGS, 1994.
(9) The loser So far the 2014 awards race has produced few casualties, with even The Railway Man – which has failed to engage the attention of Oscar and BAFTA voters – powering its way to £4.65m to date.
(10) Based on Terry Deary’s children’s publishing franchise, its Python-esque sketches won its numerous Bafta awards and a devoted fanbase among adults as well as younger viewers.
(11) He’d been at the Baftas the previous evening, and still had his glitter on.
(12) Why not just bite the bullet and say, ‘OK, let’s do a completely different way of funding’ rather than having a switch forced on them by circumstances or legislation.” Armando Iannucci interview: 'We didn't want Alpha Papa to be the equivalent of Holiday on the Buses' Read more Iannucci’s idea, outlined in his Bafta lecture, was for the BBC to aggressively market itself with paid-for subscription abroad – “prostitute itself to blue buggery” – which would help subsidise subscription services in the UK at a lower level than the current licence fee.
(13) Pawel Pawlikowski [a Bafta-winning film-maker] was there, and Paul Lee, now the head of ABC in America.
(14) Tarantino himself recently told a Bafta audience that the violence and horrific conditions depicted in Django Unchained were nothing compared to the historical reality.
(15) Despite Hooper's triumph at the Directors Guild of America awards a month ago , which are generally considered an accurate barometer of the Academy's intentions (only six times in their 63-year history have they not correlated), momentum had seemed to be falling back into the hands of David Fincher, who took both the Golden Globe and the Bafta two weeks ago.
(16) Greengrass was speaking before delivering the annual David Lean Lecture at Bafta (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), an honour accorded in previous years to the likes of Pedro Almodovar, David Lynch and Ken Loach.
(17) But Thorne’s working life has been spent subverting genres, through his Bafta-winning work on supernatural thriller The Fades and Shane Meadows’s bleak, beautiful coming-of-age miniseries This Is England ’86 and ’88.
(18) For the screenplay of their first production, The Angry Silence (1960), Forbes received an Oscar nomination and a Bafta award.
(19) June Brown, the favourite to become the first soap actress to win the best actress Bafta for her role as EastEnders' doleful launderette attendant Dot Branning, lost to Anna Maxwell Martin, who won her second Bafta in a row after last year's surprise win for Bleak House.
(20) Best of times Winning two Baftas for Last Tango in Halifax in 2013, although it made her wonder why it had taken so long.
Stuff
Definition:
(v. t.) Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
(v. t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
(v. t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
(v. t.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
(v. t.) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
(v. t.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
(v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
(v. t.) Paper stock ground ready for use.
(n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
(n.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
(n.) To fill by being pressed or packed into.
(n.) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
(n.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
(n.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
(n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
(n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
(n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
(v. i.) To feed gluttonously; to cram.
Example Sentences:
(1) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(2) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
(3) It’s good stuff.” Opening markets to US-made products overseas is one of the better things that could happen for US small business and their employees, said Obama.
(4) A Tory spokesman said: “This is feeble stuff from a party with no economic plan and a leader who just isn’t up it.
(5) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
(6) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
(7) I don’t buy any of the horse race stuff,” Bush said Tuesday.
(8) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
(9) Real people, by contrast, care more about their jobs, where they live, and the fuzzy stuff of security, happiness and a sense of belonging.
(10) He must have had PR training – didn’t it stretch to not saying stupid stuff?
(11) "A lot of this stuff we inherited and had to continue," a Downing Street source said.
(12) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
(13) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
(14) He says he did write grown-up stuff – Joking Apart in the 90s and Coupling in the 00s, sitcoms that riffed on his own sexual history.
(15) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
(16) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?
(17) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
(18) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
(19) "Good stuff this from City as they're effectively playing with ten men," opines Paul Ruffley.
(20) If you pushed them on Hitler you got the most extraordinary stuff: "He was mah-vellous.