(n.) A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
(n.) A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
(n.) Same as Merlon.
(n.) A policeman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
(2) Copolymer 1 (Cop 1) is a synthetic basic random copolymer of amino acids that has been shown to be effective in suppression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and has been proposed as a candidate drug for multiple sclerosis.
(3) What the hell is the point of cops looking like this?
(4) Instead of inevitable defeat there is uncertain cop-out.
(5) COP-BLAM III therapy was given to 18 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the therapeutic effects as well as adverse effects of the treatment were examined.
(6) A new electrophoretic variant of the lactate dehydrogenase B subunit was found in the erythrocytes of the COP strain of the rat.
(7) Three independent BFA-resistant cell lines (BER-40 from Vero cells, PtK1, and MDCK) showed cross-resistance to EDIN regarding the release of the beta-COP from the Golgi membrane by EDIN or BFA.
(8) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(9) He shouted “Cops Lives Matter” before being drowned out with the “Bernie” chant.
(10) I will ask that by [next] Saturday midday the text will be transmitted to me, the president of the COP, and at that moment everyone will know where we are and the procedure to follow.
(11) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
(12) Cops were smashing people with bicycles and nightsticks."
(13) "We're talking about payments for news tips from cops: that's been going on a hundred years, absolutely," said Murdoch.
(14) We sampled a sawn-off shotgun and an assault rifle, but cops do get tasers and tear gas to add some urban flavour.
(15) The COP regime was the most frequently used therapeutic regimen.
(16) "But I can assure you, if I had known that cops were sitting in car parks, they would have been deployed pretty quickly," he said.
(17) "There will be a meeting of the 22 countries of the COPS [the EU's political and security committee] ... if not today then tomorrow," Kouchner told reporters in Paris.
(18) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
(19) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
(20) I heard him say to another cop: “I don’t even know why they told me to lock this guy up.
Quill
Definition:
(n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.
(n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill.
(n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
(n.) The pen of a squid. See Pen.
(n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
(n.) The tube of a musical instrument.
(n.) Something having the form of a quill
(n.) The fold or plain of a ruff.
(n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
(n.) A hollow spindle.
(v. t.) To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
(v. t.) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.
Example Sentences:
(1) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(2) She also won four Logies for Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill in 2013, the George Munster award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award – for stories on people smuggling and the culture of rugby league.
(3) Righteous indignation was tweeted and retweeted, celebrities piled on the pressure, pundits sharpened their quills.
(4) Sri Lanka is the main provider of cinnamon, mainly exported as "cinnamon quills."
(5) In the movie, Peter Quill forms an uneasy alliance with a group of misfits who are on the run after stealing a coveted orb.
(6) Penney, P. Keng, H. Quill, A. Paxhia, S. Derdak, and M. E. Felch.
(7) Even when it summons up the courage to state the bleeding obvious, such as the fact that the Quill, a risible block of student housing next to the Shard, is poorly designed, Cabe is ignored.
(8) Thanks to Quill,” he says, “in a few years’ time no one will have to waste time deciphering an Excel worksheet or interpreting graphs with x and y axes ... Quill and its successors will hoover up indigestible data and transform them into clear, simple text which will enable everyone to get the message, quite naturally, through language.” Hammond was in the limelight recently, having claimed that by 2025 90% of the news read by the general public would be generated by computers.
(9) The Quill Location: Southwark | Floors: 31 | Height: 109m | Architect: SPARRC | Status: approved | Use: student accommodation The Quill What would a building look like if it had a fight with a gigantic porcupine, and the porcupine won?
(10) Images of proposed future projects, such as the Quill in Bermondsey and 1 Merchant Square in Paddington , suggest little improvement in the future.
(11) The journalists who never sleep Read more The company’s key product is Quill, a natural-language generation platform.
(12) He is convinced that this is the start of a big adventure for Quill.
(13) Quill starts by importing data (tables, lists, graphs) structured by other software.
(14) You can get some idea by looking at plans for the Quill, a great silver cliff-face of a thing that will sport a broken assortment of spines on its top.
(15) He sees the stories generated by Narrative Science’s programme, Quill, as a way of augmenting and personalising news, of making it relevant to individual needs.
(16) Methods used to produce wounds included insertion of porcupine quills, application of constrictive rubber bands, mascara injections and excoriation of healing wounds.
(17) Now, thanks to Quill, it does it for more than 5,000 corporations,” Hammond reveals.
(18) So perhaps this is as good a moment as any to take my leave, and it doesn't make me feel any younger to find myself described in one gossip column as a "scribe" who is laying down his "quill".
(19) Director Queen’s University Ionic Liquid Laboratories (QUILL), Queen’s University Belfast.
(20) At every point there has to be – here’s why I said this.” Like many human journalists, Quill began life by writing ad-hoc film reviews.