(a.) Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
(a.) See 1st Bond, n., 8.
(n.) Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.
(n.) The language of England or of the English nation, and of their descendants in America, India, and other countries.
(n.) A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
(n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball.
(v. t.) To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.
(v. t.) To strike (the cue ball) in such a manner as to give it in addition to its forward motion a spinning motion, that influences its direction after impact on another ball or the cushion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(2) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(3) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
(4) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
(5) Three short reviews by Freud (1904c, 1904d, 1905f) are presented in English translation.
(6) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(7) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(8) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
(9) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
(10) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
(11) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.
(12) To our knowledge, this is the first case to be reported in the English literature.
(13) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
(14) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
(15) This paper reviews the epidemiologic studies of petroleum workers published in the English language, focusing on research pertaining to the petroleum industry, rather than the broader petrochemical industry.
(16) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
(17) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
(18) This is the second report in the English literature on the familial occurrence of chronic active hepatitis type B.
(19) We have reported the first case in the English literature in which there is a strong association between long-term immunosuppressive therapy and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.
(20) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
Englishwoman
Definition:
(n.) Fem. of Englishman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The day was perfect, the centre court was packed, the King and Queen were present, and Miss Round won her first Wimbledon singles title, the first Englishwoman to gain that honour since 1926.
(2) Casa 579 is only a guesthouse, but it has views better than any five-star hotel – and the added benefit of Teresa, a dynamic Englishwoman who prides herself on steering her guests away from the tourists traps towards the real Rio.
(3) "No Englishman, or Englishwoman, will need reminding of that moment," read a profile of David Beckham after his disgrace in 1998 , but today I suspect some will.
(4) J K Rowling, perhaps the greatest living Englishwoman, read the opening lines of J M Barrie's Peter Pan while giant puppets loomed over the young patients, reminding us of the scary joys of Captain Hook, Cruella de Vil, the Childcatcher and Rowling's own Voldemort.
(5) The most famous automatic writer was Pearl Curran, an American who knocked out more than 5,000 poems, novels and plays while claiming to be channelling the spirit of Patience Worth, a 17th-century Englishwoman.
(6) One set of texts from an Englishwoman named Natasha shows increasing anxiety as the hours pass, finally ending in relief when he texts he is OK.
(7) Chamcha, whose trajectory is apparently meant to be an arch commentary on the circumstances of Rushdie's own life, migrates to Britain young, becomes an actor and marries an Englishwoman called Pamela Lovelace.
(8) I put it to Hunt that a key factor may be that she is an Australian, disguised as an Englishwoman, which accounts for her get-up-and-go and positivity, which are distinctive and a trifle unnerving.
(9) He married an Englishwoman in the summer before pledging his professional future to the club by signing a contract extension to 2019.
(10) Fifty years ago, a slender young Englishwoman was walking through a rainforest reserve at Gombe, in Tanzania, when she came across a dark figure hunched over a termite nest.
(11) She could hardly talk about what she saw there, going into the hospital, but she told me that the men were crying out seeing an Englishwoman, a civilian.
(12) Crimes committed by whites against Indians attracted minimal punishment; an Englishmen who shot dead his Indian servant got six months’ jail time and a modest fine (then about 100 rupees), while an Indian convicted of attempted rape against an Englishwoman was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment.
(13) Sanders has lived in Oxford since 1968, having moved to Britain after falling in love with “a beautiful Englishwoman”, Margaret, to whom he was married until she died in 1983.
(14) In their disorientating, echoing blackness, the Englishwoman Adela Quested believes she has been assaulted by her Indian host.
(15) Abdullah Jamal (formerly Jermaine Lindsay) was married to a white Englishwoman; Mohammad Sidique Khan was a graduate who helped children of all religions with learning difficulties; Hasib Hussain was sent to Pakistan only after he "went a bit wild" with drinking and swearing; Shehzad Tanweer was a graduate who used to help at his father's fish-and-chip shop.
(16) Another portrays an English memsahib haplessly attempting to transcribe a traditional song; in a pointed metaphor for colonial rule, the music will not obey the iron-clad barlines of western notation, to the Englishwoman's frustration and the audience's delight.
(17) I’m a sceptical Englishwoman in my 30s, nervously clutching a Department of Transport-issued helmet; he’s an upbeat Californian in his 20s who works in marketing and admissions at New York University.