(n.) A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress.
(n.) Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.
(n.) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
(n.) A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.
(v. i.) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.
Example Sentences:
(1) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
(2) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(3) Source: Reuters Dirty old river If the notion of an Englishman’s castle as his home is being challenged on the Levels, where scores of properties flooded, the bursting of the Thames from its banks a few hundred yards from the royal castle of Windsor has raised the issue to a new height.
(4) GMTV presenter Penny Smith has already left and Ben Shephard and Andrew Castle will be departing before the autumn relaunch.
(5) According to Kadyrov’s multiple outlandish, sometimes confused, statements the enemies aren’t just at the gates, but have entered the castle and are conspiring to take the country down.
(6) The ghosts of Barbara Castle and Peter Shore , never mind Hugh Gaitskell (and, for much of his life, Harold Wilson), were never quite exorcised by the New Labour Europhiles.
(7) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
(8) Channel 4's best audience was for Dover Castle: a Time Team Special, with 1.4 million and 6% in the 8pm hour and another 120,000 on digital catchup service Channel 4 +1 an hour later.
(9) Last Friday evening, ahead of the congress, the politicians gathered with 100 guests for a dinner in the vaulted cellar of a castle, Burg Weisenau, in the nearby city of Mainz.
(10) The tour guide told us that British soldiers who lived and worked in the castle often married local women – something I didn’t know.
(11) Its lines soften, its edges fade; it shrinks into the raw cold from the river, more like a shrouded mountain than a castle built for kings.
(12) This is some "Englishman's castle", merely the direct result of half a century of political bribery .
(13) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
(14) Castle and exhibitions open daily 1 Feb-24 Dec, 10am-6pm, visitor centre open daily 12 March- 31 Oct, 10am-5pm.
(15) Demi Restaurant, Rruga Butrinti, Saranda (+355 85 224 636) Rozafa Castle, Shkodra, Albania If you like horror stories, you'll love Rozafa Castle.
(16) We’re having such a good time,” said Tess McKenzie, of Castle Welsh Crafts.
(17) John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes, also invented the sunbed, patenting his first device in 1896 – by royal appointment no less, as Edward VII apparently kept one at Windsor Castle for his gout.
(18) In chronological order the four shortlisted contenders are: Keir Hardie, Labour's first MP (1892), the nearest thing it has to a founder; Clement Attlee, presiding mastermind of the postwar welfare state; Aneurin Bevan, charismatic architect of Labour's best-loved, most enduring institution, the NHS; and Barbara Castle, the woman prime minister Labour never had.
(19) The last bit means "baron of Guttenberg", a village in the Franken area of Bavaria where the Guttenbergs have had their family seat – an impressive castle – since 1315.
(20) For Merkel, the meeting is the start of a week of whirlwind diplomacy that will see her meeting heads of state in Tallin, Prague and Warsaw before hosting first the leaders of the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, and then the presidents of Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia at Schloss Meseberg, a baroque castle outside Berlin.
Hoarding
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoard
(n.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.
(n.) A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something.
Example Sentences:
(1) This early hyperphagy had later consequences for the feeding behaviour of adult males, which looked for food and consumed it more intensively in a new environment and also hoarded it.
(2) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(3) The consequences of 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of the mesolimbic dopamine system on hoarding behavior were investigated in the rat.
(4) That would mean reform of a property tax system that manages to stimulate demand, encourage land hoarding and be regressive all at the same time.
(5) Worse still for Modi are indications the policy has not unearthed the hoards of “black money” he promised.
(6) Then the intersect of regression line of food hoarded during meal time vs. body weight with the X-axis was measured.
(7) The results fail to support the object value hypothesis of hoarding.
(8) A ten-day baseline indicated consistently elevated urine sugar levels and that the patient frequently violated his prescribed low sugar diet by stealing, trading and hoarding high sugar foods.
(9) Its hoarding proclaims: "An unashamedly ultra-modern masterpiece emerges alongside the most celebrated of cathedrals."
(10) UK householders are estimated to be hoarding at least £1bn worth of electrical and electronic equipment in their homes which are no longer used but which still hold significant value, with the UK market value for trading pre-owned equipment potentially worth up to £3bn.
(11) The Gurlitt hoard is a survival of the Nazis' strange and ambivalent attitude to art, from Hitler's aesthetic New Order to the simple philistine greed that probably motivated most of their art theft.
(12) For now, just let me say that while old progressives instinctively hoard power to the nation state, the new progressive approach is intrinsically internationalist on issues such as Europe, migration, trade and foreign aid.
(13) It is concluded that 1) the main response of the rat to starvation is food hoarding rather than ingestion and 2) the estimation of the body weight set point from hoarding is not affected by the costs of food procurement.
(14) One of those to question the haste with which the hoard is being put on public display is Gurlitt’s cousin, Ute Werner, who legally challenged the will in which he left his collection to the Bern museum.
(15) The most recent figures released by the Reserve Bank of India show that about 12.6tn rupees have been deposited since the rupee recall was announced, far more than the Modi government had predicted, indicating that it may have underestimated the amount of untaxed wealth being hoarded by citizens.
(16) Looking up we saw a large tabby on top of a wooden hoarding which was covering a building site in Vauxhall.
(17) Ronald Lewis finds it hard to believe it is 10 years since the water came, even though the newspaper clippings he hoarded in a scrapbook and pinned to a wall are yellowed now by age.
(18) The "object value" hypothesis suggests rats hoard objects that they perceive as valuable as related to some state or need.
(19) The results indicated that the regression of hoarding behavior on body weight was virtually identical at estrus and diestrus (same slope), but the critical level of body weight for the onset of hoarding behavior was 31.2 g lower at estrus than at diestrus.
(20) Unlike the banks, consumers, especially the hardest pressed ones, would spend rather than hoard.