(a.) Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Why are only women on Mock the Week compilations laughing cutaways?"
(2) Scattered throughout are cutaways of undulating hills and stoic ruminants filming exterior shots of sheep against a backdrop of yawning bees.
(3) Calibration of strain gauges attached to a cutaway die wall was achieved by compression of rubber-like materials in the die, Breon Polyblend 504 being more effective than red rubber for this purpose.
(4) Still, we could have done with a Jubilee-style cutaway to the sodden picnickers sitting on drenched rugs, clutching rain-diluted fizz as their bottoms, now unquestionably soggy, sank into the mud.
(5) The Disney Channel recently made headlines by featuring a lesbian family in kids' show Good Luck Charlie , but the closest Disney have got to an LGBT feature-film family is Frozen's brief cutaway to a father and kids in a sauna.
(6) The year started with Alabama governor George Wallace standing on the steps of the state capitol in hickory-striped trousers and a cutaway coat declaring: "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation for ever."
(7) Video interiors is a form of display in which digitized pixels interior to objects are revealed by cutaway blocks.
(8) PA's new service, which will launch on 5 May, will distribute up to 30 news, sport and entertainment stories a day, supplying raw footage of interviews, plus cutaways and general images to allow publishers to create their own distinct video packages.
(9) It's a welcome return, as was the cutaway earlier of Poehler giggling as George Clooney whispered sweet nothings into her ear.
(10) Progress has brought us to leaders’ debate night in 2015, with its “sentiment-tracking” worms , pre-prepared insta-verdicts, and constant cutaways to graphs measuring volumes of tweets.
(11) It was delivered in a year that started with Alabama governor George Wallace standing on the steps of the state capitol in hickory-striped pants and a cutaway coat declaring, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” and ended with President Kennedy’s assassination.
(12) Dressed in swirling marbled silks, cobalt blue lace gowns and cutaway tuxedo evening suits, the dancers performed a modern ballet routine standing on tables dotted with champagne glasses, and traversed the room stepping from chair to chair.
(13) 8.55am BST As those who are watching the live video feed will have noted, Prof Botha is not being pictured giving evidence – all the images are of other sections of the court, mainly Roux and the judge, plus occasional cutaways to Pistorius.
(14) When one bereaved mother excitedly tells the support group that she is pregnant, a fleeting cutaway catches the pain on the face of an older woman who is denied that option of continuation.
(15) Cutaway to Kevin Spacey in character as House of Card’s Francis Underwood and then the ladies came on screen to save the opening, sitting in the front row complete with popcorn and 3D glasses – Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
(16) The core cast were, and remain, all white (making the pilot’s brief cutaways to Joy Lin, who “knows Photoshop”, all the more cringe-worthy).
(17) While Family Guy has often featured trademark cutaway musical segments, some of them winning Emmy awards in their own right, a full-time musical career is now clearly an option.
(18) Anyone who watches ESPN's MLS coverage has occasionally seen cutaway shots of Lalas in these eagle's nest vantage points, as if to illustrate the macro perspective he's supposed to provide.
(19) She once tweeted: “Why are only women on Mock the Week compilations laughing cutaways?
Noddy
Definition:
(n.) A simpleton; a fool.
(n.) Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus.
(n.) The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.
(n.) An old game at cards.
(n.) A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
(n.) An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oxygen consumption (MO2) of the semi-precocial Brown Noddy embryos at different stages of development was measured at 36 degrees C and again after 5-hr exposure to lowered ambient temperatures (30 and 32 degrees C).
(2) I believe that a lighthearted exchange could have taken place.” “PC Plod is the Toyland constable in the Noddy stories isn’t he?” Browne said.
(3) In Australia, levels of lead and mercury were higher in black noddy (A. minutus) and lower for sooty tern; and cadmium levels were highest for brown noddy (A. stolidus) and sooty tern, and lowest for black noddy.
(4) Even now, he's negotiating a treaty with Noddy Holder, the cultural attache for British Sausage Week , to establish an international standard for toad-in-the-hole.
(5) Alfie, Doodles, Lofty, Sooty (who won best individual), Noddy, Bentley, Pedro and Cracker are so well trained they walk in formation down the beach and back again without being led.
(6) This year’s Venice work draws from his exhibition called All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (the title derives from a passage in the Communist Manifesto) that toured the north of England in 2013-14, and featured family trees of musicians that found the ancestors of Bryan Ferry, Noddy Holder and Shaun Ryder included a blacksmith, a button filer and a clogger’s apprentice.
(7) The precocial chicken and semi-precocial noddy previously studied are intermediate in their metabolic response between the duck and the pigeon.
(8) British animation has been in decline in recent years as other countries have offered generous subsidies for cartoonists to move abroad, with Bob the Builder and Thomas the Tank Engine produced in the US and Noddy made in Ireland, and the industry believes the result is British pre-schoolchildren now see largely foreign-made content.
(9) In contrast to precocial chickens, the semi-precocial Noddy had no apparent metabolic response to cooling before hatching.
(10) But theimage of electric vehicles as dowdy "Noddy" cars has begun to change, due to luxury electric sports cars such as California's Tesla Roadster and the British-designed Lightning GT.