(v. i.) To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
(v. i.) To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.]
(v. t.) To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with the head.
(n.) A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.
(n.) The common English flounder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
(2) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
(3) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
(4) But in the case of what we were doing in the last few years, with bringing Nicky Butt into the fold, Ryan into the fold, Paul Scholes into the fold, and Gary Neville was offered a position but he decided to go into television.
(5) In one of his lunch breaks with Sleep, he told him that he had been tortured by the army, smashed over the head with the butt of an AK47 and left for dead.
(6) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
(7) Rainwater "harvesting" is the posh version of a water butt.
(8) The trial of the divorce suit brought by Captain O'Shea - Mr Parnell being the co-respondent - was resumed yesterday before Mr Justice Butt.
(9) He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt… And he is slim tall and good skin."
(10) Paris is to fine smokers who throw their cigarette butts onto the street, the latest effort to clean up the French capital.
(11) The tail butt, esutcheon, belly, dewlap and to a lesser degree neck and ear were all very suitable sites on which to find cattle ticks.
(12) We know we’re not far away.” Butt admits his new role is not something he had planned, despite his long-standing association with the club.
(13) 3.48pm: The Pakistan high commissioner has stressed the innocence of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, and spoken of their 'mental torture' 3.50pm: Tea at the Emirates ICG, where Durham are 170 for two, and now have a lead of 199, writes Andy Wilson .
(14) In 3 experiments, the activity of mainstream and sidestream Total Oarticulate Matter (TPM) and of butts and ash was determined.
(15) Three main groups of the sufferers were distinguished: with scalping of the I digit, with crushing of the digits and a skin defect of the butt-end of a hand stump, with totally scalped wounds of the hand and low third of the forearm.
(16) Each margin of the cavities was finished in one of three ways: butt joint and etching; butt joint and no etching, or; bevel joint and etching.
(17) Pigs fed ractopamine had shorter carcasses, less fat depth and fat area, smaller weights of stomach and colon plus rectum, but higher dressing percentages, longissimus muscle areas, weights of trimmed Boston butts, picnics and loins, ham lean and predicted amounts of muscle than pigs not fed ractopamine (P less than .05).
(18) The Liverpool striker leaned his forehead into Chiellini, in what looked, initially, to be a butt before biting down on his opponent’s shoulder.
(19) Rich people glide across it on skis and 4X4s, between resorts at Aspen, Crested Butte and Breckenridge.
(20) My uncle glances at her nicely rounded butt: – Nice fit lady, eh?
Stub
Definition:
(n.) The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.
(n.) A log; a block; a blockhead.
(n.) The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar.
(n.) A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.
(n.) A pen with a short, blunt nib.
(n.) A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
(v. t.) To grub up by the roots; to extirpate; as, to stub up edible roots.
(v. t.) To remove stubs from; as, to stub land.
(v. t.) To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of the mutants were unable to assemble a flagellar filament (Fla-), although eight were able to synthesize a short stub of a flagellum.
(2) Vauxhall Tower Like a cigarette stubbed out by the Thames, the Vauxhall's lonely stump looks cast adrift, a piece of Pudong that's lost its way.
(3) The teeth were air dried, mounted on stubs, sputter-coated with gold-palladium and examined under SEM.
(4) Subsequently, the slides were fractured for attachment to SEM stubs, and the coverslips were demounted.
(5) The task consisted of 36 sentence stubs, 18 of which probed attitudes toward sex.
(6) This digested product reacted with an anti-stub antibody which recognizes 4-sulfated disaccharide.
(7) Platinum-carbon replicas were made of the surfaces of both the sections and the complementary surfaces of the sample stubs from which the sections were cut.
(8) Genetic analysis by phiCr30-mediated transduction revealed 27 linkage groups for the fla and stub-forming mutations, and three linkage groups for the mot mutations.
(9) There were more than 150, some on smart, headed paper, some on notebook pages, written with stubs of pencil.
(10) isoamylase is unable to cleave D-glucosyl stubs from branched saccharides.
(11) It has been determined a bacteriolytic action on the bacterial stub "E. Coli host of bacteriophage T4.
(12) Due to the anatomic relationship of bone and nail, a 'stubbed finger' injury may result in an inapparent compound fracture.
(13) When Jane Grigson did her delightful last series Slow Down, Fast Food, we photographed a gigantic hamburger with an implausible bite taken out of it, our tasteful riposte to the cigarette-stubbed-out-in-the-fried-egg school of lurid food photography.
(14) In 2004, he stubbed a cigar out in the eye of City colleague Jamie Tandy at the club's Christmas party; the following year, he was found guilty of gross misconduct after a disturbance in Bangkok with a teenage Everton fan.
(15) Monoclonal antibodies 9-A-2 and 2-B-6 which recognize stubs of chondroitin 4-sulfate were found to bind specifically to the NC3 domain of type IX collagen, and this binding was dependent on prior digestion of the preparation with chondroitinase ABC.
(16) Simultaneously with the penetration into the snail tissue the "bald" cells (epithelial cells with cilium stubs only) of the four posterior tiers loosen, florm globules and fall off.
(17) He stubbed out cigarette butts on her face and chopped off part of a finger.
(18) During erythroid development and enucleation, the actin filaments may depolymerize up to the membrane, leaving a membrane skeleton with short stubs of actin bundled by band 4.9 and cross-linked by spectrin.
(19) thick) were cut by the method of Tokuyasu (Toluyasu KT: J Cell Biol 57:551, 1973) and their scanning transmission electron microscope images were examined either with a scanning transmission electron microscope detector or with a conversion stub using the secondary electron detector.
(20) Maltose and maltotriose stubs preponderated together with small proportions of D-glucose stubs.