(n.) A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.
(n.) The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
(n.) That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.
(n.) A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt
(n.) A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.
(v.i) To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot.
(v. t.) To pelt with clods.
(v. t.) To throw violently; to hurl.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the case of fibrinogen, the immunofluorescent pattern had a 'clod distribution' up to a 1:128 dilution of the antiserum.
(2) One Sunday recently while staying in London, I took a stroll in the gardens of Temple, the insular clod of quads and offices between the Strand and the Embankment.
(3) ; The Season Saga; The Clod Hoper, Belly Laughs, The Little Woman, Pulp Fairies; The Grumpy Court Jester (BBC Children’s television – Playdays); Fact of Faith (BBC Radio Drama Young Writer’s Festival); The Victim (Royal Court Young Writer’s Festival & InterPlay Festival, Australia).
(4) Since then the "Lahore incident", as Senator John Kerry called it this week, has riveted Pakistan – triggering a media firestorm, plunging the clod-footed government into fresh crisis, and highlighting the deep lack of trust between rival spy services that raises questions about the hunt for al-Qaida in the tribal belt.
(5) The nuclear blockade is recognizable in the dark-clodded, rigid nuclei which remain small.
(6) The focus here is on Abraham, played by Gary Oliver, a Happy Shopper Brian Blessed who leaves you with the impression that if he did have a hotline to God, it was only so God could tell him to stop being such a boorish clod.
(7) When Gould wrote a lengthy article for the New York Times in 2008 about her compulsion to reveal details of her private life online – she coined the term "oversharing" – more than 1,200 irate comments were left on the Times website condemning her "self-exposure" and calling her everything from a "moronic juvenile" to an "unfeeling, self-absorbed unsavoury clod".
(8) They could be dates, dried mushrooms, slivers of bark, autumn leaves, dried clods of putty, brazil nuts, soil or sleeping mice.
(9) Is it a narcissistic compulsion to demonstrate how much more thoughtful and sensitive you are than the ignorant clod who offended you?
(10) In a terrain that was recently farmland, the most depressing detail is the featureless, scrubby horizon These dispirited infantrymen hardly even have the luxury of a trench; they huddle in what looks like a gash left behind by a shell, and may have been told – as were many of their colleagues – to use clods of earth as camouflage, burying themselves alive.
(11) My dad in his cords, out of the car, pulling clods from tyres.
Dolt
Definition:
(n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
(v. i.) To behave foolishly.
Example Sentences:
(1) George is unreliable... untrustworthy... to coin a phrase, a dolt."
(2) 28 mins: Look at the pedantic dolts I have to deal with: "So which bit of '4 mins ... 7mins ... 10 mins' is 'minute-by-minute' commentary, exactly?"
(3) His predecessor, Richard Daley, was embraced as an authentic Chicagoan with no ambitions beyond the city, even if he came across in public as a monosyllabic dolt.
(4) Analyses were conducted on three reference standard materials certified for their methyl mercury content, DOLT-1, DORM-1, and TORT-1, provided by the National Research Council of Canada.
(5) The cull might help to destroy the industry these bloody-minded dolts claim to defend.
(6) Some dolt in a car coat jogs around for a while, before being shoved to the ground by several police officers waving sticks.
(7) Of course, if you have £9bn to spend on a party, surely only a dolt could fail.
(8) Another critique of the great war is that the troops were commanded by dolts, a fact it must be said that is contested by many eminent historians.
(9) That's the point of the episode, you catastrophic dolt.