(v. i.) A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.
(v. i.) To dib or dip frequently, as in angling.
(v. t.) To plant with a dibble; to make holes in (soil) with a dibble, for planting.
(v. t.) To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Keith Dibble, the chair of the Labour First group, joined forces with supporters of Yvette Cooper to write a letter urging people intending to vote for Liz Kendall to assist with the effort to stop Corbyn.
(2) She'll tell the Dibble everything they need to know.
(3) When we meet at the trust's offices in the West End – where, thrillingly, you can also see a display of original figures from Trumpton , including Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub – he finds it hard to stop talking about all the marvellous television he has been watching.
(4) "Your (non) mention of Euston took me back to last night," writes Matt Dibble.
Kibble
Definition:
(v. t.) To bruise; to grind coarsely; as, kibbled oats.
(n.) A large iron bucket used in Cornwall and Wales for raising ore out of mines.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gavin Kibble, the project manager at Coventry foodbank, which fed 7,500 people in 2010-11, its first year of operation, described the foodbank as a "barometer of the state of the nation".
(2) To tackle this at the charity, Kibble said it looked at what others, like New Philanthropy Capital were doing to measure impact and then tweaked the methods so they suited its own work.
(3) The activities of three urea cycle enzymes, several nitrogen catabolic, gluconeogenic, and lipogenic enzymes were measured in the liver of adult cats fed: a commercial kibble; a 17.5 or 70% protein purified diet, or starved for 5 days.
(4) An investigation revealed the owner had been feeding the dogs cottonseed meal daily with their kibbled meal.
(5) The cat doesn't give a crap if you've come from LA and trained Will Smith's cats and have a pocket full of Kibbles: it will keep on dragging maggoty voles under your bed and sitting staring at you through a window mouthing "mow?
(6) Third to publish was a group of three theorists, including two US researchers, Dick Hagen and Gerry Guralnik, and a British physicist, Tom Kibble.
(7) Two US physicists, Gerry Guralnik and Dick Hagen, had worked with Tom Kibble at Imperial College, London, but delayed their paper to ensure it was complete.
(8) Kevin Kibble, chief executive of the Caspari Foundation , agrees that impact measurement is now essential from a fundraising point of view.
(9) Tom Kibble at Imperial College, said he was happy to see the Swedish academy recognise the work and offered congratulations to Higgs and Englert.
(10) The others are Francois Englert from Belgium, Tom Kibble from the UK, and Dick Hagen and Gerry Guralnik in the US.