(n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.
(n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.
(v. t.) To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
(v. t.) To surround with a ditch.
(v. t.) To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.
(v. i.) To dig a ditch or ditches.
Example Sentences:
(1) This year's IPO frenzy has shown further signs of fading, as yet another company ditched plans to list its shares on the London stock exchange.
(2) But the last people you'd rely on are those who dug the ditch and shoved you in – particularly when they're still building and still shoving.
(3) Plans for the pipeline to come onshore in Brindisi were ditched following local opposition.
(4) But in a last-ditch effort, his lawyers lodged an appeal for clemency on Monday morning.
(5) Now he must go | Momodou Musa Touray Read more As midday and 4pm deadlines to go passed on Friday, two regional leaders arrived in the capital, Banjul, in a last-ditch diplomatic effort to persuade him to step down.
(6) In Barcelona, where last-ditch negotiations are taking place, it became clear today the best hope for Copenhagen is a "politically binding" agreement, which rich countries hope will have all the key elements of the final deal, including specific targets and timetables for greenhouse gas emissions cuts and money for poor countries to cope with climate change.
(7) In a last-ditch attempt to overturn the award of the west coast rail franchise to FirstGroup, Virgin Trains co-owner Sir Richard Branson has offered to run the service "for free" to allow time for parliamentary scrutiny of the decision.
(8) Time to scrap all honours everywhere, including UK.” Australians had their chance to ditch the monarchy in 1999.
(9) By removing the safeguards on [the total number of] hours [a trainee medic can be told to work], doctors will be working unsafe hours, leading to poor patient care.” One source involved in helping to formulate Hunt’s new offer said it represented a serious move to break the impasse over the pay and conditions of NHS medics and is his “last-ditch attempt to resolve the junior doctors dispute” before the ballot produces a widely expected mandate for action.
(10) phi PS5, a double-stranded DNA bacteriophage of Pseudomonas stutzeri JM604 that adsorbs specifically to the outer-membrane protein NosA, was isolated from stagnant irrigation ditch water.
(11) We will have another financial shock – it’s inevitable.” Gary Greenwood, analyst at Shore Capital, described the results as “dismal” and noted the bank was ditching targets previously set to measure returns to shareholders.
(12) Geoff Reid Bradford • Is the Jeremy Hunt who stated that “We need to have an honest discussion about the purpose of A&E departments” ( Hunt ditches target as A&E crisis deepens , 10 January) the same Jeremy Hunt who took his own child to A&E with a minor illness because he didn’t want to wait for a GP appointment?
(13) The chancellor stressed that Britain’s relationship with the EU would remain unchanged for the time being – and ditched the idea, launched alongside his predecessor Alistair Darling during the campaign – that an emergency budget would be necessary within weeks, as Brexit slams the brakes on the economy.
(14) 5) Playing dirty helps win the day Three days before the vote, a panicking no campaign organised a last-ditch rally at the Place du Canada in Montreal.
(15) The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) yesterday urged diplomats to stop bickering about a mini package of liberalisation designed to boost global commerce and warned of serious damage to the 20-year-old institution if last-ditch talks failed.
(16) A humiliated Trierweiler was publicly ditched by Hollande in a terse 18-word statement announcing that he was “putting an end” to their “shared life”.
(17) He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to Lakenheath and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red football shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their knickers, Holly's black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match.
(18) On information known publicly, one Tamil man was detained when he came to Australia because he was a lawyer for the LTTE’s civil administration, another because he dug ditches on LTTE orders for civilian Tamils to shelter in during air raids by government aircraft.
(19) The railway staff left to pick up the pieces are being set up as scapegoats with ludicrous claims about Spanish practices and out-of-control pay, but our members have already been paying with their jobs as the privateers ditch frontline staff to maintain profits.
(20) The US secretary of state was due to hold late-night talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a last-ditch attempt to break the deadlock on unresolved issues.
Grip
Definition:
(n.) The griffin.
(n.) A small ditch or furrow.
(v. t.) To trench; to drain.
(v. t.) An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.
(v. t.) A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.
(v. t.) That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.
(v. t.) A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
(v. t.) To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(2) It’s as though the nation is in the grip of an hysteria that would make Joseph McCarthy proud.
(3) The single best predictor of EI was BW (r2 = 0.47, p = 0.0001), and further small but significant contributions were made by BMC (r2 = 0.53, p = 0.0001) and grip strength (r2 = 0.55, p = 0.0001).
(4) However, it had no significant effect on grip strength, digital contractures, respiratory function or visceral involvement.
(5) Indian women are aware of our tenuous grip on our rights.
(6) The recovery of power grip and finger grip strength is complete in most patients by two months.
(7) Results indicate substantial postoperative improvement in tip prehension and grasp, while performance remained essentially unchanged for lateral prehension, pinch force, and power grip.
(8) Mean grip strength and grip strength per kilogram weight are presented for age 59, ages 60-64 and 65-69.
(9) The measurement is used to control a sensory feedback device applied to the surface of the skin within the socket of the prosthesis informing the wearer of the strength of grip exerted.
(10) Plasma catecholamine levels and the haemodynamic response to the hand-grip test have therefore been evaluated in a group of young athletes, compared with a group of non-trained youths.
(11) The Guardian's Xan Brooks described Fruitvale Station as a "quietly gripping debut feature" in which "one has the sense of a man being slowly, surely written back into being" after the film's Cannes screening in May.
(12) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(13) Heart rate elevation observed after hand grip maneuver did not change.
(14) That's why the policies that are desperately needed for the majority to break the grip of a failed economic model would also help make regulated migration work for all: stronger trade unions, a higher minimum wage, a shift from state-subsidised low pay to a living wage, a crash housing investment programme, a halt to cuts in public services, and an end to the outsourced race to the bottom in employment conditions.
(15) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
(16) "Zidane, Zidane, Zidane... France was in the grip of 'zizoumania'," Marcel Desailly wrote in his autobiography, reflecting on the triumph on home soil eight years ago, when giant images of the No 10 covered the sides of floodlit office blocks.
(17) The Holland manager had decided to retain the 5-3-2 system that worked so effectively against Spain but he reverted to 4-3-3 at the interval after losing Martins Indi and accepting that something had to change to enable his players to get a grip on a game that Australia were controlling in the first half.
(18) Loss of the righting response was not associated with any gross reduction in skeletal muscle tone (inclined screen and wire grip tests) and it was proposed that the animals were not anaesthetized but instead could be placed on their backs because flurazepam had enhanced the cataleptic effect of THC.
(19) The blood flow through the forearm was measured 2 sec after single, brief isometric hand-grip contractions.
(20) Analysis of the rate of functional recovery as measured by total active motion, gross grip strength, and pinch grip strength showed no significant difference between the two groups.