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Dido


Definition:

  • (n.) A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A calculational study of a conceptual tangential beam and a filtered radial beam in the DIDO type reactor HIFAR was undertaken.
  • (2) Structural separation of Openreach is at the heart of creating an industry that provides the incentive to invest Jeremy Darroch, Sky TalkTalk’s chief executive, Dido Harding, said Ofcom should use the review to end the conflict of interest that deterred Openreach from meeting its obligations to BT’s competitors.
  • (3) With Dido and Norah Jones ruling the album chart, the Beatles and Led Zeppelin selling plenty of DVDs, Duran Duran and Tears for Fears suddenly returning from oblivion and Franz Ferdinand achieving instant success, it looks as if the fifty-quid bloke is keeping the music business afloat.
  • (4) Dido In Virgil's Aeneid, the queen of Carthage, an exile from Tyre after the murder of her husband, was doing very nicely thank you very much, founding a new city in what is now Tunisia.
  • (5) But the TalkTalk chief executive, Dido Harding, insisted the data stolen in the cyberattack would not allow criminals to plunder customers’ bank accounts.
  • (6) Britain's broadband logo Photograph: Guardian The £2.5bn fibre broadband network that BT Group is building risks remaining empty unless the regulator acts now to promote competition, according to the TalkTalk chief executive, Dido Harding.
  • (7) Belle is inspired by a portrait of Dido Belle and her cousin … the first in the UK where a person of colour is treated as an equal.
  • (8) Dido Harding, TalkTalk’s chief executive, told Sky News: “The financial information they have on its own is not enough for them to access your bank account.” She warned customers not to give out financial details if they were contacted by phone or email by anyone asking for personal information: “Those are criminals doing that and we all need to make sure that we don’t let them win.” The Metropolitan police cybercrime unit’s criminal investigation was continuing, the company added.
  • (9) We also did a production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas .
  • (10) Dido Harding, chief executive at TalkTalk, revealed that the rate of demand among its customers has surged from about 1,000 per day in mid-November to a current rate of 10,000 a week with "momentum strengthening".
  • (11) Dido Harding, the chief executive of TalkTalk, said a full split was needed, and believes that it will eventually happen.
  • (12) We welcome the fact that the regulator has finally made a decision,” said Dido Harding, the chief executive at TalkTalk.
  • (13) "We have the UK's fastest-growing new TV business and our customers clearly appreciate its comprehensive content and value-for-money pricing," said the TalkTalk chief executive, Dido Harding.
  • (14) Seven three-bedroom apartments have been built for fly-in fly-out (Fifo) or drive-in drive-out (Dido) mining industry workers on a single block at the end of the cul-de-sac.
  • (15) "Reaching this milestone in less than a year is a great achievement, but it's just the beginning," said Dido Harding, chief executive of TalkTalk .
  • (16) Like, it was ironic and also, totally funny at the same time.” Luke & Charlotte, however, are duller than Dido in a load of beige-grey ditchwater.
  • (17) Dido Harding, the chief executive of TalkTalk, said on Wednesday that it will reveal to investors on 26 July the roll-out and pricing of its YouView-enabled TV service.
  • (18) TalkTalk chief executive Dido Harding has insisted the company’s cybersecurity is “head and shoulders” better than its competitors in the wake of the massive hack attack affecting thousands of customers.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest TalkTalk chief executive Dido Harding has apologised to customers for the third cyber-attack.
  • (20) Turner's art is full of references to antiquity – from Dido to Ulysses – and also to contemporary events, whether it was the burning of the Houses of Parliament or the scandal of a slave ship captain throwing his dying cargo overboard.

Dodo


Definition:

  • (n.) A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eventually he just voiced roles, as with the Dodo Bird in the same director's Alice in Wonderland film last year, but always to striking effect.
  • (2) Larry Kestelman, who scooped up around £100m from the sale of his telecoms company, Dodo, in March is aiming for Newsmodo to leverage the growing number of media outlets that need professional content.
  • (3) But, like many other such proposals, it is a dodo, and one that is potentially politically dangerous.
  • (4) Under a blood red sky, a crowd has gathered in black and white ... (to watch a 42 inch flatscreen in HD) Elsewhere on New Year's Day, David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive, in which Attenborough spent some screen time with dinosaurs and a dodo, began its 3D voyage with an average of 583,000 viewers, a 2.4% share, between 6.30pm and 8pm on Sky1.
  • (5) He had a short stint in politics as the director of communications for an atheist group called Enlighten the Vote , and he co-authored a well-received book mocking creationism, Flock of Dodos , which the Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz compared to works by celebrated authors Thomas Paine and Mark Twain.
  • (6) In particular, the perennial interpretation of past psychotherapy meta-analyses that therapeutic orientation makes no difference to outcome--or as the dodo bird put it: "Everyone has won and all must have prizes"--may be wrong.
  • (7) His critic pleaded for "this whole sorry saga to go the way of the dodo", while other Fry fans beseeched him not pull the plug on his tweets, prompting Fry into a change of heart.
  • (8) Whether this is the result of impenetrable stupidity, dodo-like foresight, monumental incompetence, the cynical realisation that they will be booted out in 2015 anyway so might as well inflict as much damage as possible or a combination of all the above, I have not yet decided.
  • (9) We have already let the dodo die out, we can't and mustn't let this happen to a people and their culture."
  • (10) To me, it’s dead as a dodo.” Mundine, who heads the Indigenous Advisory Council, said some outspoken members of the Coalition were pushing for the changes but the rest of the government was happy to let the matter rest.
  • (11) Everywhere you look, things made from it are going the way of the dodo.

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