(n.) A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
(n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
(n.) The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
(v. t.) To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
(v. t.) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
(v. t.) To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.
(v. i.) To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
(a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
Example Sentences:
(1) Words like "trivialisation" and "stunt" were bandied about, especially after the Channel 4 documentary that dwelt as much on the players as the results.
(2) Ministers bandied about their theories – a force too focused on health and safety and human rights; perhaps some sympathy with the protestors or just plain incompetence.
(3) They have buckets and trowels as they're going clamming, and Popeye leaves first, navigating the sand with a gratifyingly bandy gait.
(4) People have been offered Cuba, and no doubt governorships of Bermuda have been bandied about.
(5) In the wake of manager Mauricio Pochettino’s departure to Tottenham, England internationals Luke Shaw, Rickie Lambert and Adam Lallana were among those to leave for pastures new, leading to the term ‘meltdown’ being bandied around.
(6) "Bandying around accusations as a British foreign secretary about a mainstream party in Europe I think is quite wrong and David Miliband needs to recognise that, as I'm sure he now will."
(7) Wiley's own genre, "Eskibeat", and terms such as "Sublow" and "8 Bar", were still being bandied about, while the instrumentals were only available in a few specialist shops.
(8) While, today, none of us would take seriously politicians who bandy such weasel words about, these were quite the thing in the 60s.
(9) First, despite David Cameron's claim that the proposed increase is a " job killer ", the figures bandied around are absurd.
(10) A Nato diplomat said: “There is very real concern about the way in which Russia publicly bandies around nuclear stuff.
(11) This study demonstrates that FQ does not equal FP as several authors have reported (Bandi, 1972; Barry, 1979; Ficat and Hungerford, 1977; Hungerford and Barry, 1979; Reilly and Martens, 1972; Smidt, 1973).
(12) The notion that public figures have any right to privacy appears to have been lost in the furore surrounding the story, stolen correspondence being bandied around in attempts to influence the outcome of one of the nastiest, most vitriolic US presidential campaigns in history.
(13) Elections are about money; the number bandied nervously about in the room was that Hillary could raise a war chest of as much as $2.5bn before the Republicans have even picked a candidate.
(14) Having been bandied around various digital channels, the show has no home on our screens at present, but with the third season being released on DVD, there is now the chance to immerse yourself in a drama that is as idiosyncratic, and as compelling, as Tony Montana taking over a boarding school.
(15) Parton in the flesh is so exactly how one imagines her to be that as she sits opposite me, bandying about such Dolly-esque phrases as "You just need some good ol' horse sense!
(16) I think that maybe my name is bandied about because I'm known to be bald.
(17) The phrase "human shield" has been much bandied about, but it is not quite accurate.
(18) We’re not there yet, but if we want to maintain the ability to think clearly and independently about migration, there’s good reason to be wary of some of the vocabulary now being bandied about.
(19) The high content of cholesterol sulfate in adrenal cortex (Drayer, N.M., Roberts, K.D., Bandi, L., and Lieberman, S. (1964) J. Biol.
(20) In the total subject sample the individual values for VO2max had the highest correlation (p less than 0.01) with the individual playing ability in bandy.
Bullock
Definition:
(n.) A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.
(n.) An ox, steer, or stag.
(v. t.) To bully.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sequence analysis indicates that bovine lung PGF synthase shows 62% identical plus conservative substitutions compared with human liver aldehyde reductase [Wermuth, B., Omar, A., Forster, A., Francesco, C., Wolf, M., Wartburg, J.P., Bullock, B.
(2) Simon Bullock of Friends of the Earth said cuts to onshore wind and solar power subsidies reflected their success.
(3) In these bullocks decreases in the concentrations of serum Ig from 12.2 to 8.2 g per l in IgG1 and from 3.8 to 1.7 g per l in IgM were also proved.
(4) Surely the whole point of The Heat's dynamic in the first place is that Sandra Bullock's character is skinny and prissy and uptight and Melissa McCarthy's character is bigger and bolshier and her diametric opposite?
(5) I won't dilate too much about the experience of seeing the marbles close up, which is something the ancient Greeks never did, because they were placed high on the Parthenon, but what is moving is the human detail of the sculptures – the snapshots of people turning round to see what's going on, struggling with a bullock that is about to get loose, and men expiring at the hooves of centaurs.
(6) The last conversation I ever had with him was about Alan Bullock’s joint life of Hitler and Stalin , which I’d given him.
(7) This result was similar to that of Semmel (1965), but contrasted with that of Kirby, Nettlebeck, and Bullock (1978), who found no such difference in vigilance performance when comparing mildly mentally retarded and nonretarded adults.
(8) To that one might add a number of current releases and Oscar contenders: Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity , despite its starring role for Sandra Bullock; Lee Daniels' The Butler, about a presidential servant and the civil rights movement; and Captain Phillips , Paul Greengrass's piracy drama, which involves an all-male gang of pirates attacking an all-male shipping crew.
(9) In the past decade he has become known as the buff, handsome actor able to genre-jump: he has done comedies (Just Friends, Van Wilder: Party Liaison), horror (The Amityville Horror remake, which is memorable to his fans mostly because it featured Reynolds chopping wood topless), action thrillers (Blade: Trinity) and, in 2009, his breakout romcom The Proposal, in which he starred opposite Sandra Bullock.
(10) The only cattle seen occasionally are groups of bullocks being raised together for slaughter.
(11) These changes were noted in experimentally infected animals at 1-7 day post infection, its three weeks before antibody anti BHV1 and lasted for 3-9 weeks, while in naturally infected bullocks they appeared at 1-28 day of the experiment and persisted for 4-8 weeks the virus was easy isolated from nasal swabs especially of naturally infected animals.
(12) Bullock, who won the best actress Oscar in March for her role in drama The Blind Side, beat Reese Witherspoon, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston and Sarah Jessica Parker to the top spot, according to Forbes magazine .
(13) Overall the weight of bruised trim from unfasted bullocks (0.48 kg) was significantly less (P less than 0.01) than from bullocks fasted for 24 h (0.99 kg) or 48 h (1.03 kg).
(14) In The Proposal , Sandra Bullock’s inhuman editor leaves female employees shaking, and so emasculates her male secretary she actually asks him to marry her.
(15) The recapture data after the first day of marking was significantly delayed for tabanids that fed on fenvalerate-sprayed bullocks.
(16) Phospholipids isolated from the plasma of monkeys fed a diet enriched in fish oil were poor substrates for cholesteryl ester (CE) synthesis by the lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) reaction relative to those from animals fed a lard containing diet when the phospholipids were used for the preparation of recombinant particles by cholate dialysis (Parks, J. S., B. C. Bullock, and L. L. Rudel.
(17) Bullock describes the British crew, though, as "civilised".
(18) Among the big world premieres, Ridley Scott made a major return to form with The Martian , and Sandra Bullock entered the race once again for her wildly appealing performance in the political satire Our Brand is Crisis .
(19) AP in serum and bile from calves and bullocks was very heat labile and did not inhibit phenylalanine much.
(20) Sandra Bullock agrees: "We had no idea if it would be successful.