(n.) An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
(n.) One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater.
(n.) A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.
(n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
(n.) To deceive and defraud; to impose upon; to trick; to swindle.
(n.) To beguile.
(v. i.) To practice fraud or trickery; as, to cheat at cards.
(n.) Wheat, or bread made from wheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) 12 October China’s quality watchdog says it is “highly concerned” about the cheat device in VW’s diesel cars.
(2) "I always thought it would be the Colombians who would cheat me out of the money, but they made good," Juan told the magazine.
(3) We’re prepared to inform international society about the steps we’re taking, the investigation, the decisions.” Pound’s report, commissioned in the wake of a devastating documentary by the German journalist Hajo Seppelt for ARD in December last year, outlined systemic cheating on a grand scale including a second “shadow lab” that was used to screen samples, anti-doping labs infiltrated by secret service agents and positive tests covered up for cash.
(4) No evidence of systematic cheating has been found in the tests administered by the four other main providers of English language tests in Britain.
(5) For a "free form" class project in senior year I did a quiz show-style performance piece based on her life ("Ted Hughes cheated on Sylvia Plath: True or False?")
(7) Perspective needed on migration and the UK | Letters Read more “Experience tells us that employers who are prepared to cheat employment rules are also likely to breach health and safety rules and pay insufficient tax.
(8) The report of the inquiry, which helped bring down the Irish government of the day, found fraud and serious illegality in Goodman's companies in the 1980s that had involved not just the faking of documents, but also the commissioning of bogus official stamps, including those of other countries, to misclassify carcasses; passing off of inferior beef trimmings as higher-grade meat; cheating of customs officers; and institutionalised tax evasion.
(9) It has been a long time for me to be playing football and I didn’t want to cheat them or anyone.
(10) But a report sent from the research centre to the directorate as far back as 2010 warned that its testing had found potential cheating by a car-maker.
(11) During a subsequent session we were told that if we had cheated during the test we were putting lives at risk.
(12) It is about whether Mr Woolas should be disqualified for cheating.
(13) The NT makes an ambitious and worthwhile argument: the evidence of a misaligned system of food production is evident at almost every stage – in polluted watercourses and compacted land, in horsemeat passed off as beef and foreign produce repackaged and traded as British, in gangmasters cruelly exploiting migrant labour, and the processing industry cheating on quality.
(14) With Redknapp's and Mandaric's trial now over, it can be revealed that as a result of Operation Apprentice, Storrie was prosecuted, charged with cheating the public revenue in relation to the alleged payment to Faye, and that he and Mandaric were also tried for tax evasion over an alleged termination fee paid to the midfielder Eyal Berkovic via a company, Medellin Enterprises, registered in the British Virgin Islands.
(15) How big a problem is cheating and plagiarism among students?
(16) Everyone seemed to be cheating and the instructors weren't doing anything to stop it.
(17) Yet at HMRC it was decided that prominent British individuals found to be cheating on their taxes would not be prosecuted, a process which would have led to them being named and the facts coming out.
(18) Guenter Verheugen, the enlargement commissioner who helped Cyprus into the EU, told the European parliament yesterday he felt "disappointed" and "cheated" by the Greek-Cypriot government.
(19) Leicester City’s dash to an unlikely Premier League title is billed as football’s most romantic story in a generation but the Football League is still investigating the club’s 2013-14 promotion season amid strong concerns from other clubs they may have cheated financial fair play rules.
(20) Tribunal cases against tax cheats should be handled more quickly – many tax cases can take a decade to resolve and the first-tier tribunals have a backlog of 30,000 cases waiting to be heard.
Darnel
Definition:
(n.) Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other species, as Lolium perenne (rye grass or ray grass), and its variety L. Italicum (Italian rye grass), are highly esteemed for pasture and for making hay.
Example Sentences:
(1) It lacks introns, it contains a short poly(A) tract at its 3' end; it is flanked by 10-base pair (bp) direct repeats; and it corresponds closely at its 5' end to the transcription start site of the intron-containing GS gene (GSi) (Kuo, C. F. & Darnell, J. E., Jr. (1989) J. Mol.
