(v. t.) To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
(v. t.) To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.
(v. t.) To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.
(v. t.) To challenge or defy to a match.
(n.) The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
Example Sentences:
(1) It shows that we still have some way to go to end bigoted banter.” The exchange was also met with disdain on Twitter.
(2) The LMA exacerbated the issue on Thursday night with a statement of its own, in which Mackay apologised for sending texts that “were disrespectful to other cultures” but he “was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter”.
(3) The man who cannot hold his own in repartee will even learn other men's jokes off by heart, so that he can fill a void in the general banter.
(4) It added: "These were two text messages sent in private at a time Malky felt under great pressure and when he was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter."
(5) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
(6) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(7) Lunchtime read: How banter conquered Britain Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Guardian Design Team There are hundreds of banter groups on Facebook, you can eat at restaurants called Scoff & Banter or buy an “Archbishop of Banterbury” T-shirt for £9.99.
(8) Jack soon suspected that the cynical comments emanating from behind him belonged to a Manchester City supporter but, typically, enjoyed the banter.
(9) It featured – and then featured the end of – a new character, Uncle Steve, and banter between Rick (Roiland) and his detested son-in-law Jerry (Chris Parnell).
(10) If the news that Wendi Deng had joined her husband Rupert Murdoch on Twitter and promptly engaged in flirtatious banter with the likes of Ricky Gervais seemed too good to be true, that's because it was.
(11) Gordon Brown spoke fluently and even managed some banter with cabinet colleagues.
(12) Naseer insisted the emails consisted only of harmless banter about looking for a potential bride after going to England to take computer science classes.
(13) But instead of condemning such behaviour as sexist, the Bar Council chairman described it as “banter”.
(14) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
(15) I tried to address it and have a bit of bunny-based banter with him: "Why are you wearing a full rabbit costume?"
(16) These recordings will include an approximation of the original Smile album, plus outtakes and studio banter.
(17) "I've met all my colleagues this week so I've received a little bit of banter from them which has been good natured.
(18) We survived for six hours with only scraps of quality banter, three cans of Rockstar and a lukewarm quarter chicken that my mate Karl smuggled in his Superdry man bag.
(19) He added that the banter on Top Gear was an "imperfect science" that would "invariably upset some viewers at some point".
(20) Is banter the act of whispering "IDon'tFancyYouIDon'tFancyYou" with your eyes?
Santer
Definition:
(v. i.) See Saunter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many would see this as somewhat over the top, but given Santer's past experiences, it is at least understandable.
(2) It was the assertion of a "balance of evidence" that Santer added.
(3) Indeed it is striking that people with a limited scientific involvement with CRU who have been victims of past attacks – such as Kevin Trenberth of the US government's National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Ben Santer of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – became regular email correspondents with Jones and his colleagues.
(4) It accused Santer of "scientific cleansing" — a reference to the ethnic cleansing then going on in the Balkans.
(5) In the world of science, Santer's team had the last word.
(6) Santer says he saw "serious scientific flaws" in the paper and recommended that the journal reject it.
(7) At least one senior colleague and co-author on the paper in question thought Santer would be best advised to hand over the data.
(8) One man who has battled against climate sceptics longer than most is the climate modeller Ben Santer, who completed his PhD in climate science at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the 1983 before going to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
(9) Santer, for instance, concluded in one email in 2008 that McIntyre "has no interest in rational scientific discourse.
(10) Santer fights freedom of information request In November 2008, Santer believed he was being dragged back into the front line, when he received an freedom of information request from sceptic Stephen McIntyre.
(11) Santer told me the words were added to his chapter late, and without full consultation.
(12) Critics point to a section of an earlier draft of the chapter that was deleted by Santer at this stage.
(13) Santer buttonholed Jones's colleague at CRU, Tim Osborn, a member of the editorial board of the journal.
(14) Hero or villain, his data wars with Mann, Jones, Briffa and Santer largely created the siege mentality among the scientists, set them on a path of opposition to freedom of information, and by drawing in scores of data liberationists inside and outside the science community, almost certainly inspired whoever stole and released the emails.
(15) Santer wrote in an email on 3 December 2008 to Tom Wigley: "I'm damned and publicly vilified because I refused to provide McIntyre with the data he requested.... Had I acceded, I am convinced I would have spent years of my scientific career dealing with demands for further explanations, additional data, Fortran codes [a programming language] etc... For the remainder of my scientific career I'd like to dictate my own research agenda."
(16) This finding is in complete agreement with the previous report that human neuroblastoma cell lines contained an unusually large proportion of metabolically incorporated L-[3H]fucose in this specific linkage (U. V. Santer and M. C. Glick, Cancer Res., 43:4159-4166, 1983).
(17) But such a rule puts the scientists in a difficult position, and Santer had the unenviable job of rewording his chapter to reflect the wording of the political summary.
(18) With the Santer paper published, McIntyre weighed in.
(19) They complained in the American Thinker in December 2009 about a surreptitious strategy involving the authors of the paper and the editors of the journal of "delaying [our paper] and not allowing [us] to have a simultaneous response to Santer et al."
(20) Osborn noted to Santer of their discussion the next day : "The only thing I didn't want to make more generally known was the suggestion that print publication of Douglass et al.