(n.) A cetacean of the genus Delphinus and allied genera (esp. D. delphis); the true dolphin.
(n.) The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fish commonly known as the dolphin. See Coryphaenoid.
(n.) A mass of iron or lead hung from the yardarm, in readiness to be dropped on the deck of an enemy's vessel.
(n.) A kind of wreath or strap of plaited cordage.
(n.) A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables.
(n.) A mooring post on a wharf or beach.
(n.) A permanent fender around a heavy boat just below the gunwale.
(n.) In old ordnance, one of the handles above the trunnions by which the gun was lifted.
(n.) A small constellation between Aquila and Pegasus. See Delphinus, n., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(2) In 2005, Westbrook bought the £190m head lease for Dolphin Square, once the largest block of flats in the world with a colourful list of former residents, including more than 70 MPs, at least 10 Lords and a number of intelligence agency personnel.
(3) Tony Dolphin, the chief economist at the IPPR thinktank, said: "Any reasonable person might say, these departments are already suffering swingeing cuts, and we're seeing reductions in frontline services: how can you possibly say you're going to take another 1% off without affecting services?"
(4) We examined four dolphins (Grampus griseus) of 582 mass-stranded.
(5) Vote for me, and I will complete the job of rebalancing it... January 28, 2014 12.03pm GMT Britain's businesses need to stop sitting on their cash piles and crank up their investment, argues IPPR’s chief economist Tony Dolphin: “The news that manufacturing is growing is welcome.
(6) The adults of the trematode occurring in the nasal sinuses and posterior nasal passage of the dolphins are considered as practically harmless for the host but thier eggs, aspirated deep into the bronchial tree, may initiate a foreign-body of inflammatory reaction in the lungs and continuous aspiration of such eggs may provoke a chronic pneumonia condition.
(7) The primary structure of this myoglobin proved identical with that from the Atlantic bottlenosed dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, but showed four substitutions with respect to the sequence reported for the Black Sea dolphin which has also been given the designation Delphinus delphis.
(8) In the dolphin peculiar architectonics have been observed in the nucleus gigantocellularis medullae oblongatae, nucleus papillioformis or the nucleus reticularis tegmenti Bechterewi and the nucleus centralis superior medialis seu ventralis.
(9) While jobs growth may have been strong during these three years of decent economic growth, it was disproportionately in low value-added – and low-paid – sectors of the economy,” Dolphin said.
(10) The previous government set a number of conditions on the development, to offset the impact on seagrasses, which are vital to the survival of dolphins, turtles and dugongs.
(11) He paid women in prostitution for their services in a grace and favour flat in Dolphin Square for which he pays £1,000 a month instead of the going rate of nearly £3,000.
(12) I take a small kayak, I see electric eels, dolphins.
(13) Its not just about dolphins, but human greed as well.
(14) In a speech which criticised the government's health reforms, Dolphin encouraged delegates to back strike action to defend their pensions.
(15) One of the reported claims against Incognito, which he has denied, is that he pressured Martin, a left tackle in his second year with the Dolphins, to pay $15,000 towards an unofficial players’ trip to Las Vegas that he did not attend.
(16) Richard Kerr will tell the programme that he was abused at Dolphin Square and the Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London – two locations that are at the centre of allegations about an elite paedophile ring involving politicians, senior military officers and, in his words, “men who had control and power over others”.
(17) A 21-yr-old male Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) was performing at an aquatic park when it developed a soft tissue swelling anterior to the flukes.
(18) It had been alleged that a high-profile paedophile ring was operating out of Dolphin Square, in Westminster, allegedly involving the late former prime minister Edward Heath and other establishment figures.
(19) Tackle the Humpback Dolphin trail and watch the surfers crest waves at Pollock Beach.
(20) World's wildlife being pushed to the edge by humans - in pictures Read more Pollution is also a significant problem with, for example, killer whales and dolphins in European seas being seriously harmed by long-lived industrial pollutants .
School
Definition:
(n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
(n.) A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.
(n.) A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
(n.) A session of an institution of instruction.
(n.) One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.
(n.) The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
(n.) An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
(n.) The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.
(n.) The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.
(n.) Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
(v. t.) To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
(v. t.) To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
(2) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
(3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(4) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(5) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(6) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
(7) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(8) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(9) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(10) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(11) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(12) After a due process hearing, the child was placed in a school for autistic children.
(13) Problems associated with school-based clinics include vehement opposition to sex education, financing, and the sheer magnitude of the adolescents' health needs.
(14) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
(15) Measurements of ChE concentration and ChE enzymatic activity by two different assay kits in 63 serum samples taken in the Clinical Laboratory of the Jichi Medical School correlated closely.
(16) When war broke out, the nine-year-old Arden was sent away to board at a school near York and then on Sedbergh School in Cumbria.
(17) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(18) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(19) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(20) A study was conducted to determine the usefulness of self-screening of blood pressure in families as part of a school health care programme, and to study the relationship between BP and sodium excretion in school children.