(n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music.
(v. i.) To play on a fife.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that routine cancer registration data require extensive validation before they can be used for epidemiological purposes; case-control studies can overcome some of the methodological problems involved in investigating apparent leukaemia clusters; and further environmental investigations are needed in two post code districts of Fife.
(2) In a series of blows to Murphy this week, Alex Rowley, the MSP and former Fife council leader who was a close ally of Gordon Brown’s, has resigned his frontbench post, with three other MSPs publicly questioning Murphy’s continued role as leader.
(3) Docherty, the Labour MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, told Radio 4’s World at One: “We have a moribund party in Scotland that seems to think that infighting is more important than campaigning.
(4) Cyclist Mark Beaumont, 28, from Fife, was also on board making a documentary about the voyage for the BBC.
(5) Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, of Romany descent, he began singing his own, blues-based songs in local folk clubs, but said he was forced to leave the area because he was picked on by a local gang.
(6) For a girl who left school at 15 and started work in a Fife butcher's shop, my aunt had done well.
(7) The Daily Telegraph reported he had submitted an electricity bill for his home in Fife which partly covered a period when London was his designated second home.
(8) These attacks on the SNP's record – in Fife and in Edinburgh – were relentless and very well funded.
(9) Other results that day were: Airdrie 1-1 Clyde, East Fife 1-1 Motherwell, Falkirk 0-3 Aberdeen, Hibs 0-1 Rangers, Partick 0-1 Ayr, and St Johnstone 0-0 Dundee.
(10) Legal observers warned, however, that a sheriff sitting without a jury was limited by law to sentences of a maximum of 12 months, taking Walker under the legal threshold set by the law.Claire Baker, Labour MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, also said that Nicola Sturgeon, the deputy first minister and SNP deputy leader, should state publicly whether she was told in 2008 about Walker's history of domestic violence.
(11) • 182-186 Ocean Road (0191-456 1202, colmansfishandchips.com ) Anstruther Fish Bar, Fife Photograph: Alamy It's all hands on deck at Anstruther's, where the whole family pitch in with fishing and frying duties.
(12) The implications of this in relation to the future provision and pattern of long term care for the frail elderly in Fife are considerable.
(13) Social workers are firefighting instead of being allowed to do the work they are trained to do.” Similar sentiments were voiced by David Thomson, vice-convener of the Scottish Association of Social Workers and a member of BASW’s council, who works with women offenders in Fife.
(14) As a new report on the current state of the UK’s libraries reveals that more than 100 branches closed last year, a reduction of 14% in the total number of libraries since 2010 , bestselling crime novelist McDermid called the situation in Fife “disgraceful”.
(15) As her old boss Alex Salmond, out campaigning in Fife, enthused that his former protege was “wiping the floor with the Westminster old boys’ network”, Sturgeon offered words of caution: “We’ve got to see how people vote; after all, there’s a danger that all of us will get carried away with the post-match analysis.” Judging by the sheer energy and spirit of the scores of activists gathered on St John’s Road in the prosperous suburb of Costorphine, this is yet another seat the Liberal Democrats are unlikely to hold.
(16) To make any progress the sustainable options must be more attractive, and there must be progressive steps towards electrification, integration with buses and cycling, and moving freight onto rail.” Small towns, big plans: how better transport can boost the local economy Read more Three of the projects that could bring about serious shifts to sustainable transport are in Fife, in the heart of Scotland but lacking long-term investment.
(17) So off he went, running across the hills of Fife to retrieve his son's paddling pool, all the while talking about international development policy.
(18) Maybe he still cherished fond memories of the time he ventured north as a parliamentary candidate for Central Fife in a large Merc driven by a former nanny.
(19) Mr Brown, who is 50, and 37-year-old Sarah were married in a private ceremony in Fife, Scotland, in August 2000.
(20) Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sturgeon claimed Labour had won by running a "relentlessly negative" campaign, focusing on a single local issue – a steep rise in care charges for some Fife residents by an SNP-led council.
Wife
Definition:
(n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.
(n.) The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(3) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
(4) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(5) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
(6) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(7) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
(8) Five days later a French "honeymoon" couple, Alain Jacques Turenge and his wife Sophie Turenge, were arrested.
(9) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
(10) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Davis protests against his wife Kim’s jailing.
(12) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
(13) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
(14) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
(15) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(16) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(17) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
(18) Dr Fiona Stewart, a public health sociologist and Nitschke’s wife, told Guardian Australia she had replaced Nitschke as Exit International’s director.
(19) "I rang my wife to tell her," he says, "and she just laughed."
(20) (BBC) "I received the letter two months ago and was told to keep quiet about it or it might be taken away, so my wife and I kept quiet about it.