(v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.
(v. t.) To dress the hair or coat of (a horse, ox, or the like) with a currycomb and brush; to comb, as a horse, in order to make clean.
(v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
(n.) A kind of sauce much used in India, containing garlic, pepper, ginger, and other strong spices.
(n.) A stew of fowl, fish, or game, cooked with curry.
(v. t.) To flavor or cook with curry.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
(2) Former Tory minister Edwina Currie has tweeted that she had "no sympathy" for food bank users, that they were just "opportunists".
(3) It's not that Thompson isn't a a very good player – he and Steph Curry have been running one of the most potent offensives in the NBA over the last two years or so and he's obviously a much better defensive player than Love.
(4) Is eating curry occasionally proof of the "growing Indianisation of British culture"?
(5) The chairman is Lord Currie, dean of the business school at City University in London.
(6) I thought it was like [Joe] DiMaggio’s hit streak.” The arena was covered in blue and gold and roaring for the home team, cheers that were even louder for each of Curry’s 10 three-pointers.
(7) And I'll be catching several buzzy acts who I contrived to miss last year – Ivo Graham, Ursula Burns, Trygve (Squidboy) Wakenshaw, Phil Wang, Paul Currie.
(8) Almond lamb curry: Atul Kochhar This dish derives its main flavour from a spice blend called vadagam, which can be a little tedious to make.
(9) Meantime, in Tamworth, Australia, Matt Crawford admits that "nerves, sleep deprivation and a curry supper = high risk viewing this morning".
(10) Though BA none producing mutants which were blocked at the steps 1, 10 and 13, respectively in BA biosynthesis also converted BA to BA dimer and If, the mutants blocked at the step 11 (alanylation) could not curry out the conversion.
(11) Stephen Curry , a structural biologist at Imperial College London, says that scientists need to come to a new arrangement with publishers fit for the online age and that "for a long time, we've been taken for a ride and it's got ridiculous".
(12) For him, a good night out was driving around Glasgow or some other part of the west of Scotland, helping activists climb up ladders, putting up posters, and then piling into a curry shop.
(13) Variously billed as edible networking, curry induced knowledge exchange, and a good excuse to eat curry and chat social care, the appetite for curry has surpassed all expectations.
(14) @Stephen_Curry is a professor of structural biology at Imperial College, vice-chair of Science is Vital and a director of CaSE .
(15) William McDougall , infrastructure engineer and transport consultant who has worked on several projects in Victoria , including an early study into the link: “Having studied the East West Link several times over the years, I’m convinced that it’s not needed.“ Dr Alan March , associate professor of urban planning at Melbourne University: “I look at this as a choice about where public investment and resources are going and, when it is compared with other short-term and long-term choices that could be made, this is not a good choice.” Dr John Stone , lecturer in transport policy, University of Melbourne: “This project has problems because the only credible cost benefit analysis has shown that it is not going to make a return on the investment that we make.” Professor Graham Currie , Australia’s first professor of public transport, at Monash University, with 30 years experience as a transit planner: “Is it a good idea to build more motorways in inner areas?
(16) Curry averaged .9 rebounds per game and 2.1 points per game on 46.2% field goal shooting throughout 14 games, one of which he started.
(17) "They have freshly-prepared home-made soups, vegetable curries, and other items more often found in an upmarket restaurant than a football ground bar."
(18) I have a feeling that this one might stand for a while.” Golden State stormed to an early lead behind Curry’s hot shooting, heading into the locker room at half time leading by 20 points.
(19) A Currys promise of a £101 saving on a Samsung TV was not as good as it looked, as the £748 price tag was only a pound less than on the eve of Black Friday and it had been on promotion at £699 in September.
(20) If he was safe he would have made an attempt to get in touch with somebody.” Family members of a young couple, Chloe Rutherford, 17 and Liam Curry, 19, from South Shields, were also in Manchester searching for them.
Curvy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Nobody would be able to tell, because while I’m certainly not fat, I’m quite curvy with a big bottom and I really don’t look as if I have an eating disorder.
(2) It’s not about a token nod to curvy girls …”, Cosmo ‘s editor, Bronwyn McCahon, explains in her campaign launch letter : “Showcasing body diversity at both ends of the spectrum has become part of Cosmo’s DNA.
(3) You’ll probably get a clothes chain asking you to design a range for “curvy” women … I got some free clothing in Australia – that was amazing.
(4) For example, Klein recently told a clothing store clerk she’d just had a baby even though her son was already more than a year old because nothing in the boutique fit her curvy body.
(5) Barbie finally becomes a real girl – with more realistic figure and skin colours Read more Barbie has released three new Barbie body shapes: tall, curvy and petite.
(6) Have curvy women only appeared in the past five years?
(7) By controlling confounding effects due to redundancy, the possibility that the outcomes might be related to the balance of linear and curvi-linear target features was strengthened.
(8) Once they decide what type of measurement best fits their customer (straight bodied, curvy, etc) they hire a fit model, who is usually a size four or six to fit the sample on.
(9) Photograph: Barbie After a survey on the fashion desk, we have decided that we particularly like the vibe of Everyday Chic Curvy Barbie, who has boldly teamed distressed cropped jeans with lace-up black brogues.
(10) These opposing actions are in competition at different dose levels of thyroxine, and may contribute not only to augmentation or suppression of thyrotrophin, but also to the curvi-linear pattern of fall.
(11) Overall, Lululemon's good profits close out a bad year for curvy women.
(12) It looks like a modernist sculpture, but the curvy abstract forms are functional, housing terraces-cum-lookouts with dramatic views of the coastline.
(13) She said: “I’m pretty lucky that I only get comments like this occasionally but I have many curvy blogger friends who have this happen all the time, either publicly or by email, so I hear about it very frequently.” And she says the sewing blogger community is generally very body positive.
(14) Now girls can finally see themselves reflected in the toys, can imagine their own beautiful brown eyed, blue haired, curvy, stylish selves sitting in the Ferrari and pulling up next to their dream home in a climate where many women are being more mindful of what imagery they pass on to their daughters, and rejecting the kind of beauty that Barbie has come to represent and “reflect”.
(15) Ring or curvi-linear calcification in not a reliable sign of a cyst.
(16) Calcified cyst walls appear as fine, even, curvi-linear lines, Dense, irregular and extensive calcification indicates a solid tumour.
(17) Brown skin, brown eyes, full lips, curvy waist and that different shaped nose.
(18) Both cholesterol and phospholipid outputs were coupled to biliary bile salt output in a curvi-linear relationship which could be fitted by rectangular hyperbolae, in the animals fed with different plant steroids.
(19) Hers is not a label specifically aimed at curvy or plus-sized women, but at all women.
(20) What about – dare I say it – women who are both short and curvy?