(n.) The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
(2) My unreliable BlackBerry was hurting business," she said.
(3) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
(4) Amid such confused thinking, it is hardly surprising that the Home Office was indicating yesterday that there would be no dramatic shift in government policy in the light of today's meeting between Theresa May, the home secretary, and representatives from Twitter, Facebook and Research in Motion, the BlackBerry maker.
(5) Place the blackberries in a bowl and scatter over the caster sugar and orange zest.
(6) "In reality, the BlackBerry 10 was not well received by the market, and the company was forced to … lay off approximately 4,500 employees, totaling approximately 40% of its total workforce," the complaint alleges.
(7) From today we are BlackBerry everywhere in the world.
(8) BlackBerry will burn through most of its cash in the next 18 months, a senior independent analyst has warned, leaving the smartphone maker with "material liquidity problems".
(9) 3.48pm GMT Security Once your phone is hooked up to the company email via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) secure network that BlackBerry supplies to businesses, you can use the BlackBerry Balance feature, which separates personal and work functions.
(10) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
(11) The trust said records suggested this year had yielded the best crops of autumn fruit and berries – particularly blackberries, rowan berries and elderberries – since it began the "citizen science" project 12 years ago.
(12) Hampshire police on Wednesday arrested three people on suspicion of using Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger to incite violent disorder in Southampton.
(13) Reports from inside the country said state-owned phone operator Saudi Telecom had rolled out blockages of some BlackBerry messaging services.
(14) With over 50,000 apps and more than 1bn downloads, it is hardly surprising that Blackberry, Nokia, Microsoft and Google have all now jumped on the app emporium bandwagon.
(15) The BlackBerry enterprise solution was designed to preclude RIM, or any third party, from reading encrypted information under any circumstances since RIM does not store or have access to the encrypted data.
(16) One thing we missed out on was that Justin Bieber wanted to rep BlackBerry .
(17) Saudi officials told local television the region's most populous nation would follow by blocking instant messaging on the BlackBerry from October.
(18) We saw what happened to Nokia and BlackBerry and Motorola.
(19) You have CEOs of major companies who whip out their BlackBerrys because of the keyboard.
(20) BlackBerry started out as a provider of secure email and communications for large “enterprise” businesses, before entering the consumer market, which has seen its profits slide as companies like Apple and Samsung proved too strong a competition.
Bramble
Definition:
(n.) Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.
(n.) The brambling or bramble finch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The footpaths I followed became swamped with knapweed, bramble and nettle.
(2) Visit on Friday or Saturday night and you'll find some of Edinburgh's beautiful people occupying Bramble's many cubbyholes.
(3) Open Mon–Sat 5pm–1am; Sun 5pm–midnight Bramble Bramble, Edinburgh You could easily miss Bramble from the street.
(4) Clam enterocystoplasty has proved to be the most effective treatment for severe detrusor instability resistant to conservative treatment (Bramble, 1982; Mundy and Stephenson, 1985).
(5) By all means, adapt it to your taste: I've swapped the usual raspberry jam for a sharper blackcurrant, but cherry or bramble jam, or even marmalade might work nicely, too.
(6) In Chapter 1, for example, Pip recalls watching Magwitch pick his way through the graveyard brambles, "as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in".
(7) Small birds rose up in clouds from the pond’s edge: chaffinches, bramblings, a flock of long-tailed tits that caught in willow branches like animated cotton buds.
(8) Another disused railway line near Kenilworth was now an urban “Greenway”: the companionship of cyclists and dog‑walkers was welcome after my discomfort on the deserted, brambled-choked footpaths of rural England.
(9) A sparrowhawk, light as a toy of balsa-wood and doped tissue-paper, zipped past at knee-level, kiting up over a bank of brambles and away into the trees.
(10) Titus Bramble is training with West Ham as he looks for a new club.
(11) There were brambles along the hedgerow with shrivelled stalks, and berryless hawthorns.
(12) The present work is concerned with the aroma of hybrids between raspberry (Rubus idaeus, L.) and arctic bramble (Rubus arcticus, L.).
(13) There is going to be great competition and I’m really looking forward to it.” Elsewhere, another British gold medal winner on 2012’s Super Saturday, and also the European and Commonwealth champion, Greg Rutherford, hopes to recapture his best long jump form against a field that includes Marquis Dendy, who jumped a wind-assisted 8.68m this year, plus the improving Briton Dan Bramble.
(14) I had to press myself into brambles on a single-track road to avoid lorries destined for a municipal tip.
(15) "It's a milestone, and hopefully there are more to come," says Charles Eddy, a board member of Friends of the LA River, and part of this expedition, as he navigates his kayak through brambles.
(16) Photograph: Queensland Government The Bramble Cay melomys – a small rodent that lives on a tiny island in the eastern Torres Strait, and the only mammal endemic to the Great Barrier Reef – has the dubious honour of being the first mammal to be made extinct primarily due to human-induced climate change.
(17) The view from Fun City The morning after the rally, it has become clear that Iowa may be the bramble in Trump’s path.
(18) Ramsons and Bramble Ramson and Bramble, created by a vegetarian chef, is a step closer to indulgence than some veggie blogs, but all the better for it.
(19) The contents of the corresponding compounds in arctic bramble and in raspberry are also given.
(20) Finally, I was confronted by impenetrable dereliction: great mounds of brambles and nettles.