(n.) A kind of headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
(n.) A piece of furniture, so named according to temporary fashion
(n.) A chest of drawers or a bureau.
(n.) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel.
(n.) A kind of close stool.
(n.) A movable sink or stand for a wash bowl, with closet.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
(2) Andreas Missbach, managing director of Berne Declaration, an NGO in Switzerland where the commodities giant is based, said Glencore stood out against others in the sector.
(3) The oil price tumbled by as much as $3.25 a barrel on Tuesday after the world's biggest commodity trader called the top of the market for crude and a range of other commodities – at least for the time being.
(4) They dealt in dozens of different commodities – from major grains such as wheat and sorghum to specialised food aid products such as corn-soy blend.
(5) The financial crash caused by treating housing as a speculative commodity made things worse, but the truth is that the seeds of the crisis have been sown over many years.
(6) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
(7) Others are new: changing family compositions because of HIV, increasing frequency of droughts and rapid fluctuations in international commodity prices.
(8) These organisms, typically bacteria or algae, are used to produce valuable commodities such as flavorings and oils.
(9) Part of the new wealth has been driven by the rise in commodity prices.
(10) This technique was used to bring misdirected urinations in a severely retarded male under rapid stimulus control of a floating target in the commode.
(11) We should stop the importation of these birds which are sold as commodities and endure lives of boredom in cages.
(12) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
(13) Right now, policymakers will probably be more concerned by stalling eurozone growth than a headline inflation figure dragged down by commodity prices.
(14) Often a number of aids such as standing table, adapted chairs, commode etc., is required to meet basic needs.
(15) Tate & Lyle, which no longer produces the sugar that made it a household name, is the latest company to be affected by falling commodity prices.
(16) "When you transform a food into a commodity, there's inevitable breakdown in social relations and high environmental cost," as Tanya Kerssen, an analyst for Oakland-based Food First told Time last year.
(17) The Financial Services Authority fined the bank £59.9m, while in the US the department of justice and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission also imposed fines, some £230m combined.
(18) Solitude becomes a way of life and social interaction a scarce commodity for many chronic schizophrenics who are in institutional settings.
(19) And if you want to talk about messages, what kind of message does it send to stockpile ivory like any other valuable commodity?
(20) The commodities supercycle is dead in the water … It’s already sent some big African sub-Saharan economies into a tailspin,” said Aly Khan Satchu, an independent trader in Nairobi.
Throne
Definition:
(n.) A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary.
(n.) Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted or dignified personage.
(n.) A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.
(v. t.) To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
(v. t.) To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.
(v. i.) To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.
Example Sentences:
(1) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
(2) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
(3) He'll watch Game of Thrones , from now on, as a cheerfully clueless fan, "with total surprise and joy", and meanwhile get on with other work.
(4) Another example is the death in 1817 of Princess Charlotte, in childbirth, which led to the scramble of George III's aging sons to marry and beget an heir to the throne.
(5) It is a standard declaration of public loyalty to the Saudi royal family as it marks the end of a turbulent year since King Salman came to the throne.
(6) magazine-contracted, half-million pound wedding, Posh and Becks sat on a pair of golden thrones.
(7) Thrones, perhaps struggling under the weight of its monolithic pop culture status, or simply heartlessly breathtaking to begin with, really isn’t about anything anymore.
(8) The bestselling Game of Thrones author George RR Martin has offered to screen The Interview in his own independent cinema, in the wake of what he described as “a stunning display of corporate cowardice” from Sony and America’s cinema chains.
(9) Revelations about Charles' power of consent come amid continued concern that the heir to the throne may be overstepping his constitutional role by lobbying ministers directly and through his charities on pet concerns such as traditional architecture and the environment.
(10) It is now perhaps more widely known as a backdrop for the kingdoms of Dorne and Meereen in Game of Thrones.
(11) Look back 25 years | Dirk Laabs Read more A few ruins away, near the remains of the throne room, 18-year-old Berliner, Sarah Akopova, is also sympathetic.
(12) Lumping HBO in with Fox's FX might give it extra leverage – smooth out those less successful seasons when it launches The Newsroom rather than Game of Thrones – or it might not.
(13) They are making a big play for more content and Time Warner has some of the best global franchises you could hope to have – look at Harry Potter, Batman and HBO.” Time Warner’s lucrative cable channel business includes TNT, TBS and HBO, home to shows including Game of Thrones.
(14) He’s 66 and has waited for the throne all his life.
(15) Twelve Years a Slave's Lupita Nyong'o and Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie officially joined the cast earlier this week, and the film will also feature Attack the Block's John Boyega, Ingmar Bergman-regular Max von Sydow and Harry Potter's Domhnall Gleeson.
(16) Tim Loughton, a Sussex MP, said it would be a "nonsense" to stop the heir to the throne talking to ministers as he had always come across as "well briefed and knowledgeable" in their meetings.
(17) The new queen would have died less than seven months later, handing the throne to Kaiser Wilhelm II.
(18) If Muqrin does come to the throne, he is likely to be the last of the sons of the founder of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz (Ibn Saud), who died in 1953.
(19) As for Labour, the rolling pageant of departures from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet , and the countermoves against them, frequently resembled an episode of Game of Thrones re-enacted by the Teletubbies.
(20) In the first series of Game of Thrones, he is shown serving a warrior king gone to seed and oppressed by serious marital problems.