(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.
Marshal
Definition:
(n.) Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom.
(n.) An officer of high rank, charged with the arrangement of ceremonies, the conduct of operations, or the like
(n.) One who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment; a harbinger; a pursuivant.
(n.) One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like.
(n.) The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists.
(n.) The highest military officer.
(n.) A ministerial officer, appointed for each judicial district of the United States, to execute the process of the courts of the United States, and perform various duties, similar to those of a sheriff. The name is also sometimes applied to certain police officers of a city.
(v. t.) To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal troops or an army.
(v. t.) To direct, guide, or lead.
(v. t.) To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement.
Example Sentences:
(1) [Naylor, S.L., Marshall, A., Hensel, C., Martinez, P.F., Holley, B.
(2) His shot, though, was pawed on to the inside of the post by David Marshall and it was left to Victor Wanyama to lash the loose ball into the empty net.
(3) The news comes one week after Marshall announced, in an email to staff, that there would be a shift in research priorities, away from understanding the nature of climate change, and towards adaptation and mitigation.
(4) The architects, whose initials stand for Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall, said Goodwin had been hired for his international experience.
(5) The carbohydrate structures of the glycopeptides and relative affinities of TBG, glycopeptides and oligosaccharides for hepatocyte plasma membrane binding are presented in the accompanying paper (Zinn, A.B., Marshall, J.S., and Carlson, D.M.
(6) In the 1970s, Marco Panella’s Radical party was influential in marshalling opposition to the “partitocracy” dominated by the then Christian Democrats and in championing civil rights on issues such as divorce and abortion.
(7) It is a small return for a six-month investigation that involved the US justice department, the financial regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission, Picard's office and the US marshals.
(8) The amount pumped into the Greek economy so far amounted to 1.5 times the GDP of Greece, she said, while the post-world war two Marshall plan had amounted to just 3% of European GDP.
(9) Richard Murphy, a former director of field operations for the Tories, has been seconded, and is hiring a dozen regional directors to marshall grassroots support.
(10) These values are discussed with reference to Hammett's and Marshall's equations and a general equation that predicts these equilibrium constants in the media under discussion has been formulated.
(11) Urine samples were spotted directly on the plate; lorapride was determined after spraying the plate with the Bratton-Marshall reagent, and measurements were carried out in the simultaneous reflectance and transmittance mode (540 nm).
(12) Although the two cDNAs encode Na channels with substantially different activation properties (Auld, V. J., A. L. Goldin, D. S. Krafte, J. Marshall, J. M. Dunn, W. A. Catterall, H. A. Lester, N. Davidson, and R. J. Dunn.
(13) This is not quite the “global village” of Marshall McLuhan’s imagination: “These new media of ours,” he said in 1964 , “have made our world into a single unit.
(14) We may be in the world’s last hour in which our planet can be saved,” Tony de Brum, the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, told the meeting.
(15) The idea excited both Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill, but was crushed by Marshal Philippe Pétain , who described the plan as a “marriage to a corpse”, since France was about to surrender.
(16) Safety plans – talking to people about how they would take their life and discussing how they might stop themselves – and a “safe from suicide” emergency team to marshal resources for those thought at immediate risk are among initiatives.
(17) Marshall refuted claims CSIRO was moving away from public good scientific research , labelling it disturbing and untrue.
(18) But he’s nothing if not a believer in facts, and so he marshaled enough evidence to persuade his father that the $930m sale to Monsanto was not just good for his business, but good for the planet.
(19) The Brazilian accepted the invitation to beat Marshall with a trademark shot from 25 yards and the home team continued to coast towards a fourth consecutive victory.
(20) The Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare Read more “There are still corals bleaching,” Marshall said.