(n.) A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.
(n.) The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.
(n.) Same as Gaffle, 1.
(v. t.) To strike with a gaff or barbed spear; to secure by means of a gaff; as, to gaff a salmon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dedicate it to the off-the-cuff remark – the gaffe, even – which averts a war.
(2) Every time he opened his mouth he created another gaffe," he said.
(3) This is, admittedly, a difficult area for David Cameron, who, when questioned by David Letterman on US TV in 2012, was unable to say that Magna Carta simply meant great charter, but perhaps we should overlook this fairly amazing gaffe (for an Oxford-educated prime minister) and encourage him to inaugurate a national movement of political renewal with the charter as the context and inspiration.
(4) Mitt Romney's historic gaffe caught on video – published, with great timing, by the left-leaning Mother Jones magazine – in which he said that his campaign was writing off 47% of American voters since they "depended on government" handouts, was committed in an equally significant manner, as he delivered the remarks to a closed group of potential major donors in Florida.
(5) There is strikingly little support for the Republican contender whose gaffe-prone visit to Europe in July won him few friends and who regularly turns European welfarism and "entitlement societies" into points of mockery in his campaign speeches.
(6) Following controversy over the candidate's comments on the preparedness of London to host the Olympic Games, his aides will be anxious to avoid further gaffes.
(7) Democrats are planning to highlight what they see as the Republican party’s unpalatable views on immigration over the weekend, sending “trackers” to monitor the event in search of further gaffes from potential candidates.
(8) The comedy, in which she stars as gaffe-prone vice-president Selina Meyer, has been seen as a personal triumph for Louis-Dreyfus, as well as a stateside vindication for the comic method of its creator, Armando Iannucci .
(9) Roe worried about “all these gaffes” that Biden made as well as whether the 72-year-old had the necessary energy to serve in the Oval Office.
(10) Photograph: Barcroft Media Newsnight's new editor, former Guardian deputy editor Ian Katz, also has form with the comic sidestep after his Twitter "snoring, boring" gaffe about Rachel Reeves.
(11) Campaigning before the June election Demirtaş had been full of mischief, needling Erdoğan, making fun of the AKP’s gaffes.
(12) Gaffes are a feature of politicians and the electoral process, not a bug.
(13) In one high-profile gaffe, the expertise of one member of Macierewicz’s commission was revealed to have been based upon experience of constructing model aircraft, sitting in a fighter jet’s cockpit during an air show, and observing plane wings while looking out of a passenger window.
(14) Johnson is the master-builder of that image, deflecting every lie, every gaffe, dishonesty and U-turn with some self-deprecating metaphor: calling his feigned indecision “veering all over the place like a shopping trolley” was worth a world of worthy platitudes.
(15) You know, you had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.” Sean Spicer apologizes for 'even Hitler didn't use chemical weapons' gaffe Read more Spicer’s assertion during the Jewish holiday of Passover provoked instant outrage on social media and from some Holocaust memorial groups, who accused him of minimising Hitler’s crimes.
(16) This week the rapper said his gaffe at the MTV Video Music awards in 2009 was "bigger ... than the Bush moment".
(17) Clinton, while trotting out her plan on college affordability , has been robust in her attacks on Republican candidates of late – speaking out against gaffes on women’s reproductive rights from Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.
(18) The editor's hope is that there will be "a story", perhaps a new policy initiative but, better still, a "gaffe".
(19) If it isn’t frontbench gaffes, it’s the perceived lack of commitment to the armed forces or armed police officers distracting from government blunders.
(20) Following a gaffe-strewn visit to Britain , where he queried the Olympic host's fitness to stage the Games, and after stirring controversy in Israel by calling Jerusalem the Israeli capital and seeming to back unilateral Israeli strikes against Iran , the Republican White House contender arrived on Monday in Poland, where he is to deliver a setpiece speech on democracy and freedom.
Raff
Definition:
(v. t.) To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep.
(n.) A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse.
(n.) The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff.
(n.) A low fellow; a churl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whole-cells and single-channel patch-clamp techniques were used to study these cell types in postnatal rat optic nerve cultures prepared according to the procedures of Raff et al.
(2) Mixed astrocyte-oligodendroglial clones were observed when cells cultivated in the presence of 1% FCS were switched to a 10% FCS-containing medium, confirming the bipotentiality of glial progenitor cells (Temple and Raff Nature 313:223, 1985).
(3) This study compared 30 patients with major head and neck cancer-related defects who underwent reconstruction with a rectus abdominis free flap (RAFF) with 39 patients with similar defects who underwent reconstruction with the PMMF.
(4) After facing significant backlash against the post on Twitter, Keller appended an apology for his use of the term “riff-raff”, writing that the word choice was “insensitive and counterproductive”.
(5) The US Bureau of Reclamation , for example, manages 337 reservoirs, and a science advisor to the agency, Dave Raff, says the bureau is taking on the emissions accounting task.
(6) S phase can be inhibited in wild-type Drosophila embryos by injecting aphidicolin, in which case not only do centrosomes replicate, but chromosomes continue to condense and decondense, the nuclear envelope undergoes cycles of breakdown and reformation, and cycles of budding activity continue at the cortex of the embryo (Raff and Glover, 1988).
(7) These results are consistent with studies using ferritin-labeled antibodies (S. De Petris and M. Raff.
(8) Watanabe and Raff (Nature 332:834-837, '88) have recently reported an independent study supporting the same conclusions.
(9) Shivaun Raff, co-founder of the UK vertical search company Foundem – one of the original complainants to the EC in spring 2010, after alleging that the US company was artificially demoting it in search results – said: "The only foolproof way to tackle abusive practices is to end them.
(10) For more extensive reviews on this topic, the reader is referred to recent reviews by Raff (1989), Richardson et al.
(11) At the same time, we saw how the pro-government press tried to turn our legitimate, peaceful protests into acts of terrorism.” Just as Erdoğan branded the protesters two years ago “riff-raff”, “terrorists” and “foreign agents”, in the election campaign he stoked division and malice by repeatedly smearing his HDP opponents as “terrorists, marginals, gays and atheists”.
(12) Victoria Raffe, director of authorisations at the FCA, said: “These firms are advising consumers who have often reached rock bottom, so it’s important that firms get it right.
(13) The aesthetic outcome was also better in patients who had reconstructions with the RAFF.
(14) Ralf Marschner, an avowed neo-Nazi and a former singer in a skinhead band called West-Saxon Riff-Raff, was a paid informant for the BfV between 2000 and 2002.
(15) We conclude that, for most major head and neck defects, reconstruction methods that utilize the RAFF and other free tissue transfer techniques are preferable when the requisite equipment and expertise are available.
(16) Riff Raff If you’re a fan of Jenga but feel the need for a stiffer challenge, Riff Raff might be for you.
(17) Shivaun Raff of Foundem, the British search company, was one of the first to complain to the commission about what she says was Google's manipulation of search results to reduce her site's visibility.
(18) Raff insisted that Google is leveraging its power in search to boost the position of its other properties, such as maps and video, which would constitute a potentially illegal abuse of dominance in one field to gain share in another.
(19) Foundem's Shivaun Raff explains: "We sent reconsideration requests then started sending emails to as many people as we could find, expecting each time that this was just a failure of process, expecting that once our case was in front of people with the power to do something it would get fixed."
(20) "We're very pleased the commission has taken this important step, but we're not surprised," said Shivaun Raff, chief executive of Bracknell-based Foundem.