(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).
Movable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine.
(a.) Changing from one time to another; as, movable feasts, i. e., church festivals, the date of which varies from year to year.
(n.) An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.
(n.) Property not attached to the soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of them, who sustained a complete membranous disruption 5 weeks ago, transluminal puncture failed because of the movable proximal urethra.
(2) Between June and October 1987, a total of 8,573 people underwent a cholesterol screening held in a movable trailer.
(3) The solid-state laser has impressive technical advantages: it contains no argon-ion gas tube that wears out and is expensive to replace; it is much more power efficient, and thus considerably smaller and compact; it is sturdier and easily movable; it does not require external cooling; it uses a 220-V monophasic alternating current; and it requires little maintenance.
(4) A 59-year-old Japanese female presented a well-limited and movable thyroid nodule.
(5) After treatment with antibiotics, the broncholith became movable, and it was removed bronchoscopically.
(6) This system involves attachment of cells to silicon collagen coated membranes which are then subjected to continuous or cyclic stretching by a motor coupled to a movable supporting frame.
(7) The elongated basilar artery is very firm and not readily movable with manipulation.
(8) The same multiple-choice questionnaire was distributed to nurses at the University of Michigan Hospitals 18 months before decentralized services were implemented (November 1982) and again after two satellite pharmacies had been established and a clinical pharmacist had begun providing first-dose dispensing services using a movable medication cart (March 1985).
(9) Rats joined in surgical parabiosis for 25 to 30 days were tested by restraining one member of the pair on a movable cart while allowing the second member to remain free to move about.
(10) movable teeth, lesions in ears, lungs, hematopoietic system, and fever.
(11) The intramolecular movable subdomains have been localized and the role of motion in substrate binding and zymogen activation is discussed.
(12) While the awake, unrestrained cat maintained a stable standing posture facing forward, stimulation was applied systematically to various points in and around the caudate nucleus with a movable stimulating electrode.
(13) The computer program was tested in vitro against data obtained from an inert spherical conductor (a bowl containing physiological saline, fitted with recording electrodes and a movable dipole) and an anisotropic conductor (a similarly equipped human skill including a simulated scalp).
(14) The auditory receptive fields of neurons in the optic tectum were measured with free-field sounds presented from a movable loudspeaker.
(15) This was tested by implanting movable and stationary wires in the medullary canal of the rabbit femora or tibiae.
(16) 4) In the group with radiation therapy, the incidence at the "sites of the movable mucosa" was significantly higher than that at the "sites of the non-movable mucosa."
(17) No difference in survival was noted between patients with no clinical adenopathy vs those with clinically involved movable ipsilateral adenopathy.
(18) On average, PEMF-treated movable implants in the femur induced 44% more bone than untreated movable implants.
(19) The exchange guide wire techique can be applied safely and effectively to coronary angioplasty and provides an additional option in the successful completion of movable guide wire angioplasty procedures.
(20) Our study confirms the low rate of lymph spread of these carcinomas: over half of the patients were N0 before treatment; only 56.7% of the patients receiving surgical treatment on the neck had histologically positive lymph nodes; there were very few neck recurrences at follow-up; the presence of suspect or frankly metastatic nodes on clinical examination, being movable and homolateral (N1), did not worsen the prognosis.