(n.) One who comes, or who has come; one who has arrived, and is present.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the scrubber that Comer paid for, Lackner conceived and Wright built.
(2) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
(3) Reservations are necessary during high season: they welcome everyone, but late comers can end up sleeping on the floor.
(4) Aortic intimal rhythmic structures were significantly more frequently detected in the aborigines than in those born in the North and new comers.
(5) Late comers were more likely to report a number of delaying factors or to have financial worries.
(6) When another corner, at the other end, was curled in by Mónica Ocampo it eluded all-comers before grazing the bar.
(7) Broecker then introduced the pair to his great friend, the late mail-order clothing tycoon Gary Comer.
(8) Thursday’s game between USA and Germany, for example, will be a clash of a legitimate soccer dynasty versus a legitimate up-and-comer.
(9) Even though it spent millions designing Android, Google made the software available to all comers at no charge.
(10) In the office, wedged between the two main studios, I sit down with three of Oguns' up and comers.
(11) In those untreated "new-comers" therapeutical effect comes earlier than in cases of premedication.
(12) So did Attlee.” Blunkett did the rounds: the combative former education and employment secretary, the take-on-all-comers home secretary, says he has done his time.
(13) We can talk about the fact that a ban in the US or UK wouldn’t stop the “bad guys” from getting perfect crypto from one of the nations that would be able to profit (while US and UK business suffered) by selling these useful tools to all comers.
(14) Retrospective and prospective studies of a total sample of 232 attenders at groups of Gamblers Anonymous suggest that total abstinence from gambling was maintained by 8% of all comers at one year from first attendance and by 7% at two years.
(15) The contest, which is open to all comers, takes place in one of the flooded quarries every September.
(16) Don’t take all the huff and puff of the new comer in the US seriously,” Khamenei said, according to the transcript of his speech on his official website.
(17) Leicester did save some face with their second-half performance, featuring a splendid goal from the substitute Demarai Gray, but they barely looked recognisable from the side that were taking on all-comers not so long ago and it was a jarring reflection of their deterioration that Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, the two players who shared last season’s individual awards, were substituted at half-time.
(18) As Amartya Sen points out in his book The Argumentative Indian, there is a long, deep tradition in the country's discourse, of encouraging argument from all comers.
(19) Among the gladiators is charismatic up'n'comer Grado, star of a recent Vice documentary about the UK wrestling scene.
(20) Oddly, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , so effective every week in taking on all comers in his LBC phone-in programme Call Clegg, took two questions from supporters and only one from the irritated lobby correspondents .
Homer
Definition:
(n.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
(n.) See Hoemother.
(n.) A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(2) Hodge said it appeared that activities related to the Geneva branch of HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary were “pretty outrageous” and told Homer that tax investigators should have spoken to whistleblower Hervé Falciani, who initially obtained the list while employed as an IT worker in 2007.
(3) The agency’s current chief executive, Lin Homer, is due to face the Commons public accounts committee, chaired by the Labour MP Margaret Hodge.
(4) Armitage's stage version, commissioned for the in-the-round Royal Exchange in Manchester, a space that can encompass both the intimate and the epic, reworks The Iliad , adding an ending Homer never wrote.
(5) Aaron Hill drove in two runs with a homer and double, helping the Arizona Diamondbacks top the Chicago Cubs 3-1 and also split a four-game series.
(6) Young Commons reared and trained with Homers of the same age differed behaviorally from the Homers in a variety of ways and many fewer returned home from training and test releases, but the season for the fewer returns appeared to be more concerned with social behavior than with orientation capability.
(7) In Game Four two home runs from Jhonny Peralta and a homer apiece from Triple Crown-winner Cabrera and Austin Jackson led the annihilation.
(8) The tumor demonstrated Homer Wright rosettes, was positive for neuron-specific enolase and ultrastructurally revealed neurosecretory granules.
(9) And why did George Osborne and the Treasury sign a deal with the Swiss in 2012 which prevents the UK from actively obtaining similar information in the future?” One member of the Public Accounts Committee, said Homer should return to the committee to explain herself in light of the comments from the French finance minister.
(10) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
(11) Modern knowledge of renal physiology, kidney disease, and the body fluids in American medicine was established largely by Donald D. Van Slyke, Thomas Addis, John P. Peters, Homer W. Smith, and Alfred Newton Richards.
(12) Homer and Shakespeare have this in common: neither is afraid of a catalogue, either in The Iliad or in the history plays.
(13) Keith Vaz , the chairman of the Commons home affairs select committee, which accused the former UKBA head, Lin Homer, of "catastrophic leadership failure" while she was in charge, congratulated May for "delivering the lethal injection" to the organisation.
(14) Homer himself is a collection of poets, one of many.
(15) It's also somewhat bizarre that Domonic Brown , second in the NL in homers, was passed over, not to mention Pedro Alvarez, Pittsburgh's power threat.
(16) This paper looked at Orten and Soll's runaway typology and Homer's conceptualization of runaways as "running from" or "running to" something and expanded the context to include interactions with family and professionals.
(17) Lin Homer has been announced as the next chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
(18) David Cameron and Nick Clegg have both just stuck their feet in it, insulting the stay-at-homers and egging on the go-to-workers – but why bother to take sides?
(19) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, headed by environment secretary Liz Truss, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), whose chief executive is Lin Homer, continue to refuse to ensure that all their subcontracted staff are paid the living wage.
(20) Now Pedro Alvarez, who is tied for the NL lead with 36 homers, is at the plate with a chance to add to the Bucs lead...