(v. i.) A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.
(v. i.) A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.
(v. i.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.
(v. i.) The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.
Example Sentences:
(1) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
(2) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
(3) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(4) A focus on preventing children from joining gangs in the first place, as well as on offering gang members the access to education and employment that they have been lacking is more likely to be effective.
(5) He praised the obvious disgust of local people in parts of south and west Manchester, where gang problems have been concentrated.
(6) In Britain you have all the things we have here – gangs, poverty, racism.
(7) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Our political leaders can’t bear to face the truth’: Camila Batmanghelidjh spoke to the Guardian’s Patrick Butler in July “So you can understand that I am taken aback by allegations which now present themselves, about which I knew nothing.” Kids Company, set up by the charismatic Batmanghelidjh in 1996, was known to have the firm support of David Cameron for its work on gang violence and disadvantaged children.
(9) As the gangs fragmented, many increasingly focused on extortion, kidnapping and human trafficking.
(10) This is how powerful a hold it has over them.” Mossino, who works with refugees and asylum seekers as well as victims of trafficking, says that in the past decade the trade in Nigerian women has become a hugely profitable and ruthless criminal industry, controlled largely by Nigerian gangs that took root in Italy in the 1980s.
(11) Experts and activists have said the murder bore all the hallmarks of Egypt’s notorious secret service, but Egyptian officials have consistently put forward alternative theories, including that Regeni was killed by a criminal gang and that his death was an isolated incident.
(12) Senior government sources have confirmed the budget razor gang has the fuel tax credit (formerly known as the diesel fuel rebate) “firmly in its sights” – a scheme that rebates miners and farmers and others for the off-road use of diesel.
(13) Gang members were also involved in a handful of more serious incidents including the shooting incident in Birmingham.
(14) "We hope all relevant parties will do that which benefits peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, hope all sides will respond calmly and avoid exacerbating the situation," ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in the statement.
(15) "These are delicate times and we take a positive role," Yi Gang, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, told the Guardian today.
(16) The Brinks Mat gang, some with guns, surprised six security staff as they started the Saturday shift between 6.30am and 8.15am at the warehouse, on the Heathrow industrial estate at Hounslow.
(17) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
(18) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
(19) The last big one was only in August this year, when seven young people were beaten up by a gang of 40 Nazis."
(20) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.
Spirit
Definition:
(n.) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
(n.) A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.
(n.) Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter.
(n.) The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material.
(n.) Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.
(n.) Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.
(n.) Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.
(n.) One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit.
(n.) Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; -- often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits.
(n.) Intent; real meaning; -- opposed to the letter, or to formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like.
(n.) Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.
(n.) Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): -- often in the plural.
(n.) Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
(n.) A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture.
(n.) Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
(n.) Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.
(v. t.) To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; -- sometimes followed by up.
(v. t.) To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sheez, I thought, is that what the revolutionary spirit of 1789 and 1968 has come to?
(2) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
(3) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
(4) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(6) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
(7) United have a fantastic spirit, we don't have the same spirit.
(8) Following exposure to white spirit vapour, the effect of the expired solvent on evidential breath alcohol equipment was investigated under controlled exposure chamber conditions and in a simulated painting exercise.
(9) Meeting the families shows how well-adjusted they are, their spirit and determination and the way they have acted is an absolute credit to themselves."
(10) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(11) The main cause of oesophageal cancer in western countries is consumption of alcoholic beverages, the degree of risk being much greater for certain spirits than for wine or beer.
(12) Per adult (greater than or equal to 15 years) consumption of beer, wine, spirits and absolute alcohol for a 14-year period (1971--1984) was related to female breast cancer morbidity rates in Western Australia.
(13) At the front of the march was Lee Cheuk-yan, a former lawmaker of 20 years, carrying a banner calling for Liu’s spirit to inspire people.
(14) The country goes to the polls on Thursday in what observers see as its most spirited presidential race.
(15) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
(16) This suggests that a surgical scrub should be used more widely in clinical practice, and that a spirit-based hand lotion might with advantage become a partial substitute for handwashing, particularly in areas where handwashing is frequent and iatrogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection common.
(17) Horrocks plans to summon the spirit of Margaret Thatcher to make his case: “The [1970] Conservative government came in with a manifesto commitment to kill the Open University, to kill Harold Wilson’s brainchild at birth.
(18) And yet, the spirit of '68 endures, perhaps mythical, perhaps as a lingering sense of the possibilities that mass activism once had.
(19) In our time of rapidly changing life styles it is useful to understand that voices also mirror the spirit of an era.
(20) An increasing incidence of methylated spirit burns in barbecue users is documented in a three year retrospective survey.