(v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
(v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
(v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion.
(v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
(n.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
(v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
(2) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
(3) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(4) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
(5) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(6) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
(7) His greatest legacy, besides his three children, is the joy and happiness he offered to others, particularly to those fighting personal battles.
(8) The cost-cutting shakeup is being overseen by NHS England, but is already sparking a series of local political battles over the future of services, and exposes the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to fresh criticism after his controversial role in the junior doctors dispute.
(9) Thatcher made changes to the UK's tax system, some changes to welfare, and many to the nature of British jobs, both through privatisation and economic liberalisation – not least in her battle with the unions.
(10) Customers won a significant victory in the battle with the banks earlier this month when a mass hearing was averted at Hull county court.
(11) Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone in 2014, has described the pain of battling the virus inside a hospital isolation unit.
(12) Campbell's assessment came the day after a United Nations report found that ground battles between Afghan forces and the Taliban insurgents had overtaken insurgent bombs as a leading cause of civilian deaths and injuries .
(13) After weeks of battling both in the press and in Albany’s back rooms, $300m was allotted in the state budget to fund pre-K in New York City.
(14) This is not some sophisticated, Westminstery battle, but a life-and-death, misery-or-decency choice about the very basics of life for hundreds of thousands of older British people.
(15) Donald Trump and the 'war on women': GOP confident mogul will lose the battle Read more Governor Scott Walker, who recently signed a restrictive 20-week abortion ban in Wisconsin , also opposes abortion without exceptions and has said voters agree, though polls tell a different story.
(16) Ernst had adopted conservative positions during the primary battle: she called the president a dictator and said the Environmental Protection Agency should be abolished.
(17) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(18) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
(19) "My wonderful, brave and adored father, Jack Ashley, Lord Ashley of Stoke, has died after a short battle with pneumonia."
(20) Quiet crisis: why battle to prop up Italy's banks is vital to EU stability Read more The country’s third-largest lender has already been bailed out twice in modern Italian history but is likely to need a third multibillion-euro intervention by the Italian government – a move that would need Brussels to break new rules designed to prevent such taxpayer bailouts after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Shower
Definition:
(n.) One who shows or exhibits.
(n.) That which shows; a mirror.
(n.) A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.
(n.) That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.
(n.) A copious supply bestowed.
(v. t.) To water with a shower; to //t copiously with rain.
(v. t.) To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in /undance; to rain.
(v. i.) To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(2) The weather forecast in Warsaw is for some showers on Wednesday, though Roy Hodgson has expressed concern over the time it will take to repair the surface, which was relaid only last week at a cost of £115,000 and was criticised after last Friday's friendly against South Africa.
(3) As the separate facilities provision is permissive, states that authorise schools to define sex to include gender identity for purposes of providing separate restroom, locker room, showers, and other intimate facilities will not be impacted by it,” said Judge O’Connor.
(4) Anatomical results have been gratifying in that most patients are totally rehabilitated and may swim or shower without restrictions.
(5) Isotopes (153Sm, 186Re, and 166Ho) were assumed to assimilate as surface agents and the dose profiles were calculated on a microscopic scale using the Electron-Gamma Shower (EGS4) computer program.
(6) One of the biggest surprises was learning how small direct use of water for drinking, cooking and showering is by comparison.
(7) He would shower his fans with red roses at his concerts, he told the court, and give them jackets, T-shirts and other gifts.
(8) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(9) Every single one of life's daily routines takes twice, if not four times, as long as it used to, from getting through the shower to putting on shoes.
(10) Aware of the thousands of homeless individuals in the city without sufficient access to shower facilities, Doniece Sandoval decided to transform a donated bus into shower suites for people who don’t have their own .
(11) It is dirty and it is cold, he can’t even have a shower.
(12) At Conquest hospital in East Sussex, call bells were out of the reach of patients and nurses said they did not always have time to shower patients or wash their hair.
(13) If I’d known the way United were going to treat me at the end I would have gone abroad when I had the opportunity.” Keane offered another insight into his personality when he reflected on a 7-1 defeat at Everton during his time in charge at Sunderland , a result that left him unable to leave his house for four days, staying in his bed for 48 hours and not even showering.
(14) Will described how patients who receive a negative test result after recovering from Ebola are showered, given a fresh set of clothes, a certificate declaring they are Ebola-free and a small amount of money for the ride home.
(15) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
(16) The radical mastoid cavity can be troublesome and odoriferous, may require frequent visits to an otologist, and may interfere with swimming and showering.
(17) The former first lady’s relationship with Williams is also an important because prosecutors have said Williams was not so much a personal friend but a businessman who showered the McDonnells with cash and gifts because he wanted their help in establishing legitimacy for his tobacco-based supplement, Anatabloc.
(18) Former Lindt employee Jarrod Morton-Hoffman has described how hostages were fired at and showered in glass as they fled in the final minutes of the December 2014 siege of the Lindt cafe.
(19) Her teenage sons, who haven't read the book, tease her often, which is jolly; her mother, though distressed to find that Christian and Anastasia never seem to shower after sex, is delighted; even her father-in-law likes the book.
(20) While he was acquitted of rape, his remark that he took a shower after having sex with an HIV-positive woman to minimise the risk of infection caused fury.