(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.
Welch
Definition:
(a.) See Welsh.
Example Sentences:
(1) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
(2) The urine was collected for 24 h and the total acetaminophen excreted was determined according to the method of Welch and Conney.
(3) The breeding genetic distance measure of a single locus (Carlson & Welch, 1977) is extended to polygenic traits.
(4) The equipment consisted of the standard fiberoptic Welch-Allyn pediatric sigmoidoscope modified by replacing the obturator with a sharp pyrimidal trocar.
(5) The Welch warbler does it and I believe that's all the bases covered: Bitta street cred with Dizzee, NME fodder with Kasabian, bitta Brit pop with JLS and prizes for the new wave of British female performers (Lily, Florence).
(6) Welch identified Hakea as a prison that was overcrowded despite only being at 85% of its “operating capacity”.
(7) With this issue Dr. Bissada, Dr. Finkbeiner, and Dr. Welch introduce a series on uropharmacology, starting with the lower urinary tract.
(8) James Welch, legal director for Liberty, said: "All too often the police seem to hand out harassment notices without adequate investigation or consideration of the validity of complaints.
(9) I just wanted to do some good and went about it the wrong way,” Edgar Welch, 28, told a reporter from the New York Times , adding: “I regret how I handled the situation.” Welch was arrested on Sunday at the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria, which became the subject of lurid conspiracy theories after it was mentioned in the personal emails of John Podesta , Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief, published by WikiLeaks.
(10) Last night's episode, featuring Waterloo Road's Denise Welch teaching at a school in Durham, registered 3.3 million viewers and a 16% share.
(11) Sammie Welch, 23, was travelling with her three-year-old son, Rylan on a busy First Great Western train from Birmingham to Plymouth on Thursday evening when a man handed her a note as he got off in Bristol.
(12) In between being “a complete smoothie” and handing out Jack Welch management books to new starters, she is prone to “tearing a strip off” subordinates.
(13) The 10- and 20-minute postbypass values between the two groups differed significantly (t test, Welch modification: p = 0.0464 and p = 0.0342).
(14) The head, thorax, wings, legs and abdomen of 320 wild-caught Anopheles gambiae Giles sensu lato and 115 An.funestus Giles were tested by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for Plasmodium falciparum Welch to determine how anatomical dissemination of circumsporozoite (CS) protein could affect the estimation of malaria sporozoite rates by ELISA.
(15) The effect of the malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum Welch, on the daily survival rates and longevity of Anopheles gambiae Giles sensu lato and Anopheles funestus Giles was determined for wild-caught, naturally infected females from western Kenya.
(16) Welch at Selfharm.co.uk agrees: "Calling for any type of ban is just missing the point.
(17) Paul Welch, a 70-year-old disabled retired civil servant living in a Peverel-managed block outside Bournemouth, told Carlex that Cirrus had just quoted £29,190.04 while Jackson quoted £33,306.04.
(18) Since the millennium, wave after wave of privately educated rock and pop acts have come through, Coldplay, Lily Allen, Jamie T, Jack Peñate, Florence Welch, the Maccabees, Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons being just a few prominent examples.
(19) Over a period of 27 years, the seemingly impregnable Marxist-Leninist group killed 23 people, including CIA station chief Richard Welch, its first victim, and British defence attache Brigadier Stephen Saunders, assassinated as he drove to work in June 2000.
(20) The new series of Celebrity Big Brother also features Loose Women star Denise Welch, former EastEnder Natalie Cassidy and Playboy models and twins Kristina and Karissa Shannon.