(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.
Geezer
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I know Richard, I know Tony, we are all old geezers, but I swear I haven’t talked once to them about it,” he told the Guardian while campaigning for the Lib Dems in the Richmond byelection.
(2) Ozzy Osbourne joined fellow sexagenarians Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward at the venue where the band made their Los Angeles debut in 1970, to address a large, black-t-shirt-clad crowd.
(3) In a way, the Falkirk row became so prominent because it fitted a narrative the press already likes to push when it comes to trade unions: they're full of dodgy geezers.
(4) Once you’ve decided, you believe in it strongly, you tell your friends and family, and you’re more likely to go out and vote.” By contrast, the remain line he hears from “blokes in the bar – local businessmen, geezers running building companies, doing quite well” is: “‘Nigel, we kind of get the stuff about sovereignty and controlling our borders.
(5) "He's amazing, that geezer," he says, his voice betraying his Cornish roots as well as traces of cockney.
(6) As the tagline – "May the best man live" – suggests, it's basically the same old flick with the same old schtick: the Stath tops baddies, boffs toffs (he's a one-man manifesto for geezer supremacy), and cops off with a blondie.
(7) There is a word that people overuse – authentic – but he is a straight geezer.
(8) The new members Corbyn attracted to the party helped him win the candidacy and he does not want to turn his back on them – or Corbyn – who he describes as “a straight geezer”.
(9) What a geezer.” The former pupil at the Somerset boarding school, which charges fees of £30,000 a year, said: “They were ... only about four or five people but they made themselves heard.
(10) Instead of Terry's Old Geezers and Gals, his audience has now been labelled Wogan's Ageing Sunday Participants, or Wasps.
(11) "I look at what Jamie Oliver did; Jamie Oliver does not need to be trawling round schools in Britain - the geezer's a multi-millionnaire.
(12) And here he is again diving in to Tiote's cross from the left to head for goal and the full back Coentrao gets his fluffed blond 1980s pop-geezer highlights to the ball and bouffants it clear.
(13) What a geezer.” Parsons has since taken down his Instagram account, as well as his Facebook and Twitter profiles, after he was named by a number of sources as appearing in the video published by the Guardian on Tuesday .
(14) You ain’t a fat bald geezer with a chain!” A schoolchild shouted: 'You ain’t no mayor!
(15) As it turns out, the God of Fuck and post-Britpop’s most famous crack smoker had very little on some of our booked-for-lolz, avuncular old geezers in terms of genuine evil.
(16) Did he ever think of himself as a dodgy geezer, a bit of an Arthur Daley ?
(17) The jubilation of topless, pear-shaped West Ham geezers running on the pitch as we win in extra time against our ultimate rival – Millwall .
(18) Wogan's fans, known as Togs – Terry's Old Geezers and Gals – have been particularly vociferous against Evans since he took over the show in January.
(19) They came out to support him and didn’t care if he knocked out some fat geezer who never stood a chance.
(20) And the entire framing device – as Tonto recalls the Lone Ranger in old age in 1933 San Francisco – is a straight lift from Little Big Man's 121-year-old Jack Crabb, right down to the geezer makeup.