(n.) The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.
(v. t.) To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
(v. i.) To give off crock or smut.
(n.) A low stool.
(n.) Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher.
(v. t.) To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter.
Example Sentences:
(1) He frequently skips lunch, such as today’s offering of meat salad, and preferred to make his own meals before the prison staff revoked his Crock-Pot.
(2) A total of 22 patients operated according to Henry Crock's indications and followed-up after 2 years were reviewed.
(3) I prefer a crocked Messi to anyone else fully fit."
(4) Denilson, and not Campbell, is on for the crocked Gallas.
(5) Ethical consumerism, once again, has turned out to be a crock.
(6) How much real world evidence needs to accumulate before politicians in the UK will stop stoking the politics of envy, as though there really was a hidden crock of gold at the end of the rainbow?
(7) Trephination with the modified Crock trephine yielded disks with diameters close to 7.3 mm in all meridians.
(8) A professor of public law at the University of Sydney, Mary Crock, said immigration officers had asked the asylum seekers just four questions before determining they should be handed back: their name, age, where they came from and why they didn’t want to go back.
(9) If Bucholtz is crocked, lets hope Nieves had been showing Doubront videos of Mike Marshall from '74 with the Dodgers and '79 with the Twins.
(10) The third was a squamous cell carcinoma of the limbus treated by lamellar excision with the Crock Contact-lens Corneal Cutter; the wound was allowed to granulate, and in so doing, caused negligible astigmatism.
(11) Gino Pozzo, son of the family business's founder, Giampaolo, stated on taking over that they are interested in investing in their English club for similar measured progress, not a rapid sprint to the Premier League's crock of gold, fortified by loan deals.
(12) Many of the patients termed crocks have symptoms referable to the gastrointestinal system, and they are at considerable health risk, since they usually alienate health care personnel.
(13) Look after the wealthy and clever and they will look after everyone else – that’s the moral basis of capitalism, and it’s a crock.
(14) "Anybody can tell you that asking someone in the middle of the high seas simple questions like that is not going to deliver anything near the information you need to work out if they are refugees or not," said Crock, a migration and refugee law expert.
(15) "So much has been made of Factory apparently turning The Smiths down, but that's a crock of shit.
(16) Elderly patients are sometimes stereotyped as "crocks" and "gomers"--crotchety chronic complainers beyond help and hope.
(17) Even Chiles was moved to described it as a "crock of shit" , but any decision to axe it would be a blow for ITV director of television Peter Fincham, who was responsible for ditching GMTV.
(18) Henry Crock was the first to reveal its principal pathogenetic factor, disc resorption, and to accurately describe the syndrome and its surgical treatment.
(19) Michael Heseltine had already been anointed as the new minister for Merseyside to stabilise Liverpool but without any crock of gold and, as the cabinet papers reveal, on what Thatcher's closest advisers considered to be a "doomed mission".
(20) Meanwhile, unemployment in Greece is around 27%; the public debt now is higher than it was when Athens collapsed, and the banking system is so crocked that small and mid-sized businesses in Greece are starved of credit (compare that with the generous terms and conditions a tech start-up in Berlin can now get).
Jar
Definition:
(n.) A turn. [Only in phrase.]
(n.) A deep, broad-mouthed vessel of earthenware or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes; as, a jar of honey; a rose jar.
(n.) The measure of what is contained in a jar; as, a jar of oil; a jar of preserves.
(v. i.) To give forth a rudely quivering or tremulous sound; to sound harshly or discordantly; as, the notes jarred on my ears.
(v. i.) To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash; to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute.
(v. t.) To cause a short, tremulous motion of, to cause to tremble, as by a sudden shock or blow; to shake; to shock; as, to jar the earth; to jar one's faith.
(v. t.) To tick; to beat; to mark or tell off.
(n.) A rattling, tremulous vibration or shock; a shake; a harsh sound; a discord; as, the jar of a train; the jar of harsh sounds.
(n.) Clash of interest or opinions; collision; discord; debate; slight disagreement.
(n.) A regular vibration, as of a pendulum.
(n.) In deep well boring, a device resembling two long chain links, for connecting a percussion drill to the rod or rope which works it, so that the drill is driven down by impact and is jerked loose when jammed.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have used the JAR choriocarcinoma cell line to study the biosynthesis and secretion of this hormone.
(2) The 'prequel' trilogy, featuring Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side and the much-maligned Jar Jar Binks, was released between 1999 and 2005 but Lucas has developed the franchise far beyond those six original films.
(3) Seasonal and habitat influences on the egg-laying activity of four species of Culex were compared in south Florida using jar- and vat-type oviposition traps.
(4) We're not just disembodied wombs in jars, like in Tales of the Unexpected.
(5) Inoculating sputum on modified Thayer-Martin medium and extending the initial incubation period of 3 days at 35 degrees C under 10% carbon dioxide to a further 3 weeks at room temperature in a candle jar, led to the diagnoses, which otherwise would have been missed, of pulmonary nocardiosis in 3 patients and pulmonary infections due to Neisseria meningitidis, Pseudomonas cepacia, and Serratia marcescens in a further 22 patients.
(6) These microcapsules can be dried and retain activity when sealed in a jar at 4 degrees C.
(7) The magnitude of this invasion was compared to that of the highly metastatic human JAR-choriocarcinoma cell line and murine B16F10 melanoma line.
(8) Innovations such as jam jar accounts, run by credit unions, have been much lauded, but where they have been offered take up has been low with many complaining about the complexity and costs involved.
(9) The increase in the CG beta mRNA with cell size is a consequence of the transcriptional mechanism, since agents which induce differentiation in JAr cells, i.e., methotrexate, increase the level of CG alpha and CG beta transcripts, cause a shift in cell size, and result in the formation of multinuclear cells.
(10) The earliest, biosynthetically labeled form of the beta subunit detected in JAR cells contains high mannose N-linked oligosaccharides and has one-half of its incorporated cysteines present as free thiols.
(11) The classic Jedi response to subservience can be seen in the contrast between Luke’s first meeting with C-3PO – “I see, Sir”; “You can call me Luke”; “I see, Sir Luke,”; “No, just Luke” – and Qui-Gon Jinn meeting Jar Jar Binks: “Mesa your humble servant”; “That won’t be necessary”.
(12) So here we are in Chester's Mill, a snoozy Maine town about to be rent asunder by the arrival of a mysterious transparent dome, shooming down like a giant jam jar on its coffee shops and car lots and effectively cutting its residents off from the rest of civilisation.
(13) I thought there might be real interest in aiming for an "innocent" reading of The Bell Jar.
(14) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
(15) Medium conatining 0.1% NaHCO3, if incubated in a closed environment (sealed jar), apperas to be equivalent to medium without bicarbonate incubated in ambient CO2 in supporting the growth of some but not all strains of N. gonorrhoeae.
(16) It is a spectacle made all the more compelling by his total immersion in every game he plays for Wales , the lack of distance or arm-waving frustration if his own talents occasionally jar with the action around him.
(17) Statistically significant decreases in recovery rate were noted when each system was compared with the traditional plate-candle jar technique.
(18) Scoop half of the chillies into a blender jar, pour in half of the soaking liquid (or water) and blend to a smooth purée.
(19) Apart from anything else, this jars with the gentle spirit of unity and togetherness – don’t look back in anger , and all that – that has defined so much of the early summer, and which Corbyn has so obviously embodied.
(20) Leaving aside the fact that in the real world, after a lifetime of buckets, there’s a fair chance Andy would be missing a foot, what’s even more jarring is that KFC would actually try to use the fraught process of foster care to make even more money.