(v. t.) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
(v. i.) To foreshow something; to augur.
(n.) An omen; a foreshadowing.
(n.) A bid; an offer.
(v. t.) A messenger; a herald.
(n.) A stop; a halting; delay.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such lack of attention to matters of scientific methodology does not bode well for the advancement of knowledge in this area.
(2) Utilizing the known atomic coordinates of the chromophores (Schirmer, T., Bode, W. and Huber, R. (1987) J. Mol.
(3) Earlier this fall the skier Bode Miller was one of the few American athletes to speak out against the Russian law, calling it "absolutely embarrassing".
(4) Markit said a return to growth in output boded well for the months ahead.
(5) That there are teenage boys who intelligently question the assumptions of past generations and who care about serious matters bodes well for our future.
(6) The instability of type I cultures when grown on complex medium can not be explained by heterokaryosis or the presence of virus-like particles found in the original Bode strain and its derivatives.
(7) Doesn't bode terribly well for Merkel's visit tomorrow....
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Even those who’ve never seen a downhill ski race couldn’t help but sympathise with Bode Miller’s agony at missing out on a medal in what will surely be the last Olympic event of his career.
(9) I think Sarah Lucas pointed out it was the site of the cover of Ziggy Stardust and that seemed to us to bode well for our new venture, particularly as Bowie then turned up unannounced at our Sarah Lucas show, The Law (1997).
(10) German Chancellor Merkel’s sister party won the Bavarian election which bodes well for her to keep her position in next week’s general election.
(11) Suddenly, China’s stock exchanges have become wards of the Chinese Communist party – and their fate hardly bodes well for Xi’s declaration that the nation’s economic salvation will lie in allowing market forces to play a greater role in the allocation of resources.
(12) That bodes ill for an economy reliant on household spending and the latest indicators from Britain’s retail and leisure industries suggest they are feeling the effects of a tightening consumer squeeze.
(13) "This is the first announcement the coalition has made, and the inclusion of their 10:10 commitment bodes well for the importance they'll place on carbon reduction this term," said Eugenie Harvey, campaign director of 10:10.
(14) We discuss briefly the biology of vaccinia and its significance in the use of vaccinia as an expression vector, the variety of vaccinia systems currently in use and, finally, we summarize some recent developments which bode well for future applications of vaccinia virus technology.
(15) The pictures and reports emerging do not bode well for other earthquake-prone cities with similar vulnerabilities.
(16) The wobble was temporary but it bodes ill for the conference because negotiators were already running short of time to draft an agreement ahead of an Earth Summit next week that is billed as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to set mankind on a more sustainable path of development.
(17) October 15, 2013 Paul Lewis (@PaulLewis) Republican Paul Ryan, a key figure, adds that budget committee proposal in the Senate deal is "not enough" - that doesn't bode well.
(18) The shape of these characteristics, depicted as Bode plots, is invariant with temperature.
(19) For the government, the latest GDP data did not bode well for its borrowing forecasts, said Howard Archer, chief economist at IHS Global Insight.
(20) eurozone GDP “Inventories have likely shaved off a bit of growth in the second quarter, but this actually bodes well for the second half, as industrial orders remain strong according to the European commission’s business survey.” European stocks regaining some of the week’s losses after news that the Greek parliament approved a third multibillion-euro bailout deal offset the underwhelming GDP figures.
Herald
Definition:
(n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.
(n.) In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.
(n.) A proclaimer; one who, or that which, publishes or announces; as, the herald of another's fame.
(n.) A forerunner; a a precursor; a harbinger.
(n.) Any messenger.
(v. t.) To introduce, or give tidings of, as by a herald; to proclaim; to announce; to foretell; to usher in.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the first sections opened, the project has been heralded as a model example of urban redevelopment and the line has contributed to the gentrification of Manhattan’s Lower West Side.
(2) Kang Hyun-kyung writes for the Korea Times, not the Korean Herald.
(3) He may be the herald of a changing morality, and even more, his art may become an instrument for such change.
(4) It has been established that the structure of depressive phases in sluggish simple schizophrenia includes specific psychopathological signs heralding defect formation and united by the notion "transitory syndrome".
(5) Castin' makes me feel good: Ghostbusters' diverse team is a victory Read more Dan Aykroyd heralds Ghostbusters cast as 'most magnificent women in comedy' Read more “There’s three drafts of the old concept that exists,” said Aykroyd.
(6) Obama expressed a hope that the decision by Republican House speaker John Boehner to allow moderates in his party to vote with Democrats to end the shutdown may herald a new era of bi-partisan co-operation in the House of Representatives .
(7) Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart has reduced her stake in Fairfax Media, publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age newspapers, less than three weeks after she increased her investment in the group.
(8) Busulfan is not known to cause sideroblastic changes, so this was considered to herald a transformation into acute leukemia.
(9) The Audiant Bone Conductor has been heralded as an aid for use in conductive hearing loss; however, its possible use in unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) has also been proposed.
(10) Clinical presentation was most often heralded by symptoms and signs of hydrocephalus with focal neurological findings being a less prominent feature.
(11) The letters, bearing the prince's heraldic badge, were effective.
(12) If intraoperative stroke was heralded by permanent electroencephalographic changes, these were not related to the moment of cross-clamping.
(13) In Dublin, the general mood was summed up by the Evening Herald headline, referring to a slogan from an car advert featuring Henry: "It's Va Va Gloom".
(14) The Council of Mortgage Lenders, which devised the scheme with the HBF and the government, heralded the return of 95% deals, which it said would give a "welcome boost to housing market confidence".
(15) This has already been heralded as a “win” for the host nation and welcomed by the Australia’s Labor opposition.
(16) The transgenic rat therefore heralds an exciting new dimension in hypertension research.
(17) People can get bogged down in the process, because as you would expect is the normal way of events in these matters we take the legal advice, we act upon it, we mitigate the risks as best we can, but in the end the most important point here is the Australian public wants from their government a piece of legislation that will keep them safe as possible and that is what we are proposing.” The last cabinet discussion was the subject of an extraordinary leak to the Sydney Morning Herald , which showed ministers angry that the proposal had been sprung on them without a submission or documentation.
(18) News Limited is the Australian arm of the global company News Corporation and publishes more than 140 newspaper titles across the country including the major tabloid titles down the east coast, the Daily Telegraph, the Herald-Sun and the Courier-Mail as well as the national broadsheet the Australian.
(19) The former deputy editor of the Sunday Herald, David Milne, has been appointed online editor for the new site.
(20) The anticipated "big reveal" had been published in the New Zealand Herald several hours before the town hall extravaganza.