(n.) A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open.
(n.) A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters.
(n.) A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask.
Example Sentences:
(1) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
(2) While Discovery has not made a major acquisition in the UK, aside from a relatively small investment to takeover Betty, the independent producer that makes shows including The Undateables , Zaslav is not afraid to make big bets when the opportunity presents itself.
(3) Betty was put in charge of health education and community medicine.
(4) Betty Williams , Mairead Corrigan and John Hume deserve consideration.
(5) I am sure that Catherine Shoard realises that Betty is probably a very friendly pony ( Opinion , 4 February).
(6) Afterwards, she was "suddenly beautiful", and though the attention this brought was occasionally useful, mostly it was just a pain in the butt: the tiresome suggestions that she had only got on thanks to her appearance; the hurtful ire of that other great feminist, Betty Friedan, whose loathing of Steinem seemed mostly to be motivated by envy.
(7) Channel 4's Ugly Betty had 500,000 viewers, a 5% share, between 10.35pm and 11.35, with another 42,000 on Channel 4 +1.
(8) They are up against Sarah Lancashire (Betty Blue Eyes), Scarlett Strallen ( Singin' in the Rain ) and Kate Fleetwood (London Road).
(9) Next month marks the 50th anniversary of The Feminine Mystique , Betty Friedan's hugely influential study that helped to spark that pervasive second wave of feminism that – for all its faults and stuttering incompleteness – shaped the western world as most of us know it today.
(10) "[However], it becomes logical that if your ideas sell well it would be silly not to look at the footprint [of Betty]."
(11) Cited author searches were conducted in Nursing Citation Index to determine its utility in locating clinical studies that apply the conceptual frameworks of Dorothea Orem, Callista Roy, Martha Rogers, Betty Neuman, and Dorothy Johnson.
(12) Born to a white Dublin girl, Betty McGrath, and a Nigerian father who disappeared soon after his conception, Paul was given up by his traumatised mother when he was only four weeks old.
(13) When Public Enemy were starting out, he consulted Black Power veterans such as Huey Newton, Malcolm X’s widow Betty Shabazz and the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan.
(14) Taylor was probably the most famous star to be treated for alcohol and drug abuse problems at the Betty Ford clinic in California.
(15) The show was left with a final cast of Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden, plus a genuine BBC announcer, Douglas Smith, who had somehow become an essential part of the series.
(16) The report charges Mr Clinton with lying about his conversations with his friend Vernon Jordan concerning Ms Lewinsky, and with trying to obstruct justice by attempting to influence the grand jury testimony of his secretary Betty Currie.
(17) And it used to be where young, middle-class Detroiters like Betty Booth, wearing their Sunday best, would come for weekend outings.
(18) You know, sweet little British labels such as Mulberry, Betty Jackson, Whistles – labels that pretty much bellow, "Nothing to fear her!
(19) This paper describes the introduction of the Betty Neuman Systems Model to fourth year baccalaureate students at the University of Ottawa School of Nursing, Canada.
(20) The family moved to the Crank with their three daughters, Betty then eight, Petra seven, and Joan, the youngest, three.
Butty
Definition:
(n.) One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.
Example Sentences:
(1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(2) If there’s nothing new, there are always those alarming pictures of him doing battle with a bacon butty.
(3) Hopes that the first Briton to contract the deadly Ebola virus will make a full recovery have been raised after his father said he was doing "pretty well" and eating bacon butties.
(4) In the leader's office mistakes have been made, processes not followed, people excluded and details left unattended, and everyone will have their consequent un-Edifying moment, from bacon butties to posing with a copy of the Sun.
(5) Katie Hopkins’ call for gunships to send refugee “cockroaches” back to their own country, and Ukip’s ploughing of the anti-immigration furrow are entirely predictable appeals to the chip-butty and pint version of Little England.
(6) The Water's Edge restaurant has fab views of the Caribbean flamingos, but you can also just grab a bacon butty at one of the snack kiosks dotted about.
(7) Cary Grant himself could not have pulled off that bacon butty with elan.
(8) • nationaltrust.org.uk PatricC Padley Gorge, Derbyshire Starting at Padley Gorge, walk down to Burbage Brook, looking out across beautiful moorland to Carl Wark in the distance, across the rickety bridge and through ancient oak forest to Grindleford Station, where you can stop at the cafe famous for its chip butties and rude notices.
(9) He stands up for what he believes in” – and had a lot of time for McMahon, who often popped in for a butty.
(10) He also says how much he enjoys eating bacon butties.
(11) Buttie-licious With one episode left, I asked American friends how they were coping with the Yorkshire accents.
(12) The bacon butties are long gone by the time shadow business secretary Angela Eagle launches her attack on Tim Farron.
(13) how much he enjoys eating bacon butties • David Miliband does a 24-page photo spread in Hello!
(14) Replace your usual bacon buttie with its warm potato scone and pancetta – trust us, you'll never look back.
(15) Strangely, the actor has form when it comes to sandwiches, what with snaps of him seemingly laughing at his butties going viral on the internet, plus a bizarre appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, when he performed a song called Gonna Eat That Talkin’ Sandwich and told his host: “My favourite sandwich is a Primanti Brothers’ sandwich, it has the french fries in the sandwich and coleslaw.
(16) Unfortunately, they had achieved this by advising him to gobble a bacon butty on camera, while wearing a suit and tie.
(17) Victory over Newcastle, their now customary home win over Manchester City and away draws at Aston Villa and West Ham have not been enough to propel them up the table, but at least suggest the side has improved since Paolo Di Canio got his P45 and the players were allowed to start putting tomato ketchup on their bacon butties and pasta bake once again.
(18) We came back with a bacon butty one morning for breakfast and we took him a rogan josh one evening."
(19) "We moved 500 patients in 51 hours without an incident, other than the bacon butties that were on the way to me being nicked," she says.
(20) "Sheffield United fan Flea of the Red Chilli Peppers sang an impromptu blast of the Blades' Greasy Chip Butty Song at the band's gig at the Sheffield Arena last week," writes Owen Phillips.