(n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
(v. i.) To behave foolishly.
Example Sentences:
(1) George is unreliable... untrustworthy... to coin a phrase, a dolt."
(2) 28 mins: Look at the pedantic dolts I have to deal with: "So which bit of '4 mins ... 7mins ... 10 mins' is 'minute-by-minute' commentary, exactly?"
(3) His predecessor, Richard Daley, was embraced as an authentic Chicagoan with no ambitions beyond the city, even if he came across in public as a monosyllabic dolt.
(4) Analyses were conducted on three reference standard materials certified for their methyl mercury content, DOLT-1, DORM-1, and TORT-1, provided by the National Research Council of Canada.
(5) The cull might help to destroy the industry these bloody-minded dolts claim to defend.
(6) Some dolt in a car coat jogs around for a while, before being shoved to the ground by several police officers waving sticks.
(7) Of course, if you have £9bn to spend on a party, surely only a dolt could fail.
(8) Another critique of the great war is that the troops were commanded by dolts, a fact it must be said that is contested by many eminent historians.
(9) That's the point of the episode, you catastrophic dolt.
Holt
Definition:
() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth.
(n.) A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill.
(n.) A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electrocardiographic criteria employed to diagnose LV hypertrophy included the Sokolow and Lyon index, the Romhilt-Estes voltage criteria, the Romhilt-Estes point score, the ratio of RV6:RV5 greater than 1 proposed by Holt and Spodick, and a method utilizing the sum of the amplitudes of the QRS complexes of all 12 leads.
(2) He was perhaps casting an envious glance at his counterpart Dave Whelan's summer signings, particularly Holt, who nodded over early on from six yards.
(3) Using a Farmer chamber as a reference dosimeter, we have measured the Ngas (cavity-gas calibration factor) and Prepl (replacement correction factor) values for four parallel-plate chambers: a Holt chamber, a Capintec chamber, a Markus chamber, and an SHM chamber.
(4) Both the Holt and Luthy methods give equally reliable results, but the Holt technique is preferable for Qed measurements.
(5) The Holt-Oram syndrome is a hereditary disease which associated with upper limbs anomalies and cardiac defects such as secundum type atrial septal defect.
(6) Dennis Holt, the bank’s chairman, said it had now cut costs and sold troubled loans to begin to seek a buyer for the Manchester-based operation with 4 million customers and 105 branches.
(7) The RMT union, which received the document in a briefing with Holt, urged the government to nationalise East Coast permanently.
(8) A method for measuring the true coronary blood flow without catheterization of the coronary arteries and coronary sinus as well as a modified Holt's method for determining the end diastolic volume of the heart ventricles are suggested.
(9) The basement membrane changes are compatible with those seen in Meesmann, Stocker-Holt, and map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy, but the lack of intraepithelial cysts is not characteristic of these dystrophies.
(10) The fractions obtained from the 19A PSs Lab-A-PIM and CDC-PIM exhibited four sugar components, as observed for the PS Lab-A-1, while the separated fractions from the 19A PSs Lab-A-Holt and CDC-Holt displayed two sugar components, a pattern similar to that of PS Lab-A-2.
(11) The Rorschach (Holt's scoring system) and Alternate Uses Test (spontaneous flexibility score) were administered to 53 fifth-grade children.
(12) Phil Holt, local government advisory partner at Deloitte, the professional services firm, said most authorities had already made a range of efficiencies and cuts, but still faced "some of the greatest challenges in living memory".
(13) Jean Beausejour was then introduced to provide service yet Holt, Fortuné and Boyce could not find the target with headers from his centres.
(14) (Tokyo) 72, 357--367], trout [Koostra, A., & Bailey, G. S. (1978) Biochemistry 17, 2504--2510], and Patella (a limpet) [van Helden, P. D., Strickland, W. N., Brandt, W. F., & von Holt, C. (1979) Eur.
(15) Dennis Holt, the bank’s chairman, said: “Following the appointment of Liam Coleman as deputy chief executive on 3 May 2016, I am pleased to confirm that Liam will succeed Niall Booker as chief executive, subject to regulatory approval, when Niall’s contract with the bank expires on 31 December 2016 following a planned handover during the fourth quarter of 2016.” The number of current accounts held at the bank fell to 1.422m at the end of June, from 1.43m a year earlier.
(16) These patients, as well as the twins described in this report, are most likely a heterogeneous group and may represent other syndromes like Holt-Oram, VATER, VACTERL and IVIC, with genetic as well as nongenetic etiologies.
(17) Assistant chief constable Andy Holt, who is leading a team of 10 British officers deployed to Port Elizabeth, doesn't sound too concerned.
(18) Three serial ejection fractions (EFs) (EF1, 2, 3) and the mean were calculated, based on Holt's theory.
(19) This week, after an article in the Mail on Sunday detailed the prejudices he had expressed, Fury made what he calls flippant threats in a video interview against the journalist, Oliver Holt.
(20) We studied three families in which patients with the Holt-Oram syndrome (HOS) had various skeletal abnormalities and congenital heart defects.