(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.
Negus
Definition:
(n.) A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brandis and Negus were addressing the media at the opening day of a conference focused on global security, counter-terrorism and evolving trends in transnational crime.
(2) There have been a range of passport cancellations where we have intelligence or evidence that people intend to travel overseas for some means to fight in the Syrian conflict … It is very difficult to obtain evidence from places like Syria to prosecute cases, but in saying that, we are doing our best to ensure we collect material here and they can be put before Australian courts before they go, and particularly people who are facilitating others to go over there for a specific intent of fighting or providing support to either side of the regime.” Negus said authorities were conducting “a range of investigations … into others looking facilitate people to go into those conflict zones”.
(3) Injection sclerotherapy was performed initially using the rigid Negus oesophagoscope under general anaesthesia and later using the fibreoptic endoscope under light sedation.
(4) The prime minister is joined on the trip by the chief of the defence force, Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) commissioner, Tony Negus.
(5) None have been referred for prosecution yet, though Negus said it doesn't mean they will not lead to charges.
(6) The Australian federal police commissioner, Tony Negus, said the mission would allow Dutch and Australian forces to undertake forensic tests at the site.
(7) The Australian journalist joined Ten as a reporter for 6pm with George Negus after working for Al Jazeera and the UK's Channel 4 News.
(8) Nourishing, warming and wholesome, negus was just the thing to settle down for the night before the invention of central heating, with its lemon or Seville orange and spices, with port, sherry or brandy.
(9) In summary 330 procedures were done: 220 under general anaesthesia using the Negus rigid oesophagoscope and 110 with diazepam as premedication using a flexible, fibreoptic endoscope.
(10) We have made arrests just before Christmas in that regard which have been well publicised,” Negus said.
(11) Lifetimes of 24.4 ps for Trp14 and 122.0 ps for Trp7 were found for oxy sperm whale myoglobin (pH 7), which agree with theoretical predictions [Hochstrasser, R. M., & Negus, D. K. (1984) Proc.
(12) At this stage there’s no specific threat we’re concerned about,” Negus said.
(13) Negus Rachel Kelly's "negus" – much-maligned by Byron.
(14) MetroStars roared back in the second half and goals by Jonathan Negus and Rocky Callisto were enough to secure victory and a place in the last 16 for the South Australians.
(15) The results of the Cape Town five-year prospective evaluation of sclerotherapy with the rigid Negus oesophagoscope using general anaesthesia are presented.
(16) 2.49am BST Attorney general, Senator George Brandis and Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Tony Negus.
(17) We’ve seen in the last three or four years a number of prosecutions in Australia for small groups who have come together and been radicalised amongst a small group of people separate to their community and looking to carry out some violent behaviour here in Australia,” Negus said.
(18) Negus said speculation about threats to Sochi had been “very general in nature” and Australian authorities did not perceive any increased threat to Australian athletes travelling there.
(19) The Australian federal police commissioner, Tony Negus, said the foreign minister, Julie Bishop, had acted on advice to cancel passports to stop people leaving Australia.
(20) Negus said Australian authorities were “very concerned about those lone actors who have been radicalised through the internet, who are travelling overseas to fight in other conflicts and then returning to Australia with increased capability to conduct something here”.