(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.
Hastily
Definition:
(adv.) In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.
(adv.) Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly.
(adv.) Passionately; impatiently.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blatter announced his decision to resign during a hastily scheduled press conference, stating he will leave Fifa after 17 years at the helm.
(2) Hastily packing his one-man tent, the youngster set off walking from Idomeni, alone.
(3) January 12, 2016 Shorten hastily responded to that debate on Twitter with a pun-laden non-answer, saying: “Cos you asked … my favourite lettuce is one that doesn’t have a 15 per cent GST on it.” Bill Shorten (@billshortenmp) Cos you asked @workmanalice - my favourite lettuce is one that doesn't have a 15 per cent GST on it.
(4) Amid fears in Downing Street that a traditional trade visit would have looked out of place, as protests sweep across the Arab world, the PM hastily added a six-hour stopover in Cairo, including a walkabout in Tahrir Square.
(5) The announcement comes ahead of two hastily scheduled press conferences by senior officials in the national development and reform commission, which heads China's climate policies, raising expectations that China may soon unveil a target, or set of targets, for easing the country's huge carbon footprint.
(6) The school is a collection of hastily built thatched huts scattered round a patch of empty land.
(7) Rhodes said the Paris talks will be approached differently to Copenhagen, which is widely viewed as a hastily patched-together failure .
(8) Some early concepts, sometimes hastily postulated, are being questioned.
(9) The Coalition wants to scrap this agreement, arguing that it was hastily conceived by vested interests and unfairly locked out local communities and the logging industry.
(10) The commission, however, was hastily wound up in 1948 and quickly forgotten – thanks to the US, which believed the trials were impeding Germany’s rehabilitation.
(11) Professor Steve Field, former chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, will chair a hastily assembled forum of medical experts that will report by the end of May or the beginning of June.
(12) In response to staff protests in October, Kim led a hastily-arranged “town hall” meeting to listen to concerns, which thousands of employees are thought to have attended, many connecting over the internet in the middle of the night from overseas posts.
(13) Theresa May, who backed remain during the referendum and endorsed a status quo which has been failing working-class communities badly, has enjoyed a boost in the polls because she hastily adopted a series of popular Ukip policies on things such as grammar schools and national security.
(14) The ceasefire, declared on Monday night, had brought a palpable sense of relief and optimism to Gaza, but on Friday streets were deserted once more and any shops that had opened were hastily bring down their shutters.
(15) This is in part due to planned obsolescence – a devious ploy by manufacturers bolstered by marketing strategies to make us fall out of love with a product hastily.
(16) But the high-flying lifestyle of the billionaire Wall Street financier Raj Rajaratnam began to crumble when a hastily typed, barely intelligible instant message popped on to his screen in January 2006.
(17) Yet instead of hastily concluding that it would cost nothing to treat a financially weak Russia as a complete pariah, the time may have come for a burst of diplomatic creativity.
(18) He hastily added that though the speech was being given in the heart of the Arab world, it was aimed not just at Arabs but Muslims throughout the world.
(19) Acknowledging dissent from one table, he hastily added: "Apologies to Fox."
(20) McDermott, ironically, has become something of an ally of Cellino's, despite being sacked by his lawyer by phone in February, then hastily reinstated after an outpouring of support for the manager at the next day's win over Huddersfield.