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Craw


Definition:

  • (n.) The crop of a bird.
  • (n.) The stomach of an animal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lactobacilli and streptococci were a stable component of the microflora of craw wall, in contrast with the decreasing counts of anaerobic amylolytic and lactate-utilizing bacteria.
  • (2) This man’s “private life” is subsidised to the hilt by the taxpayer, and that is what really sticks in the craw.
  • (3) He told BBC Radio 4’s Today: “I would think in the next three months we are going to have a number of people brought forward by the Conservatives, whether it’s Gary Barlow or Mr Pessina, saying: ‘Don’t vote Labour.’ The idea that somebody who doesn’t pay tax in Britain telling people how to vote will stick in the craw.” Balls pointed out that Pessina criticised only one policy – the threat of leaving the European Union – something only likely under the Conservatives or Ukip.T he Tories insisted they had nothing to do with Pessina’s comments but George Osborne took the unusual step of providing a direct quote highlighting the businessman’s stance.
  • (4) But what sticks in my craw is the sheer stinking, blunted crapness of them.
  • (5) It was a very close play but Craw got his foot in before the tag and Matheny is out to argue which gets him nowhere.
  • (6) Though a minority of landlords may sell up as a result of the changes, this is unlikely to be as widespread as many believe.” The good news for tenants is that the tax changes could dampen property speculation and create a fairer market, according to Dan Wilson Craw of campaign group Generation Rent .
  • (7) 2.54am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 0, top of 6th Ryu continues to retire Cardinals - Carpenter grounds out to second, then Beltran skies out to right - Craw puts it away and down go the Cards in the sixth.
  • (8) It simply stuck in the craw that Edis was earning less than 10% of the daily fees enjoyed by some of his opponents.
  • (9) And if, like Jeremy Corbyn , you are a pacifist republican with an embedded horror of empire, being required to hum along will understandably stick in the craw.
  • (10) And seems those unflattering comparisons to Donovan have rather stuck in Brad Davis's craw.
  • (11) We watched as billionaire Alexei Mordashov's bags went from speeding people-carrier to private jet without so much as touching security: Photograph: Hannah Borno Not that I think Alexei Mordashov has been nicking the cutlery from the conference venue in order to melt it down into car parts, but it does slightly stick in my craw that as airport security for the average citizen gets ever tighter, airport security for the likes of the oligarch Mordashov barely exists.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The Tory cries of ‘take back control’ really stick in my craw.
  • (13) The Tory cries of “take back control” really stick in my craw.
  • (14) But there were a few parts of the song that always stuck in my craw.
  • (15) Dan Wilson Craw from Generation Rent said: “The failure of governments to build enough houses is forcing more people to make compromises in order to afford a roof over their head.
  • (16) Michael Ayton Durham • Anne Perkins is correct ( The national anthem may stick in Corbyn’s craw, but it is his job to sing it , 15 September, theguardian.com), and Corbyn should have been more sensitive both to the context of situation and the people he was collectively representing.
  • (17) And it's the last of these that sticks most in the craw, because the degree of over-representation is so extraordinarily intense.
  • (18) So the unexpected windfall in overall national wealth must stick in the craw of the eurozone strugglers.
  • (19) But however much it sticks in the craw to discover there is a market for gold-plated revolving safes, this is ultimately cause for celebration.
  • (20) The national anthem may stick in Corbyn’s craw, but it is his job to sing it | Anne Perkins Read more This is no isolated view.

Cray


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Crayer

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Habituation, one of the simplest behavioral paradigms for studying memory, has recently been examined on the cellular level in the gill-withdrawal reflex in the mollusc Aplysia and in the escape response in cray-fish.
  • (2) Two groups of old-age pensioners in St. Paul's Cray were screened for physical illness, social and family connexions, and personal activities.
  • (3) In fact, the efficiency of this new method allows us to assess structures on the VAX as well as the CRAY.
  • (4) Timothy Cray, prosecuting, asked the serviceman, who was known only as Soldier Y: "In your unit was there any statement for exception or turning a blind eye to these orders as far as ammunition is concerned?"
  • (5) The previous media manager at the ABC was Sally Cray, who now works as a senior adviser to the communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull.
  • (6) The classification is fast (i.e., 0.1 Cray CPU second per sequence), as it only involves a forward-feeding through the networks.
  • (7) In these systems, near-Cray compute power is combined with ultrahigh-speed 3-dimensional graphics for unparalleled visualization of molecular processes and other complex events.
  • (8) Timothy Cray, prosecuting, suggested that Nightingale would not have been able to do his job in Afghanistan in 2009 had he been susceptible to memory losses.
  • (9) The gigabit network would be used to tie the dose calculations done with the Cray Y-MP at the Research Triangle to the graphics engine at the Department of Computer Science (Pixel-Planes 5) and the medical workstation at Radiation Oncology.
  • (10) You could run that through a Cray computer for hours without working out what it means.
  • (11) "No soldier, no matter what his experience or what unit he is attached to, is above the law," prosecutor Timothy Cray told the court.
  • (12) Membrane currents in calcium type muscle membrane of the cray-fish Astacus fluviatilis were analysed by a method in which a membrane microarea was isolated by circulating sucrose rings contacting the fibre perpendicular to the fibre surface.2.
  • (13) 12.50am BST Predictions The Kings played what was one of the most insane 30 minutes of hockey I have ever witnessed on Wednesday, and somehow it wasn't enough - how we are here tonight is just cray cray.
  • (14) But Cray said Nightingale seemed to be saying that someone else might have put the gun and ammunition in his room.
  • (15) The prosecution barrister, Tim Cray, said the crown had no reason to counter the accusation that Mahmood lied and did not oppose the judge's decision.
  • (16) Damian Cray sucked into the engines of a jumbo jet on a tea trolley.
  • (17) The pharmacology of Avena sativa has been investigated in laboratory animals following a report that tincture of Avena sativa reduced the craying for cigarettes in man.
  • (18) After a total training time of seven Cray central processing unit (CPU) hours, the system has reached a predictive accuracy of 90%.
  • (19) gm accepts sequence data, organism-specific consensus matrices and codon asymmetry tables, and a set of parameters as input; it returns a set of models describing the structures of candidate genes in the sequence and a corresponding set of predicted amino acid sequences as output, gm is implemented in C, and has been tested on Sun, VAX, Sequent, MIPS and Cray computers.
  • (20) Cray asked: "Given the nature of your unit was there any special exemptions in terms of members of the unit having firearms for their own use that had not been issued by the unit?"

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