(n.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
(n.) A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
(n.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.
(v. i.) To play on a fiddle.
(v. i.) To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
(v. t.) To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) And what did you have to do to get fired for Libor fiddling, rather than simply disciplined?
(2) Young people from ordinary working families that are struggling to get by.” Labour said Greening’s department had deliberately excluded the poorest families from her calculations to make access to grammar schools seem fairer and accused her of “fiddling the figures”.
(3) On Aswan, the lyre is represented by the Sudanese masenkop, Ugandan adungu, and Egyptian simsimiya and tamboura, while the spike fiddle manifests as the Ethiopian masenko and Ugandan endingidi.
(4) Benefit claimants will face lie detector tests and will lose benefits for a month if found guilty of fiddling the system under proposals unveiled by Gordon Brown on the eve of today's Queen's speech .
(5) Increasingly, imaginative ways were devised to fiddle the data or change practices in ways that achieved nothing except to create the appearance of improvement.
(6) Bercow also claimed MPs in the past fiddled their expenses as a "displacement activity" because Parliament had become irrelevant and ineffective.
(7) Other Hunt plans – banning gagging orders and the fiddling of mortality data, and blacklisting failed NHS managers like the former Mid Staffs chief executive Martin Yeates – will help plug obvious gaps in NHS practice, as judged against the strict new requirement for accountability.
(8) The line connecting the disgraced expenses-fiddling former MP Denis MacShane and the call to arms over immigration on the front page of today's Daily Mail is not immediately apparent, but it's there all the same.
(9) It is modern slavery enforced not through shackles and whips, but by fiddled contracts, missing permits and paperwork and the Guardian has found it happening just down the road from the desert palace of Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Khalifa al-Thani.
(10) They are also, in practice, in support of arguments that claimants are on the fiddle with a net 17% more believing "most people on the dole are fiddling one way or another".
(11) Wrestling with the worst crisis in the common currency's 11 years and accused of fiddling for three months while Greece went up in flames, Angela Merkel of Germany, Nicolas Sarkozy of France and other European leaders are to meet in Brussels on May 10 to unlock tens of billions of euros for Athens to put out the fire.
(12) • • • As I am leaving Rock Springs behind me, fiddling with the radio to find something other than pop music, Christian sermons, commercials or Christmas songs, I think back to what Alex said about his hope that Donald Trump would bring change.
(13) He fiddles around the margins of unequal opportunity – offering soft loans for first-time property-buyers, for example .
(14) "Fiddling with the job spec to suit one person, the sheer number of leaks that have gone on in this process, these things make good candidates pull out," said the source.
(15) The Chicks started out in 1989 playing hoedowns and street corners in their native Dallas, with Maguire on fiddle and Robison on banjo.
(16) The remarks by Tucker blew apart a campaign by Osborne to prove that Balls was one of a series of senior Labour figures who tried to "fiddle Libor".
(17) It was always easy to make fun of crime statistics, even before the UK Statistics Authority announced this week that it was formally dropping police recorded crime figures as a gold standard measurement, citing repeated allegations that some of the quarterly published figures have been subject to "a degree of fiddling".
(18) February 6, 2013 steve hawkes (@steve_hawkes) For two years after we poured billions in to save RBS, the bank was manipulating and fiddling.. You wonder what else was going on February 6, 2013 Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) Usually fines paid to FSA go towards reducing its running costs.
(19) The vasectomy technique known as "Riddle's fiddle" is described as a foolproof method that prevents sperm from reentering the ejaculate.
(20) EO: I'm sure if we were sitting here talking about some low-income person who'd been found to be fiddling their books, we wouldn't be saying, "Oh, but they contribute to society in other ways" – that argument just wouldn't come up.
Gid
Definition:
(a.) A disease of sheep, characterized by vertigo; the staggers. It is caused by the presence of the C/nurus, a larval tapeworm, in the brain. See C/nurus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Giddings confirmed to senate estimates that he had passed on the rumour, but had not heard, or passed on, any suggestion that the protesters might have intended to disrupt question time.
(2) In your case, I am hoping you can respond to the criticisms of your testimony to the NY legislature made by Val Giddings in a recent blog post.
(3) A strong immunostaining of AD sections with anti-GID and the presence of a Mr 35,000 band unique to AD might reflect an altered processing of ABPP in AD brains.
(4) The findings suggest that GID boys do not suffer solely from gender symptomatology but are disturbed in other aspects of their ego functioning as well.
(5) Recently Giddings discussed the prospect of combining two separation mechanisms in such a way that when "a sample is subjected to two displacement processes oriented at right angles to one another" a two-dimensional separation is carried out.
(6) We will honour any commitment that has been made.” The spokeswoman said: “Victoria made it clear that, along with Victorian schools and school communities, we expect the Commonwealth to honour this funding, which was agreed to on 4 August 2013.” The Tasmanian premier, Lara Giddings, also maintains the state signed a contract ''What we have here is a heads of agreement that has been signed,'' Giddings said.
(7) This mortality can be completely prevented if the recipients are germfree mice, or when they are conventional animals which have been subjected to complete or selective gastrointestinal decontamination (GID).
(8) Philip Giddings, the conservative evangelical who chairs the house of laity, said he was satisfied the new, simplified legislation would be tolerable for his side.
(9) We have developed further the statistical approach to chromatography initiated by Giddings and Eyring, and applied it to affinity chromatography.
(10) The granular intercalated duct (GID) cells showed a progressive increase in number from two to four months of age (p less than 0.01).
(11) Among all the age groups (2-22 months), the number of the GID cells in submandibular gland was highest of six months; they were then also most conspicuous with many electron-dense secretory granules in the cytoplasm.
(12) The observed effect of lactose on (PU) does not correlate with (GID).
(13) Giddings, one of the most powerful lay members of the church, is the convenor of the conservative evangelical Anglican Mainstream network, which was founded to oppose the appointment of Jeffrey John, a gay priest, as the suffragan bishop of Reading in 2003.
(14) Giddings praised the resilience of the 55,000-strong crowd.
(15) The significance of these age-related changes of the GID cells is unknown.
(16) In an in vitro DNA replication system for oriC DNA, plasmids with a defective gid promoter had greatly reduced template activity and essentially no replication occurred when both promoters were inactive.
(17) I have to look at it very closely with the police and the council so that it doesn't happen again," Giddings said.
(18) During a speech to the synod that came directly after Welby urged its members to vote in favour of the measure, Giddings said it would be "unwise" to press ahead with a measure that "a significant minority of our church" were unable to accept.
(19) In the present study, we investigated the immunoreactivity of the NCL brain tissue with anti-serum (anti-GID) raised against a synthetic peptide, based on the amyloid beta-protein precursor, with the 175-186 amino acid sequence.
(20) These are (i) the AT rich sequence ('AT-cluster') which exists immediately left of the 13mer repeats and (ii) the gid transcriptional unit.