(n.) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
Example Sentences:
(1) The BBC's coverage is up and running and, as the grating MC persona trills, the boys are being called to the baize.
(2) 3.41pm BST More trouble for O'Sullivan here, the right face on him in his seat as another loose shot puts Selby back on the table – keeping the Rocket off the baize has been key in this session so far.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Metropolitan police’s 3D graphic showing polonium contamination on the green baize tablecloth in Grosvenor Square.
(4) Photograph: Screengrab … and Gary Lineker taking on Mark Lawrenson on the baize: Gary Lineker and Mark Lawrenson play snooker.
(5) Nuclear experts later found huge amounts of contamination on a small area of the green baize tablecloth.
(6) Balls and baize, yes, but also human beings, human souls, and an easy way to determine which are worth your time.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Metropolitan Police’s 3D graphic showing polonium contamination on the green baize tablecloth in Grosvenor Square 2 The most extraordinary piece of new evidence involves a German waiter Lugovoi and Kovtun have consistently denied they had anything to do with Litvinenko’s death.
(8) America's midwest produces half the world's corn and Iowa its largest harvest, yet amid the worst drought in living memory all the untrained eye can see is the occasional brown mark, like a cigarette burn on the baize of a pool table.
Brize
Definition:
(n.) The breeze fly. See Breeze.
Example Sentences:
(1) The C-130 transport aircraft flew from RAF Brize Norton to deliver aid, with government sources suggesting a repeat of the airdrops could follow on Sunday.
(2) The first consignment of UK emergency aid has left RAF Brize Norton for Iraq.
(3) The bodies of 17 British victims have been repatriated since Wednesday, all being flown into RAF Brize Norton.
(4) David Cameron is heading for a collision with the French president François Hollande over his EU changes at the Anglo-French summit at RAF Brize Norton on Friday after the Elysée Palace challenged the prime minister's referendum timetable.
(5) Her visit, which has many of the trappings of a state visit rarely offered to a head of government, contrasts with the low key reception for the French president, François Hollande, at the Anglo-French summit last month at RAF Brize Norton.
(6) One Gulfstream V executive jet, for example, which has changed its tail number several times and has been linked with a number of abductions, is a regular visitor to Glasgow airport, and also flies in and out of Luton, Northolt and Brize Norton.
(7) Sutyagin insists – and others, including the US government, concur – that he was the odd one out, an innocent pawn in a murky game that ended at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
(8) There were also flights in and out of RAF Northolt and RAF Brize Norton.
(9) The RAF C-17 aircraft carrying the victims landed at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire at 3pm on Saturday.
(10) The UK sent the first of the RAF C-17 transport aircraft to France on Sunday afternoon, and the second is expected to leave RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire early on Monday.
(11) Numerous UK air bases, including Greenham Common, Brize Norton and Mildenhall, were used in the exercise, much of which is still shrouded in secrecy.
(12) And we all saw that during their press conference at RAF Brize Norton on Friday when the president - who came to talk about Europe and defence and history and government spending - was asked by the man from a British newspaper (the super, soaraway Telegraph) about the recent entanglements in his private life.