(a.) Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.
(n.) The people of Holland; Dutchmen.
(n.) The language spoken in Holland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(2) Four Dutch activists were charged in Murmansk this week under the law.
(3) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
(4) Studied were the composition and the technologic properties of the milk of Dutch Black pied cattle under this country's conditions.
(5) Antropometric data collected in a cross-sectional study with 300 macrobiotic-fed children aged 0-8 y showed that the growth curves for boys and girls deviated from the Dutch standard curves after approximately 5 mo of age.
(6) The difficulty has been increased with the recent Supreme Court decision which it ruled the Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply outside of the country and dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell.
(7) The associations between pregnancy and serum lipids were investigated in a cohort of 831 Dutch women, initially aged 5-19 years.
(8) This article elucidates: the poor relationship that exists between contemporary psychotherapy and the lower class clients; various efforts that have been attempted to solve this problem; the basic elements of Goldstein's 'structured learning therapy'; activities and results of the Dutch 'Goldsteinproject'.
(9) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(10) It was a spell in which the Dutch were in the ascendancy.
(11) Trains in the northern Netherlands were halted, Dutch Railways said.
(12) Peter McVitie, writing for the excellent Benefoot.net , summed up the public opinion like this: Heading into the tournament in Brazil, no one, especially the Dutch fans and media, gave them a chance.
(13) An informative Dutch pedigree showed that two other linked polymorphic DNA markers, Pi227 and YN5.48, closely flank the FAP locus, one on either side.
(14) The sequences of both isolates are similar (about 93%), but the Canadian isolate (PLRV-C) is more closely related (about 98% identity) to a Scottish (PLRV-S) and a Dutch isolate (PLRV-N) than to the Australian isolate (PLRV-A).
(15) The risk of burns was higher for children with other than Dutch (e.g.
(16) Russia is Europe's second largest market for food and drink and has been an important consumer of Polish pig meat and Dutch fruit and vegetables.
(17) Jonathan Zdziarski, an independent security researcher, said he has tracked the Bitcoin address used to solicit donations for some of the celebrity pictures and found it belongs to the owner of a Dutch photo-hosting site – which he says is also distributing an "original version" of the pictures released earlier this week.
(18) As an average the dentate Dutch takes, apart from the meals, nearly eight sugar containing products a day.
(19) The ball struck him, rather than the other way round, but the Dutch official, Bjorn Kuipers, ruled in favour of Ireland and that left Walters placing the ball on the penalty spot and looking up to see his former Stoke colleague Asmir Begovic in the goal.
(20) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
Ersatz
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
(2) Firmino was hardly in the picture but maybe this is the point of his ersatz position.
(3) Over the last eight days the ersatz wig has tumbled from his head.
(4) His private palace, seven miles outside town in Kawele, brimmed with paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ersatz Louis XIV furniture, marble from Carrara in Italy and two swimming pools surrounded by loudspeakers playing his beloved Gregorian chants or classical music.
(5) The buildings appear to be an ersatz nod to the old world by a designer with a stucco fetish, and are hard to ignore due to the blitzkrieg of colour unleashed on innocent passers-by.
(6) The supreme irony is that when Klimt painted his so-called golden portrait of Adele, his style had hardened into a crass ersatz modernism, so the price it fetched for Altmann makes it the most expensive postcard in the world.
(7) Especially on-trend these days is an ersatz, kitschy friendliness .
(8) Phaco-Ersatz represents a new approach to cataract surgery and the correction of aphakia.
(9) Despite a combination of injuries and suspensions to key personnel leaving John Carver’s side with a distinctly ersatz look, Newcastle were not quite so makeshift in practice.
(10) In the mountains, ersatz approximations of a Swiss ski resort have sprouted.
(11) Each of these ersatz soldiers presumably made their own calculations as to where personal advantage might lie.
(12) Pursuing his father's Italian roots he lived there for three years learning to cook, and the food he serves - a lot of offal, sweet and sour sauces for meats, gnarly rustic pasta dishes - is, he says, the antithesis of the ersatz version of Italian served in New York's old-fashioned red-sauce restaurants.
(13) That wasn't a million miles away from an ersatz recreation of the famous Dennis Bergkamp goal, in terms of field position of the two players, anyway.
(14) On day three it's the duck confit again, because "they do get the skin crisp don't they, not like all those terribly ersatz versions you get in Islington".
(15) Ersatz sub-Ronaldo teamsheet drama: Fabregas may yet not start!
(16) Sylvia Robinson from Grimsby's real Brides and Maids store, told the Grimsby Telegraph that Baron Cohen was "ridiculous", but said she saw the funny side of the ersatz movie version.
(17) What we have been observing – wage stagnation [PDF] and rising inequality , even as wealth increases – does not reflect the workings of a normal market economy, but of what I call ersatz capitalism.
(18) The implications of that defense relative to the use of ersatz nutrients are explored.
(19) Doubling back further up Granby Street, one reaches some of the appalling "regenerative" modern housing that has replaced the terraced streets already fallen to Liverpool's random wrecking ball: some of them – ersatz Lego bricks of the cheapest materials – are already dilapidated, while others almost new are managing to last a few years, like Michael Simon's mother's new house on Cawdor Street.
(20) A cavalcade of readers, mainly women, mostly in full Regency costume, congregated for a joyous weekend of workshops and lectures, receptions and dinners, a costume parade (past ersatz saloons and Tex-Mex restaurants), crowned by a Regency ball.