(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.
Piper
Definition:
(n.) See Pepper.
(n.) One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe.
(n.) A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
(n.) A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
(2) SULB restored the activity of: MEZLO, PIPER, CPZ in Enterobacteria producing a penicillinase; PIPER, CTX and CAZ in Enterobacteria producing a broad-spectrum beta-lactamase; MEZLO, PIPER, CTX and CAZ in M. morganii producing a derepressed cephalosporinase.
(3) Pre-treatment with extract from the Cauline of Piper kadsura attenuated endotoxin-induced hypotension and lung injury, which may result from the PAF antagonistic effect of Piper kadsura.
(4) The DLA Piper report recommended a “wide ranging and comprehensive review” of kafala with a view to abolishing or phasing out “certain aspects” of the system and prioritising freedom of movement and the rights of workers.
(5) The following year, she gave birth to her first child, Piper Maru.
(6) Channel 4's alternative Christmas message, delivered by former model and presenter Katie Piper who was disfigured in a sulphuric acid attack, attracted 500,000 viewers.
(7) Some of the discos – or “pipers” as they were locally known, in homage to Rome’s legendary Piper nightspot – were visibly influenced by Andy Warhol’s multimedia experiments at the Dom nightclub in Manhattan, home to the Exploding Plastic Inevitable events, where the Velvet Underground would play amid lightshows, dancers and projections of Warhol’s films.
(8) With each walk he has attracted more followers like a pied piper.
(9) Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice, also cautioned against state subsidy of news, warning "he who pays the piper calls the tune".
(10) John Piper, lead parade designer Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Piper, lead designer, Macy’s Parade Studio for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
(11) Some internal scenario planning by insurers is wise,” says Piper.
(12) The government confirmed in the DLA Piper report that 964 workers from Nepal, India and Bangladesh had died while living and working in the Gulf state in 2012 and 2013.
(13) A link between the generation of areca nut-related N-nitrosamines in the saliva, the induction of genotoxic damage in the oral mucosa, as judged by an increase in micronucleated exfoliated cells (MEC), and a low incidence of oral cancer was studied in 2 population groups characterized by their habit of chewing quids without tobacco: Guamanians, who chew areca nuts (Areca catechu) with or without the addition of betel leaf (Piper betle); Taiwanese, who use areca nut, betel leaf or inference and slaked lime.
(14) It is inconceivable that this or any future administration would attempt to recover prior subsidy payments,” says Piper.
(15) Disappointingly, the book ends before he marries and then divorces Billie Piper (of whom more later).
(16) But by remaining very publicly friends (Piper guested on his doomed return to TV on ITV's OFI Sunday in 2005 and attended Evans and Shishmanian's wedding in 2007), you made it possible to return to the public eye.
(17) Using a receptor preparation of rabbit platelet membranes, we identified a novel antagonist of PAF in the methylene chloride extract of a Chinese herbal plant, haifenteng (Piper futokadsura).
(18) A DLA Piper spokesperson: "We uphold the highest professional standards as a firm and this matter is being fully investigated."
(19) Shetty said: “Despite five years of promises, Fifa has failed almost completely to stop the World Cup being built on human rights abuses.” In the wake of a series of damning reports by NGOs, including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, and major investigations by media outlets including the Guardian, the Qatari government commissioned law firm DLA Piper to review the issue in 2013.
(20) Bioactivity-guided fractionation of a CHCl3 extract of the leaves of Piper aborescens afforded a new cytotoxic pyridone alkaloid, N-(3-methoxy-4,5-methylenedioxydihydrocinnamoyl)-delta 3-pyridin-2-one [1], as well as three known cytotoxic pyridone alkaloids, N-(3-methoxy-4,5-methylenedioxycinnamoyl)-delta 3-pyridin-2-one [2], piplartine [3], and piplartine dimer A [4].