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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.

Trick


Definition:

  • (a.) An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
  • (a.) A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.
  • (a.) Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys.
  • (a.) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.
  • (a.) A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
  • (a.) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.
  • (a.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.
  • (a.) A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
  • (v. t.) To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
  • (v. t.) To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out.
  • (v. t.) To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (2) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
  • (3) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
  • (4) That was the thing that told against us in the end and we have to be serious about that.” In defence of the Corbyn camp’s plans to renationalise privatised industries, John McDonnell MP, who is the candidate’s campaign agent, said that privatisation had been “a confidence trick”.
  • (5) The announcement from the Congressional Budget Office, a research body, that health reform would cost $940bn (£627bn), which was less than had been expected, appears to have done the trick.
  • (6) It’s not going to change whether I score a hat-trick or don’t score at all.
  • (7) I don’t think it’s indicative of lower fish stocks, they just learned a new trick,” Mardisk F Leopold, who led the research, told the Guardian.
  • (8) It was his second hat-trick in four games and he has now scored 10 times in seven.
  • (9) "In the wake of Julio Baptista's quad-trick, which player has scored the most goals against Liverpool in one game at Anfield?"
  • (10) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
  • (11) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
  • (12) "So when you figure out that trick, that becomes how you attack anything bad.
  • (13) Highlight: Mike Magee’s opening day hat-trick against the team he ended the season with.
  • (14) Celebrities from Justin Bieber to Spike Lee were on hand for the opening of a spectacle that mixes circus tricks with the music of the late King of Pop – a pairing that has already proved lucrative for Cirque on the road with the arena show, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour .
  • (15) Gordon Brown and David Cameron put the question of substance at the heart of the political battle yesterday, as the Tory leader accused his rival of relying on "short-term tricks" in place of long-term solutions.
  • (16) So it’s comforting to note that Spectre seems to be offering a significant upgrade: the trailer shows Q introducing Bond to his new ultra-speedy Aston Martin DB10, and promising it boasts a “few tricks”.
  • (17) It is impossible to trick your mind into veering away from the enormity of what happened in this tiny country in the centre of Africa.
  • (18) In the second world war, countries had their own encryption tools but now we share networks and tools, and if you can undermine the random number generator - if you can make it less random - and that’s what the NSA was doing by trying to trick, buy or persuade companies to make their encryption more breakable,” said Gellman.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest China dismisses Trump call with Taiwan as ‘small trick’ However, Beijing’s public response has so far been measured, with the foreign ministry lodging a “solemn representation” with Washington and the foreign minister, Wang Yi, downplaying the development as “a petty move” by Taiwan.
  • (20) Take, for example, the "trick" of combining instrumental data and tree-ring evidence in a single graph to "hide the decline" in temperatures over recent decades that would be suggested by a naive interpretation of the tree-ring record.

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