(n.) A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
(n.) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
(v. t.) To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.
(v. i.) To live or lodge in barracks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking for the first time since the Qatari royal family abandoned his plans to build 552 new homes on the site of Chelsea barracks, Rogers called for a national inquiry into whether the prince has a constitutional right to become involved in matters such as planning applications which have economic, political and social ramifications.
(2) The two men ran Rigby down in a car before hacking him to death in the street near Woolwich Barracks in south-east London .
(3) Adebolajo and Adebowale hit Fusilier Rigby , 25, in a car before hacking him to death near Woolwich barracks in south-east London on 22 May 2013.
(4) The influx of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and several African and Balkan countries has strained local governments, which have scrambled to house the newcomers in old schools, office blocks and army barracks.
(5) Speaking outside Battlesbury barracks in Warminster, Wiltshire, Stenning said: "Barely 48 hours ago, we heard the terrible news that six soldiers from The 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment were declared missing, believed killed, after their Warrior armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
(6) What the Qataris own in Britain • HSBC Tower, the bank’s global headquarters in Canary Wharf • The Shard on the south bank of the Thames (95%) • Harrods, bought in 2010 for a reported £1.5bn • The Olympic Village in east London • Numbers 1-3 Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park – this week denied planning permission to be turned into a £200m single home • A 50% stake in the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank • Half of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive apartment block • The former US embassy building in Grosvenor Square • The site of Chelsea Barracks in west London, being turned into a luxury housing estate • 20% slice of Camden market • Stakes in Barclays, Sainsbury’s, the London Stock Exchange and Heathrow • And coming soon: Canary Wharf, after the controlling group capitulated and recommended a £2.6bn bid to shareholders Julia Kollewe
(7) The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, a charity of which Charles is president, has been appointed to help design an alternative scheme at Chelsea Barracks.
(8) As for Lord Rogers’s modernist estate at Chelsea Barracks , it was local opposition that caused Westminster planners to indicate rejection, leading the Qataris to withdraw their plan.
(9) A scramble is on to find suitable empty properties, from rooms in private homes, to sports halls and disused school buildings to derelict soldiers’ barracks, even inflatable circus tents.
(10) On Wednesday the town of Mubi, home to Adamawa State University, was overrun by Boko Haram insurgents and Nigerian soldiers fled, leaving its barracks to be looted of weapons.
(11) A Reuters witness said gunfire was heard in the Gudele and Jebel suburbs, near the military barracks hosting troops loyal to Machar.
(12) On Monday, fighters from the Warfallah tribe, the most populous in Libya , attacked the barracks of the NTC force in the town, killing four and freeing Gaddafi administration officials who had been arrested as war crimes suspects.
(13) Nato reported destroying eight targets on Wednesday night during part of a bombing campaign that has seen it strike 292 targets, including tanks, ammunition dumps, command centres and barracks, in the past three weeks.
(14) Many of those occupying the building had taken part in the bloody attempt the previous night to storm Mariupol's barracks.
(15) On the night itself, the army remained in its barracks, just a few minutes from where the students were being attacked and disappeared over a period of hours.
(16) The Military Law Review at the time reported that National Alliance flags were openly hung in barracks and, out of uniform, soldiers sported neo-Nazi symbols and played records about killing blacks and Jews.
(17) An 11th-hour constitutional declaration issued unilaterally by Scaf awarded the generals sweeping powers including the right to put forward legislation and an effective veto over clauses in the new constitution, and formalised the army's ability to detain civilians and sweep out of barracks at moments of "internal unrest".
(18) I was in a barrack with about 800 other girls,” she said.
(19) Prisoners are forced to "stay in the lokalka [a fenced-off passageway between two areas in the camp] until lights out" (the prisoner is forbidden to go into the barracks — whether it be autumnl or winter.
(20) In an effort to determine whether or not field living conditions degrade performance during cold weather military training, performance of 17 Norwegian Army soldiers living in tents in the field (FG) was compared with that of 13 soldiers living in barracks (GG).
Gibe
Definition:
(v. i.) To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.
(v. i.) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock.
(n.) An expression of sarcastic scorn; a sarcastic jest; a scoff; a taunt; a sneer.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the government has dismissed environmental concerns about Gibe III.
(2) Why would any member of the opposition wish to undermine this with cheap gibes, straight from the bar stool?
(3) And in a sign that it intends pursuing its mega dam strategy – and avoiding having environmental groups damage efforts at getting funding from international lenders, as has happened with Gibe III – it is looking east for help.
(4) Much of the money goes on mean-spirited negative campaigning of the kind that saw off the Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff in the 2011 election with gibes about his years away from Canada.
(5) The 93-mile long reservoir created by Gibe III will stretch to the tail of the 420MW Gibe II power project, which was opened in January by the Italian construction company Salini.
(6) Danger dams Ethiopia The Gibe III dam on the Omo river in Ethiopia threatens about 200,000 people from eight tribes in the Lower Omo valley.
(7) With a price tag of €1.55bn (£1.39bn), Gibe III was always going to require external credit.
(8) At least 200,000 people from eight tribes are threatened and a further 200,000 people will be adversely affected by the Gibe III dam on the Omo river in Ethiopia .
(9) Every statistician is familiar with the tedious “Lies, damned lies, and statistics” gibe, but the economist, writer and presenter of Radio 4’s More or Less , Tim Harford, has identified the habit of some politicians as not so much lying – to lie means having some knowledge of the truth – as “bullshitting”: a carefree disregard of whether the number is appropriate or not.
(10) According to the Oakland Institute, these groups' existence is under "serious threat" as they are forced off their land to make way for the Gibe III hydroelectric dam project, road-building and commercial investors.
(11) China's biggest state bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China , may fund Gibe III in Ethiopia, to be Africa's tallest.
(12) Sinohydro had already agreed to build the 1,600MW Gibe IV dam further down the Omo, a project sure to generate further controversy.
(13) The author gibes a review of suicide problems in Norway.
(14) Nor would it be inappropriate since Hope, whom Time magazine once called "an American folk figure", was on intimate terms with every American president since Harry Truman, at all of whom he directed inoffensive gibes.
(15) At 243 metres the Gibe III dam will be the highest on the continent, a controversial centrepiece of Ethiopia's extraordinary multibillion-pound hydroelectric boom.
(16) Gibe III, which will have a generating capacity of 1,870MW – double what was available in all of Ethiopia last year – has sparked the greatest opposition.