(v. t.) To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not).
(v. t.) To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels.
(v. t. & i.) To grieve.
(v. i.) To long; to yearn.
(v. i.) To curdle, as milk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(2) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(3) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(4) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
(5) In France, there is still a meaningful connection between earnings, social contributions paid in, and benefit paid out.
(6) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(7) Office of National Statistics figures published in November last year showed that men earn 9.4% more than women, the lowest gender gap since records began in 1997.
(8) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
(9) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(10) "It is very satisfying work," says the 28-year-old, who earns a net monthly salary of 23,000 kwatcha ($80), probably one of the highest incomes in the village.
(11) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
(12) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
(13) A woman with a one-year-old and seven-year-old who earns £17,513 after tax will have £120 left if she does pay for childcare, If she does not have to meet childcare costs, she will have £1,118.
(14) But he lost much of his earnings betting on cards and horses, and he has readily admitted that it was losses of up to £750,000 a night that compelled him to make some of his worst films.
(15) Everyone worked hard, but it is fair to pick out Willian because of his work-rate, quality on the ball, participation in the first goal and quality of the second.” It had been Willian’s fizzed cross, 11 minutes before the break, which Dragovic had nodded inadvertently inside Shovkovskiy’s near post to earn the hosts their initial lead.
(16) At present, workers in the UK can earn £8,105 a year before they start paying tax – equivalent to £675 a month.
(17) "We believe BAE's earnings could stagnate until the middle of this decade," said Goldman, which was also worried that performance fees on a joint fighter programme in America had been withheld by the Pentagon, and the company still had a yawning pension deficit.
(18) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(19) Trade unions criticised the corporation’s 1% offer, tied to a minimum of just £390, for those staff earning under £50,000, calling it “completely unacceptable” .
(20) For ambulance drivers, who earn significantly below the average UK wage, the figure is more than £1,800, the analysis found using the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation, which hit 2.5% in December .
Nettle
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.
(v. t.) To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.
Example Sentences:
(1) The news that ITV1 plans to continue Midsomer Murders despite the retirement of John Nettles – through a cousin of the central detective, introduced last night – is not surprising.
(2) A frequent cause of contact urticaria is skin exposure to the common stinging nettle (Urtica dioica).
(3) The footpaths I followed became swamped with knapweed, bramble and nettle.
(4) The UCI should have grasped that nettle a long time ago and put credibility back into our sport."
(5) They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy ditch, where the nettles grew tall.
(6) Dairy farmer Dave Lawrence took the Guardian to the spot where the beavers are usually seen, close to an island in the river thick with nettles, willow and thistles.
(7) He does not come to this court with clean hands,” Nettle said.
(8) 35% by three pollens responsible for the so-called spring pollinosis, and 50% by weeds (plantain, nettle, mugwort) the cause of late summer pollinosis.
(9) The committee declined to grasp this nettle for no better reason than "the media industry itself is not united on the desirability of privacy legislation" – well, it wouldn't be, would it?
(10) The precise relationship between sea nettle venom and the observed clinical responses is not known.
(11) Very low amounts of pigweed-type and nettle pollen appear in April.
(12) The urticaria is accompanied by a stinging sensation lasting longer than 12 h. Little is known of the cellular and molecular mechanism of stinging-nettle urticaria.
(13) Dudgeon, who appeared alongside Caroline Quentin in the BBC comedy Life of Riley, will play a cousin of Nettles' character Tom Barnaby, John Barnaby, who also works in the police force.
(14) A comparison of methods for preparing a jellyfish nematocyst suspension from sea nettle (Chrysaora quinquecirrha) fishing tentacles at the beachside was conducted.
(15) After Application of a tourniquet (180 - 200 mm Hg) to test persons no weals were formed after contact with nettles in a period of 10 minutes.
(16) Ninety-eight individuals took part in a double-blind randomized study comparing the effects of a freeze-dried preparation of Urtica dioica (stinging nettles) with placebo on allergic rhinitis.
(17) The cardiotoxicity and polypeptide content of sea nettle (Chrysaora quinquecirrha) polyps and cysts were studied.
(18) Products Revitalift, PerfectSlim, Age Perfect, Lancôme, Maybelline, Helena Rubinstein, Kiehl's, Ellnett, Studio Line, Kerastase, Redken, Giorgio Armani, Ambre Solaire, Fructis They say "Fights the changes that threaten the youthfulness of your face" (Revitalift) "After eight days, skin is 41% firmer and 89% more toned" (PerfectSlim, test on 24 women) "Fights sagging" (Age Perfect) Celebrity faces Natalie Imbruglia, Milla Jovovich, Beyoncé Knowles, Claudia Schiffer Advertising "Because I'm worth it" (Jennifer Aniston, Andie MacDowell) Products Carrot Daily Hydrating Moisturiser, Grape Seed Glossing Serum, Hemp Face Protector, Seaweed Moisture Cream, Nettle Oil Balance Shampoo They say "You are a woman.
(19) While poor Craig was foraging for nettles and chip scraps in the wilderness (the grass next to the railway viaducts), something strange was happening.
(20) It’s about people taking responsibility and grasping the nettle of their own independence.” “We’re increasingly sceptical about big sweeping changes,” added Mike Adamson, chief executive of British Red Cross.