(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.
Spongy
Definition:
(a.) Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.
(a.) Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
(a.) Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(2) No AbMV DNA was found in cells from palisade and spongy parenchyma, the tissues which show the predominant cytopathological effects.
(3) The anterior superior iliac crest, the usual donor site for cortico-spongy bone grafts is unsuitable for the removal of large quantities of spongy bone.
(4) These stones contained little cholesterol and exhibited a spongy microstructure characterized by small tubules with a diameter of 1 micrometer.
(5) The article deals with study of some patterns of long spongy rib bone destruction in static and dynamic load of thorax.
(6) The spongy zone then dwindled in size just before parturition.
(7) Tissues in which concentrations were measured included cortical bone, spongy bone, muscle, fascia, cutis and subcutis.
(8) The specimens included the surrounding cortical bone and its internal spongy substance.
(9) The experimental findings can be satisfactorily treated in a quantitative way with the help of a model which contains the three components of spongy bone (mineral, fat and fat-free connective tissue.
(10) In both mutant types, the presence of many vacuoles gives the central nervous system a spongy appearance.
(11) An astrocytic hypertrophy was usually associated with the spongy change.
(12) The low density was due to a microcystic structure, which caused a spongy appearance and consistency.
(13) This tablets had a spongy aspect, with a desaggregation time of 1-2 min.
(14) The MA were restricted to spongy areas in Canavan's disease and Alpers' syndrome, whereas they were distributed throughout the brain in Leigh's disease.
(15) There was severe cerebral involvement with multifocal cystic necrosis, dystrophic calcification, spongy change, and vacuolization that had produced profound neurologic deficits.
(16) A certain regularity between enlargement of the teeth size, increasing angle of the lower jaw and decreasing size of the longitudinal and expressive dimensions of the jaws (in accordance with decreasing size of the spongy substance and its cells) has been revealed.
(17) An intraarticular surgical approach allows complete resection, but one case required spongy bone grafts.
(18) The major histological findings consisted of severe ependymal destruction, spongy changes in the periventricular white matter, increased density of capillaries in this area, and varying degrees of thickening, fibrosis, and fusion of the choroid villi.
(19) Eventually a steady state is reached in which mature chondrocytes resurface the defect while in the deeper areas spongy bone replaces the hypertrophic chondrocytes.
(20) The spongy changes, similar to Van Bogaert-Bertrand disease, resulted from intramyelinic edema.