(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).
Scoff
Definition:
(n.) Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
(n.) An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
(n.) To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt by derisive acts or language; -- often with at.
(v. t.) To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Mere hypothecation, scoff politicians, rejecting the idea again in parliament yesterday.
(3) And does Ofsted really expect to get away with using the “kids today!” scoff as an actual, presentable-to-parliament reason for these embarrassingly high youth unemployment rates?
(4) Russia continues to scoff at evidence that Syrian government forces carried out the chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhun earlier this week.
(5) Brooks worries that part of the problem with society is that we have become conditioned to scoff the marshmallow.
(6) Penny Wong scoffs at 'entertaining but erratic' Barnaby Joyce leading National party Read more The governor of the Reserve Bank Glenn Stevens said at the time there were “few things less likely than Australia defaulting on its sovereign debt”.
(7) Rolf scoffs at those who say the Fight for 15, which the SEIU has underwritten, has failed at its goals of unionizing McDonald’s and getting it to adopt a $15 minimum.
(8) Clegg will insist that the Lib Dems have already replaced Labour as the country's leading "progressive" party and scoff at Tory pretensions to the same label.
(9) Heavily bandaged and unable to walk, she scoffs at the US ambassador's talk of a thorough investigation of the Ahuas raid.
(10) Rodgers scoffs at papers from US military colleges branding them a strategic threat and a Honduran government claim linking maras to al-Qaida.
(11) Although, of course, the easiest thing would simply to be British about all this and scoff.
(12) The Castrol Index, for the mercifully uninitiated, is of course the nonsense ranking scheme cooked up by some bods at Fifa's Castle Greyskull to give people even more of a reason to scoff at them, which is always grand.
(13) "You can't scoff at sewing and it's practicality," asserts Dave Montez.
(14) Sceptics may scoff, and results of an attempt to extract DNA and match it to descendants are not due until Christmas, but Thompson is adamant that the bones now resting in a safe in the archaeology and ancient history department of Leicester University are those of the last Plantagenet, Richard III , who rode out of Leicester on the morning of 22 August 1485 a king, and came back a naked corpse slung over the pommel of a horse.
(15) Presented with official estimates of how many immigrants are in the country illegally, a common response is to scoff.
(16) Morrissey scoffs at Vanessa Redgrave's celebrity humanitarianism in his autobiography.
(17) I used to scoff at the simplicity of equating onscreen violence with its real-world equivalent.
(18) Liberals may scoff, pundits may shake their heads, but Palin herself clearly still wants some form of political life.
(19) His opposite number scoffs at the forecasts and promises his tweaks would be far superior.
(20) Some might call such a day 'The Millennium', but America shies away from the socialist solution, while the rest of the world scoffs but votes with its wallets to adopt our culture.