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Fisk


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To run about; to frisk; to whisk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The mean concentrations of duplicate pairs of specimens circulated to participants in 1975 show very close agreement except for one pair of duplicates for those laboratories using the Advanced Instruments and Fiske osmometers.
  • (2) Photograph: Phil Fisk Before shooting even begins the contestants have to come up with the 10 signature and showstopper bake recipes they would need if they made it all the way to the final.
  • (3) The Independent’s owners have moved fast to ensure that some of the papers’ biggest names – including Robert Fisk, Grace Dent and Patrick Cockburn – will continue to write for its digital-only operation .
  • (4) Photograph: Phil Fisk The team back here is led by Faenia, a veteran of Great British Menu , who has been on this show since series one.
  • (5) A description of its development and an analysis carried out on the examinations in 1969 and 1970 are contained in the paper by Fisk et al.
  • (6) Photograph: Phil Fisk for Observer Food Monthly Where did the original idea for Bake Off come from?
  • (7) Lest anyone imagine Northup's co-writer made it up, historian David Fiske has traced a real man from Ontario who may be the same Samuel Bass.
  • (8) Validation was approached by the Campbell and Fiske multitrait-multimethod procedure and was concerned with the convergent relationship of assertion as measured by the Scale with measures of dominance and abasement as well as the discriminant capability of the instrument in terms of its relationship to various types of aggression, both verbal and physical.
  • (9) Steve Auckland , the chief executive of the parent company of the Independent and the Evening Standard, said that no discussions have yet taken place with any of the Independent’s star writers such as Fisk, Matthew Norman and John Lichfield.
  • (10) Campbell and Fiske's criteria for convergent and discriminant validity were applied to six of the scales that were common to both instruments.
  • (11) Despite the difficulties ahead, Fisk said the decision marked a historic moment that could potentially change who had to come to the table to discuss labour issues.
  • (12) Brian Bethune, an economics professor at Fisk University in Boston, said he believed all the recent developments, including the disappointing June jobs report, had greatly reduced the chance of a September rate hike.
  • (13) There are, however, problems encountered when using the Campbell and Fiske (1959) approach.
  • (14) Another of the book's five co-authors, the British writer Alexander Fiske-Harrison, said that Hillmann underwent surgery the same day.
  • (15) Other recipients have included Lyse Doucet, Michael Buerk, John Simpson, Robert Fisk, Charles Wheeler, Bridget Kendall, George Alagiah, Fergal Keane and Ann Leslie.
  • (16) An email sent to Independent subscribers refers to the deal, saying that the “talented writers and provocative columnists you currently enjoy” will keep appearing in the i, and naming writers including Robert Fisk and Grace Dent.
  • (17) The inorganic phosphate liberated is measured by a modification of Fiske and SubbaRow's method.
  • (18) The linearity of the standard curve is observed up to an absorbance of 0.410, compared to 0.370 in the Fiske-Subbarow method.
  • (19) But such logic rapidly falls into the moral hole identified by Fisk, in which a Muslim death matters less when the killer is a fellow Muslim.
  • (20) We want to really take advantage of that now.” Auckland added that talks would now begin to win over star writers such as Robert Fisk and Matthew Norman to continue to write for the digital-only Independent.

Fist


Definition:

  • (n.) The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.
  • (n.) The talons of a bird of prey.
  • (n.) the index mark [/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.
  • (v. t.) To strike with the fist.
  • (v. t.) To gripe with the fist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
  • (2) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (3) The "respect the game" police are back, (do they ever go away) and after Adrian Gonzalez, who dared to pump his fists following a fourth inning double that brought home LA's first run of the game.
  • (4) The defendants punched their air with their fists and shouted "peacefully" as their sentences were handed down, according to relatives.
  • (5) Ipso, he concluded, wants to come to this performance “armed with a slim clear book of rules and not with an iron fist”.
  • (6) I get to make jokes and pound my fist and get retweets and faves because I’m a comedian.
  • (7) On the day, however, the Queen's 80th birthday won hand over fist against both Cameron and the huskies and Mrs Blair and the hairdressing bill .
  • (8) Album of the year: Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Daft Punk snatches record of the year from Macklemore's tiny fists.
  • (9) Globiz hopes there's no repeat of last year's Star Magic Ball where Salvador prompted a major fist-fight to break out between two of the country's hottest young actors, Matteo Guidicelli and Coco Martin (think the R-Patz and Taylor Lautner of the Philippines).
  • (10) 62 min: Lyon win another corner, which McGregor fists away cleanly.
  • (11) The people of Iran, the region, Israel, America and the world deserve better than a deal that consolidates the grip on power of the violent revolutionary clerics who rule Tehran with an iron fist.” Here’s what members of the Bush team have said individually about the deal, since its announcement on Monday and in the weeks that led up to the announcement: Paul Wolfowitz , deputy secretary of defense under George W Bush, on Fox News : A bad deal is much worse than nothing.
  • (12) He had poor head control, hypertonia, and persistent fisting, and died at age 2 months.
  • (13) They didn't suffer fools gladly, and they ran everything with an iron fist."
  • (14) Private sector bondholders, many of them German banks who lent hand over fist to Greece in the runup to the crisis, were largely made good; workers have suffered wage cuts as the government struggles to make repayments to its bailout creditors.
  • (15) But Kiki Bertens, a smiling, 23-year-old Dutch qualifier who looked pleased just to be here, made a decent fist of her impossible assignment in dappled light on Arthur Ashe and pushed Serena Williams at least to the lower slopes of anxiety on day three of the 2015 US Open.
  • (16) During the first 2 min of hypoxia, glucose consumption was increased to twice the normal, and during the fist 2 min of hypercapnia, the corresponding value was less thane third of the normal.
  • (17) No, not Gordon Brown, although there were times when today's sleights of hand and burying of bad news had strong echoes of the clunking fist at its worst.
  • (18) Two groups of substernal goiters should be considered fist; the "simples" ones localised in the anterior and superior part of the mediastin.
  • (19) Malema became known as tough, playing dirty against those who opposed him for office, disbanding branches of the organisation that did not support him and at times taking to his opponents with his fists.
  • (20) A total of 33 of 34 patients with human bites and clenched-fist injuries and 33 of 39 patients with animal bites had aerobic or facultative bacteria isolated from their wounds.

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