(n.) All that part of a horse which is before the rider.
(n.) The chief or most important part.
(n.) Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
(a.) Done beforehand; anticipative.
Example Sentences:
(1) She thought it was going out but it landed in - she hooked it back and Sharapova netted an easy forehand!
(2) They trade shots from the baseline, until Dimitrov changes approach with a low slice, causing Murray to net a forehand.
(3) His first serve is a memory and his forehand hits the doubles alley.
(4) During deuce, we are treated to some absurdity from both players, but Kyrgios then misses a forehand to give Nadal another set point.
(5) Once it does, he's in a spot of bother and Murray is able to punish a forehand into the corner for 0-15.
(6) In some instances, this difference in accuracy can be attributed to the fact that the intermediate players were unaware of what the telegraphic cues were (e.g., backhand shots) while, in other situations, the difference in prediction ability is primarily due to the intermediate players' more frequent failure to detect the presence of known telegraphic cues (i.e., forehand shots).
(7) Telemetry EMG was used to assess the muscle activity of the anterior deltoid and the forearm extensor muscles during the forehand and backhand strokes of tennis in a selected group of test subjects.
(8) Then Murray goes on the front foot, jabbing away a volley to make it 40-15, but Federer then wrong-foots his foe with a feathery forehand at the net to hold.
(9) Murray then nets a forehand to make it 0-40 and I can't stop thinking about that forehand he missed at 15-30 in the previous game.
(10) He gets his serve back, it's slow, but he takes Dimitrov's return and powers the forehand into the far corner to round out the game and lock in his break.
(11) If the ninth-seed is exhausted after yesterday's bracing defeat of Sharapova, she is doing well not to show it, lashing her left-handed forehands to the corners and surging to break point in the seventh game.
(12) The first match point is saved with a beauty of a forehand down the line, but not the second, Murray sending one last horrible forehand into the net.
(13) Oh, they're really into this now, what a ridiculous pair of ridiculous individuals they really are - and Nadal takes control of the point, pinning Djokovic in the forehand corner and punishing him to seize the advantage with an angled volley at the net.
(14) Updated at 4.44pm BST 4.39pm BST Second set: Djokovic 4-6, 4-2 Nadal* (*denotes server) After much head-shaking, Djokovic nails a forehand, before drawing Nadal to the net with a drop-shot, Nadal scooting to the backhand wing and force-scooping a winner crosscourt.
(15) Updated at 5.36pm BST 5.28pm BST Third set: *Djokovic 4-6, 6-3, 3-3 Nadal (*denotes server) At 15-all, a ridiculous point, Nadal the aggressor, winging forehands to Djokovic's backhand corner, before the opportunity to play a drop presents itself.
(16) This is the first time Murray's put any real pressure on Federer's ser... oh, wait, 30-all, a pummelling forehand down the line from Federer.
(17) A study of the host and tissue specificity of the various Rickettsiella actually known must be defined forehand the impact of the metabolism of host cells on the appearance and structure of these bodies.
(18) So that's 1-1 on Twitter allez es (that's the plural of allez , obviously): Brando Florente (@BrandoJablan) @guardian_sport @Simon_Burnton come on Nole June 8, 2014 joseph langton (@jnlangton) @guardian_sport @Simon_Burnton come on raffa June 8, 2014 2.24pm BST First set: Djokovic* 2-1 Nadal Djokovic nets a straightforward backhand to go 0-15 down, but an ace, a powerful crosscourt forehand from halfway down the court and then a fearsome, thunderous rally that ends with Nadal slapping a forehand into the net puts him firmly in control of the game.
(19) Rafa holds too after his opponent plops a forehand short and Nadal gobbles the chance.
(20) The error from Dimitrov never arrives; instead Murray nets a forehand to make it 15-40.
Racket
Definition:
(n.) A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.
(n.) A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.
(n.) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
(n.) A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
(v. t.) To strike with, or as with, a racket.
(n.) Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
(n.) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
(v. i.) To make a confused noise or racket.
(v. i.) To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
(v. i.) To carouse or engage in dissipation.
Example Sentences:
(1) I would hope that a Labour party led by Ralph Miliband's son would recognise that, and be committed to ending the capitalist racket once and for all.
(2) In language eerily familiar to student politicians across the land, Abetz continued: “The new managing director will inherit an unbalanced and largely centralised public broadcaster which has become a protection racket for the left ideology.” For decades the highly trusted public broadcaster has weathered a relentless stream of attacks by the crusaders of the (increasingly) hard right in Australia.
(3) "I was skint," claims Reni, adding, "when I went to audition for this lot I thought that they were a horrible racket, but I was struck by their commitment.
(4) There is the tennis racket kitted out with motion sensors to help you improve your game .
(5) The influences of body weight, skill level, and tennis racket construction onto the magnitude of vibrations at wrist and elbow were investigated.
(6) for the word "brave" at the end of the national anthem, still booed the Panthers' players as they entered the field and still made a racket as the opposition lined up for key third downs.
(7) Libertarianism in the hands of these people is a racket.
(8) "I've always liked being on the court, I never like just putting the rackets away for two and a half, three weeks.
(9) Mexican drug cartels have been waging an increasingly bloody war to control smuggling routes, the local drug market and extortion rackets, including shakedowns of migrants seeking to reach the United States.
(10) He's still a genius, he's still got it, and that bigger racket seems to be suiting him perfectly.
(11) Jamie changed rackets after netting a smash on the final point of the fourth game but there seemed something more fundamentally wrong with his tennis than his equipment.
(12) If the 40-year-old and his three co-accused are sent to the US they will face charges of racketeering, money laundering and copyright theft, carrying potential jail terms of 20 years.
(13) Their influence was such that they dealt directly with government ministers, he said, and steered clear of low-level criminal activities such as racketeering.
(14) Murray earned $1.9m (£1.1m) for his maiden major victory to go with career earnings of $21.5m (£13.4m) and is worth £24m through endorsements and prize-money; Perry turned pro after beating Budge and made much more through his famous shirts than he ever did with a tennis racket.
(15) Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit, filed in California, accuses the group of violating the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization Act.
(16) Ben Stephenson, the BBC's head of drama, said much the same at the Edinburgh festival but did not add that television is a racket, too.
(17) The officer told Amnesty some police have established a racket with funeral homes, who pay them for each dead body sent their way.
(18) The assistants – old garage heads who clearly loathed this racket the kids were making – dismissively lobbed a pile of white labels on to the counter.
(19) German publishers have attempted to sue Eyeo , the makers of the most popular ad-blocking software, Ad Block Plus, which charges publishers for putting them on a “whitelist” of sites whose ads it allows to pass through its systems (an approach Jarvis labels “racketeering”).
(20) Much of the mutual "business" of the SNB is based on simple rackets, construction on some of the biggest plots and state tenders, all controlled by a group of top people in the SNB.