(n. sing.) A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything.
(n. sing.) A wretch who deserves the gallows.
(n. sing.) The rest for the tympan when raised.
(n. sing.) A pair of suspenders or braces.
Example Sentences:
(1) First was the fact that from the age of 27 to his current age of 61, Valle had sat on death row: a total of 33 years under the shadow of the gallows.
(2) It not only prevents you from stealing things out of frustration, but might even save you from the gallows one day.
(3) Jordison, who was moved to "return to the scene of the crime" with a recent trip to Morecambe, says that while the gallows humour that characterised the first book and its follow-up is unlikely to disappear, the latest volume will probably be rather darker.
(4) The previous week, campaigners carried a mock gallows with a noose labelled for Merkel.
(5) "My friend Billy's at the match and he's said the atmosphere in Belo is the best of all of the cities he's been to and he's loved the build up and the gallows humour.
(6) No amount of choreographed fireworks or musical pageantry can mask that this is little more than a public hanging, and there is no honour in summoning the world to our gallows.
(7) Along the path runs a silhouetted Pip, the last vestiges of sunlight again twinkling off the water as he passes two unoccupied gallows, a sorry bunch of dry flowers in one hand, clouds smeared across the sky like oil paint.
(8) Ministers fearing the worst will be indulging in gallows humour with their private offices; those in a more optimistic frame of mind might be turning their thoughts to a bright tie to be photographed in when they complete their hoped-for happy waltz out of No 10. Who is safe?
(9) After the PKK leader’s capture in 1999, Öcalan was sentenced to life imprisonment on the island of Imrali, in the Sea of Marmara, saved from the gallows only by pressure from the European Union.
(10) In the footage, only distant people, moving vehicles and what appears to be a gallows covered in black cloth are visible.
(11) I sometimes think these people would bring back the rack, the whip and the gallows if "vital for national security".
(12) The video appeared to show the same screened gallows structure seen in still photographs taken during its construction.
(13) The first Mexican wave began after 15 minutes, which is always a sign that there is not much happening on the pitch, and England’s supporters could be heard going through the now-familiar repertoire of gallows-humour chants.
(14) In fact they're not – they are journalists, pollsters, aides and MPs, waiting their turn at makeshift steps which could be leading up to a gallows.
(15) Priebus, who has been noted for his gallows humor, is not known as a “go-with-the-flow” type.
(16) It would be funnier if they showed him decked out in full 70s glam gear throughout, being led to the gallows in a big spangly costume with shoulder pads so huge they get stuck in the hole as he plunges through.
(17) That’s where I’ll be.” It is hard not to salute the head coach’s gallows humour, and his determination to ensure England take their leave with at least a modicum of grace and self-respect.
(18) He sent Björk to the gallows in Dancer in the Dark , arranged a gang-rape for Nicole Kidman's heroine in Dogville , and had Gainsbourg's character take a pair of scissors to her genitals in 2009's Antichrist .
(19) With luck I will be able to stop singing forever, which would make many people happy!” Besides this gallows humour, Morrissey reiterated that he had been dismissed by his label , complaining that Harvest Records boss Steve Barnett “does not like artists to give their opinion”.
(20) Even in such a depressing situation, there is time for a bit of gallows humour.
Rest
Definition:
(v. t.) To arrest.
(n.) A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.
(n.) Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
(n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
(n.) That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
(n.) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
(n.) A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
(n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
(n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
(n.) A set or game at tennis.
(n.) Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.
(n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
(n.) To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
(n.) To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
(n.) To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
(n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
(n.) To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
(n.) To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
(v. t.) To lay or place at rest; to quiet.
(v. t.) To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.
(n.) That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.
(n.) Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
(n.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
(v. i.) To be left; to remain; to continue to be.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(3) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
(4) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(5) Immediate postexercise two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated exercise-induced changes in 8 (47%) patients (2 with normal and 6 with abnormal results from rest studies).
(6) Only in 17 of the 97 examinees all the examined parameters were found normal, in the rest deviations from the normal echographic picture were revealed.
(7) Subjects then rested supine until 10.00 h when blood was again taken, and blood pressure recorded.
(8) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(9) Under resting conditions, the variance of cerebral metabolism seems to be primarily related to regions which are closely involved with the limbic system.
(10) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(11) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
(12) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(13) The spikes likely correspond to VP3, a hemagglutinin, while the rest of the mass density in the outer shell represents 780 molecules of VP7, a neutralization antigen.
(14) Furthermore, experiments with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter revealed increased forward light scatter from resting exudate PMN compared to blood PMN.
(15) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
(16) Among the 295 nonpathogenic strains, 115 were sensitive to all antibiotics whereas the rest were resistant to 1-5 kinds of antibiotics.
(17) The children's pulse, pulse rate variability, and blood pressure were then measured at rest and during a challenging situation.
(18) The functional capacity to present antigens to T cells was lacking in normal resting B cells, but was acquired following LK treatment.
(19) Assessments were made daily by patients, using visual analogue scales, of their pain levels at rest, at night and on activity, and of the limitation of their activity.
(20) An "overshoot" elevation of ejection fraction above resting levels was demonstrated following termination of exercise in most patients.