(n.) A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the Washington Post reports a boom in bullet-proof backpacks for children, it is not a good time to be a resident of a place colloquially known as The Arms.
(2) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
(3) In colloquial terms, senior ministers in the new government should have been having more cups of tea with the crossbench members in the Senate in the weeks and months after the election.
(4) This paper attempts a new departure both in German dialectology and in phonemic analysis: (i) It is based on an open corpus of spontaneous, colloquial speech.
(5) The Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire was modified for use amongst British patients by the substitution of colloquial expressions.
(6) For both thyroxine and triiodothyronine the component contribution of within-individual variation to the population-based variation (the latter also termed the 'reference interval', or colloquially the 'normal range') was small.
(7) We can end our nation’s domestic violence epidemic by properly funding crisis lines, legal centres, emergency accommodation, affordable long-term accommodation and prevention.” Thousands of Australians still turned away from homeless services Read more Labor introduced a private members’ bill earlier in the year to criminalise the sharing of private sexual imagery without the consent of the subject, a practice colloquially known as revenge porn.
(8) Emad Hajjaj, a popular Jordanian cartoonist, drew an elderly Palestinian woman by her sagging UN tent saying – in an untranslatable pun on the words “Charlie” and the colloquial Arabic “I have been” – that she had lived as a refugee for the 67 years since the creation of Israel in 1948.
(9) The media as a whole should be united in defending freedom of expression.” NewstrAid, known colloquially as “Old Ben”, was set up in 1839 to support newspaper vendors in London.
(10) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
(11) Whereas in 37 of 51 patients a normal or almost normal colloquial speech could be demonstrated, 30 of 39 patients with cleft lip and palate showed a normal or almost normal realization of the test sentences.
(12) Comey made self-deprecating jokes and slipped into colloquialisms.
(13) He was studiedly colloquial – "You won't believe this, Jacqueline" – and cast himself as the rebel.
(14) Being friends with Irish people is almost a nostalgic thing – we can speak some Irish language, reminisce about Irish colloquialisms and talk about sports.
(15) Similar changes were also observed on acupuncture points CV17 (Shan Zhong), CV 22 (Tian Tu), Yin Tang (at an area just between the eyebrows: the pituitary gland representation area, colloquially known as the "third eye") and GV20(Bai Hui), the entire pericardium meridian & triple burner meridian, their acupuncture points, the adrenal glands, testes, ovaries and perineum, as well as along the entire spinal vertebrae, particularly on and above the 12th thoracic vertebra, medulla oblongata, pons, and the intestinal representation areas of the brain located just above and behind the upper ear.
(16) In his commentary, Robinson writes that Chaplin "can move without warning from the baldly colloquial to dazzling yet apparently effortless imagery, as when the crushed Calvero gazes 'wearily into the secretive river, gliding phantom-like in a life of its own … smiling satanically at him as it flecked myriad lights from the moon and from the lamps along the embankment'".
(17) When a physician performs unprofessional activity breaking the rules of his profession, which is colloquially interpreted as charlatanism, the term "malpractice" is used.
(18) He volunteered initially but within months had secured a permanent position in the West Wing, latterly as the President's aide – a role dubbed the "body man", or more colloquially "butt boy" in the US.
(19) The voice that Plath eventually created is indeed fresh, brazen and colloquial, but also sardonic and bitter, the story of a young woman's psychological disintegration and eventual – provisional – recovery.
(20) He might have said "we agree to disagree" or used some other flaccid political colloquialism for the truth – that to Gordon, this lady's views were bizarre – but he just said it like it was.
Fijian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Fiji islands or their inhabitants.
(n.) A native of the Fiji islands.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-nine patients (93%) were infected; 19 of 20 Fijians (95%) and 20 of 22 Indians (91%).
(2) The Fiji Times Online reported that Fiji's military commander expressed concern that the exact locations of the Fijian peacekeepers remain unconfirmed.
(3) The hospital serves a population comprised of Indians and Fijians, suggesting comparison with the province of Natal, South Africa.
(4) In a statement posted online, the group published a photo showing what it said were the captured Fijians in their military uniforms along with 45 identification cards.
(5) A Fijian community affected by a cyclone was compared with an unaffected but similar community.
(6) The Fijian prime minister, Voreqe Bainimarama, said on Friday that talks were under way to release the hostages, and they were believed to be safe.
(7) The results are contrasted with those for coastal dwelling Fijians and the conclusions drawn that coastal dwellers were taller and heavier and suffered more obesity and less malnutrition, than inland dwellers.
(8) Since then, Zimbabwe has withdrawn and the Fijian government doesn't seem to care about its suspension.
(9) The Fijian Indian is a prolific renal stone former, whereas the native Fijian living in the same climate is not.
(10) Liver cancer occurs in Fiji and Tonga, with the occurrence in Fijians being significantly higher than in the Indian population.
(11) For example, despite universal health care in Fiji, infant mortality for Fijians in 1976 was 37 vs. 54 for Fiji-Indians.
(12) The Fijian prime minister said coal was “the dirtiest of energy sources.
(13) A deletion frequency of 82% in Fijians confirmed their ethnic affinity to Polynesians.
(14) Twenty-three Fijian members of a military observational force in Sinai, Egypt, acquired cutaneous leishmaniasis.
(15) To determine the fate of these glasses, an 8-month follow-up study was conducted on a random sample of 80 Fijians.
(16) The twinning rate for the indigenous Fijians is found to be 9.4 per 1000 live maternities, (based on 407 sets of twins), and for Indians, descendants of immigrants who began to arrive in Fiji in 1879, 6.2 per 1000 (based on 350 twins).
(17) "I appeal to all Fijians that while we pray for our soldiers in Syria that we be sensitive to the families," he said, adding that "the UN has assured us they will use all of their available resources for the safe return of our soldiers".
(18) Earlier, Nauru’s justice minister, David Adeang, had declared two Nauru residents – one an Australian citizen, the other a Fijian citizen – prohibited immigrants and gave them a week to leave the country.
(19) A 2-year-old Fijian boy presented with a week's history of fever and dysuria.
(20) On both sides of Vanua Levu prevalences were lower inland than near the coast.Under apparently similar environmental conditions those of Fijian ethnic origin exhibited a higher prevalence of microfilaraemia than that shown by Indians.