(n.) A kind of small writing table, generally somewhat ornamental, and forming a piece of furniture for the parlor or boudoir.
Example Sentences:
(1) Davenport, possibly in a fit of pique at having been knocked out, said playing Mauresmo was like 'playing a guy'.
(2) With Richard Davenport taking second place – an athlete who has not yet run the A-qualifying standard – Van Commenee can select two further athletes to travel to Daegu.
(3) • theglory.co Chosen by music, satire and cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice Soho Theatre Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Richard Davenport Soho has undergone so many facelifts in recent years, it has begun to take on traits of the ageing celebrity: plastic, shiny, hard to find the personality.
(4) These results indicate that the ATPase polypeptide traverses the membrane an even number of times, in support of a previously published topological model (Hager, K. M., Mandala, S. M., Davenport, J. W., Speicher, D. W., Benz, E. J., Jr., and Slayman, C. W. (1986) Proc.
(5) There has also been a complaint made to the government by a company about how the dredging and sea wall contract was handled , and concerns about the cosy relationship between Shorrock and Good Energy – Shorrock was until recently a paid adviser to Good Energy, which is run by his wife, Juliet Davenport.
(6) They’re in the minority.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Farmer Peter Edwards, who founded Delabole windfarm, and Juliet Davenport, CEO of Good Energy, which bought the farm in 2002.
(7) Smash, with an all-star cast including Debra Messing, Jack Davenport and Anjelica Huston, began on Sky Atlantic with 75,000 viewers, a 0.4% share of the audience, between 10pm and 11pm on Saturday.
(8) • Jack Davenport stars in Breathless, which starts on ITV at 9pm, 10 October
(9) 'We do have a tendency to come to the same place from totally different directions, have a massive scrap, and then something comes out of it,' says Davenport cheerfully, as we head off for a tour of the edit suites, where a large team of editors and compositors is layering blue-screen images onto footage recorded in nearby Warwickshire woodland.
(10) Having joined Ragdoll in 1991, Davenport had worked with Wood on the Bafta-winning Tots TV and Brum before they co-created Teletubbies, the first show to be aimed squarely, and controversially, at pre-schoolers.
(11) I'm responsible for the finances, and the longer things take, the more money you're spending [Davenport groans in protest].
(12) She’s the best fighter, the best competitor we’ve ever seen in women’s sports,” said Lindsay Davenport as Sharapova saw off another match point.
(13) Davenport said goodbye to the theatre without too much regret when Wood offered him a job as a puppeteer on Tots TV.
(14) Juliet Davenport, founder of Good Energy , said: "This will undermine growth, investment and jobs in a sector which is helping to introduce more competition and new players into the energy market.
(15) Next on Davenport’s wishlist for the site is a solar farm, and an energy storage plant, a technology many believe will be key for renewable energy’s next big breakthrough.
(16) Richard Davenport-Hines in his recently published An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo writes that 1963 was the year when "the soapy scum flowed after the sluices of self-righteous scurrility were opened".
(17) In the companion paper [Davenport, L., Knutson, J. R., & Brand, L. (1986) Biochemistry (following paper in this issue)], a specific application to a problem of importance of lipid biochemistry--e.g., the origin of the membrane probe order parameter in lipid bilayers--is presented, demonstrating the role rotational heterogeneity may play in biochemical fluorescence.
(18) Juliet Davenport, the founder and chief executive of the renewable power supplier Good Energy , another of the letter's signatories, said Britain needed a more inclusive approach to the way it invested in its energy infrastructure.
(19) The total prevalence of diabetes (15.6%) was lower than the 19.0% described in the study of Aboriginals in Davenport [Wise et al., Med.
(20) Andrew Davenport was born in Folkestone, the son of a Michelin tyres sales manager and a housewife.
Formal
Definition:
(n.) See Methylal.
(a.) Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.
(a.) Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing it; having the power of making a thing what it is; constituent; essential; pertaining to or depending on the forms, so called, of the human intellect.
(a.) Done in due form, or with solemnity; according to regular method; not incidental, sudden or irregular; express; as, he gave his formal consent.
(a.) Devoted to, or done in accordance with, forms or rules; punctilious; regular; orderly; methodical; of a prescribed form; exact; prim; stiff; ceremonious; as, a man formal in his dress, his gait, his conversation.
(a.) Having the form or appearance without the substance or essence; external; as, formal duty; formal worship; formal courtesy, etc.
(a.) Dependent in form; conventional.
(a.) Sound; normal.
Example Sentences:
(1) We present the analysis both formally and in geometric terms and show how it leads to a general algorithm for the optimization of NMR excitation schemes.
(2) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(3) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(4) Eleven per cent of the courses that responded provided no formal substance misuse training.
(5) However ITV deny that any approach or offer, formal or informal, has been made.
(6) The wives and girlfriends who were originally invited to accompany their playing partners on the World Cup tour have had their invitations formally rescinded.
(7) This formalism allows resolution of the intrinsic protein folding-unfolding parameters (enthalpy, entropy, and heat capacity changes) as well as the ligand interaction parameters (binding stoichiometry, enthalpy, entropy, and heat capacity changes).
(8) This demonstrates a considerable range in surgeons' attitudes to day surgery despite its formal endorsement by professional bodies, and identifies what are perceived as the organizational and clinical barriers to its wider introduction.
(9) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
(10) Britain and France formally announced this week they would abstain, along with Portugal and Bosnia.
(11) After the formal PIRC inquiry was triggered by the lord advocate, Frank Mulholland, Bayoh’s family said police gave them five different accounts of what had happened before eventually being told late on Sunday afternoon how he died.
(12) Instituut voor Sociale Geneeskunde, Vrije Universiteit (The process of directing self-care, informal and formal assistance).
(13) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
(14) A formal notion of relatability is defined, specifying which physically given edges leading into discontinuities can be connected to others by interpolated edges.
(15) Formal audits of the continuing medical education activities of physicians licensed in Michigan were undertaken to assess compliance with a law mandating participation in 150 hours of continuing medical education each 3 years.
(16) His central focus was on the neutrality of government rules – or what he called (on p117), "the Rule of Law, in the sense of the rule of formal law, the absence of legal privileges of particular people designated by authority" – not the elimination of government rules: "The liberal argument is in favor of making the best possible use of the forces of competition as a means of coordinating human efforts, not an argument for leaving things just as they are."
(17) The Washington Post report is the latest in a flurry of unattributed articles suggesting that the Justice Department is unlikely to take up formal charges against Assange.
(18) The government will formally begin the sale of Royal Mail on Thursday by announcing its intention to float the 497-year-old postal service on the London Stock Exchange.
(19) His formal entry into the contest marks a key moment in the nascent race for the Republican nomination, which is set to be the most congested presidential primary either party has held since 1976.
(20) The formal results of the analysis show that when psychological considerations are incorporated into a state-dependent utility model, the normative results customarily obtained concerning value-of-life need to be qualified.