(v. t.) To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.
(n.) One given to cockfighting.
(n.) A small dog of the spaniel kind, used for starting up woodcocks, etc.
(n.) A rustic high shoe or half-boots.
Example Sentences:
(1) But he added: “It’s also true that extremely low oil prices, adverse changes in currency rates, and a further decline in power prices are having a significant effect on our business.” Tony Cocker, the chief executive of E.ON UK, said milder weather and improved energy efficiency in British homes were behind the fall in power use, hitting sales.
(2) Flaviu, a two-year-old male about the size of a cocker spaniel, arrived at the zoo from a park in Kent after being separated from his mum and dad for the first time.
(3) JP Bean tells the story of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, "not an easy task", added Cocker, "especially when the events in question took place many years ago and may have involved the consumption of alcohol".
(4) Although significant cell kinetic differences have been reported for other epidermal structures (interfollicular epithelium, upper hair follicle external root sheath, sebaceous glands) in seborrheic Cocker Spaniels, proliferation of hair root matrix cells apparently remains unaffected.
(5) There was a moment of panic, a short-breathed time when I wondered what I had done with the previous 10 years, but then I went to see Jarvis Cocker at the Roundhouse.
(6) Jarvis Cocker of Pulp spoke to BBC 6Music , praising Bowie’s outsider influence: He was like an umbrella for people who felt a bit different.
(7) This inherited erythroenzymopathy and myopathy is commonly diagnosed in English Springer Spaniels, but the family study of this Cocker Spaniel, although supporting an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance, did not reveal any English Springer Spaniel ancestors.
(8) Seemingly, the seborrheic skin observed in these Cocker Spaniels and Irish Setters was associated with an altered rate of epidermal keratinization.
(9) At the 1996 Brit Awards he was accompanied on stage by a children's choir, prompting a stage invasion by Jarvis Cocker of Pulp, who claimed his attitude was "Messiah-like".
(10) A 3-year-old female American Cocker Spaniel with a chronic hemolytic disorder and hemolytic crises was found to have M-type phosphofructokinase deficiency.
(11) Never salubrious – Pulp's Jarvis Cocker even wrote a song about his time there in which he simply repeats the lines "Oooh – it's a mess alright – it's Mile End" over and over again.
(12) Retinal dysplasia has been reported in Bedlington Terrier, Sealyham Terrier, Beagle, Labrador Retriever, English Cocker Spaniel, American Cocker Spaniel, English Springer Spaniel, Yorkshire Terrier and Rottweiler.
(13) The mean age was 7.0 years for all breeds, 5.1 years for the Cocker Spaniel, and 9.0 years for the Poodle breeds.
(14) Twitter: @DerekNiemann • Badger watching: a beginner's guide The Guardian's former northern editor Martin Wainwright will chair a discussion of Country diary with diarists Mark Cocker and Derek Niemann and former editor Celia Locks at 11.30am on Saturday 15 November, as part of the sixth annual gathering of New Networks for Nature at Stamford Arts Centre, Lincolnshire
(15) Therefore we describe, clinically and pathologically, a case of pituitary tumour-dependent Cushing's disease in an 8-year old female cocker spaniel.
(16) The examined Cocker Spaniels consisted of 5 animals without renal problems for control and 21 animals with nephropathy: 12 of 1-2 years, 6 of 4-6 years and 3 of 9-10 years old dogs.
(17) One of the things I cherish is being brought breakfast in bed in the Lake District by the deputy prime minister and two cocker spaniels."
(18) Five littermate Cocker Spaniels were born with concomitant pericardial, diaphragmatic, caudal sternal, and cranioventral abdominal wall defects.
(19) 5.15pm, and I'm harbouring serious reservations about the mental well-being of Guardian Unlimited Football's readership: "I am sitting alone in my serviced apartment in Singapore, wearing a Scotland top and boxer shorts like a Caledonian David Mellor, nursing the dregs of my one and only can of Tiger," writes Neil Cocker, in what can only be a cry for help.
(20) Dogs of the Poodle, Pug, German Shepherd Dog, Cocker Spaniel, Bulldog, Schnauzer, Doberman Pinscher breeds, of mixed breeding, and of terrier breeds other than the 2 aforementioned were not found to have a higher prevalence, when compared with the general hospital population.
Cooker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Discontinuation rates of injection equipment sharing practices varied from 33% in shared use of cookers to 74.2% in sharing needles with strangers.
(2) "It was just before Christmas, and I said: 'What are we going to do about the cookers?'
(3) The most popular items bought online were TV and audio equipment, laptops and games items, but customers also snapped up domestic appliances such as kettles, fryers, slow cookers, toasters and vacuum cleaners.
(4) Winter weekly averages in kitchens with gas cookers had a mean of 112.2 ppb (n = 428, range 5-317 ppb).
(5) The human pressure cooker could not contain his indignation at having to watch Channel 4 news reporter, Fatima Manji , cover the tragic attack in Nice.
(6) Information from 29 homes with the highest kitchen NO2 levels paired with 29 low NO2 gas cooking homes showed that the daily number of meals eaten and the frequency with which the cooker was used for heating and drying clothes were significantly greater in the high NO2 homes.
(7) Others live in private rented accommodation where landlords equip the kitchen with only a microwave oven or a single-ring cooker.
(8) Between 20 June and 10 August, Rahami allegedly purchased materials for the pipe and pressure cooker bombs under his own name through eBay, including citric acid, circuit boards, ball bearings and electric igniters, ingredients found in the 27th Street device.
(9) Benedict Birnberg London Palestinian ‘resisters’ are not unarmed | Letters Read more • Predictably, the pressure cooker situation in Israel has finally exploded with spasms of violence by Palestinians and Israelis.
(10) Collectively, we can bargain for a better price on the cookers; collectively, we can help people to know where to get the cookers from.
(11) With Nigel leaving, I think it has taken the lid off a pressure cooker.
(12) According to a criminal complaint by FBI special agent Peter Frederick Licata, Rahami was responsible for bombs constructed out of a pressure cooker and placed in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood on Saturday, as well as pipe bombs in New Jersey’s Seaside Park and Elizabeth, the latter of which is where Rahami resided.
(13) While journalists were following the dull routine of campaigning for Sunday's municipal and regional elections, the steam was beginning to escape from a pressure cooker of discontent.
(14) In an op-ed for the Boston Globe , Bill and Denise Richard, whose eight-year-old son Martin was killed and seven-year-old daughter, Jane , lost a leg when two pressure-cooker bombs exploded near the marathon’s finishing line on 15 April 2013, urge the Department of Justice and federal authorities to take the death penalty off the table.
(15) Hundreds of secondhand furniture charities that distribute recycled fridges, cookers, beds and other basic household goods to Britain's most vulnerable families, have warned that they face rapidly growing demand from destitute clients.
(16) Families in Westminster have received 566 grants to buy cots, mattresses and bedding, and cookers and fridges from the charity's fund.
(17) That includes demonstrations, with nurses chopping onions into a basic pressure cooker before adding lentils, rice and vegetables, and warnings to spend money on protein rather than the sugary foods many lavish on their children.
(18) Cooking times were determined using a Mattson bean cooker.
(19) That warning follows last week's update from home appliance giant Electrolux, which said it would increase the price of its cookers, vacuum cleaners and dishwashers to reflect the soaring price of raw materials such as steel, plastics and chemicals.
(20) It says some food bank clients are so poor they cannot afford to switch on their cooker.