(n.) A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.
(n.) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
Example Sentences:
(1) ☞ Jimmy Cowan of Aston Villa overpowering the great Steve Bloomer in 1897!
(2) "Derby County's idolising of Steve Bloomer takes some beating," writes Matt Lewis.
(3) This study was designed to test the concurrent validity of the revised Task-Oriented Assessment (TOA) component of the Bay Area Functional Performance Evaluation (BaFPE) (Bloomer & Williams, 1979) with Part 1 of the American Association on Mental Deficiency Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS) (Nihira, Foster, Shellhaas, & Leland, 1969, 1974) and to develop a means of interpretation for the numeric scores on the TOA.
(4) Reanalyses of Year 1 data based on these follow-up outcomes demonstrated that only late bloomers used more communicative gestures than did language-matched controls.
(5) Late bloomers also used more communicative gestures than did age-matched controls, suggesting that they (the late bloomers) were using gestures to compensate for their small oral expressive vocabulary.
(6) I'm a late bloomer: I like to come to things at my own tempo.
(7) Ibanez, in his third stint with the Mariners and old enough to remember what it was like to play in the Kingdome, Seattle's previous home , is a bit of a late bloomer.
(8) Phil Bloomer, Oxfam 's director of campaigns, was more blunt: "Every year we delay an estimated 150,000 people will have died and a further 1 million displaced as a result of climate change."
(9) Others were being used as evacuation centres, said Bloomer, making it important to find alternative spaces.
(10) "We cooked for the nuns, we washed their big bloomers, we cleaned their rooms.
(11) She spent £1,168 on champagne and flowers, mostly at the Auntie's Bloomers shop at the BBC Television Centre in west London, between 22 March 2004 and 26 November 2004.
(12) And now it has Bodvarsson, a rare Icelandic league late bloomer.
(13) One senior City fund manager said the Prudential was a strong enough name to find support for the cash call, its second in six years following the £1bn rights issue in 2004 that ultimately cost then-chief executive Jonathan Bloomer his job .
(14) Previous X-ray studies (2.8-A resolution) on the crystals of tobacco mosaic virus protein (TMVP) grown from solutions containing high salt have characterized the structure of the protein aggregate as a bilayered cylindrical disk formed by 34 identical subunits [Bloomer, A.C., Champness, J.N., Bricogne, G., Staden, R., & Klug, A.
(15) The Xenopus 5S RNA replication-expression model of Gottesfeld and Bloomer (Cell 28:781-791, 1982) and Wormington et al.
(16) Oxfam's campaigns and policy director, Phil Bloomer, said: "E.ON's plans to cancel building a new coal plant at Kingsnorth is a welcome reprieve for the millions of poor people already living on the frontline of climate change.
(17) A handful of investors are understood be considering whether to bypass the chairman, Sir David Clementi, who has been unflinching in his support for chief executive Jonathan Bloomer, and approach the senior non-executive, Rob Rowley, instead.
(18) Results showed that all 4 children who were truly delayed at follow-up had been delayed in language comprehension at the first visit, but the 6 late bloomers had been at the same level as their age-matched controls.
(19) It's difficult to get one's Review Show bloomers in a twist over, say, The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue , a Spanish "eco-zombie" boggler in which swarthy extras lumber, plank–armed, through the Peak District while dressed like Jethro Tull after an industrial farming tragedy (sample line: "I'm mad about apples!").
(20) Phil Bloomer is the executive director of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre .
Blunder
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
(v. i.) To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.
(v. t.) To cause to blunder.
(v. t.) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
(n.) Confusion; disturbance.
(n.) A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The score should have been tied at 2-2 and the natural German retort that one of Geoff Hurst's goals in the 1966 World Cup was imaginary hardly makes the blunder of officials more palatable in Bloemfontein.
(2) The catalogue of blunders produced an angry response from congressmen in both parties who questioned the competence of Pierson, who was herself brought in to clean up the elite unit after earlier scandals in which drunken officers were found passed out during a presidential trip to Amsterdam and visiting prostitutes in Colombia.
(3) But it is not clear whether that will be enough to save McChrystal's job after what is the latest of a series of political blunders.
(4) Anthony King is professor of government at Essex University and co-author with Ivor Crewe of The Blunders of Our Governments, to be published next week
(5) From millions of BBC words, blunders and scandals are relatively few.
(6) That should mean, among other changes from Monday’s win at Hull , that Danny Welbeck returns up front even if Olivier Giroud relocated the net after a couple of months blundering about in the dark.
(7) But after David de Gea's blunder allowed Phil Bardsley's 119th-minute shot to slip in, Javier Hernández grabbed a lifeline with a strike seconds later to take the tie into the shootout.
(8) Blunders by hospital staff which leave newborn babies brain-damaged in the first few days of their lives are set to cost the NHS more than £235m, official figures reveal.
(9) A horrendous blunder by Mertesacker presents the ball to Aluko, who goes around Fabianksi.
(10) Results indicated an effect of sex identification; the male blunderer was derogated most by male subjects (n = 34) and the female most by female subjects (n = 34).
(11) The Obama administration on Monday approved Shell’s plan to resume drilling for oil and gas in the treacherous and fragile waters off the coast of Alaska , three years after the Anglo-Dutch oil giant was forced to suspend operations following a series of potentially dangerous blunders.
(12) They've conceded only one goal due to a goalie blunder (against admittedly limited opposition) and not lost.
(13) "In a post-Fukushima environment where nuclear planning is being halted in Germany and Japan it seems bizarre that the (UK) government is blundering ahead with disposing of nuclear waste in the most absurdly inappropriate place," she said.
(14) The plot of Emma turns on Frank Churchill's "blunder" in mentioning the likelihood of Mr Perry, the local apothecary, "setting up his carriage".
(15) A brief inquest a year later did not expose the hospital's blunder.
(16) The sport’s global governing body has admitted that Joubert blundered by awarding the Wallabies the last-gasp penalty that Bernard Foley kicked to seize a 35-34 victory at Twickenham on Sunday, robbing Scotland of a place in the World Cup semi-finals.
(17) Inevitably the commentators (and so far in my researches, they were all women) pondered on Lawson's motivation, and whether this decision was a style blunder, a "betrayal of her own brand", or a defiant and admirable insistence on privacy for her body.
(18) It's hard to watch these executions and not realise that these blunders are bound to happen,” he said.
(19) In a front-page comment piece, Aluf Benn, the editor-in-chief of Haaretz, wrote: "Instead of hushing up the blunder, [gag orders] merely shine a spotlight on it.
(20) He’s not in power yet, so he still gets to blunder around lobbing out daft policies willy-nilly in the hope that one of them will scan.