(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.
Raspberry
Definition:
(n.) The thimble-shaped fruit of the Rubus Idaeus and other similar brambles; as, the black, the red, and the white raspberry.
(n.) The shrub bearing this fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Full set list, show one (thanks to princevault.com ) Take Me With U (acoustic) Raspberry Beret (acoustic) U Got The Look (acoustic) Instrumental jam (acoustic) Train In Vain (acoustic) Q & A (1) incl.
(2) The hydrolysis of the ellagitannins was not catalyzed by any of the purified enzymes tested, and components of the raspberry extract were found to inhibit the purified esterases noncompetitively.
(3) When he sits back at the piano and plays Raspberry Beret and Starfish and Coffee and Girls and Boys, they’re beside themselves, and understandably so: he sounds magnificent.
(4) A programmable DIY robot kit, Rapiro builds a bot around either a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino board, allowing kids and adults to construct and programme their own robot.
(5) This is a Bakewell tart, but with coconut frangipane and lemon curd instead of the usual sponge and raspberry jam.
(6) Jane's favourite combos are: rhubarb and strawberry, rhubarb and raspberry, and plum and blackberry.
(7) Would any coalition minister dare use the phrase on a genuinely public platform without expecting raspberries and ribaldry?
(8) I have a photo of him on my bookshelf, blowing a raspberry, wearing a Stetson and sticking two fingers up.
(9) Raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) has isometric, 33 nm diameter particles and a bipartite RNA genome.
(10) Computing had become lacklustre and even boring The Raspberry Pi started life as an idea to bring computing in schools back to the era of the BBC Micro in the early 1980s, which inspired children to learn how a computer worked and allowed them to discover what was possible through learning to code.
(11) The raspberries were probably contaminated at the time of picking.
(12) It aims to put a friendlier face on the pioneering Raspberry Pi computer: parents pay $129 to get a case, speaker and keyboard, although their children still have to build the computer before they can start exploring its Kano Blocks visual programming language.
(13) 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.
(14) Nobody will eat all the raspberries or finish the yoghurt.
(15) The Kano kit builds on top of the incredible success of the Raspberry Pi, adds a speaker, and easy-to-assemble kit, and makes it more accessible to more people – a simple to use “experience layer” over a Raspberry Pi, as Klein puts it.
(16) In August 2012, the Raspberry Pi was available to purchase through British high street retailers, with a revised "B" version released in September 2012 with twice the amount of RAM .
(17) The Raspberry Pi allows us to standardise across the globe,” he explained.
(18) Northern blot analysis with cDNA probes to RNA-3 (1 kb) of raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) revealed extensive sequence homology with RBDV RNA-2 (2.2 kb).
(19) The box includes everything required to build a computer short of a screen, including a Raspberry Pi, a case, wireless keyboard with trackpad, cables, Wi-Fi dongle, and even a speaker.
(20) A nucleotide sequence is reported for RNA-3, the smallest of the three major RNA species found in particles of raspberry bushy dwaft virus (RBDV).