(n.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
(2) Their loss has been our gain as the longlist casts a wide net in terms of both geography and tone, ranging from the slimmest of novels – Colm Tóibín's stark, surprising The Testament of Mary conjures the gospel according to Jesus's mother in a mere 100-odd pages – to vast doorstops, playful with genre and form.
(3) The intention is to convert social media clicks and shares into practical action: the demand for Momentum’s election campaign training and turnout on the doorstop has shown that there is a desire to get involved, given the means, confidence and skills to do so.
(4) It took nine years to produce and runs to a doorstopping 1,461 pages.
(5) At one point, during cross-examination by Mr Dein about using a Geiger counter to measure radiation, Mahmood drew laughs from police detectives but not from the jury when he said he did not know all the uses of a Geiger counter but that one could possibly be used for a doorstop.
(6) The demand for this 800-page doorstop was nothing short of remarkable.
(7) Not that this is something people have ever demanded on the doorstop, so it is not a "real" issue.
(8) This year's chair of judges, the writer and critic Robert Macfarlane, admitted readers needed to make a "huge investment" in the doorstopping book; it is challenging with a slow start but the dividends were more than worth it.
(9) He said the old processes associated with policy reform – delivering a large “tome” that didn’t deliver the desired result – tended to mean the tome became little more than a doorstop.
(10) … as far as I'm aware you couldn't even do that kind of thing without the cooperation of the states, so it doesn't look to me like the sort of things that are likely.” In a separate doorstop interview, Abbott said of the drug-testing suggestion: “It’s not something that we’re planning; simple as that.” In coming weeks, the government is expected to release a report on welfare reform, prepared by the former chief executive of Mission Australia, Patrick McClure.
(11) Bishop replied that she had made the comments in response to a question during a doorstop interview and had noted she “wasn’t an expert in the area”.
(12) The Treasurer Joe Hockey at a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia Joe Hockey: Say it again sorry?
(13) At a doorstop interview, the immigration minister said he was “confident” it would pass “because it’s sensible”.
(14) In Maraniss's doorstop of a book, Obama first meets Siddiqi at a New Year's Eve party in San Francisco, the young, gangly, would-be president greeting his future roommate with pitch-perfect Urdu, asking: "How are you, Boss?"
(15) I wouldn’t want to see Australian farmland become under the control of the government of another nation.” He stood by the comments at a doorstop interview in Parliament House on Tuesday, while being careful not to reiterate his desire for a blanket ban on state-backed companies owning farmland.
(16) After the event Turnbull used a doorstop press conference to make what appeared to be a pitch to those in the party room who might be jittery about his carbon credentials, labelling any return to an emissions trading scheme “ridiculous”.
(17) In a doorstop on the way into parliament on Tuesday, Morrison said the budget would deliver a plan for jobs and growth.
(18) Her conduct at the doorstop was a departure from her demeanour at a press conference earlier this month, shortly after being forced to pay back the $5,000 used to hire the chopper flight.
(19) The report found that the decision of mainstream banks to refuse credit to the less well off has led to a dramatic increase in the demand for short-term credit – from payday lenders, pawnbrokers and doorstop lenders – which is now worth £4.8bn a year.
(20) But in Westeros, the medieval-ish land of fleshpot diplomacy and lethal realpolitik described in George RR Martin 's fantasy doorstops, there's a high degree of natural wastage.
Sandwich
Definition:
(n.) Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.
(v. t.) To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the detection of this antigen, a double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was employed.
(2) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(3) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
(4) We have developed a reverse-type sandwich ELISA for measurement of IgG (+IgA) antibody to a major allergen of Sugi (Japanese cedar) pollens.
(5) I went for a walk, had a locally made sandwich and sat in the dark drinking a glass of wine.
(6) Therefore, a modified sandwich ELISA was developed to measure IL-1ra protein concentration in synovial fluids.
(7) We used a "sandwich"-type immunoenzymometric assay (IEMA) and a radioimmunoassay (RIA) to measure antibody against the human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in serum from individuals with myasthenia gravis, with markedly different results for certain specimens, as measured by the two techniques.
(8) Membranes were sandwiched between two gas-permeable, plastic foils, placed in a sealed cuvette, and gassed with H2 as reductant or O2 as oxidant.
(9) Monoclonal antibodies specific for two unique converting enzyme epitopes were utilized to develop a two-site sandwich enzyme immunoassay.
(10) There was a certain amount of atmosphere too, thanks mostly to the West Ham fans keeping up a persistent din and celebrating the 15th anniversary of Roy Keane’s prawn sandwich remarks by noting the reserve of the home support.
(11) A sandwich was formed with proinsulin by using a monoclonal antibody against C-peptide labeled with alkaline phosphatase.
(12) A $4 supermarket sandwich has to be pretty damn good for two adults to start fighting over it.
(13) In this paper we describe a new assay for diphtheria toxin in bacterial cultures, based on a sandwich-dot immunobinding method.
(14) Soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) in serum of cancer patients was measured by a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and the effect of sTfR for natural killer cytotoxicity was also studied.
(15) Patients with C2 disease are being controlled locally with the "sandwich" regimen, but it is not clear whether pre-op RT alone may be adequate in this group as well.
(16) The sandwiches served in selected Subway stores have contained halal meat since 2007, while all Pizza Express chicken is halal.
(17) One was a culture of isolated cells between floating double layers of collagen gel, designated the "floating sandwich method."
(18) Yet sandwiched between these states are tax havens bleeding them of cash for no other reason than to avoid paying a fair share of that welfare burden.
(19) A sandwich enzymeimmunoassay (EIA) for pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) using a microtiter plate was developed.
(20) The environmental changes are explained consistently by a movement of the Met-105 side chain sandwiched by two indole rings of Trp-28 and 111 in the direction from Trp-111 to Trp-28.