(n.) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
(v. i.) To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south.
(n.) A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.
(v. i.) To gape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.
(2) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
(3) With the increasing English influence after the British occupation of the Cape, the name was changed to the more Anglicised New Brighton before finally becoming Woodstock.
(4) Obama finishes his South African trip on Sunday, when he plans to give a speech on US-Africa policy at the University of Cape Town.
(5) During his career in South Africa, he played an active role in the then Cape of Good Hope, Western Branch, of the British Medical Association.
(6) • earthseasky.org North Zakynthos Potamitis Brothers, North Zakynthos Where to stay: Potamitis Brothers The brothers run boat trips (see below), but also own some rather special accommodation perched on the cliffs of Cape Skinari on the northern tip of Zakynthos.
(7) Climbing Table Mountain and hitting the nightlife are on the agenda too, as well as surfing Cape Town’s more challenging spots, from Long Beach to Kommetjie.
(8) The Cape Ray, a 648ft converted car ferry, has been waiting at the Spanish port of Rota for four months for the extraction of chemical weapons from Syria to be completed.
(9) The 288 study subjects included over 70% of Aboriginal adults residing in an isolated Cape York community.
(10) This cross-sectional descriptive study of 161 suicide inquests in the Cape Town area during 1983 and 1984 includes demographic characteristics of the study population and factors assumed to have had a determining influence on the act of suicide.
(11) Algeria had not scored a World Cup goal since they drew 1-1 with Northern Ireland at Mexico 1986, a run that took in five matches, including that dire 0-0 draw with England in Cape Town four years ago.
(12) Cape Town, South Africa experienced an upsurge in the level of political violence from May to July of 1986.
(13) Both RNAs are caped and, unlike in other tricornaviruses, both initiate with an A residue.
(14) To find out if any stone tips were being used on spears any earlier than that, Wilkins examined sharp stones found at a site called Kathu Pan, in the Northern Cape region of South Africa.
(15) Cape Town was conceived with a white-only centre, surrounded by contained settlements for the black and coloured labour forces to the east, each hemmed in by highways and rail lines, rivers and valleys, and separated from the affluent white suburbs by protective buffer zones of scrubland,” he says.
(16) It was responsible for 22.9% of all cancer deaths in Cape Town during the 3-year period.
(17) The outcome of treatment at the psychiatric day centre of the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in Cape Town is described.
(18) Speaking from a hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, where she is promoting her novel, she said: "I'm over the moon.
(19) A system has been developed to immunise all children entering the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, in whom immunisation is incomplete for age.
(20) The Air Ambulance Service completed 20 years of service to the people of southern Africa and particularly those of the Cape Province on 6 February 1986.
Sack
Definition:
(n.) A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
(n.) A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
(n.) A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
(n.) Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.
(n.) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
(n.) See 2d Sac, 2.
(n.) Bed.
(v. t.) To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
(v. t.) To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
(n.) The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
(v. t.) To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
Example Sentences:
(1) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(2) The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion club and will take over on 1 January, the team said.
(3) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
(4) The decortication is aimed at removing the chronic pleural sack and the possible parenchymatous lesions and at the recovery of the maximum functional pulmonary parenchyma.
(5) The prick tests, using both commercial allergens and specific extracts prepared from the most common types of coffee and their corresponding sacks, confirmed a sensitization in 21 workers (9.6%).
(6) Sacked Cronulla star Todd Carney said he was shattered when he learned a picture of him urinating in his own mouth in a nightclub toilet had been posted on social media.
(7) I inherited Ted-Fred from my mother, a one-eyed and wholly uncuddly pre-war sack of mange (the bear, not my mum), and I had briefly loved Albert, a brown knitted dog, although I have very little memory of him.
(8) The Welshman was sacked by a club who felt he could not meet their target of a place in the top four despite being given £200m to spend on players and further huge investment in training facilities and other infrastructure at the club.
(9) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
(10) On Tuesday afternoon, there was speculation that the government was rushed into making the announcement of Kerslake's departure following a report on Monday's Newsnight programme which claimed that Kerslake had been sacked.
(11) Most of the directors had lost faith in Moyes in February and Woodward's opinion was that he could have been sacked, justifiably, any time over the last two months.
(12) At first glance it seemed to be Carlos Alberto Parreira, a man who was sacked by Saudi Arabia after losing his first two matches at France 1998.
(13) Arnesen then compounded his problems by connecting sackings of his own scouting staff to Abramovich's recent financial losses - angering the Russian billionaire.
(14) Initially, 4-5 days post-operative, the plasma clot maintained the grafted cells in a loose sponge-like sack at the site of implantation.
(15) What a transformation for Coleman who, just over a year ago, had to fend off calls for the sack.
(16) Shoesmith was sacked without compensation by the north London council in December 2008 after a public and media outcry over the death of 17-month-old Peter Connelly, known as Baby P , a year earlier.
(17) The military leadership should have been sacked after the loss of Crimea, he said.
(18) The entire Carnarvon council should be sacked after refusing to fly the Aboriginal flag during Naidoc week, the local MP says.
(19) Luckily for him, nobody chose to point out that this was the least he could have done to guarantee he wouldn’t have to sack himself if the electorate voted to leave.
(20) This will mean that if you are sacked because your boss takes against you or because of a misunderstanding, you will be on your own unless you can afford to pay for a lawyer or you are a member of a trade union.