(n.) An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, paque, or pask.
(n.) The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day.
(v. i.) To veer to the east; -- said of the wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the 1916 Irish Easter Rising would be exempt.
(2) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
(3) The president of People with Disability Australia, Craig Wallace, said he was concerned by the potential change to the DSP and that he was particularly disappointed it was being discussed by the minister on Easter weekend, when most people were on holiday.
(4) The energy secretary, Ed Davey, gave similar advice on Sky News, saying motorists did not need to queue for fuel but should fill up ahead of the Easter getaway.
(5) The first episode of the gothic drama pulled in 6.1 million viewers on Easter Monday but that number dropped to only 4.5 million for the second episode, prompting fears that the audience numbers could decline even further for Wednesday's finale.
(6) FULL TEXT OF THE LETTER From: Cleo Watson Date: 29 March 2016 at 13:36:03 BST To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Urgent call: Doctors Dear Colleagues I hope you have had a restful Easter.
(7) The Unite union, which represents petrol tanker drivers, said there was no threat of a strike over the Easter period and it was focused on talks through the conciliation service Acas.
(8) It is little wonder therefore that the circumstances around its death immediately prompted Westminster speculation that the announcement had simply been rushed forward from after the Easter recess in order to put some political punch back into the prime minister's tarnished anti-Ukip immigration initiative.
(9) Appeal court judges say they will deliver their ruling before Easter on the latest attempt by the home secretary, Theresa May , to lift the legal block on deporting the radical Islamist cleric, Abu Qatada, back to Jordan.
(10) The programme alleges that the Home Office ignored evidence presented by Ellis's solicitor Victor Mischon that she had an accomplice when she shot her lover David Blakely, an upper-class racing driver, outside the Magdala pub in Hampstead, north London, on Easter Sunday 1955.
(11) Before Easter I spent a few days walking in Wales with my husband, I thought about this long and hard and came to the decision that to provide for that stability and certainty, this was the way to do it,” she said.
(12) US stock markets were closed Friday for Easter and Passover.
(13) The union's assistant general secretary Diana Holland said: "We will not be calling Easter strike action as we focus on substantive talks through Acas.
(14) DFS – one of more than 300 free schools now operating as part of the plan to open schools outside of local authority control – has been open for just 16 months but will now have its funding agreement terminated and its pupils sent to other schools as soon as Easter, after it was placed in special measures by Ofsted .
(15) Without the leftist counter-demonstration on Easter Saturday, it is unlikely that the Reclaim Australia protesters would have obtained significant attention.
(16) For example, Ocado sold an easter egg for £7.49 for 10 days in January, then priced it as “on offer” at £5.
(17) I should cocoa: Hotel Chocolat boss aims for more bounce than an Easter bunny Read more Of the £55.5m raised from the share placing, £12m will be used to speed up expansion plans, which include opening new shops and improving its website.
(18) Over on BBC2, a Planet Earth repeat attracted 1.4 million viewers and a 7% share at 6.40pm, with Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece: The Taking of Christ drew 1 million and 4% between 7.40pm and 8.30pm.
(19) Last year Easter, traditionally a time of heavy TV spending by advertisers, came in March.
(20) Marcus Rashford has been selected for the England Under-20 squad to play Canada in Doncaster on Easter Sunday, in a move that suggests Roy Hodgson regards him as only a remote prospect for the senior side’s Euro 2016 campaign in the summer.
Eater
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, eats.
Example Sentences:
(1) We were interested in identifying variables that are important to consider when assessing and treating obese binge eaters.
(2) We found an increased risk of HA for raw oyster eaters (odds ratio = 24.0; 95% confidence interval = 5.4-215.0; P less than .001).
(3) This study examined attrition and weight loss in 235 female obese binge eaters, episodic overeaters, and nonbingers treated by a 26-week program of behavior modification and very low calorie diet.
(4) The members of the main feeding categories (Hofmann, Stewart 1972): concentrate selector, roughage eater and intermediate feeder did not differ much in the ultrastructure of the fundic stomach epithelium but showed greater differences with respect to the height and shape of the glandular tubules and the arrangement of the epithelial cell types.
(5) Forty-four female binge eaters were randomized to either cognitive-behavioral treatment (CB) or a waiting-list (WL) control.
(6) The results suggested that intestinal N-fixation that was proposed by several investigators to occur in sweet potato eaters probably did not occur.
(7) "What the discovery shows is that you can still be a pretty big meat-eater and still get away with having feathers," said Dr Barrett.
(8) The first group, Group A, was concluded as the pure kibarashi-gui (binge eaters), and Group B can be regarded as a variant of anorexia nervosa.
(9) The types were labeled: "finicky eaters," "health-conscious dieters," "diverse diners," and "high-calorie traditionalists."
(10) Twenty-four female subjects were divided into three groups: normal-weight restrained eaters (no.
(11) The Brooklyn resident is also a regular egg eater – although she prefers hers scrambled and served with four rashers of bacon.
(12) Parents of children who were problem eaters showed no characteristic differences in training practices or attitudes.
(13) A case of acute paraffin oil-induced pneumonia due to accidental inhalation by a fire-eater of kerdane, a petroleum derivative is reported.
(14) ECS treatments produced significant decrements in both food and eater intakes which returned to baseline levels after three days.
(15) The results indicate that both bulimics and restrained eaters are dissatisfied with their bodies and have narcissistic qualities.
(16) Meal-eaters again, retained as much nitrogen as nibblers, and contained less body fat than the nibblers.
(17) Meal-eaters gained essentially the same amount of body weight as the nibblers.
(18) The results indicate that the food patterns of older persons can be well categorized as light eaters, heavy eaters, or consumers of large amounts of alcoholic beverages, salty snack products, animal fat products, legumes, or sweets and desserts.
(19) The estimated age-standardized annual incidence of Vibrio illness per million was 95.4 for raw oyster eaters with liver disease, 9.2 for raw oyster eaters without liver disease, and 2.2 for non-raw oyster eaters.
(20) In 2004, the group created the Holocaust on your plate campaign, using images of emaciated victims of Nazi concentration camps and comparing meat-eaters and those working in the meat-production industry to Nazis.