(n.) Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Private equity millionaires, wealthy hedge fund managers, some of the most successful bankers in financial history – they crowded into Cavendish’s Georgian offices.
(2) Mark Cavendish, the flash "Manx Missile", who has won 25 stages of the Tour de France, thanks his "sprint train" with expensive watches and designer clobber when they lead him out to victory.
(3) All Cavendishes are lazy by nature, and my entire life has been a battle against indolence.
(4) But, even by Cavendish’s standards, the group of men who assembled in spring 2005 were notable for their power and success.
(5) You wish, you wish, you wish you were in Cavendish…” Jacob Bentley, news editor at the Nottingham student paper, Impact, which first published the video , says: “The bad thing is that it doesn’t shock me.
(6) Cavendish has been a McKinsey consultant, aid worker, and chief executive of the trust which rebuilt London's South Bank.
(7) I’d just have to call [OPQS head] Patrick [Lefevere].” Another possible target for the future may be the one-day Classics; Cavendish has already won Milan-San Remo and was not far off a repeat victory this year, but others may be within his register.
(8) I’m sure I could win it if I put myself to it, but I’ve worked hard with Omega-Pharma to build a team around sprint performance, the team really look after me and do everything they can to make sure that I have what I need to win; my job is about giving back [for] their investment,” Cavendish says.
(9) Leigh said that he was not involved in the decision to sell Smythson through Cavendish and that the sale was a competitive process with several prospective buyers involved.
(10) By his own lofty standards Cavendish's return of two stage wins from this year's Tour has been paltry and myriad signs of hitherto unseen fallibility, a team that is clearly not good enough to work in his service and suggestions that his star is on the wane will leave him with much to ponder.
(11) Over the years, Cavendish has given the Conservative party about £120,000 and Leigh has given the party around £125,000 himself.
(12) The sprinters had been expected to provide fireworks at the Tour, but the match never happened, because of Cavendish’s finish-straight crash in Harrogate on day one.
(13) Cavendish's victory was also a team effort, if more spectacular and of shorter duration.
(14) The sprints aren’t usually very controlled, normally it’s hard to keep a grip and ensure a clean lead-out, but this year the big difference will be having Cavendish and Kittel there, which means their teams will have to keep the race together,” says Ben Swift.
(15) "Mark Cavendish might like to place his mother in Harrogate," said Prudhomme on Thursday.
(16) It was not linked to Sutton’s departure in any way, or reported outside specialist media, but the head of the Manxman’s Dimension Data squad, Brian Smith, quit on Tuesday, and with his successor yet to be named it remains unclear what the fallout will be for Cavendish’s quest for the solitary men’s omnium place.
(17) Refreshments are available at the Cavendish Pavilion which is close to the Sandholme car park.
(18) When you realise that the total distance covered each day can be up to 100km, and bear in mind that pedalling speed is vital for a sprinter such as Cavendish, the benefits of riding the Sixes seem obvious, particularly with the 2015 season so close; Cavendish will kick off on 19 January in Argentina.
(19) He could be favoured by a change in format in the track omnium, now heavily weighted towards the points race, a discipline that suits Cavendish.
(20) Cavendish does not seem overly perturned, rolling along towards the front of the peloton, satisfied that his team-mates will reel in the upstarts and set the stage for a sprint finish.
Mask
Definition:
(n.) A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.
(n.) That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
(n.) A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show.
(n.) A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
(n.) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.
(n.) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
(n.) A screen for a battery.
(n.) The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
(v. t.) To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
(v. t.) To disguise; to cover; to hide.
(v. t.) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
(v. t.) To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.
(v. i.) To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
(v. i.) To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.
Example Sentences:
(1) The blocking action may have masked and hindered detection of the stimulatory action of barium in other systems.
(2) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
(3) Though immunocytochemistry did not show staining of synaptic regions this may be due to masking of the reactive epitope.
(4) Such factors can mask any interactions between biologic factors of the aging female reproductive system and other social factors that might otherwise detemine fertility during the later reproductive years.
(5) The interresponse-time reinforcement contingencies inherent in these schedules may actually mask the effects of overall reinforcement rate; thus differences in response rate as a function of reinforcement rate when interresponse-time reinforcement is eliminated may be underestimated.
(6) In gastric cancers the major finding was the occurrence of extensive masking of lectin binding sites by sialic acid which was not seen in normal mucosa.
(7) The expression of such secondary and tertiary syphilis is commonly masked and distorted by the long-term effects of subcurative doses of antibiotics; in fact, late latent and tertiary syphilis produce symptoms and immunosuppression similar to the profile of AIDS.
(8) After induction of anesthesia, the airway of those in group A was maintained with a conventional tracheal tube; in group B, with a laryngeal mask airway.
(9) To determine if the type of mechanical ventilation used (ie, face mask, nasal prongs, or endotracheal tube) was associated with GPNN, a matched case-control analysis was performed.
(10) Data were analyzed by investigators who were masked to treatment assignment or phase of study.
(11) The air entrainment devices from oxygen masks of four manufacturers (Henleys Medical Supplies Ltd, Vickers Medical, Intersurgical Ltd, C R Bard International Ltd) were studied.
(12) North Korea's blustering defiance at the annual US-South Korean exercises masks just a little fear that they could easily be turned into an all-out attack, and seems to work on the principle that the more you shout, the safer you will be.
(13) Since headache can often represent the warning symptom of a masked depression, in the present study sulpiride has been administered to patients suffering from nonorganic headache syndromes.
(14) • Police would be given discretion to remove face masks from people on the street "under any circumstances where there is reasonable suspicion that they are related to criminal activity".
(15) Analyses of this artificial curve allow estimation of that part of the internal interactions uninfluenced by the masking effect.
(16) Compared to previous masking studies of orientation selective units, non-oriented units have somewhat broader spatial frequency sensitivity curves, in agreement with primate neurophysiology.
(17) The contralateral masked condition was performed using 30-dB-SL 400-Hz narrow-band masking noise centered at frequency of test tone.
(18) But the research drills down into the data to examine different cohorts separately, and discovers that reassuring overall averages are masking some striking variations.
(19) Older subjects were found to be significantly more susceptible to the backward masking effect over longer delays between the target and masking stimuli.
(20) We have compared an alternative breathing system for preoxygenation comprising a Hudson face mask with high oxygen inflow (48 litre min-1) and a Mapleson A breathing system (100 ml kg-1 min-1).