(n.) Peace; -- a word used in composition, especially in proper names; as, Alfred; Frederic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
(2) Fred had to be substituted to shield him from the crowd’s disdain.
(3) This has "nothing to do with any of our businesses," Koch spokespeople were quoted as telling the congressman's staff members in a May 20 letter that Waxman sent to Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the Energy and Commerce Committee chair, and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), who chairs the Energy and Power Subcommittee.
(4) I inherited Ted-Fred from my mother, a one-eyed and wholly uncuddly pre-war sack of mange (the bear, not my mum), and I had briefly loved Albert, a brown knitted dog, although I have very little memory of him.
(5) Fred Goodwin was the dominant decision maker at RBS at the time.
(6) The party was founded to fight for a better deal for thousands of local co-operatives during the first world war, and in the years afterwards elected a handful of MPs (including Sam Perry, the father of Fred Perry the tennis champion).
(7) Prince himself is being royally impersonated by Fred Armisen, another regular on the late-night show.
(8) Spending time with Fred Miller, 93, and his fiancee Joan Emms, 84, veers close to chaperoning lovestruck teens.
(9) Shafia, Fred (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), and T. L. Thompson.
(10) What Scolari was referring to was the outcry in the Brazilian media over how Fred, the striker, had essentially conned the Japanese referee , Yuichi Nishimura, into awarding Brazil the penalty that had helped them to victory over Croatia in the opening Group A tie .
(11) Updated at 8.23pm BST 8.04pm BST Brazil v Germany - line-ups ... Brazil: 12-Julio Cesar; 6-Marcelo, 23-Maicon, 13-Dante, 4-David Luiz; 17-Luiz Gustavo, 5-Fernandinho, 20-Bernard, 11-Oscar, 7-Hulk; 9-Fred Germany: 1-Manuel Neuer; 16-Philipp Lahm; 20-Jerome Boateng; 5-Mats Hummels; 4-Benedikt Hoewedes; 7-Bastian Schweinsteiger; 6-Sami Khedira; 18-Toni Kroos; 8-Mesut Ozil; 13-Thomas Mueller, 11-Miroslav Klose Referee: Marco Rodriguez (Mexico) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Meet Marco Rodriguez, tonight's referee.
(12) Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch, who is in Tripoli, said anti-tank missiles were among weapons looted by Libyans before anti-Gaddafi militias overran western towns.
(13) On Thursday the Liberal Democrat MP Lord Stoneham of Droxford asked a question in the Lords revealing details of an injunction obtained by the former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin preventing coverage of details of his private life – which later led to the order being part-lifted .
(14) It's not really in the spirit of the question but Zinedine Zidane in 2006, Jürgen Klinsmann in 1998 and Michael Laudrup in the same year were to retire after the tournament and had technically left their respective clubs, Fred Sullivan, Stephen Savva and Benjamin Bilde Boelsmand point out.
(15) Hemming, who used parliamentary privilege to avoid the legal ban on reporting the use of superinjunctions, asked: "Will the government have a debate or a statement on freedom of speech and whether there's one rule for the rich like Fred Goodwin and one rule for the poor?"
(16) He was a paraplegic in Fred Zinnemann's The Men - the first role that defined his affinity with frustration.
(17) Bermondsey asks: Could you explain to the British public why 14 year old children are thrown into prison for 3 years for writing nonsense on Facebook and why someone looses their home and goes to jail for doing a nanny job while receiving £70 week in social security while Fred Goodman lives in his holiday home in Barbados for 3 months a year?
(18) Required to "stay in touch" with Jobcentre Plus and explain what he's been doing since the collapse of RBS, Fred (the Shred) Goodwin might easily face benefit withdrawal.
(19) If we're allowed to cheat a little bit, Arthur and Fred Blackburn both played for Blackburn Rovers, with Arthur scoring on four occasions.
(20) That helped cement the power of the money men in Westminster, with Sir Fred Goodwin's knighthood being just the most egregious example of government believing the mystique the financial sector wove around itself.
Xylophone
Definition:
(n.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle.
(n.) An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of different kinds of wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s the case at the Ice Music Festival in the Norwegian ski resort of Geilo, where even the instruments – harps, xylophones, guitars and trombones – are made of ice, bringing a wholly original atmosphere and sound.
(2) "And he actually said the same about us – that people were talking so much about Arcade Fire before he had heard or seen us that he was like: 'Oh goddamnit … why are these stupid bands doing stuff with xylophone?'
(3) Children as young as three begin with singing and xylophones.
(4) Nine different reactions of unconditioned agonistic behavior of golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus Waterhouse) which could be elicited by an air blow (UCS) were classically conditioned at a sound of a xylophone (tone g), a previously neutral stimulus.
(5) It’s a cosy thought: the word “poverty” is nothing more than lazy nomenclature, unfair shorthand for helpless, naked babies with swollen bellies and xylophonic ribs.
(6) The data, on which the analyses were based, were obtained using a force plate, a xylophone plate, electromyography and electrogoniometry.
(7) 8.24pm BST They're using sinister horror film xylophone to ramp up the sense of dread while Sue makes it clear that this is actually impossible to cook.
(8) Rodin's 'Thinker' with a xylophone of ribs and a gamine haircut.
(9) "Slapstick comedy, double entendres, an amazing cast and even a Corden xylophone solo amounts to staggering value for money and a proper old-fashioned giggle," declares its mighty Bizarre column.