(n.) That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.
(n.) An inclosure about a field or other space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within.
(n.) A projection on the bolt, which passes through the tumbler gates in locking and unlocking.
(n.) Self-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and repartee. See Fencing.
(n.) A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received.
(v. t.) To fend off danger from; to give security to; to protect; to guard.
(v. t.) To inclose with a fence or other protection; to secure by an inclosure.
(v. i.) To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.
(v. i.) To practice the art of attack and defense with the sword or with the foil, esp. with the smallsword, using the point only.
(v. i.) Hence, to fight or dispute in the manner of fencers, that is, by thrusting, guarding, parrying, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
(2) Down the road another group of protesters gathered outside the chain-link fence surrounding the Marriott's perimeter.
(3) The top of the fence can also be manipulated in certain ways such as including curvature outward at the top of the fence to make scaling it much more difficult for most.” Some critics, including Washington DC congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, have warned against excessive fortification, but the report argues: “We recognise all the competing considerations that may go into questions regarding the fence, but believe that protection of the President and the White House must be the higher priority.” “Every additional second of response time provided by a fence that is more difficult to climb makes a material difference in ensuring the President’s safety and protecting the symbol that is the White House.” The panel also urges that a new head of secret service, to replace ousted head Julia Pierson, be brought in from outside the agency, ensuring it is better staffed and trained in future.
(4) In an attempt to show the public and cabinet colleagues that money being ring-fenced from Treasury cuts will be spent wisely, Mitchell said he wanted to know whether money spent at agencies such as the World Bank and the UN matched up to the government's anti-poverty objectives and delivered real benefits.
(5) These findings indicate a need for Los Angeles County to address the problem of drownings among infants and toddlers in private swimming pools and to investigate the failure of regulations requiring fencing of swimming pools to prevent these deaths.
(6) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(7) Ring-fencing of health, education and development budgets means other departments face an average cut of 11.6% over the next five years, with the steepest cuts expected at the start of the parliament.
(8) "You have very difficult and emotional arguments on both sides of the fence.
(9) A requirement for pool fencing is the most promising such strategy and could be implemented soon.
(10) If the EBU wants to engage seriously with a country such as Azerbaijan, it has to get off the fence.
(11) Burnout And if you’re more into chat than science, I can tell you over the garden fence that it works.
(12) The movement pattern of épée fencing results in an asymmetry of the body.
(13) Sophie Jackson, of Museum of London Archaeology , said: "The waterlogged conditions left by the Walbrook stream have given us layer upon layer of Roman timber buildings, fences and yards, all beautifully preserved and containing amazing personal items, clothes and even documents – all of which will transform our understanding of the people of Roman London."
(14) Yet here comes Bloomberg — a former Democrat turned Republican turned independent who many thought might run for president himself on a third-party ticket — throwing his support behind Obama , citing climate as the proximate reason for his hop off the fence: Our climate is changing.
(15) With a population of only 3.3 million, it is hard for politicians and activists not to know personally those on the other side of the ideological fence.
(16) Other robots in the Boston Dynamics stable include Petman, a robot that tests humanoid chemical protective clothing; the wheeled SandFlea robot that can leap small buildings; a small six-legged robot capable of traversing rough terrain called RHex; and the RiSE robot capable of climbing vertical walls, trees and fences using feet with micro-claws.
(17) These results indicate overall productivity estimates of 51 and 120 kg of weaner calf per cow per year and 86 and 188 kg of 18-month old calf per cow per year for the cattle post and fenced ranch respectively.
(18) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(19) On one occasion, she told the court, she had been seized at a beauty spot near her home where she was walking her dog, raped and left tied to a fence.
(20) Samuel Wurzelbacher, who became famous during the 2008 election as “Joe the Plumber” after he had a heated discussion with Obama on the campaign trail, was championed by presidential nominee John McCain but later made contentious remarks such as a call to “put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shooting”.
Frith
Definition:
(n.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.
(n.) A kind of weir for catching fish.
(a.) A forest; a woody place.
(a.) A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) At Chapel-le-Frith in 1786, for instance, Wesley recorded a kind of punk festival riot: "The terror and confusion was inexpressible.
(2) The Celeb Diaries will be published this autumn and is one of the publisher's priority titles for Christmas 2008 Frith began his journalism career at Emap's Smash Hits in 1990, and in 1994, at the age of just 23, was appointed editor before leaving for Sky Magazine in 1996.
(3) Frith, the former editor of Heat magazine, has not been appointed as the permanent editor of Time Out, but he is understood to have turned down the Radio Times job.
(4) Frith, who took over Heat in 2000, previously edited Smash Hits and Sky magazine.
(5) The Heat editor-in-chief, Mark Frith, is leaving Bauer Consumer Media after more than 10 years developing and overseeing the celebrity magazine phenomenon.
(6) One of his idols was the critic and essayist Max Beerbohm, whose biography his father had written and whose work Jonathan, with the aid of Roger Frith , turned into a one-man show, The Incomparable Max.
(7) Frith has won every major British publishing award, including PPA editor of the year twice and, in 2005, the BSME Mark Boxer Award for special achievement in UK magazine publishing.
(8) The patient response sequences were similar to those seen in an earlier study by Frith and Done (Psychol Med, 13, 779-786, 1983), but some control group differences emerged.
(9) Frith is joining Love along with other new arrivals including Francesca Burns, who is to be senior fashion editor-at-large.
(10) Good spellers were equally able to identify matched and mismatched pairs, while poor spellers showed greater difficulty in identifying mismatches than matches, supporting Frith's (1980) "partial cues" explanation of poor spelling performance.
(11) Commenting on the shortlist - whittled down from 170 entries - chair of the judges Simon Frith said: "The renaissance in British music continues with the emergence of a wealth of new talents, demonstrated by the presence of eight debut albums.
(12) The results suggest important differences in the temporal evolution of inhibitory processes, and are discussed in terms of Hemsley's (1977) and Frith's (1979) theories.
(13) This finding is seen as providing some support for Frith's (1979) theory that the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia are due to awareness of processes that normally occur preconsciously.
(14) The claim that impaired metarepresentational ability underlies the social, communicative and imaginative deficits of autism (see paper by Uta Frith in this issue) is discussed.
(15) In human subjects the drug increased the number of alternation responses, which can be interpreted as an increase in stereotyped switching and which is similar to the response pattern produced by some groups of psychotic patients on the same task (Frith and Done 1983; Lyon et al.
(16) Time Out, which announced last month that the former Heat magazine editor Mark Frith would become its new editor, fell 15.2% year on year to 64,712 copies a week.
(17) Frith joined Heat in December 1997 as deputy editor when it was still in development and known as Project J.
(18) In February Frith announced that he was leaving Heat, which he had edited for more than 10 years, to write a book about his years at the celebrity magazine.
(19) Frith is understood to still be in talks with Time Out about his long term future at the London listings magazine.
(20) In addition to the consultancy, next year Frith will write a second book and take up a regular slot on BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright Show.