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Emerald


Definition:

  • (n.) A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl.
  • (n.) A kind of type, in size between minion and nonpare/l. It is used by English printers.
  • (a.) Of a rich green color, like that of the emerald.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The long, curving, sandy Plage des Chevrets is one of the prettiest on Brittany's Emerald Coast.
  • (2) I cannot see anything before October, or even the end of the year, because there remain some difficult topics to resolve.” Lozano is most intriguing on two things: the issue of justice, and what he sees as a potential impasse over economic policy and the role of multinational corporations, especially those wanting to extract Colombia’s significant riches in gold, emeralds, coal, hydrocarbons and minerals, or turn grassland into palm oil plantations.
  • (3) Three prototype robots – “SwarmBots” – have been tested on the Bate family property near Emerald and, by mid-2017, will be available to farmers in other parts of Australia on a fee-for-service basis.
  • (4) For anyone visiting the Emerald Isle it will be hard to miss the centenary salutes throughout the year.
  • (5) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
  • (6) Cocos, the remote emerald tip of a towering underwater mountain range which was the setting for the fictional Isla Nublar in the novel Jurassic Park, has served as a pirate hideaway, whaling station, penal colony and a pit stop for Colombian drug runners.
  • (7) May wasn’t emeralds; it was the massacre of six people in Isla Vista , California, by a young misogynist and the birth of #YesAllWomen, perhaps the most catalytic in a year of powerful protests online about women and violence.
  • (8) Although I've learned to appreciate the grim beauty of murkiness, the washrag skies and mud so jealous it clings to every step, this emerald vision in the monochrome gloom is startling.
  • (9) This true-colour image of the spiralling system on 5 June shows a very deep low pressure area in the centre of the spiral, just off the northwestern shore of emerald-green Ireland.
  • (10) She stayed with my eldest daughter until I had moved house, and is now back here doing her thing, all emerald eyes and feline nonchalance.
  • (11) With acclaimed dishes of seafood chowder and honey-roast Silverhill duckling coming out of the kitchen, it's a good spot to try the crisp, slightly lemony Emerald Pale Ale.
  • (12) Photograph: Getty Images Emerald lake in Yoho national park is one of those impossibly turquoise glacial lakes surrounded by mountains.
  • (13) It is easy to see why Camillo Benso, the Count of Cavour, was devoted to this area: natural pools running between large, smooth rocks, where emerald waters flow from one waterfall to another.
  • (14) "His father designed it for me - he said it was an emerald for every year I spent on death row with their son - 11 emeralds."
  • (15) Afghanistan boasts deposits of everything from iron ore to emeralds, copper, lithium and natural gas, which Greening said could be worth up to $3tn.
  • (16) Hezekiah Allen of the Emerald Growers Association, an association of cannabis growers in California , said a burning marijuana farm would potentially release similar smoke into the air as when a person traditionally smokes.
  • (17) The colour of the natural pools justifies their name: Emerald Pools.
  • (18) Large crowds gather by the lake during Independence Day, Eid and Bengali New Year festivals, adding vibrant colour to its placid emerald-green waters.
  • (19) When financiers joked in 2008 that the only difference between bankrupt Iceland and hard-up Ireland was one letter and a few days, they got it wrong – the mess the Emerald Isle is now in is so much worse.
  • (20) To protect their feet, they bought soft leather boots and Agatha swapped her silky bathing outfit for something a little more practical but equally stylish: "A wonderful, skimpy emerald green wool bathing dress, which was the joy of my life, and in which I thought I looked remarkably well!"

Minion


Definition:

  • (n.) Minimum.
  • (n.) A loved one; one highly esteemed and favored; -- in a good sense.
  • (n.) An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
  • (n.) A small kind of type, in size between brevier and nonpareil.
  • (n.) An ancient form of ordnance, the caliber of which was about three inches.
  • (a.) Fine; trim; dainty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The latter is somewhat under the radar for the wider games industry, but Despicable Me: Minion Rush (to give its full title) is something of a mobile monster: 100m downloads in three months on iOS and Android earlier this year.
  • (2) At least two characters – a Minion from Despicable Me and one of the Elmos – said they had purchased their costumes, made in Peru, for about $300.
  • (3) For iPad , Candy Crush Saga led YouTube, Skype, Temple Run 2, BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, eBay for iPad, Despicable Me: Minion Rush, 4 Pics 1 Word and Calculator for iPad Free.
  • (4) A typical response was "[Bosses] will be at home enjoying his turkey while minions work their ***** off".
  • (5) Nor is there much sign of Thanos, the studio's go-to background baddie, though his minion Nebula turns up in the form of Doctor Who's shaven-headed Karen Gillan.
  • (6) The pocket-sized MinION device was developed by an Oxfordshire science company, and results published on Wednesday in the journal Nature show it was able to help identify the unique genetic sequence of the Ebola virus in patients within 24 hours.
  • (7) Goldiggins quarry, Minions, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall This spring-fed quarry lake is the perfect suntrap.
  • (8) More elephant trap than social network, Miliband (or rather his Twitter minion) entered the word "Blackbusters" in an initial attempt to express sadness at the death of former gameshow host Bob Holness.
  • (9) Their minions would have to negotiate hard and come back later in the week.
  • (10) Perhaps it's because Allen is, these days, a pampered celebrity – "everything is done for you by minions," he says of the film-making process – that celebrity is the one subject on which To Rome With Love feels authentic and personal.
  • (11) It is only normal that Morsi would want to get ride of Mubarak’s minions.
  • (12) People who have worked with her have said similar: that the constant praising of movie minions with, "You did such a good job there!
  • (13) Taken from a script by Bruce "Wild Palms" Wagner, Maps to the Stars is apparently about "the convoluted world of shallow, selfish celebrities and their minions, all of whom are about to be manipulated and destroyed by the young woman who literally represents the fruit of their twisted machinations."
  • (14) The minions in Labor's campaign headquarters have been on to the Randall comments like rodents up drain pipes since the pre-dawn.
  • (15) Two thousand years after Hammurabi's minions busied themselves determining the appropriate punishment for various medical misadventures, the Greek Hippocrates advocated a less complex approach to the same problem.
  • (16) Indeed, ALEC's minions spend much of their time establishing ways to preserve their control over the lab, rather than making any particular forward progress on other issues: of the 62 "voter ID" bills introduced in state legislatures in 2011 and 2012, over half were written or sponsored by ALEC-associated politicians.
  • (17) Not an accolade you’d hand to whoever greenlighted Minions , the inevitable spin-off of Universal’s Despicable Me series, the second of which got within grasping distance of $1bn worldwide in 2013.
  • (18) From the Hurlers car park in Minions, follow the track, which heads north on to the moor; walk past the circle and after 15 minutes bear left at the junction.
  • (19) While they’re fighting us on many fronts, Trump, his anti-gay vice-president, and their anti-LGBT minions are conversely vulnerable because we can fight them on many fronts.
  • (20) 8.16pm GMT The Catholic Church was complicit in horrible crimes in Argentina , Hugh O'Shaughnessy wrote in the Guardian in 2011: "Yet even the execution of other men of the cloth did nothing to shake the support of senior clerics, including representatives of the Holy See, for the criminality of their leader General Jorge Rafael Videla and his minions."