(v. t.) To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
(v. t.) To make clumsily.
(v. t.) To pave with cobblestones.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was able to cobble together a one-off £2.5bn package of support for business by shifting spending around and because the bankers' bonus tax has raised almost four times as much as expected.
(2) • +30 24240 65245 Don't miss Alonissos is great for hiking and one of the easiest trails is up the cobbled kalderimi, or old mule path, to Hora.
(3) But the scene in the 250-seater conference centre on an unassuming cobbled mews in central London was a far more serene affair.
(4) But throw the book at them and find all kinds of charges and cobble them together so that they’ll plea to a ‘lesser included’ is a technique that I think can sometimes be inappropriately used.” On January 11 2013, Swartz hanged himself.
(5) While having a coffee in the beautifully preserved, almost Disney-like, cobbled market square, he noticed me staring at a bright pink Trabant car parked up next to us.
(6) Much of the detail, however, could be got right quickly, by making internal changes in Whitehall or rewriting the Commons' rule book: allow MPs as a whole to appoint committee chairs in secret ballots, instead of in motions cobbled together by the whips; create more time for backbench bills; establish new conventions to restrict the guillotining of debate; extend the use of free votes; complete the half-hearted reform of the attorney general by freeing this partisan minister from providing supposedly independent legal advice.
(7) Further back there’s cobbled roads with white farm gates.
(8) The opposition has been cobbled together largely from politicians who have flip-flopped from various parties, including some who jumped ship from the incumbent party.
(9) The hotel has six individually-styled suites, which are cleverly incorporated into a building originally built by the Crusaders on a quiet cobbled lane.
(10) JJ Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness opens this week and it's a big, loud science fiction movie, cobbled together from the scripts of two Kirk-era movies, with action scenes rehashed from Abrams' last Trek outing.
(11) Outside, the empty, narrow cobbled streets are quite silent in the beautiful hill-top Tuscan town of Volterra – a stillness through which footsteps echo loudly off the ancient stone.
(12) Night-time in Búzios is when its cobbled and immaculately manicured central area really comes alive.
(13) In later stage a "cobble stone" relief is demonstrable.
(14) We went with the grains of fashion: football became mainstream, cobbled streets were heritage, working class was a lifestyle choice, the north became a mini-break destination.
(15) The painful reality for the party is that its leader cobbled together an inchoate platform that masked fierce ideological differences in the ranks and hoped to steer it through an electoral window opened up by Lib Dem collapse and Ukip insurgency.
(16) More than 100 world leaders will have descended on Rio this week to sign up to some kind of high-level communique currently being cobbled together by droves of "sherpas" grinding their way through the most God-forsakenly inadequate draft statement I've ever seen .
(17) Sinn Féin could try to cobble together a new coalition with a host of independent, mainly leftwing deputies, many of whom are deeply suspicious of the republican party.
(18) It might not look like it from the government May is cobbling together, but I believe equality is going to storm straight to the front of the national agenda.
(19) Now in a state of advanced panic, they’ve cobbled together more devolved powers and sent David Cameron to Edinburgh to plead for the union: the embodiment of Tory rule without a mandate that is the main reason many yes voters will opt for independence.
(20) Families wash clothes and themselves on the side of the road, using water from boreholes, or cook pasta over open fires cobbled together from wooden debris.
Jack
Definition:
(n.) A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves entire. The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten. The wood is of a yellow color, fine grain, and rather heavy, and is much used in cabinetwork. It is also used for dyeing a brilliant yellow.
(n.) A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John.
(n.) An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic.
(n.) A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat.
(n.) A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack
(n.) A device to pull off boots.
(n.) A sawhorse or sawbuck.
(n.) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.
(n.) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting.
(n.) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles.
(n.) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box.
(n.) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine.
(n.) A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
(n.) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather.
(n.) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed.
(n.) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught.
(n.) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also hopper.
(n.) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself.
(n.) A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack.
(n.) The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls.
(n.) The male of certain animals, as of the ass.
(n.) A young pike; a pickerel.
(n.) The jurel.
(n.) A large, California rock fish (Sebastodes paucispinus); -- called also boccaccio, and merou.
(n.) The wall-eyed pike.
(n.) A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint.
(n.) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also union jack. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State.
(n.) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree.
(n.) The knave of a suit of playing cards.
(n.) A coarse and cheap mediaeval coat of defense, esp. one made of leather.
(n.) A pitcher or can of waxed leather; -- called also black jack.
(v. i.) To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n.
(v. t.) To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5.
Example Sentences:
(1) A remarkably close relationship was found between both H. pylori urease subunits and jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis) urease, the subunit of which is a single 840 amino acid polypeptide.
(2) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
(3) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
(4) precursor phaseolin) is incubated with jack bean alpha-mannosidase show that the high mannose glycan on Asn252, but not the one on Asn341, is susceptible to enzyme degradation.
(5) "My wonderful, brave and adored father, Jack Ashley, Lord Ashley of Stoke, has died after a short battle with pneumonia."
(6) 9.31am BST Jack Straw , the Labour former home secretary, was on the Today programme earlier talking about the "plebgate" affair.
(7) This communication reviews the almost 40 years of studies by Jack Metcoff, MD, and coworkers to unravel the causes of fetal malnutrition and their efforts to prevent it.
(8) "Most of the grain produced on our farm ends up bound for export," said Jack McCormick, who raises beef cattle and grain with his father.
(9) Jack Straw's detailed blueprint for a 300- strong, wholly elected upper chamber to replace the Lords appears to have been blocked at the last minute following resistance in cabinet.
(10) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
(11) The manager added that City would also be without Kolo Touré, Abdul Razak and Jack Rodwell, who has a hamstring problem.
(12) Comment is free contributor Jack Monroe made the Guardian shortlist and got one commenter's You Tell Us award for Outstanding Excellence in the field of Talking Sense .
(13) The link between the conditions has not yet been discovered, but here Jack Wall and colleagues develop the theory that an autoimmune response to a 64 kDa antigen expressed on both thyroid and eye muscle membranes is responsible for this thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy.
(14) Fellow co-founder Jack Dorsey could make around half that.
(15) Other high-profile absentees include Danny Welbeck, Jack Wilshere, Luke Shaw and Jordan Henderson.
(16) Onerous new regulations could threaten the shale energy revolution, America’s role as a global energy superpower, and the dramatic reductions in CO2 emissions made possible by an abundant and affordable domestic supply of clean-burning natural gas,” Jack Gerrard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said in a statement.
(17) The American has not secured a major title since Torrey Pines for the 2008 US Open and, while overhauling Jack Nicklaus's record total of 18 majors was once a matter of "when", it is now very much a case of "if".
(18) By N-terminal analysis, the 29.5-kDa subunit of H. pylori urease was found to share significant amino acid sequence similarity with the smallest of three subunits of the Proteus mirabilis and Morganella morganii ureases, as well as to the amino terminus of the unique jack bean subunit.
(19) Outside-funded overseas travel was also declared, including a visit to the Paris Air show for the Tory MP Jack Lopresti and his researcher, paid for by the global missile company MBDA.
(20) Even Jack Straw is trying to close down some of its overripe practices.