(n.) A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
(v. t.) To make to look like a bagpipe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The phenomenon has been called the "bagpipe" stomach.
(2) This is not, perhaps, an essential stop-off on strict craft beer terms, but it is worth seeing for the building and – if such music is your bagpipes - the nightly traditional folk sessions that the Onion hosts with cultural centre An Droichead .
(3) About half a dozen of the vocal minority were camped outside the Ineos compound on Tuesday, one playing his own set of bagpipes with impressive flames shooting out of them.
(4) The lack of drama – the merciful absence of bagpipes-and-Braveheart-bullshit – at the paper’s launch was quite deliberate.
(5) "Paul, as I understand it, the situation with the vuvuzelas is rather as if the World Cup was played in Scotland, and thousands of people bought plastic, imitation bagpipes made in China and played them continually through every match," summarises Alan Cooper. "
(6) Gathering outside their tents in the shadow of St Paul's soaring facade, the Occupy London protestors are a motley crowd, with their bagpipes, dogs and earnest discussion groups at the "University of Tent City", but their anger is heartfelt.
(7) Hugh Jackman sang Quiet Please, There’s a Lady On Stage at the end of the ceremony and bagpipers from the New York City police department played on the streets as mourners filed out of Temple Emanu-El, many dabbing their eyes.
(8) It is an argument, in that case, which might easily, without bagpipes or warriors, appeal to residents of any impoverished and resentful region of the United Kingdom, if only they had the means and a similar certainty that, left to themselves, a more equal society would result.
(9) Johnson resolutely declined to emerge from his home to greet a gathering press, a bagpiper in full musical flow, and Kay Burley of Sky News knocking on his door at 4.50am.
(10) The latest additions include a Mongolian camel coaxing ritual, bagpipe culture in Slovakia and Tinian marble craftsmanship in Greece.
(11) In an interview with the American financial magazine Bloomberg Money Markets, he said that people abroad associate Scotland with 'whisky, tartan, bagpipes, and golf'.
(12) Drums and bagpipes were also played during the occupation of the store, which lasted a number of hours.
(13) It is not long since Salmond attended the premiere of Pixar's Brave (with its acclaimed bagpipe soundtrack) in tartan trews.
(14) Accompanied by the sound of a lone Scottish bagpiper, the Insight slid serenely under the Forth Bridge in the blue dawn light, bound inexorably for Grangemouth.
(15) We’ve all said this so many times: The one person who would really think this is the greatest thing ever is the lady who it’s all about and she’s not here,” said Norville afterward, amid the throngs of well-wishers and sound of bagpipes.
(16) Bagpipes, of course, have been banned by the tournament organisers.
(17) The man was wearing a backpack, top zip tugged open to make room for the bits of bagpipe he had stashed inside.
(18) In reality, they were the bagpipes played by Scottish soldiers.
(19) But, for now, the spotlight is on McAllister, who marched, Braveheart-style, out of the campaign rally to the CDU's election anthem, a punchy bagpipe rock number whose lyrics include the line: "Our chieftain is a Scot and we are a strong clan."
(20) Prince William and the royal party could have been forgiven for not noticing, but there was a part of Quebec that had no intention of welcoming him and his wife, except with whistles, saucepan lids, vuvuzelas and, incongruously, bagpipes.
Burden
Definition:
(n.) That which is borne or carried; a load.
(n.) That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
(n.) The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
(n.) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
(n.) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
(n.) A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
(n.) A birth.
(v. t.) To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.
(v. t.) To oppress with anything grievous or trying; to overload; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
(v. t.) To impose, as a load or burden; to lay or place as a burden (something heavy or objectionable).
(n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer.
(n.) The drone of a bagpipe.
(n.) A club.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(2) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(3) However, civil society groups have raised concerns about the ethics of providing ‘climate loans’ which increase the country’s debt burden.
(4) The parasites were highly aggregated within the study community, with most people harbouring low burdens while a few individuals harboured very heavy burdens.
(5) Economic burdens for postmarketing research should be shared jointly by the research-oriented and generic drug companies.
(6) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
(7) The art Kennard produced formed the basis of his career, as he recounted later: “I studied as a painter, but after the events of 1968 I began to look for a form of expression that could bring art and politics together to a wider audience … I found that photography wasn’t as burdened with similar art historical associations.” The result was his STOP montage series.
(8) The analysis indicated a high cost burden for families in all disease categories studied, although a lack of uniformity in data presentation and in the variables studied prevented specific generalizations to be made about the numbers or characteristics of families with high costs.
(9) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
(10) The irony of this type of self-manipulation is that ultimately the child, or adult, finds himself again burdened by impotence, though it is the impotence of guilt rather than that of shame.
(11) The aim of the study was to find whether treatment would result in an improvement of cognition, of functioning in daily life, decrease of behavioural disturbances, and decrease in burden experienced by the carers.
(12) Lymph proliferative disorders with a high mitotic rate, and large tumor burden, regardless of histologic features, should be treated prophylactically against tumor lysis if regrowth between cycles occurs.
(13) These data indicate that, compared with animals at sea level, animals at altitude have an increased body burden of COHb and will attain the COHb level associated with the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for CO more quickly when breathing CO.
(14) Macro-epidemiology is concerned with the absolute and relative contributions of particular causes or diseases to the overall burden of ill-health in a population.
(15) Communicable diseases represent a considerable burden in terms of suffering and costs.
(16) This is indirect evidence suggesting that mercury from dental amalgam fillings may contribute to the body burden of mercury in the brain.
(17) The gender-specific kinship relationship of patients and their care providers has not generally been investigated in studies of caregiver burden and well-being.
(18) In predicting response to therapy, poor prognostic factors included large tumor burdens, advanced disease stage, and chemotherapy-resistant tumors.
(19) Radical postoperative irradiation (A) is burdened by 3 serious complications and a considerably higher amount of complaints.
(20) MMC and 5-FU did not show significant activity against large tumor burden, while a relatively good activity was detected in patients with minimal disease.