(n.) A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
(n.) The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
(n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was founded in 1984 by Hussain, a former Chicago cab driver, and won broad support among the "mohajirs" - Muslims who fled India after partition in 1947.
(2) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
(3) Group 1 (purpose to preserve the bladder, preoperative MVP-CAB): Four of 7 patients achieved a partial response.
(4) Sequences from the 5' upstream regions (-400 to translational start) of some cab genes were determined in this study, and a total of 16 tomato cab gene promoters for which sequences are now available were analyzed.
(5) Uber drivers are employees not contractors, California rules Read more Like many Ethiopian immigrants in San Diego , Sahilu gravitated towards driving a cab because he didn’t speak much English and couldn’t get recognition for his educational qualifications – in his case, a chemistry degree.
(6) TfL , which has come under pressure from black-cab drivers, who feel Uber has been getting too easy a time from the regulators, is running the consultation until 23 December.
(7) It was concluded that important alterations in SNS activity and thyroid hormone homeostasis occur in humans during CABS and deep hypothermia, and that changes in core temperature may contribute to these findings.
(8) Even for those who don't know a "540 cab" from a "360 grab", or what it means to "huck it", the scale of the achievement was clear.
(9) Endemic outbreaks of CAB often originate from contaminated infusion fluids.
(10) At both temperatures, the conditioned PMMA, CAB, silafocon A, and pasifocon C lenses wet slightly better, by 1 degree to 12 degrees, than unconditioned lenses.
(11) In London, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall were jammed from the start of the planned "go slow" at 2pm, as thousands of black cabs gathered honking their horns, bringing total gridlock to the centre of the capital, while supporters waved banners and started occasionally chanting: "Boris, out!"
(12) Topographical distribution of concanavalin A binding sites (CABS) was studied in two lines of virally transformed fibroblasts as a function of fatty acid composition.
(13) Arrhythmias were analyzed in 50 patients undergoing cardiac surgery: 27 with valve surgery, 15 with coronary artery bypass (CAB), 5 with CAB and valve surgery, and 3 with miscellaneous procedures.
(14) She appeared out of nowhere, said a few words that no one could hear and then slowly made her way through the photographers to a cab and vanished: a great, big, fruitily dressed fairy godmother who, when you come to think of it, bears not the slightest resemblance to any of the other seven billion people on the planet.
(15) A study was made of lipid peroxidation and the antioxidant system in patients with bronchial asthma (BA) and chronic asthmatic bronchitis (CAB) before and after muscular exercise.
(16) The central subdivision of the BNST appeared as a histochemically clearly circumscribed compartment with massive fibre immunoreactivity for SOM, ENK, VIP, SYN, CHR-A, CAB as well as SOM, ENK, NT and CAB positive cells but lacked cytosolic or fibre-like immunolabel for NPY and SP.
(17) He picked the brothers up in his leased taxi-cab, and drove them to Man-O-Salwa, a kebab restaurant in Somerville, Massachusetts, where Matanov and Tamerlan often dined.
(18) London's black-cab drivers are to launch private prosecutions against minicab drivers who use Uber , the booking software that allows smartphone users to hail private-hire cars from any location.
(19) Another 129 patients with unstable disease (group II) had unilateral, asymptomatic carotid lesions and were prospectively randomized to receive either combined operations (IIA; n = 71) or CAB followed by delayed CE (IIB; n = 58).
(20) To determine the importance of operative variables in the development of postoperative atelectasis and the incidence of phrenic nerve injury caused by topical cold cardioplegic solution, we studied 57 patients (53 male, four female) undergoing CAB.
Gig
Definition:
(n.) A fiddle.
(v. t.) To engender.
(n.) A kind of spear or harpoon. See Fishgig.
(v. t.) To fish with a gig.
(n.) A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
(n.) A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play.
(n.) A light carriage, with one pair of wheels, drawn by one horse; a kind of chaise.
(n.) A long, light rowboat, generally clinkerbuilt, and designed to be fast; a boat appropriated to the use of the commanding officer; as, the captain's gig.
(n.) A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
(2) The next day on his blog he called the job "the Holy Grail of animation gigs".
(3) Matthew Taylor was appointed by Theresa May last October to review employment practices in the light of concerns about the precarious nature of work, particularly in the gig economy.
(4) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(5) Riccardo Vastola, 28, studied marketing and communications but founded a music business in 2009, organising indie rock gigs, events, club nights in and around Bologna.
(6) You know, I don't mean to be unkind but I think you should put your phone down because you're just being a dick, really, just enjoy the gig because it's a better … it's a dick job, filming the show.
(7) The arts and social space in Deptford opened in 2015 after three years of fundraising and it now runs a programme of gigs, screenings, talks and performances, as well as being home to Tome Records, which has a distractingly good selection of vinyl, as well as tapes and zines.
(8) [When he comes to a gig] it’s like a mate at school turning up.” Watson’s record of campaigns against phone hacking and establishment child abuse have also won him cross-party admiration and a public profile as a righteous crusader.
(9) In 2004, fewer than 100,000 tickets were sold for arena standup gigs.
(10) That was one of the advantages of having a gay "uncle" – he took me to gigs.
(11) And if you're really funny, then provided you're not punching people when you come off, or stealing people's belongings, then you'll get a gig.
(12) Calling London … Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL at Shepherd's Bush Empire Fresh from his Valentine's night double-header of shows at King's Place, beneath the Guardian's offices in north London, Prince has announced his Sunday night appearance at Koko in Camden Town will take the form of three separate gigs.
(13) The boys have just done eight gigs in nine nights and they're knackered.
(14) Their lives are all different: they are creating and organising challenging contemporary art, others setting up literary resources, working as DJs and educators, re-entering education or still progressing in karate at age 43, organising gigs and working in the professions.
(15) White is doing his own bit to turn back the clock: at his gigs, he enforces a strict ban on the audience shooting pictures or video; at home, he only allows his children – Scarlett, eight, and Hank, six – to play with mechanical toys.
(16) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
(17) These data suggest that GAMD is very efficient at priming T cells specific for GIg epitopes and that once primed they can be readily re-triggered by GIg.
(18) Earlier this year, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that while the on-demand, gig economy is creating innovations, it is also “raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future”.
(19) In London there are generally four types of rock show: the billions of pub gigs where 20 of the band's mates try to convince you there's still a future in grindie; the arena and stadium blowouts where it's customary to express one's appreciation of the band by dousing one's peers in airborne urine; the east London artronica happenings where everyone's only watching everyone else; and the gigs in Hyde Park you can't hear.
(20) She booked a well-paying gig as a Fox News pundit, wrote two bestselling books and starred in her own reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, on TLC.