(n.) A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(2) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(3) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
(4) The last time I saw Ruqayah was in the summer of 2014, in a chain cafe in Cairo’s largest shopping mall.
(5) He encountered one couple en route to the MSPs’ meeting, who said “Glad you could visit, Jeremy,” and “Well done!” And outside a nearby cafe, a man cradling his baby daughter in the sunshine shouted out to him: “Thanks for bringing humanity back to politics.
(6) The charity Bite the Ballot , which persuaded hundreds of thousands to register before the last general election, is to set up “democracy cafes” in Starbucks branches, laying on experts to explain how to register and vote, and what the referendum is all about (Bite the Ballot does not take sides but merely encourages participation).
(7) In London, Bella set up Billy's Cafe, named after her brother, in which autistic people could work.
(8) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
(9) This is what inspired Jon Underwood to create the non-profit death cafe in 2011, based on the Swiss Cafe Mortel movement.
(10) The Hard Rock Cafe has long been famous for its queue, but that was so odd it was a tourist attraction, something people pointed and laughed at.
(11) But the co-founder of London's Prufrock cafe says that producing great espresso is "no more complicated than making bread".
(12) A case of asymptomatic and previously undiagnosed neurofibromatosis which presented with clitoral enlargement, "cafe-au-lait" spots, and pelvic masses is described.
(13) In Skipton, 20-year-old Alice Keirle had taken a 90-minute detour to avoid road closures and get to her waitressing job at the Boathouse Cafe.
(14) Kerstine Appunn and her boyfriend took three and a half months to land a spacious two-bedroomed flat in Prenzlauer Berg, one of Berlin’s pricier inner-city districts, where organic cafes populate the pretty, tree-lined streets.
(15) As candidates and supporters packed out cafes and community centres, desperate to shore up to support on caucus eve, life continued as normal for most Iowans on Monday – with many critical of how hopefuls for the Republican presidential nomination have conducted their campaigns.
(16) Annette Ramelsberger of the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, who has attended every trial day so far, told German broadcaster DLF that she had been struck in particular by how unmoved Zschäpe was by the accounts given by the parents of 21-year-old Halit Yozgat, the owner of an internet cafe who was gunned down in broad daylight in Kassell on 6 April 2006.
(17) In a dilapidated cafe in north Baghdad under a TV set blasting patriotic songs in support of Iraq's embattled prime minister, a young man looked grave.
(18) Sydney siege inquest: hostage pleaded with police to storm Lindt cafe urgently Read more They had taken cover after the final group to escape the siege had successfully fled in the early hours of 16 December 2014.
(19) An undulating lightweight roof is supported by 211 narrow steel columns, sheltering a glass box holding the cafe and shop, and a chestnut timber-covered box holding the displays.
(20) After publishing their work, the two were having a beer on the balcony of a 17th-century cafe overlooking a Brussels park.
Chafe
Definition:
(v. t.) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
(v. t.) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
(v. t.) To fret and wear by rubbing; as, to chafe a cable.
(v. i.) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
(v. i.) To be worn by rubbing; as, a cable chafes.
(v. i.) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.
(n.) Heat excited by friction.
(n.) Injury or wear caused by friction.
(n.) Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Single New Yorkers have long chafed at the bad maths that means they're sometimes paying twice the rent their coupled-up friends pay; couples can pool their resources and get a nicer place.
(2) Posterior iris chafing by the loop or the optic portion of sulcusfixated posterior chamber lens implants may cause a spectrum of disorders that include iris-pigment epithelial "window defects," pigment dispersion with or without elevation of intraocular pressure, intermittent microhyphemas with transient visual obscurations, and the UGH syndrome.
(3) Warren, a vocal advocate for economic fairness and Wall Street reform, has notably refrained from endorsing former secretary of state Clinton, Senator Bernie Sanders, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee or former Virginia senator Jim Webb.
(4) A popular theme in Shin's films - not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s - concerns the plight of women chafing under the limits of society's expectations, such as The Evergreen Tree (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write.
(5) All eyes will be watching closely as Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee spar over the economy, environment, foreign policy, labor rights, and more.
(6) What revolution worth its salt can be fuelled by demands of freedom and dignity and not have gender nestled in its beating heart – especially in a country replete with misogyny, religious fundamentalism (of both the Islamic and Christian kind) and which for 60 years has chafed under a hybrid of military-police rule?
(7) The son of long-time Republican senator John Chafee, Lincoln Chafee worked as a blacksmith at harness-racing tracks and served as mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island, before he was appointed to the US Senate in 1999, after his father’s death.
(8) Another Democratic presidential candidate, former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee, also appeared to refer to Clinton, telling the DNC: “After 30 years in public service, I’ve had no scandals.
(9) The implantation site has been relocated to reduce chafing by clothing and the post-operative wound dressing technique has been altered to minimise catheter movement.
(10) The son of longtime Rhode Island Republican senator John Chafee, the presidential candidate’s biography brags that he “attended Montana State University horse shoeing school in Bozeman and worked as a farrier at harness racing tracks for seven years”.
(11) Of the other candidates for the Democratic nomination, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley (3%), former Virginia senator and Reagan navy secretary Jim Webb (2%) and former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee (1%) all scored less than “uncommitted” (6%) and “not sure” (8%).
(12) There are long-running tensions between the state and the large Uighur Muslim population, with many in the community chafing at cultural and religious restrictions and some aspiring to independence.
(13) Major figures in Erbil have chafed at gains made by their Syrian neighbours, particularly during the battle for the Yazidi centre of Sinjar , and responses have included cutting back access to the region across the mutual border.
(14) Sample lyric: “It’s barbaric but hey, it’s home.” Most potential for chafing Facebook Twitter Pinterest Steven Pasquale and Kelli O'Hara in The Bridges of Madison County.
(15) Having chafed for years at their own tradition being denied a hearing, they should resist the temptation to turn the tables.
(16) This progressive loss may be related to chronic uveitis from iris chafing by the implant or to direct mechanical damage to the corneal endothelium.
(17) You certainly could make the case that that might have led to a different outcome – it might have hastened the departure of President Assad, but it also would have subjected the United States to a whole host of more significant risks, including more significant outlays of funds to fund essentially a war in Syria .” Lincoln Chafee, the former Rhode Island governor who is polling below 1% in the Democratic race, said the US “unfortunately bears a great deal of responsibility for the refugee crisis because of our invasion of Iraq and the spread of chaos in the region as a result”.
(18) O’Malley, with 0.8%, trailed the former navy secretary and Virginia senator Jim Webb (1.3%) but was in front of the former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee , who had 0.3%.
(19) After the early exit of no-hopers Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb, Hillary Clinton is running against three remaining opponents for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 : Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley and herself.
(20) Beijing loyalists in Hong Kong’s legislature will say, ‘We need to protect the integrity of the motherland, you’re not allowed to say things like ‘Hong Kong is not China.’’ They worry these sentiments will spread to places like Tibet and Xinjiang, western Chinese provinces with large populations of ethnic minorities and a history of chafing under Beijing’s yoke.