(2) Ward ignored a weak challenge from young Darnell Furlong as two more experienced Rangers’ players loitered in the vicinity with little intent, then Ward made his way into the box and struck a shot that deflected off Sandro into the net.
(3) (2) Electron microscopic visualization of enzyme bound to Ad 2 DNA reveals the location of eight strong binding sites, at least five of which appear to correspond to promoters that have been identified in studies of Ad 2 transcription in vivo [Evans, R. M., Fraser, N., Ziff, E., Weber, J., Wilson, M., & Darnell, J.E.
(4) Darnell Hunt, director of the UCLA Bunche Centre for African American Studies, told al-Jazeera: "People have been talking about the issue of the lack of diversity in Hollywood … I think that certainly in terms of visibility and notoriety, this year has been quite remarkable."
(5) This complex sugar, which was purified from rat liver and which is a putative second messenger for insulin in nonneural vertebrate cells (Saltiel and Cuatrecasas, 1986; Saltiel, Osterman, and Darnell, 1988), causes hyperpolarization with decreased membrane conductance in L14 and L10 similar to the effects of insulin.
(6) (R. S. Herbst, N. Friedman, J. E. Darnell, Jr., and L. E. Babiss, Proc.
(7) For this match he tried another, making four changes to the side that flopped so meekly at Crystal Palace last week , omitting Darnell Furlong, dropping Adel Taarabt to the bench and sending Shaun Wright-Phillips back to cold storage.
(8) Based on the published nucleotide sequence for rat hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 (HNF-4; Sladek, F.M., Zhong, W., Lai, E. and Darnell, J.E., Jr. (1990) Genes Dev.
(9) Cole, television sources in Los Angeles indicated, was an unexpectedly nervous performer in auditions, and, they added, could not win over Mike Darnell, the influential reality show chief even in an Anglophile Fox network.
(10) RNA was extracted from the homogenate of the ovaries according to the hot phenol method after Scherrer and Darnell.
(11) The virion RNA molecules, as we have shown previously for thenonencapsidated 35S viral RNA (Fernandez-Muñoz and Darnell, 1976), is not labeled with [methyl-3H]methionine.
(12) In a variety of systems, histone mRNA has been shown to lack poly(A) (Adesnik and Darnell, 1972; Grunstein et al., 1973).
(13) Darnell helped bring Cowell to the US and launch American Idol 10 years ago, and the programme rapidly became the top-rated TV show on American US television, making Cowell one of the biggest stars in the country.
(14) Here we describe the embryonic expression of a chicken gene, ChickEn (Darnell et al.
(15) His recently departed boss at Fox, a post-moral humanoid named Mike Darnell, once said that the only thing he regretted about the controversy surrounding a show called Who's Your Daddy?
(16) The GAS binds a protein that is activated by IFN-gamma, which we have termed GAF (IFN-gamma activation factor; T. Decker, D. J. Lew, J. Mirkovitch, and J. E. Darnell, Jr., EMBO J., in press; D. J. Lew, T. Decker, I. Strehlow, and J. E. Darnell, Jr., Mol.
(17) When the liver is disaggregated and hepatocytes are cultured as a cellular monolayer for 24 h, a sharp decline (80 to 99% decrease) in the transcription of most liver-specific mRNAs, but not common mRNAs, occurs (Clayton and Darnell, Mol.
(18) We previously defined two distinct cell-specific DNA elements controlling the transient expression of the transthyretin gene in Hep G2 (human hepatoma) cells: a proximal promoter region (-202 base pairs [bp] to the cap site), and a far-upstream cell-specific enhancer located between 1.6 and 2.15 kilobases (kb) 5' of the cap site (R. H. Costa, E. Lai, and J. E. Darnell, Jr., Mol.
(19) Its inaugural project in Ferguson, a national call for organizers from around the country to ride down and quite literally show up in solidarity with residents, was organized by queer black leaders Patrisse Cullors and Darnell Moore.
(20) The Fox president of alternative entertainment, Mike Darnell, said: "Cheryl Cole has the whole X Factor package: She's an incredibly talented artist and performer, as well as a style icon, and she has that special charisma that draws in fans around the world."