(a.) Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions.
(a.) Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.
(a.) Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.
(a.) Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.
(n.) One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.
(n.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(2) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(3) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
(4) For services to Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence.
(5) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(6) The law would let people find out if partners had a history of domestic violence but is likely to face objections from civil liberties groups.
(7) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(8) It has been found that in the first year of life, in females from a population selected for domesticated behavior (tame), there is no differentiated adrenal response to different doses of ACTH.
(9) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
(10) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(11) A lost generation of 14 million out-of-work and disengaged young Europeans is costing member states a total of €153bn (£124bn) a year – 1.2% of the EU's gross domestic product – the largest study of the young unemployed has concluded.
(12) In Britain, the European election is overwhelmingly seen through the prism of domestic politics.
(13) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
(14) All became highly managed, "domesticated" landscapes that demanded a huge input of labour to build and maintain.
(15) They have not remotely done this so far, largely from fear of domestic political consequences that cannot be simply dismissed.
(16) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
(17) In South Korea they have set a goal for every home in the country to have domestic robots by 2020.
(18) Two types of mechanoreceptor have been found in the articular capsule of the knee joint of the domestic cat--Ruffini corpuscles and Pacinian corpuscles.
(19) Changes in brain size are compared with observations found in other domesticated birds.
(20) Investigations carried out in Pavlodar Province have shown that 7 species of ixodid ticks, Ixodes crenulatus, I. lividus, I. persulcatus, I. laguri laguri, Dermacentor marginatus, D. reticulatus, Haemaphysalis concinna, and one brought species, Hyalomma asiaticum, parasitize domestic animals and wild mammals.
Fireside
Definition:
(n.) A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Walker also made a direct appeal on television to the public with what was billed as a fireside chat tonight.
(2) These service users have complex health needs and chaotic lifestyles and so SIFA Fireside has adopted a one-stop shop approach where people can come to their centre and see a range of professionals such as a nurse, dentist, housing and benefits adviser, mental health and alcohol abuse worker, or get an onward referral to other services.
(3) Though devoted to his family, he was not endowed for a gentle harmonious life by the fireside.
(4) In addition, a mini-course and two evening 'fireside' panel discussions were entirely devoted to discussions on the newer nuclear imaging techniques underlining the relative importance of scintigraphy in investigative cardiology.
(5) During the dinner, an intimate “fireside chat” at the Manhattan apartment of hoteliers Mati Weiderpass and Ian Reisner earlier this week, Cruz said if one of his daughters was gay, he would still love her “with all our hearts”, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
(6) Faced with the evident unpopularity of this move, Havel explained himself simply enough to the nation in another of his Masarykian fireside talks.
(7) When Havel re-established Masaryk's radio fireside chats with the nation in his weekly Conversations at Lány (the presidential country residence), Klaus quickly arranging a slot for his views of how things were in weekly interviews in the newspaper Lidové Noviny.
(8) From there I camped along New Zealand's coast, starting at Cape Reinga, went on to sleep out on beaches in Fiji and Tahiti, bedded down on ledges in America's national parks, slept by the fireside, Bedouin-style, in Wadi Rum and under a lavvu – a traditional Sami tent, a bit like a wigwam – in Finland in -40C.
(9) Over a fireside pint at the cosy Rugglestone Inn , in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Alex tells me of plans to close the prison and turn it into a whisky distillery.
(10) Tensions broke into the open at the parliamentary meeting on Monday evening, as Thornberry gave an update on the review and promised a series of “fireside chats” to listen to the views of colleagues.
(11) On the evening of 6 October 1998, Matthew went to the Fireside bar, a local hangout that was purportedly gay-friendly.
(12) Within months a new religion had emerged – spiritualism – a mixture of liberal, nonconformist values and fireside chats with dead people.
(13) The tools for fireside cooking are practical and hard-wearing; they should last a lifetime.
(14) Guests will stay in a “cosy” cottage on the site and enjoy a “delicious dinner” before spending the evening relaxing by the fireside.
(15) Ted Cruz defends marriage stance after 'fireside chat' with gay hoteliers Read more “He’s a lousy president because he is a radical ideologue and a zealot and the ideas he believes have been profoundly dangerous to the United States and to the world.” While the audience seemed to inclined to back more establishment candidates such as Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Marco Rubio, Cruz was clearly trying to establish himself as a viable contender and woo attendees who might be more skeptical about his electability than his ideology.
(16) Speaking to the nation - in a YouTube version of Roosevelt's fireside chats on radio - Obama told Americans that the nation faced disaster on an almost unprecedented scale.
(17) In the end though the fireside chat, which touched on everything from floppy discs and Commodore 64s to the Arab spring and shitschtorming , (as Merkel put it) turned into a focused discussion about the future of Europe .
(18) Talisker Bay Photograph: Alamy Distance 2 miles Start Talisker, grid ref: NG326306 Further information and maps To malt whisky buffs the name Talisker conjures a picture of peaty drams and long fireside evenings.
(19) The idea of a fireside chat between world leaders might have been a good idea when Giscard d'Estaing dreamt it up in 1975, but it's now time to face reality and scrap the G8 altogether.
(20) Another award winner, SIFA Fireside , provides health services to the homeless and vulnerable people in Birmingham.