(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.
Geordie
Definition:
(n.) A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shortly afterwards normal service was very briefly resumed when, with Cardiff overcommitted to attack, a customary roar greeted Newcastle's third goal, a header from the popular, Geordie-reared substitute Steven Taylor.
(2) Alexander Lebedev's son Evgeny is the chairman of Independent Print, the holding company set up to buy the Independent titles, and its directors also include the editor of the Standard, Geordie Greig, who is the Lebedevs' UK consigliere.
(3) Geordie Greig, the Evening Standard editor, also denied that Sawiris was involved in the talks.
(4) The London Evening Standard distributed 850,000 free copies yesterday, 200,000 more than planned, as part of a promotion to mark a relaunch of the paper under new editor Geordie Greig and owner Alexander Lebedev.
(5) In a word: Hollyoaks has become Geordie Shore and The Only Way Is Essex – as unreal as its purported reality show counterparts.
(6) Lebedev's philanthropic interests also extend to Britain, where he is friends with Geordie Greig, editor of Tatler, and other members of Britain's aristo-celebocracy.
(7) The first tranche of redundancies are expected "within weeks rather than months" after the new editor, Geordie Greig, and management have had time to make assessments and plan for the future.
(8) Liverpool also want Aston Villa's purveyor of wayward crosses Ashley Young and will obviously need a muscular, ponytail-sporting Geordie to get on the end of them; step forward £30m-rated Newcastle United No9 Andy Carroll .
(9) However, new Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig subsequently revealed he paid considerably more but declined to name the price.
(10) And all Geordie hope was extinguished when Krul beat away his shot only to be punished by Adebayor's stunning half-volley.
(11) When asked to define his nationality, Plater's stock response was: "Geordie by birth, Yorkshire by upbringing and now a metropolitan sophisticate."
(12) Horse & Hound was down 6.4% year on year to 61,445 in the second half of 2008, while Tatler, which has just replaced the London Evening Standard-bound editor Geordie Greig with Catherine Ostler, was down 4.9% to 86,107.
(13) That said, the MoS editor, Geordie Greig, has a good record on helping the poor.
(14) "When the new editor [Geordie Greig] came in I went to talk to him about it and decided to stop."
(15) Evening Standard editor Geordie Greig is an enthusiastic proponent of the free model after taking the London paper free.
(16) Tatler editor Geordie Greig, a former Sunday Times journalist, had been lined up for the editorship of the paper, although he may be appointed to a more senior editorial role.
(17) The Children's Society Facebook Twitter Pinterest Last year The Children's Society ran Geordie Magic , which saw a team of magicians engage with members of the public in a street fundraising campaign.
(18) I'm inclined to think it's the former but lot of fans assuming he's just behaving badly," writes depressed Geordie Oliver Lewis.
(19) The tycoon insists he has a "hands off" relationship with both titles, leaving their day-to-day management to their respective editors, Dmitry Muratov and Geordie Greig.
(20) "When we went four goals down I thought the house might come down, but in the end we sent 51,000 Geordies home relatively happy.