(n.) A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
(n.) A rapid or easy passing over.
(v. i.) To move in a canter.
(v. t.) To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
(n.) One who cants or whines; a beggar.
(n.) One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
Example Sentences:
(1) On another day, and possibly under another referee, Newcastle would have cantered to victory.
(2) Ernest Owusu, 23, sports engineering graduate, from London Ernest Owusu Photograph: Alicia Canter "This is my sixth Glastonbury, I love it here.
(3) It is not impossible this could all be done by the end of April, Leicester of the unbursting bubble not just champions, but champions at a hard-fought canter.
(4) If jet lag has you awake before the market is open for breakfast, you can potter up Fairfax to Canter's, a 24-hour deli that's been a Los Angeles Landmark since 1931.
(5) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : Harper Adams University Runner-up : University of Sheffield Runner-up : University of Leicester Research impact Facebook Twitter Pinterest Professor Mary Herbert and Dr Louise Hyslop from Newcastle University with their research impact award for pioneering IVF techniques.
(6) The bookmakers were proved right after Murray cantered to victory.
(7) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian A very unexpected Glasto anthem I didn't expect Katy Perry's Dark Horse to be the highlight of my Glastonbury, but somewhere in the middle of a very sweaty dance tent at some point in the early hours of Saturday morning, Jamie xx dropped it midway through an already mindblowing DJ set and the place exploded.
(8) Our fans have been through a lot but, hopefully, it will be a special day for them.” Back in December, down on the south coast, Boro ended Brighton’s unbeaten beginning to the season with an emphatic 3-0 victory and looked set to canter away with the title.
(9) Q ranged from 106 (rest) to 571 ml.min-1.kg-1 (canter), and stroke volume went from 1.34 (rest) to a maximum of 1.58 liters (walk).
(10) The young Spaniard, who has deputised at right-back with such aplomb this season, had the confidence to canter goalwards and plant the ball with his left foot into the far corner of the goal.
(11) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian GPs battle fatalism in neighbourhood with Britain's worst life expectancy Read more Two-thirds of GPs in the south of England said service had deteriorated in the last year – the highest proportion of any part of the country.
(12) Animals running at canter or gallop show major asymmetries between forelimb muscles on the first paw and on the lead paw sides.
(13) It is an assessment that continues to resonate, not just because of who it came from but also because it aptly encapsulates the swaggering brilliance of that Liverpool team, one which having crushed Forest went on to clinch the club's 17th league championship at a canter.
(14) Struggling against the harsh gusts of Lake Michigan, they soon become a blur of chapped noses and sharp tailoring breaking into a canter on Chicago’s Southside.
(15) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : Royal Agricultural University Runner-up : University of Edinburgh Runner-up : University of Bristol students’ union Teaching excellence Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sean Mackney, Dr Sharon Edwards and Sam McCormack from Buckinghamshire New University with the award for teaching excellence and Paul Sinha.
(16) The basis of the survey was the inability of horses to take part in cantering exercise as a result of injury or disease.
(17) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian It is fair to say that Mary is more of an idealist than Arron.
(18) Canter's Background Interference Procedure was designed to increase the sensitivity of the Bender test to the discernment of organic brain damage.
(19) The rate of detection, confirmation, control and follow-up of hypertension in the Canteres Primary Care Center was evaluated two years after the beginning of the hypertension program from a sample of 1219 clinical records.
(20) This study correlated the Canter's Background Interference Procedure (BIP) scores of 141 adult epileptics with the five variables of age at onset of symptoms, etiology, type of symptoms, severity of generalized background dysrhythmia, and locus of lesion.
Whine
Definition:
(v. i.) To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.
(v. t.) To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.
(n.) A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s great that the new Star Wars film is more diverse , with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley in significant roles; I am pleased to see everyone on #BoycottStarWarsVII gnash and whine uselessly.
(2) You can whine about the politics of this until you are green, white and orange in the face but if you want to learn Irish – and many people do – your best bet is to organise your own classes.
(3) Green Day love it The American rock band Green Day are proud champions of Salinger's antihero; their 1994 song Basket Case is a nasally homage in nasally whines.
(4) I whine that I haven’t been able to successfully place an order, let alone indicate how i’d like my steak done.
(5) So that rightwing free market ideologues can open up all those markets that the US have been whining to the World Trade Organisation about for decades; for some ideological principal that says people should pay less tax and privately fund only the services they need and want, and screw the collective community if they cannot afford to pay their insurance; that puts money in the pockets of the very richest in society, while the very poorest will be expected to step up or die out; that any public provision will not be on the basis of the most needy, but on the basis of who those in control consider to be the most deserving.
(6) On 16 November I find another writerly whine: "I feel sucked hollow."
(7) "Can you explain to the Whining Yanks that they didn't have a goal disallowed in the match against Slovenia, since the referee clearly blew for what he perceived to be a foul before the ball had reached Edu and ended up in the back of the net," lectures Matt.
(8) Whining about cab drivers transcends national boundaries.
(9) When you carry on moping, and whining like Charlie Brown after listening to the whole Smiths catalog at every single club you've played, it's hard to believe Tristelme was ever destined for true greatness.
(10) He would be watching the dogfights, planes diving and looping, their engines whining, each hurling fire at the other.
(11) Effects of diazepam were examined on the whine reaction elicited by LH stimulation and on unit activities in the LH and Abm in cats.
(12) The whole show is really just a riff on that well-meaning girl in 1980s Grange Hill whining, "Why do you eat so many sandwiches, Ro-land?"
(13) We know we'll get into trouble for it and we're certainly not whining about that."
(14) And in the absence of a firm rebuttal, all you can do, as Kerry did and Romney is now doing, is whine.
(15) This Fourth of July weekend, we Americans did what we're known for: we grilled meats, whined about air travel, and looked back in fondness at our Founding Fathers who refused to pay their taxes.
(16) Their president-elect whining about someone being mean about his restaurant, or gloating over The Apprentice’s ratings dip under Arnold Schwarzenegger.
(17) As for its leadership, the current choice of new brooms includes a prince from a non-democracy, a South Korean billionaire and Fifa insider who nodded Blatterism through for the best part of two decades before deciding opportunely to speak out (and is now whining about being taken out by the “hitman” that is Blatter’s ethics committee), and Michel Platini , whose reputation appears to have a half-life shorter than most highly radioactive isotopes.
(18) As the new Zimbabwe effectively became a one-party state under the gifted but autocratic Mugabe, as terrible droughts undermined the economy and confidence of what was so recently one of the richest and most fertile African countries and as Aids cut a swathe through the population, the old pariah, defiant and bigoted to the last, could not resist saying, with the familiar Smithy whine: "I told you so."
(19) She was wolf-reared in Judd Apatow's tumescent-adolescent boy-zone (none of whose denizens is ever cast for his hair colour), but she can take any of those boys to the woodshed for a rhetorical spanking, rich in obscenity and scatology, in that razor-sharp whine.
(20) Offensive behaviour, i.e., whine response to a rod presented in front of the snout and blowing air on back hair was markedly observed, and whine, attacking and biting responses to tapping with a rod on the back in these cats were marked.