(n.) A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inside it's all old-world charm, with antiques scattered around, log fires, dark panelling, a billiards room, two pianos, a bar with 40 single malts and gourmet dinners by candlelight.
(2) Standing outside, Rex and I lick honeycomb-flavoured ice-creams and stare across the massive billiard table-flat sandy beach towards America.
(3) There, he likened the SSC's task to using rifle bullets to find billiard balls hidden in bales of hay.
(4) Retirees sing together or battle it out at billiard and mahjong tables.
(5) Denis Browne is described as a shy and sensitive nature, which made it difficult for him to establish ordinary human relationships, but also as a strangely aloof colleague with a flair for clothes, remarkable skills at riding, shooting, tennis, billiard and golf, and much admired by his juniors.
(6) The Abu Dhabi Investment Council, for instance, has avoided a £9m payment towards affordable housing in Westminster while building luxury flats with home cinemas and billiard rooms.
(7) A chest radiograph showed a billiard-ball-sized, round opacity in the left upper mediastinal region.
(8) The spacious Paracuellos de Jarama club, in a former restaurant in a town overlooking Madrid's Barajas airport, is equipped with a bar, kitchen, billiard tables and TV screens.
(9) In 1959, Manning had borrowed £30,000 from his father and transformed a rundown billiards hall into the Embassy Club.
(10) A rogue planet will plough into Earth in a cosmic re-creation of bar billiards.
(11) The scheme at 20 Grosvenor Square features palatial 5,000 sq ft apartments, with cinemas and billiard rooms, that are five times larger than the average new British home.
(12) Using the Schrödinger wave equation, interactions between fundamental particles can be modelled as if they were waves that interfere with each other, instead of the classical description of fundamental particles, which has them hitting each other like billiard balls.
(13) What on earth are Cameron, Netinyahu, Juncker and others doing there, saying, ‘Je suis Charlie ’?” fumed Cabanes, who created a drawing on his theme specially for the Observer , of the VIP front row on Sunday’s march arranged as a billiard triangle, waiting to be assigned to their various pockets by the cue – a pencil.
(14) We have analyzed the characteristics of SC RBC heterogeneity and find that: (1) SC cells exhibit unusual morphologic features, particularly the tendency for membrane "folding" (multifolded, unifolded, and triangular shapes are all common); (2) SC RBCs containing crystals and some containing round hemoglobin (Hb) aggregates (billiard-ball cells) are detectable in circulating SC blood; (3) in contrast to normal reticulocytes, which are found mainly in a low-density RBC fraction, SC reticulocytes are found in the densest SC RBC fraction; and (4) both deoxygenation and replacement of extracellular Cl- by NO3- (both inhibitors of K:Cl cotransport) led to moderate depopulation of the dense fraction and a dramatic shift of the reticulocytes to lower density fractions.
(15) We don’t want to work with coca,” says Neftalí Rodríguez, 48, said at the billiard hall meeting.
(16) They tied one of Sharpudi’s legs to a billiard table, and eight men took turns beating him.
(17) A stress fracture of the radius occurred in a 22-year-old pool player who was well known for his unique style of putting 'English' on the billiard ball.
(18) A case of perforation of the rectosigmoid colon following autoerotic transanal manipulation with a billiard cue is presented.
(19) So, if what I've been told was true, forcing your opponent into a snooker has always been what the game's about, and what differentiates it from other types of billiards."
(20) It speaks to a much gentler vision of human nature than the billiard-ball model of neoliberalism in which individuals just bump into each other as they try to pursue their own rational self-interest.
Slop
Definition:
(n.) Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
(n.) Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
(v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
(v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
(v. i.) To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over.
(v. i.) Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.
(v. i.) A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.
(v. i.) Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.
Example Sentences:
(1) One trader wrote, on 10 March 2006: "I don't know how we dispose of the slops and I don't imply we would dump them, but for sure, there must be some way to pay someone to take them."
(2) The crude slop gave better results than the diluted or centrifuged liquors.
(3) The company has said the "slops" were dumped by a licensed local independent contractor, Compagnie Tommy, which was appointed in good faith.
(4) Their new album continues the generic cross-breeding that Funkadelic practised – on Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, Cosmic Slop, etc – from the black side of the racial border.
(5) Towers of pre-buttered bread, greasy counters and tubs of slop were dispiritingly common: Pret was clean, sleek and sensibly designed.
(6) Water slops from the pool on to the parquet where, in a few days, a baby will hopefully be sleeping in a moses basket.
(7) So if there is a heatwave this summer, it would be best for us, too, to slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat.
(8) A perfectionist, this old-school hotelier strives to make even the most uncivilised environment palatable: his delicate approach to serving prison slop brings one of the film's funniest moments.
(9) This was especially true for the slop displacement test, which revealed large amounts of displacement after a single moderate torsional load, whereas in the underreamed groups significantly less loosening was found.
(10) One might agree that the mechanically recovered slop that is the main ingredient of these balls should not be called “meat”.
(11) You could water window boxes with dish-slop, though, and that was another tip: take a shower by standing under Selfridges' petunias, which were given a pretty upmarket daily dousing in water largely free from bits of crud and washing-up-liquid slick.
(12) They repeated denials that the slops could have caused death or serious injury, and were highly toxic.
(13) The hull rolled high and slid off to the right, dumping Claude Ledet into the terrible slop, and as he went under, his mind came back to a splintered version of the present, and he knew at once that he had to get back to the surface because the boy, he felt sure, would jump after him, and a news account he'd read thirty years before of a grandfather and grandson gone fishing and not coming back in at the appointed time bloomed into his head, because when the sheriff's men dragged the canal the next morning the hooks brought up together the grandfather and a four-year-old boy wrapped tightly in his arms.
(14) You know exactly what's going to happen on the long and grisly way out: the hoists, nappies, hernia, commodes, aphasia, swallowing problems and being spoon-fed slop.
(15) ), just bubblegum pap, and televised slop, for the masses.
(16) The good news is that a combination of sunscreen and covering up can reduce melanoma rates, as shown by Australian figures from their slip, slop, slap campaign .
(17) Unlike the accelerated Britpunk of much west-coast hardcore, the Peppers’ influences are mainly American – the Germs, Ohio Players, Jimi Hendrix, P-Funk, Dead Kennedys, Captain Beefheart, etc – yet the most audible ingredient of their cosmic slop is the Gang of Four’s judderfunk.
(18) Total cerebral blood flow was caliculated by bicompartmental analysis and compared to the two minutes initial slop index.
(19) Rotational micromotion, permanent rotational displacement, and slop displacement between bone and implant were measured with linearly variable differential transducers under torsional loading.
(20) Graphs of minute ventilation (V) versus mean CO2 for families of oscillation sizes (0.5%, 1% and 2%) showed that the ventilatory sensitivity (slop) was least for the 2% oscillations and greatest for the 0.5% oscillations.