(n.) A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman.
(n.) A dirty woman; a slattern.
(n.) A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.
(a.) Brittle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Frow added that the victory, which saw Channel 5 trump its rival across a week in terms of total share for the first time since it launched in 1997, was not something he would dwell on.
(2) Frow responded to comments made by Jay Hunt , Channel 4's chief creative officer, who implied that Channel 5's victory in a week of ratings was down to manipulated figures.
(3) "I'm not particularly confused as far as I'm concerned we all follow the same data and the same process," said Frow, speaking at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival .
(4) Frow, who returned for a second career stint at Channel 5 when he started as director of programmes in February , voiced concern that the channel is not treated with the respect it deserves by production companies.
(5) Channel 5 controller Ben Frow has defended his ratings win over rival Channel 4 , adding that there needs to be a rethink over the view that his channel is an "also-ran".
(6) This frow is likely to be on-message, reflecting the capital's dressup diversity.
(7) Ms Dinnage's departure followed that of controller of features and entertainment, Ben Frow, who has joined Irish commercial TV network TV3 as head of programming.
(8) New York fashion week: notes from the frow Read more Still, it was Lauren’s own appearance at the end of the show that caused the most delight.
(9) Tiffany could be poised for a comeback Harper Beckham on the frow wearing a Tiffany necklace.
(10) Frow, who was controller of features and entertainment at the broadcaster between 2004 and 2007, added: "Channel 5 is in a very good place, it is not like it is a channel in the gutter.
(11) Ben Frow, our new director of programmes, is very clear in his vision.
(12) With a pair of shoes this totally Fashion, so the frow logic goes, the rest of any outfit can be almost nothing at all.
Prow
Definition:
(n.) The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.
(n.) See Proa.
(superl.) Valiant; brave; gallant; courageous.
(a.) Benefit; profit; good; advantage.
Example Sentences:
(1) And the Olympic torch completed its remarkable journey, the penultimate stage undertaken from Hampton Court to Tower Bridge on the prow of the gilded Gloriana, at the head of a flotilla of rowboats that drew curious glances from the cormorants, herons and great crested grebes in their haunts by Richmond Bridge.
(2) Seven kilometres out into the azure waters of the Adriatic, the Provost – the head of a top-secret organisation called the Cornsortium, which specialised in contriving idiotic plotlines – stood at the prow of his 237m yacht, the Mendacium.
(3) A key stitch advancing the alar bases at the time of columella lengthening allows the philtral area to bow forwards as a prow so that it comes to lie in a normal relationship with the columella in the profile view.
(4) The European manufacturer’s bigger, more efficient plane promised to out-jumbo the jumbo, extending the distinctive bump of the 747’s prow along the fuselage into a full double-decker.
(5) Unexpectedly, the five-membered-ring plane is twisted 67.2 degrees from the aromatic ring plane and, like cephalotaxine, the seven-membered ring is oriented in a boat form with the nitrogen at the prow.
(6) The immediate effect of amputation of the thumb at loci where the original receptive field was entirely removed was to produce large MRFs on adjacent body areas (wrist, forearm, prowing, and finger membranes).
(7) Similarities in primary structure were observed between (i) the deduced sequence of ProV with membrane-associated components of other binding-protein-dependent transport systems, in the nucleotide-binding region of each of the latter proteins, and (ii) that of ProW with integral membrane components of the transport systems above.
(8) The original cornerpieces of the former Regent Palace Hotel have been retained along with the faïence facade made from clay tiles, and one side is shaped like the prow of a ship, offering boutique office space.
(9) The nasal septum can be used with impunity to assist in cosmetic and reconstructive rhinoplasty if an L-shaped bridge with anterior prow is preserved or constructed to maintain normal support to the nose.
(10) As usual, he says the dynamic geometries are generated by the context: the building acts as “a vortex that connects the outside elements,” drawing connections with the future station and pointing its sharp prow in line with the belfry, as “a hinge between the old city and the new”.
(11) The ceremonies were unhurried, with the boats passing by and then pointing their prows to shore and asking, with speeches of gratitude, songs in native languages, and jokes, permission to land.
(12) After examining different radiological aspects we tried to find out their meaning which is explained by three different possible patterns: a physiological pattern in the newborn; a dystrophic pattern due to failure in prowing; and last a strengthening and support for the reduced resistance of the bone.
(13) Every June since 1952 Ivo Kuljis has loaded his 80 lobster pots on to his modest fishing boat and pointed its prow due south to Palagruza, a rocky islet in the the Adriatic halfway between Croatia and Italy.
(14) What looked at first to be a whale on the horizon turned out, on closer inspection, to be the front half of a fishing boat, with Japanese characters still on the prow.
(15) Three open reading frames were identified whose orientation, order, location, and sizes were in close accord with genetic evidence for three cistrons (proV, proW, and proX) in this operon.
(16) "We came to think of it as the figurehead at the prow of our ship," he told me last year .
(17) The data indicate that proU is an operon with three genes, designated in order proV, proW, and proX, encoding respectively the gene products above.
(18) I saw the building as the figurehead at the prow of our ship,” he says.