(n.) A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.
Example Sentences:
(1) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
(2) The New York Times, which shared the files with the Guardian and US National Public Radio, said it did not obtain them from WikiLeaks.
(3) The system has been successfully used for 18 months to create directories for a teaching file, for presentations, and for clinical research.
(4) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(5) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
(6) The department has redacted the IP addresses and details of network owners who downloaded the file.
(7) He then read out nine of the 2,116 incident reports that make up the Nauru files.
(8) He received five years for one count of conspiracy and three years for two counts of filing a false tax return.
(9) A computer program, computer-readable model-file and computer-based 3D printer can (in theory) encapsulate the expertise of a skilled machinist and deploy it on demand wherever a 3D printer is to be found.
(10) Tension heightened last week after Davis continued to refuse licenses to couples; on Friday, she filed a request to the supreme court to stay the lower court’s decision.
(11) The filings do not contain any clues about the size of the settlement that the DoJ was hoping to reach with Barclays, although the bank is thought to have been prepared to pay up to $2bn (£1.6bn).
(12) In 2001, they filed a $4bn (£2.17bn) lawsuit against the government and two German firms in the US.
(13) Another feature of TWINAN90 is the optional output of a pedigree file which can be read by the quantitative genetics package FISHER.
(14) THE PERKINS FILE Born Susan Elizabeth Perkins, 22 September 1969 in Croydon, south London.
(15) One suspects theatregoers will be encouraged to keep their electronic devices on, with live data used to demonstrate some of the content of the Snowden files .
(16) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
(17) Sometimes the way the MP [military policeman] holds the head chokes me, and with all the nerves in the nose the tube passing the nose is like torture,” Dhiab said in a legal filing.
(18) A number of other news organisations yesterday published reports based on files they had received from WikiLeaks.
(19) (4) The majority view was that the data for both types of files should come from more than one agency.
(20) Her post- X-Files performances have been carefully chosen and doggedly unstarry.
Shaving
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shave
(n.) The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.
(n.) That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) Threadneedle Street has shaved 0.75 points off borrowing costs in but has not moved since April and with rising energy bills likely to push inflation close to 5% in the coming months is thought more likely to raise bank rate than cut it when the Bank meets this week.
(2) The veteran almost had one with the best effort of the first half, a typical drive from the edge of the Stoke penalty area that shaved Thomas Sorensen's left-hand upright, though that possibly said more about the quality of the attacking play in the first half than the dynamism of Scholes's attempt.
(3) On the day of the procedure, the patient arrives at 7 a.m., is shaved, prepared and operated on by a senior surgeon before impatient operations begin.
(4) We feel that the myomucosal advancement flap is a valuable technique to overcome some of the problems in reconstruction of the vermilion after lip-shave.
(5) But he had been warned in advance by the school not to get his head shaved.
(6) The thermode is stuck to the shaved skin on the back of the rat, allowing heat pulses up to 51 degrees C to be applied.
(7) They were on the whole satisfied with antenatal classes (there seemed to be a need for more information in the form of an on-the-ward postnatal class), disliked the practice of perineal shaves (but did not object to enemas or rupture of membranes) and felt they had adequate analgesia (although not for after-pains or the discomfort of haemorrhoids in the puerperium).
(8) Additional studies showed that this increased activity was not affected by testing animals in the presence of environmental stimuli such as objects which could be manipulated, or by odors from mouse shavings from male and female mice.
(9) They win this game, it could be fear the Gillette shaved chin.
(10) They sat me in a chair and just shaved most of my hair off in weird concentric rings so I looked like a tonsured 14th-century monk who had had brain surgery.
(11) O'Neill highlighted the different way her son's friend Tesni had been treated for having her head shaved at the charity event last Saturday.
(12) "If we can shave a couple of inches off the [goal frame], we'll be OK," Dalglish said.
(13) "Shave your beard if you're brown, and you best salute the crown, or they'll do you like Brazilians and shoot your arse down."
(14) Then it's time for him to go, shave, and pick up his GQ award.
(15) Available results indicated that wood shaving is a good adsorbent.
(16) The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had The time I tried to give myself a touch-up with clippers and shaved out a whole tuft of hair.
(17) In 1997, Taylor's health again hit the headlines when she had an operation for a brain tumour, and had to shave off her hair.
(18) The cutaneous autografts, whether full-thickness punch grafts, split-thickness shave grafts, or epidermal suction grafts, retained their capacity of pigmentation.
(19) But I feel that there are more important things for women to worry about than whether it's right or wrong to shave their legs, and one of those things is for women to stop beating themselves up so much.
(20) Percutaneous nitroglycerin absorption was studied in shaved rats by monitoring unchanged plasma drug concentrations for up to 4 hr.