(v. i.) To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
(v. i.) To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags.
(v. t.) To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
(v. t.) To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of.
(n.) That which flags or hangs down loosely.
(n.) A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors; as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.
(n.) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
(n.) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
(n.) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
(v. t.) To signal to with a flag; as, to flag a train.
(v. t.) To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
(n.) An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging to either of the genera Iris and Acorus.
(v. t.) To furnish or deck out with flags.
(n.) A flat stone used for paving.
(n.) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
(v. t.) To lay with flags of flat stones.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
(2) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(3) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
(4) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(5) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(6) Meanwhile, in the US, Ellen DeGeneres , who is 56 and came out in the 90s, is still flying the lesbian flag on TV.
(7) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
(8) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
(9) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(10) Perhaps you'd like to know how she felt holding the Olympic flag alongside Ban Ki-moon at the 2012 opening ceremony .
(11) Zuma, who had endured booing during Mandela's memorial service at this stadium, received a rapturous welcome as he entered to the sound of a military drumroll trailed by young, flag-waving majorettes.
(12) On Wednesday, managing director Mike Devereux also flagged that the company's future in the country was not certain if government funding was not locked in over a long period.
(13) And when you said the pledge of allegiance in the morning, you had to look at those flags.
(14) For a while North Korea refused to play, but after delicate negotiations the players were persuaded back on to the pitch and the correct flag was displayed alongside the team photos.
(15) Photograph: ICAEW A separate report puts UK business confidence at a two-year low amid flagging economic growth.
(16) The footballer, who plays for club side Gabala and the national team , had waved a Turkish flag during a Europa League match in Cyprus, and appeared to make an obscene gesture at a Greek journalist who asked why he had done so.
(17) But Ofcom said the quizzes, aired on October 29 2006 and November 25 2006 respectively, were too difficult, featuring alterations to the signs and flags which could not reasonably have been detected by viewers.
(18) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
(19) It quickly became evident that there was an opportunity to take the idea beyond a one-off event between Anglicans and Catholics and reach out to other religions, like the Muslim community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The St Peter’s XI practise under the Vatican flag.
(20) 1.08pm BST Lap 2: Sergio Perez is out after an incident at Mirabeau, which is what brought out the yellow flags and safety car.
Voice
Definition:
(n.) Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.
(n.) Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper.
(n.) The tone or sound emitted by anything.
(n.) The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice.
(n.) Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.
(n.) Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
(n.) Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language.
(n.) One who speaks; a speaker.
(n.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
(v. t.) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation.
(v. t.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
(v. t.) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
(v. t.) To vote; to elect; to appoint.
(v. i.) To clamor; to cry out.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) But Lee is mostly just extremely fed up at the exclusion of sex workers’ voices from much of the conversation.
(3) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(4) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
(5) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
(6) Activists in the country are pushing to get their voices heard ahead of Sunday's race.
(7) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
(8) Obviously it’s good to have all voices on the field.
(9) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(10) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(11) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
(12) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
(13) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
(14) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
(15) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
(16) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
(17) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(18) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
(19) he asked in a low voice, referring to the Sunni insurgents sweeping across northern Iraq .
(20) People praying, voicing their views and heart, were met with disdain and a level of force exceeding what was needed.