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Crawford


Definition:

  • (n.) A Crawford peach; a well-known freestone peach, with yellow flesh, first raised by Mr. William Crawford, of New Jersey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Crawford's own poetry was informed by contact with refugees – "I began to think seriously about what it felt like to lose your country or culture, and in my first book, there are one or two poems that are versions of Vietnamese poems" – and scientists, whose vocabulary he initially "stole because it seemed so metaphorically resonant.
  • (2) At the end of last year Baez went down to Crawford, Texas, to protest outside Camp Casey with Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq; in December last year she sang Swing Low Sweet Chariot outside San Quentin prison as Tookie Williams was executed.
  • (3) An attorney for Crawford’s family described their decision as “absolutely incomprehensible”.
  • (4) The question is, what did the officer know at the time, what should a reasonable police officer have known at the time when he or she took the steps that led to the use of physical force or deadly physical force.” Crawford, meanwhile, had a memo outlining her view on the legality of the use of force by law enforcement rejected by the Justice Department.
  • (5) That left the decision on whether to continue to Crawford, whose delay on announcing a decision prompted concern at the Pentagon that she would allow the court process to continue.
  • (6) The association between retinitis pigmentosa and Coats'-like disease has been reported many times in a sporadic way (Zamorani, 1956; Morgan and Crawford, 1968).
  • (7) Crawford is on a 50% scholarship, which means his fees are reduced to about £11,000 over two years.
  • (8) Meantime, in Tamworth, Australia, Matt Crawford admits that "nerves, sleep deprivation and a curry supper = high risk viewing this morning".
  • (9) Photograph: Guardian The US Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that its civil rights division and the FBI would review the case for potential federal charges against Sean Williams, the police officer who shot Crawford in the Beavercreek store on the evening of 5 August.
  • (10) The tying run is coming to the plate and a new pitcher is coming to the mound... Jon Smalldon (@jonsmalldon) Brandon Crawford!
  • (11) The possibility of a rod contribution to the peripheral functions could not be eliminated although several different techniques, including the Stiles-Crawford effect, were used to try to isolate cone mechanisms.
  • (12) Alex Crawford (@AlexCrawfordSky) #OscarPistorius Roux says 'Mr Pistorius was a victim of crime on many occasions'.
  • (13) Bruce Crawford, the cabinet secretary for strategy in the Scottish government, said it had received an "unanswerable mandate" to stage the referendum at a time of its choosing, "while the Lib Dems lost every … seat in mainland Scotland".
  • (14) Since Crawford's report in 1973, repair of traumatic transection of the thoracic aorta without shunt or bypass has emerged as a popular technique which simplifies the operation and avoids use of heparin.
  • (15) Speaking after a grand jury declined to indict the officer, who shot John Crawford III as he held an unloaded air rifle and spoke on his cellphone at the store in a suburb of Dayton, Crawford’s father said that his son might still be alive if he had not been black.
  • (16) While a student at Glasgow University Crawford voted against Scottish devolution in the 1979 referendum and it wasn't until he went to Oxford as a postgraduate that he became convinced "that I came from a different country and culture.
  • (17) The event celebrates the first wave of black British standup, but Crawford's question points to how much remains to be achieved.
  • (18) The results according to Crawford's criteria were eight excellent, four good, one fair, and one poor.
  • (19) Both techniques are unaffected by coma or by the Stiles-Crawford effects, thus optical TCA rather than the TCA perceived in normal view is measured.
  • (20) The two reference lights (441 and 481 nm) differ only in their stimulation of S This novel technique utilizes the different magnitudes of the rod and cone Stiles--Crawford effects.

English


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
  • (a.) See 1st Bond, n., 8.
  • (n.) Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.
  • (n.) The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.
  • (n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
  • (n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.
  • (v. t.) To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.
  • (v. t.) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
  • (2) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
  • (3) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (4) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (5) Three short reviews by Freud (1904c, 1904d, 1905f) are presented in English translation.
  • (6) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (7) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (8) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
  • (9) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
  • (10) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
  • (11) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.
  • (12) To our knowledge, this is the first case to be reported in the English literature.
  • (13) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
  • (14) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
  • (15) This paper reviews the epidemiologic studies of petroleum workers published in the English language, focusing on research pertaining to the petroleum industry, rather than the broader petrochemical industry.
  • (16) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
  • (17) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
  • (18) This is the second report in the English literature on the familial occurrence of chronic active hepatitis type B.
  • (19) We have reported the first case in the English literature in which there is a strong association between long-term immunosuppressive therapy and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.
  • (20) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.

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