(v. i.) To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
(v. i.) To chuckle; to laugh.
(v. t.) To call, as a hen her chickens.
(n.) The chuck or call of a hen.
(n.) A sudden, small noise.
(n.) A word of endearment; -- corrupted from chick.
(v. t.) To strike gently; to give a gentle blow to.
(v. t.) To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch.
(v. t.) To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
(n.) A slight blow or pat under the chin.
(n.) A short throw; a toss.
(n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon.
(n.) A small pebble; -- called also chuckstone and chuckiestone.
(n.) A game played with chucks, in which one or more are tossed up and caught; jackstones.
(n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuck steak; a chuck roast.
Example Sentences:
(1) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
(2) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
(3) Seven more were charged in the US and four more, including the former Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer, pleaded guilty.
(4) Secretary of state John Kerry and defense secretary Chuck Hagel are still expected to meet their Russian counterparts for a series of discussions over other matters at the State Department on Friday.
(5) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?
(6) On Friday the defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, defended Shinseki, but added: “We know things went wrong.
(7) Should I man up, chuck out the Union flags and get back to grumbling about the Games?
(8) It also includes vice president Joe Biden, secretary of state John Kerry, the defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, and several of the most senior Obama advisors, lawyers and staff.
(9) In his book Fight the Power , Chuck rails against everything from Hollywood to the sports industry for portraying blacks as 'watermelon stealin', chicken eatin', knee knockin', eye poppin' lazy, crazy, dancin', submissive, Toms.
(10) He hadn’t known, and he’d chucked her the moment he found out.
(11) You should do what Chuck Grassley does,” he said.
(12) On stage, Chuck gave his speech about the weapons of mass distraction and praised 'all my brothers and sisters from the Caribbean', though it's hard to see who in the audience he was referring to.
(13) Two nurses ready a yellow and black machine that looks like a drill press with an oversized button where the chuck would be.
(14) Chuck in an n, chuck in a p. Spastic was another one, the c-word was a no-no.
(15) "So we are restricting them from breastfeeding there, while in society breastfeeding mothers are still getting chucked out of cafes and out of libraries.
(16) "I think the American people are not interested in Benghazi," said Senator Chuck Schumer.
(17) If people don't like what national politicians do, they can chuck them out at the next election.
(18) In her talks, Mother Agnes claims to be part of the "liberal opposition to Assad”, said Chuck Kauffman, national co-ordinator of the Alliance For Global Justice, which hosted Mother Agnes’ talk and workshop at its annual Tear Down The Walls gathering in Tucson in November.
(19) The other pollutants chucked out by diesel meant that, on balance, the tax regime should be pushing people towards petrol.
(20) It’s in these barren parts that the Edwards air force base is located, where Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time, and where the test pilots celebrated in Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff proved their mettle before going on to become America’s first astronauts.
Jettison
Definition:
(n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
(n.) See Jetsam, 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
(2) A "cornerstone" of the legal system, the universal right to a solicitor upon arrest, could be jettisoned in favour of means-testing under controversial plans drawn up by the Ministry of Justice.
(3) Ministers float ideas about measuring rates of family break-up, which they must know they can do almost nothing about, and then scramble to jettison those financial metrics over which they exert the most direct control.
(4) During the local election campaign Farage has also jettisoned, seemingly on his whim, longstanding policies such as a flat rate of tax.
(5) "The STOVL is unable to land vertically on to a carrier in hot, humid and low pressure weather conditions without having to jettison heavy loads.
(6) However, during the past decade Paltrow appears to have decided to jettison her career and become a full-time spouter of nonsense about food , exercise and her own inner journey , all detailed on her website, Goop.
(7) He had been forced to jettison the entire consignment without compensation from his dealers.
(8) NBC dropped Miss Universe when the broadcaster jettisoned The Apprentice last month due to “derogatory statements” by Trump regarding immigrants.
(9) It's clearly not in the interests of ideologues who want to jettison the welfare state to help educate the public about its real value.
(10) The plan was for the plane to spray the sarin over a target site, but because of a malfunction, each tank still contained 90 gallons of sarin when they were jettisoned in an isolated area of the site at 8.29am.
(11) Many Conservatives have become increasingly concerned that in the government’s helter-skelter pursuit of the referendum, they have been jettisoning or watering down key elements of their legislative programme.
(12) It is one that Blatter will calibrate according to whether sticking with the tiny Gulf state, contending with temperatures of 50C-plus (122F) in the summer, and pressure over its treatment of migrant workers, is more trouble than jettisoning it.
(13) You Adebolajo sprinted towards the officers jettisoning the knife and carrying the cleaver above your head as if intent on attacking one or more of them, while you Adebowale went down the adjacent pavement and pointed the gun at the officers.
(14) As a result of his recalcitrance, Nkunda was jettisoned and replaced at the negotiating table by another CNDP leader, Bosco Ntaganda.
(15) The two short term goals for Osborne were to remain loyal to his manifesto but also jettison those nonsensical parts of the manifesto that he had never intended to deliver, but had merely inserted to wrongfoot Labour or abandon in a negotiation with his expected Lib Dem partners.
(16) Channel 4 is also cutting up to £75m from its £600m programme budget this year, while Five has jettisoned stars, including Trisha Goddard, to make savings.
(17) A further claim is that Crosby, whose company in Australia represents drinks industry interests, improperly influenced the British government to jettison a minimum unit price for alcohol.
(18) Giving money to any charity is an inherently political act – you say, for example, that you jettisoned the RSPCA when their focus switched to foxhunting.
(19) Shadow cabinet ministers were reported to be debating whether to jettison the Osborne deficit straitjacket and promise an extensive programme of investment in housing and public services.
(20) There are no indications that Mike D'Antoni's job is in jeopardy, but after seeing how quickly the Lakers organization jettisoned his predecessor, he can't feel too secure either.