(superl.) Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.
(superl.) Of agreeable things and interests.
(superl.) Of disagreeable things and antipathies.
(n.) A dear one; lover; sweetheart.
(adv.) Dearly; at a high price.
(v. t.) To endear.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(2) There is a heavy, leaden feeling in your chest, rather as when someone you love dearly has died; but no one has – except, perhaps, you.
(3) Here is my email to Dr Hansen on 18 June: Dear Mr. Hansen, Thanks for calling.
(4) Three dead after gunman storms Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Read more Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old from North Carolina, has been named as the suspected gunman behind a standoff at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in which three people died and nine were injured .
(5) FULL TEXT OF THE LETTER From: Cleo Watson Date: 29 March 2016 at 13:36:03 BST To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Urgent call: Doctors Dear Colleagues I hope you have had a restful Easter.
(6) His first film appearances had included Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Small Back Room, and the comedy Dear Mr Prohack (both 1949), the latter adapted from an Arnold Bennett novel.
(7) He fears that "this is a time when much that we hold dear about our profession and our NHS is deeply threatened".
(8) The Dear Deidre column will lose some of its sex focus to tackle more family-oriented issues at the weekend.
(9) The general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, Jeremy Dear, said the union would oppose cuts, with industrial action if necessary.
(10) May 2 1997 Labour is elected with a manifesto committed to leaving the door open for tuition fees: "the costs of student maintenance should be repaid by graduates on an income-related basis ..." July 23 1997 The Dearing report is published.
(11) "Dear chief secretary, I am afraid to tell you that there is no money left".
(12) Revolutionary forces also distributed leaflets at checkpoints leading into the city that read, "Dear Muslims, avoid God's wrath.
(13) The comedian Stephen Mangan called Cameron’s warning “panicky” and “daft”, while another comedian, Vikki Stone, shared a picture of herself hiding in the shed with a colander on her head and said: “Dear David Cameron I’m frightened.
(14) The email, beginning "dear colleagues", says the MPs' report "affords us a unique opportunity to reflect upon the mistakes we have made and further the course we have already completed to correct them.
(15) Dear Federal Reserve: stop waiting for the 'perfect' time to raise rates and just do it Read more These days the Fed is a lot more cautious.
(16) We love you.” Another starts: “Dear Polish friends, we wanted to let you know how very sorry we are to hear about the abusive messages graffitied on to your building.
(17) Photograph: Paula Dear Camping in Bolivia is still a low key affair but there’s a growing network of quality sites in popular areas such as Sorata , Samaipata , Coroico and La Paz.
(18) The Oscar-winning director, who made his National Theatre debut two years ago to much acclaim with Nick Dear's adaptation of Frankenstein , has told the Telegraph he won't be applying for the artistic director's position , which comes free in 2015.
(19) Songwriter Dan Bull urged BBC bosses in Dear Auntie (An Open Letter to the BBC) : "You need to appeal to the people that feel John Peel, and want to keep it real.
(20) Dear British public, be outraged, act, withhold your money until you can have confidence in what you consume.
Debar
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nature of surrogacy and required legislation is explored in this context, and it is argued that surrogacy should be subject to essentially the same regulation as adoption, thus debarring commercialization but without legislative intervention into the area of private reproductive behaviour.
(2) In anesthetized cats, whose peripheral muscarinic-cholinorecptors are blocked by m-cholinolytics (benzilyl choline) failing to penetrate into the brain, the cholinesterases reactivator diethyxime debars the centrally caused fall of the arterial pressure produced by armine, an inhibitor of cholinesterases readily gaining access into the brain.
(3) He said he wanted to see the rules on government campaigning in the referendum relaxed, arguing that the proposed rules were so restrictive that he might be debarred during the campaign period from even making a prime ministerial statement to the Commons after a meeting of the European Council.
(4) Labour, like the government, has said it would ban exclusivity clauses that would debar employees on zero-hours contracts from working for other companies.
(5) He has backed Wada’s call for Russia to be banned from athletics, saying: “Now for the first time we have the situation that Russia could be debarred from Olympics.
(6) Ucatt is unhappy with the scheme, pointing out that anyone accepting compensation has to drop all other legal claims and is debarred from speaking about what happened to them.
(7) Oligarch deadline Fugitive oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov, the former head of BTA Bank who is accused of embezzling $5bn (£3bn) from the Kazakh lender, is under pressure to turn himself in or risk being debarred from defending himself against fraud claims.
(8) The CofE has refused to countenance any form of official liturgical recognition for civil partnerships; has sought special exemptions from human rights and equalities legislation in order to continue discriminating against openly gay clergy or gay employees; has repeatedly restated its condemnation of all sexual relations outside heterosexual marriage; and has formally debarred even celibate gay clergy from becoming bishops.
(9) In May, Mr Justice Lewison threw out an action at the Royal Courts of Justice brought by Baron Mereworth, who maintains that it his hereditary entitlement to attend the Lords, despite the House of Lords Act 1999 debarring all but 92 of the 650 hereditary peers, including his late father Lord Oranmore and Browne.
(10) With this procedure a successful solution is provided for those cases that were debarred from endourological surgery because the tutor catheter was unable to pass.
(11) Guarded by snipers and sniffer dogs in a hangar that is described as a “sanctuary”, debarred to anyone without security clearance, Air Force One is a symptom of the privileged exclusivity that Trump the populist pretends to despise.
(12) The debate about the cost of journals is made difficult by the fact that there are wide variations across the industry, and of course competition issues debar any collaboration.
(13) But Mandelson adds Labour general secretary Iain McNicol should make his first priority to ensure unions and other third parties are debarred from paying any individual's party membership, which the party says allows the union additional muscle.
(14) Jones's clarification implies that he believes the chief purpose of marriage is procreation, and therefore gay people should be debarred, apparently ignoring the many married hetrosexual couples who do not have children.
(15) Maude said it would be "ridiculous" to debar companies whose employees are related to ministers after criticism over the Cabinet Office paying the legal firm that employs Miriam González Durántez £88,000 this year.
(16) It took two elections (he was again debarred) and three years, but he won.
(17) Some US-owned communications companies believe they are being put under conflicting legal pressures with their British-based firms being handed UK warrants to divulge data secretly that US law debars them from doing.
(18) There have been early scandals, too: one of her colleagues lined up for ministerial promotion was debarred after it emerged he had links with a member of a motorcycle gang.
(19) This effective debarring of women from the legislative process is more than an "embarrassment", it is profoundly undemocratic.
(20) This would therefore suggest that in a proven and recovered case of barotrauma it should not necessarily debar further diving activity.