(n.) Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.
(n.) A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
(n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
(n.) The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
(n.) A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
(n.) A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
(n.) A working beam.
(n.) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
(n.) A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
(n.) The refrain of a song.
(n.) A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
(n.) A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
(n.) A shilling.
(n.) To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.
(n.) To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
(n.) To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
(n.) To mock or delude; to cheat.
(n.) To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
(v. i.) To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
(v. i.) To angle with a bob. See Bob, n., 2 & 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
(2) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
(3) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
(4) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
(5) We studied bobbed loci at different magnification steps, analysing their behaviour through the reversion process and the way they carry out a second round of magnification.
(6) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
(7) I will destroy you.” Khan, a former WBA and IBF light world welterweight champion, also turned on Manny Pacquiao, accusing him and his team, led by Bob Arum, of providing conflicting reasons for choosing to fight Timothy Bradley in April, instead of the Bolton born boxer.
(8) The remaining four crossbench senators – Jacqui Lambie, Bob Day, Dio Wang and Glenn Lazarus – are still in negotiations and have not yet reached a position on the bill.
(9) Having women in top jobs doesn't make any difference anyway If this were the case, why would some of the best brains, both male and female, in the government, including Sir Bob Kerslake , head of the civil service, be concerned about it?
(10) Bobbed mutants also have the same molar ratios as wild-type flies.
(11) It would have been known as the Office of Congressional Complaint Review, and the rule change would have required that “any matter that may involve a violation of criminal law must be referred to the Committee on Ethics for potential referral to law enforcement agencies after an affirmative vote by the members”, according to the office of Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia who pushed for the change.
(12) After more than a year together, Jenny felt that Bob had given her the right signals that he was interested in having children with her.
(13) Hardy headlines as an ex-con named Bob Saginowski who is trying to live out a quiet life away from crime as a bartender.
(14) And in Colorado the fiercely anti-immigration conservative and former presidential candidate Ted Tancredo was comfortably overcome by a more moderate former congressman, Bob Beauprez, in the primary to choose the Republican candidate for the state's governor.
(15) Analysis of the rates and amounts of rRNA and 5s RNA synthesized in Drosophila melanogaster bobbed mutants was done by using acrylamide-gel electrophoresis.
(16) Following the last model’s disappearance backstage, Galliano appeared briefly in front of the audience and bobbed a blink-and-you-missed-it bow, dressed in the white lab coat that is the uniform of the Maison Margiela label for whom he now designs.
(17) Bob Cannell, member of Suma Wholefoods workers co-operative "Suma had its best ever business results in 2013 and there have been similar results for other worker co-ops such as Unicorn Grocery in Manchester.
(18) "Ghana are a talented team and their coach has them well organised," the USA coach, Bob Bradley, said.
(19) With her blond bob, convertible car, cigarette in hand and cropped top emblazoned with the letters YOLO ("You Only Live Once"), this is an Alice in Wonderland the world has not seen before.
(20) The results are consistent with the hypothesis that the bobbed locus contains multiple cistrons, some threshold number of which are needed to produce ribosomal RNA and the normal phenotype.
Quid
Definition:
(n.) A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.
(v. t.) To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
(2) The results suggest that formation of reactive oxygen species in the presence of NNN may be a key factor in the initiation of oral tumours in tobacco and betel-quid chewers.
(3) He compared the situation to insider trading or corruption, in which there may not be direct proof of a criminal quid pro quo taking place, but where there is a pattern of behaviour that warrants attention.
(4) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
(5) It costs 25 quid, which is why I only went when I was offered a free lunch: I was being given some sort of award.
(6) If somehow they can, it’s even harder to see how we can sell less than the EU yet be the side that’s “quids in”, and harder still to see how so much money would be allowed to bypass the treasury for the department of business.
(7) There is the very real, or perhaps surreal, prospect, of postal workers simultaneously downing tools (parking their trolleys) and subscribing a few hundred quid for Royal Mail shares.
(8) The frequency of micronucleated cells (MNC) derived from exfoliated human oral mucosal cells has been measured to assess genotoxic damage in chewers of betel quid with tobacco (BQT) and tobacco with lime (T).
(9) Behind the scenes, ITV is offering to look again at the importance of national and regional news as a quid pro quo for political support for deregulation.
(10) Taken together, the observed pathobiological effects of areca-nut extract and certain related compounds in cultured human buccal epithelial cells indicate that these agents may contribute to the oral carcinogenicity associated with chewing betel quid.
(11) The elevation of MEC in Taiwanese, who are at low risk for oral cancer, is relatively small as compared to that found in chewers of Indian betel quids (pan), who show a highly elevated oral cancer risk.
(12) To prevent relapses, quinidine had been continued in 25 patients in doses 100 mg quid lower than those used for conversion.
(13) Whether the law was actually broken, whether there was quid pro quos, or inside information is a better way to put it, we don’t know.
(14) Oh, and they also stung you for £25 last month when you went a few quid over your overdraft limit.
(15) A link between the generation of areca nut-related N-nitrosamines in the saliva, the induction of genotoxic damage in the oral mucosa, as judged by an increase in micronucleated exfoliated cells (MEC), and a low incidence of oral cancer was studied in 2 population groups characterized by their habit of chewing quids without tobacco: Guamanians, who chew areca nuts (Areca catechu) with or without the addition of betel leaf (Piper betle); Taiwanese, who use areca nut, betel leaf or inference and slaked lime.
(16) But the joint plan does involve a quid pro quo – states agreeing to making their own taxes more efficient and to longer term reforms before the commonwealth puts its money on the table.
(17) The EU commissioner for economic and financial affairs, Pierre Moscovici, said Greece and its creditors were still at loggerheads over reforms to Greek pensions and VAT rates, which lenders want to be toughened as a quid pro quo for giving Athens further bailout funds.
(18) (3) Formation of endogenous NOC was assessed by the NPRO test in: (i) subjects living in high- and low-incidence areas for stomach cancer in northern Japan, Costa Rica and Poland; (ii) subjects with different habits of betel-quid chewing and tobacco use; (iii) patients with urinary bladder infections; and (iv) subjects infested with liver fluke in Thailand.
(19) A real corker of a package if you are a bingo-playing pensioner who likes a tot of the hard stuff and has a few quid in the bank.
(20) According to one source close to the paper, the quid pro quo for such support is simple: the paper will demand the same "Rolls Royce" service from the Conservatives provided by Alastair Campbell and Tony Blair in the years immediately following Murdoch's warm embrace of New Labour.