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Barber


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.
  • (v. t.) To shave and dress the beard or hair of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But I just felt like strangling him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest America’s most segregated city: the young black voters of Milwaukee There was the barber in Milwaukee, a city reeling from a succession of police shootings of black men, offended by Trump’s claim African Americans like him have “nothing to lose”.
  • (2) She [McSally] has got a lot more fire in her belly than Ron does.” Latino community Some 100 miles north, on the outskirts of Tucson, Barber’s middle-of-the road positioning is beginning to alienate an arguably even more crucial voting block.
  • (3) Brendan Barber, the general secretary of the TUC, said: "[Osborne] has loaded cuts on to benefits and welfare payments.
  • (4) That translates to 34,000 votes, more than 10 times Barber’s margin of victory.
  • (5) TUC general secretary Brendan Barber welcomed the letters, which argue against the Conservative party's position that the sheer scale of the UK deficit means public spending must be cut immediately.
  • (6) Eggs of southern corn rootworm (Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber) were subjected to electromagnetic energy at 2.45 GHz in slotted waveguide applicators to determine ovicidal threshold levels.
  • (7) Sharp said he ran into Wheeler a year or two ago around the holidays, when Wheeler had taken two of his sons to the barber shop in town to get a haircut.
  • (8) TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: This chancellor has presided over one of the biggest ever squeezes on the budgets of working families.
  • (9) With the aid of a series of demonstrations (plus two formal experiments) we (1) propose a new explanation for the fact that edge line terminators in a "barber pole" display are perceived as intrinsic; (2) show that inner line terminators in a plaid pattern (i.e.
  • (10) The inhabitants of Mala Kladusa are mostly refugees from Cetingrad and Dreznik, and between 1790 and 1878 they had chances to cure more than 1200 wounded and a few thousand ill people in barber's shops in Gornja and Donja Baraka.
  • (11) "In order to do something significant, we are going to have to pass laws," said Barber, a former aide to congresswoman Gabby Giffords, shot in Tucson, Arizona, in January last year.
  • (12) Simultaneously, it is important to become familiar with the works of Erikson and Barber.
  • (13) But TUC chief Brendan Barber blamed bankers and previous Tory governments for the economic mess: "This recession is not bad luck or an inevitable swing of the pendulum.
  • (14) Two such songs, Rock Island Line and John Henry found their way on to the Barber band's 1954 album, New Orleans Joys, but it wasn't until 18 months later that they were released, under Donegan's name, as a novelty single.
  • (15) The Barber Suggestibility Scale, as a measure of hypnotic susceptibility, was administered to 130 British undergraduate students by 13 student experimenters in a 2 x 2 factorial design withe sex of the subject and the sex of the experimenter as the two variables.
  • (16) To get around this handicap, the character employs a recording of scissor-snip noises and barber’s small-talk to convince his client he’s actually doing the job he was hired for.
  • (17) Her horse Barber’s Shop won the Tattersalls & RoR Thoroughbred Ridden Show.
  • (18) Gornja and Donja Baraka are good places for hospital (barber's shop) because they are near the river Kladusnica, and in the wood.
  • (19) As news was breaking in San Francisco that Trump’s travel ban had been blocked by an appeals court, in his south Bethlehem barber shop, Joe D’Ambrosio rated Trump’s performance in office so far as “fantastic”.
  • (20) David Barber wrote on Twitter: “Strictly voters at home show their racist leanings again.

Barbet


Definition:

  • (n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.
  • (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.
  • (n.) A larva that feeds on aphides.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To dissect mechanisms of caprine arthritis-encephalitis lentivirus-induced arthritis, an undefined immunodominant viral glycoprotein, gp90 (G. C. Johnson, A. F. Barbet, P. Klevjer-Anderson, and T. C. McGuire, Infect.
  • (2) Steve Barbet, the police spokesman for the local prefect in Calais, said: “We do not use teargas without a good reason and use of teargas has to be authorised and it is only authorised when it is necessary.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest London calling?
  • (3) n. is described from 13 specimens collected from the thoracic air sacs of a D'Arnaud's barbet (Trachyphonus darnaudii) originating in the Lake Baringo area of Kenya and which died in captivity in Canada.
  • (4) These two VSGs, WaTat 1.1 and WaTat 1.12 have been shown to possess cross-reactive surface-exposed antigenic determinants [Barbet et al., Nature 300, 53-57 (1982)] and similar N-terminal amino acid sequences [Olafson et al., Molec.
  • (5) The ethidium and the acridine chromophore were introduced in such bifunctional intercalators in order to allow the fluorometric study of the interaction of such molecules with DNA, which is reported in the companion paper (Gaugain, B., Barbet, J., Capelle, N., Roques, B.P., & Le Pecq, J.B.(1978) Biochemistry 17 (following paper in this issue)).
  • (6) Simmons has already occasionally stood in for Chiles on Daybreak, while Barbet has previously worked with incoming Daybreak editor David Kermode.
  • (7) Other names in the running to take over from Chiles include BBC breakfast sports presenter Chris Hollins, ITV News presenter Keir Simmons and Channel 5 News host Matt Barbet.
  • (8) An ethidium homodimer and acridine ethidium heterodimer have been synthesized (Gaugain, B., Barbet, J., Oberlin, R., Roques, B. P., & Le Pecq, J.

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