(n.) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
(v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
(v. t.) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
(v. t.) To make; to construct; to do.
(v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
(n.) A trick; a swindle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With a plot based around fake (or real?)
(2) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(3) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
(4) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
(5) There is never any chink in her composure – any hint of tension – and while I can't imagine what it must feel like to be so at ease with one's world, I don't think she is faking it.
(6) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(7) Computer says no: Amazon uses AI to combat fake reviews Read more “Imagine as the CEO of a major company you go off and spend £100m on gathering data,” Hammond says.
(8) Played out against the backdrop of the 1979 hostage crisis, Argo spins the account of a joint Hollywood-CIA mission to spring six imperiled Americans from revolutionary Iran, using a fake movie production as a decoy.
(9) Jim Devine, Labour MP for Livingston, was reportedly under investigation for invoices he submitted for electrical work worth more than £2,000 from a company with an allegedly fake address and an invalid VAT number.
(10) He said the allegations made in Iran's media are based on fabricated contents or fake accounts and are untrue.
(11) A pair of bizarre photographs have been widely circulated online, that appear to show alleged EgyptAir hijacker Seif Eldin Mustafa posing for pictures with passengers in what is believed to have been a fake suicide belt.
(12) When conservative outlets accused the site of censoring right-leaning news stories , Zuckerberg fired the trending stories team and replaced them with an algorithm – which almost immediately began to distribute fake news .
(13) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
(14) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
(15) Not only was the entire plot fake, but it seemed only Hussain's Islamic coaching, talk of cash rewards and constant attention was keeping it alive.
(16) Halderman received a fake $2m check from Letterman, went to work and was then arrested after leaving his office at CBS News.
(17) Plus we know that Facebook can already identify truly fake news – Zuckerberg pointed this out over the weekend.
(18) The Normandie Design is plum in the middle of the amiable chaos of South American city life, in Santa Efigênia, where the streets are thronged with tiny electronics stores – great if you fancy a fake Chinese iPhone.
(19) It was one of the fake tongue extensions from The Exorcist, with a note saying, 'Just stick a dab of peanut butter on the end and put it on.'
(20) And it helps you spot phishing emails, because if an email appears in your shopping account purporting to come from your bank, for example, you'll immediately know it's a fake.
Obituary
Definition:
(n.) That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch.
(n.) A list of the dead, or a register of anniversary days when service is performed for the dead.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was very sweet, really nice, but it was like an obituary.
(2) Lech Kaczynski obituary Read more Many followers of Jarosław Kaczyński think the plane was downed by an intended blast and blame Russia and Poland’s prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, who is now the president of the European Union.
(3) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday November 17 2007 The obituary below said that some of the uranium used in the Little Boy atom bomb was snatched from Soviet-occupied Germany in 1945 by an Anglo-American special unit.
(4) In his book School Worship: An Obituary (1975), he argued against the practice of compulsory worship in inclusive schools.
(5) To my generation, death was as remote as the obituary pages of the newspaper.
(6) Twitter meanwhile is preparing career obituaries for Onyewu.
(7) Last year's annual report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development should have been an obituary for the neoliberal model developed by Hayek and Friedman and their disciples.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jo Cox: ‘We’ve lost a great star’ – video obituary “Jo Cox was the most vivacious, personable, dynamic and committed friend you could ever have,” he said.
(9) Even after the Daily Mail's Jack Tinker (obituary, October 29 1996) contrived for Shulman's career as a theatre critic to be brought to an end in 1991, he continued to write a column for the Evening Standard on art affairs - until he was 83.
(10) Your obituary of Michael Meacher (22 October) underplays his significant contribution to the promotion of genuinely green policies.
(11) · Henry Bernard Levin, journalist, born August 19, 1928; died August 7, 2004 Quentin Crewe died in 1998, and the above obituary has been revised.
(12) He served fleetingly as a Confederate soldier before deserting ("his career as a soldier was brief and inglorious," said the New York Times obituary; in the autobiography Twain includes a sympathetic account of deserting soldiers being shot, without revealing the reason for his sense of identification).
(13) I was first of the "extraordinary talent" Anthony Sampson (obituary, December 21) recruited for Drum magazine.
(14) Updated at 10.47pm GMT 10.24pm GMT The Guardian's David Beresford, who was appointed Johannesburg correspondent in 1984, has filed an obituary of Nelson Mandela.
(15) Steve Howard, CEO of The Climate Group and chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Climate Change "It's probably a bit too early to be writing the obituary of COP 16 just yet.
(16) Christine Cole Northampton • I think Philip Bowring almost completely misses the point in his obituary of Lee Kuan Yew.
(17) • Frankie Knuckles obituary • Frankie Knuckles - house pioneer and DJ - dies aged 59
(18) The following March, Milosevic was arrested on the orders of the liberal Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic, later to be assassinated ( obituary, March 13 2003 ).
(19) After his death the obituaries proclaimed Bellows one of the greatest of all American painters – a man more famous at the time than his friend and contemporary Edward Hopper.
(20) It was not until both Rothermere (obituary, September 3 1998) and his editor David English (obituary, June 11 1998) died within a short space of time that Dempster became inevitably less secure under the younger Lord Rothermere and Mail editor Paul Dacre.