(n.) In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland.
(n.) In some European countries, a sovereign prince, without the title of king.
(v. i.) To play the duke.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(3) "It seems that this is just a few experts who are pushing it through parliament … without anyone thinking through the likely consequences for our country," said Duke Tagoe of the Food Sovereignty campaign group.
(4) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
(5) The degree of staining for ras 11 was significantly related to the grade of differentiation and increased from Dukes stage A to C. Strong staining for ras 11 predicted a significantly shorter recurrence-free interval (p less than 0.001).
(6) The Duke of Gloucester will go to the British Virgin Islands and Malta, while the Falkland Islands – where Prince William will be serving briefly as a helicopter pilot in the spring – will receive an official visit from the Duke of Kent, who will also go to Uganda.
(7) The p53 content correlated with 17p loss (P < 0.002), hyperdiploid DNA content (P < 0.001) and tumour site (P < 0.03), but not Dukes' stage (P = 0.15).
(8) Proliferative fraction--defined as the percentage of cells in S + G2 and M phases of the cell cycle--was significantly related to ploidy and to Dukes' stage.
(9) Criteria for randomization were fulfilled in 494 of 861 patients with Dukes' B and C tumors, when the trial was closed.
(10) Support for Scalise, the third highest-ranking House Republican and one of the most senior conservatives in Washington, was noticeably absent on Monday despite his attempt to distance himself from Duke.
(11) Prince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have enlisted a rapper, a Royal Marine and a Labour spin doctor to try to push stigma about discussing mental health beyond what they believe is a “tipping point” and into public acceptability.
(12) The former Massachusetts governor, like many Republicans, expected the Trump campaign to implode last summer, after he insulted Mexicans and said Arizona senator and 2008 Republican nominee John McCain was not a “war hero” because “I like people who weren’t captured.” This year, days after Trump did not immediately disavow an expression of support from David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, Romney said one of his sons was driving him to an airport when he asked: “When the grandkids ask ‘What did you do to stop Donald Trump ?’ what are you going to say?’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romney launches extensive attack on Trump: ‘A genius he is not’ That, Romney said, was the final push.
(13) The frequencies of Dukes C and proximal colon cancer was significantly higher in women.
(14) Formerly Communications secretary to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Henry of Wales.
(15) Overall, there were no differences between FFS and HMO cases for duration of symptoms before diagnosis, training of physician who diagnosed the tumor, anatomic location of the tumor, type of primary treatment, Dukes' stage at final diagnosis, or survival.
(16) The prognostic factors included resection or nonresection, the year of resection, macroscopic type, histologic differentiation, venous and lymphatic invasion, Dukes' stage, serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) level and peripheral T lymphocyte count.
(17) Trends in practice patterns at Duke University Medical Center were assessed in patient groups comparable to those enrolled in the three major randomized trials of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).
(18) Two former Mexican presidents compare Donald Trump to Hitler Read more Trump then repeated that he knew nothing about Duke and did not think he had ever met him.
(19) None of the analysed criteria: size and number of liver metastases, delay after diagnosis of the primary cancer, Duke's stage, could differentiate long survivors from patients who did not benefit much from liver surgery due to early recurrence.
(20) However, when margins are greater than 5 cm, this does not guarantee freedom from local recurrence of Dukes' C lesions.
Marquess
Definition:
(n.) A marquis.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is survived by his wife, the Duchess of Devonshire, his son, the Marquess of Hartington, who becomes the 12th duke, and his two daughters.
(2) Coming soon … Esio Trot (BBC1) - Dustin Hoffman and Dame Judi Dench will star in the Roald Dahl classic, co-scripted by Richard Curtis Cloud Lab (BBC2) - scientists in the world's largest airship will attempt to predict a hurricane high above the US Prey (ITV) - Life on Mars star John Simm plays a detective constable forced to go on the run to clear his name Babylon (Channel 4) - a police comedy drama from director Danny Boyle and Peep Show writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong Evidence (Channel 5) - the crime series is its first homegrown drama in eight years, made by Paul Marquess of Footballers' Wives and The Bill fame The Kumars (Sky 1) - Sanjeev Bhaskar's spoof chatshow is back, seven years after it was axed by BBC1 House of Cards 2 (Netflix) - the $100m remake of the BBC drama, which received multiple Emmy nominations, now has a second series in production
(3) "The Marquess of Queensberry's son, and you know it was the Marquess of Queensberry who invented the rules of boxing.
(4) Instead, he blames every appalling tantrum from his golden boy on the boy's violent father, the Marquess of Queensberry.
(5) In Rich, Famous and Homeless the Marquess of Blandford absconded to a hotel; like Withnail, he realised he had come on holiday by mistake.
(6) The great gallery was built by Sir Richard Wallace between 1872 and 1875 as part of an extension of Hertford House, required to accommodate a collection built up largely by the fourth marquess of Hertford.
(7) Some grandees have accused the newspaper editor Pedro Ramírez of El Mundo of being behind the change, which benefited his partner, the designer Agatha Ruíz de la Prada, who contested the title of Marquess of Castell dos Rius.
(8) The marquess – AKA Jamie Blandford, AKA notorious, rambunctious, formerly disgraced and once nearly disinherited heir apparent to the dukedom of Marlborough – is the cheeringly gristly knot at the heart of the first episode of The Aristocrats, a sprightly new two-parter that takes a surprisingly even-handed gander at the lives of the monumentally privileged as they yah and blah around their often endangered country piles.
(9) He was the best heavyweight boxer there had ever been since the Marquess of Queensberry set down his rules in 1867, undeniably the best since Kid Cain KO’ed Sugar Ray Abel.
(10) "I planted that copper beech in 1980," says the Marquess of Blandford, pointing at a copper beech.
(11) A few rich men sit in the Commons, including Archie Norman, the former chairman of Asda supermarkets, and Michael Ancram, heir to the Marquess of Lothian, while the billionaire Lord Sainsbury of Turville (below) is Minister for Science.
(12) That is hardly surprising since his father was Lord David Cecil, Goldsmiths' professor of English literature at Oxford University, and Jonathan's grandfather was the 4th Marquess of Salisbury.
(13) Known as Fionnloch (White Lake) in Irish, the name “Delphi” was coined by the Marquess of Sligo, a pal of Byron, who owned the land here.
(14) Helped by drawings of the hang that the house's owner, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, had found in Walpole's desk, the paintings have been put back in rooms as they were.
(15) Frank Goldsmith served as Conservative MP for Stowmarket from 1910-18, while Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry, sat as Unionist MP for County Down from 1931-45.