(n.) A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Matt Busby used to say to us that if we were six points off the lead at Christmas we would win the league.
(2) Those who fail when managing United (or City) perhaps do so because, unlike Ferguson – and before him Matt Busby – they lack a visceral conceptual understanding that Manchester United is not only about football and it is not really of Manchester.
(3) Green Audit is an environmental consultancy and research organisation founded by Busby.
(4) The tests are provided by Busby Laboratories and promoted through a body called the Christopher Busby Foundation for the Children of Fukushima (CBFCF).
(5) This game fell the day after the 100th anniversary of Sir Matt Busby's birth, which inspired a mosaic tribute at the United end of the ground.
(6) British football can be proud of the United team who gave their all to give Matt Busby the cup he cherishes above all else,” the newspaper proclaimed.
(7) Though a controversial figure, Busby has been championed by the anti-nuclear movement and some environmentalists.
(8) In the 60s, Sir Matt Busby ran Manchester United with a laissez-faire policy, which allowed geniuses such as George Best to flourish.
(9) Throughout their most notable periods of success under both Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson, United generally played with great width on both flanks, and based their play around quick diagonal passes out wide and plenty of crosses.
(10) When asked what his involvement with the foundation is, Busby said: "It's got nothing to do with me.
(11) The names Matt Busby, Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson and Brian Clough were put to the Italian in the context that he may soon be joining their illustrious company, but there has never been a European Cup-winning interim first-team coach.
(12) The same values characterised the mining towns and villages that produced Jock Stein, Bill Shankly and Sir Matt Busby.
(13) Another coeliac, Katherine Busby, 35, from York, was diagnosed 12 years ago.
(14) The Sisterhood began eleven years ago under the leadership of Ms. Daphne Busby.
(15) And if Busby indulged Best to a fault, Ferguson turned a blind eye to the excesses of his own talisman, Eric Cantona.
(16) In 2001 Ferguson visited Gérard Houllier in hospital after the Frenchman underwent heart surgery and it wasn’t unknown for the former Liverpool player Matt Busby to share a team coach with his fellow manager Bill Shankly after the pair formed a mutual Scottish admiration society in the sixties.
(17) Gerald Busby, a 72-year-old composer, has lived at the Chelsea since 1977.
(18) On a giant banner outside the ground, the figures of five triumphant United players overlooked the statue of another legendary Old Trafford manager, Sir Matt Busby.
(19) "CCS will need 50% more coal for the same generation and it will add 70% to the costs," said independent energy analyst John Busby.
(20) 27 March 1994 Patrick Barclay looks at the strengths and weaknesses of Alex Ferguson's managerial style and says Manchester United's governor needs to acquire some of the late Sir Matt Busby's diplomacy A third of last season had passed, with United no higher than fifth because they still scored at too modest a rate, when Ferguson was tipped off by a French friend that Eric Cantona wanted to leave Leeds.
Fur
Definition:
(n.) The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
(n.) The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs.
(n.) Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
(n.) Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady (a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).
(n.) Any coating considered as resembling fur
(n.) A coat of morbid matter collected on the tongue in persons affected with fever.
(n.) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
(n.) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
(n.) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six.
(a.) Of or pertaining to furs; bearing or made of fur; as, a fur cap; the fur trade.
(v. t.) To line, face, or cover with fur; as, furred robes.
(v. t.) To cover with morbid matter, as the tongue.
(v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
(2) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
(3) The capacity (Bmax) for [3H]ketanserin binding was significantly lower (-21%; p less than 0.05) in sparse fur animals than in control animals; there was no change in affinity (KD).
(4) The fusion was prepared in multicopy (pVLN102 plasmid) and low-copy-number states, the latter constructed as a lambda phage lysogen carrying a fur'-'lacZ insert.
(5) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(6) The responsible allergens are contained in the urine, saliva, and secretions of furred animals.
(7) And I have come to tell you this: the trends for this coming season will be extremely expensive furs, very high-heeled shoes and full-length ballgowns.
(8) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
(9) He was fined £800 and ordered to pay £3,500 costs by the Furness and District Magistrate court after being prosecuted by the CAA.
(10) The Fur protein was isolated in a single step by immobilized metal-ion-affinity chromatography over zinc iminodiacetate agarose.
(11) If that effect existed in small animals, they would lose less heat if nude than if fur or feathers were present.
(12) Regulation by iron occurs at the transcriptional level and is mediated by a ferrous iron binding protein designated Fur (ferric uptake regulation).
(13) Instrumental neutron activation analysis has been used for an initial evaluation of trace element content in samples of northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) from the Pribilof Islands.
(14) Junípero Serra's road to sainthood is controversial for Native Americans Read more When the King of Spain sent Jesuit priests to prevent Russian fur hunters from claiming the region, he directed them to educate and baptize native peoples so they could become Spanish citizens, but Serra had other plans.
(15) The results show that transcription of the fur gene is initiated from at least two different sites separated by 6 bp, which appear to originate from two overlapping promoters sensitive to catabolic activation.
(16) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
(17) Thus, the pattern of sensory innervation in the glabrous rat snout skin is similar to that found in other furred species described to date, but in addition, the sensory innervation of ridged skin in the rat also resembles that of epidermis organized into rete pegs.
(18) 5-Fluorouridine (100 microM, 26 micrograms ml-1) inhibited contraction of human fibroblasts by more than 80%, whereas only 10 microM (2.6 micrograms ml-1) 5-FUR was required for 90% inhibition of rabbit fibroblast contraction.
(19) In contrast, after weaning they showed a significant increment in the duration of face-washing, head-washing, fur licking and body-scratching.
(20) The other was David York, branch secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and an organiser of the anti-academy protest in Barrow-in-Furness.