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Gard


Definition:

  • (n.) Garden.
  • (v. & n.) See Guard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The in-vitro activity of metronidazole and its hydroxy metabolite was determined for 11 strains of Gard.
  • (2) Garde has wasted no time in making his mark on the team and it came as no surprise that the Frenchman restored all four signings from Ligue 1 – Jordan Ayew, Jordan Amavi, Jordan Veretout and Idrissa Gueye – to the starting XI.
  • (3) Despite our difference in generation, gender and literary purpose, it was clear to me that he and I were both working with some of the same aesthetic influences: film, surrealist art and poetry; Freud's avant-garde theories of the unconscious.
  • (4) Every good player is interesting for me and Ashley is a good player,” said Garde, the Villa manager.
  • (5) Aston Villa frustrate Manchester City as Rémi Garde makes instant impact Read more France’s medical team are optimistic the injury is not as bad as first feared after he went down making a challenge in the second half.
  • (6) Go on, play!” – Lyon coach Rémi Garde is caught on a touchline microphone complaining to referee Stéphane Lannoy about PSG’s Thiago Motta during the Coupe de la Ligue final.
  • (7) A block further sits the Museum of Chocolate, joining the avant-garde of luxury chocolatiers that seem the hallmark of every bustling metropolis these days.
  • (8) Wycombe fight back against Aston Villa with Joe Jacobson spot-on Read more With the threat of a protest in the replay at Villa Park, Garde is hoping to be given the financial backing to make new signings.
  • (9) Yes, they acknowledge that we may have a "multi-speed" Europe – with an avant garde of France, Germany, Belgium and others going faster, Spain, Sweden and Poland somewhat slower, and Britain bringing up the rear.
  • (10) Rémi Garde’s side are 10 points adrift of safety and have failed to sign a single player during the window.
  • (11) As recently as 15 years ago, it was one of the few venues in London championing avant-garde art; now it is one among many.
  • (12) They are winless in 17 games since the opening day of the season and after Boxing Day’s 1-1 draw with West Ham , Garde knows their next two games are crucial.
  • (13) This shower system is complemented by the foldable Bodi-Gard mobile seat shower system (Hospital Therapy Products, Inc.).
  • (14) The effects of sugars and similar additives on the catalytic activity of lysozyme have been attributed (Laretta-Garde et al., Biochim.
  • (15) There were conflicts, hesitations and contradictions within the avant garde as well, and their supporter in the government was Anatoly Lunacharsky at the People’s Commissariat for Education, where Lenin’s wife, Nadya Krupskaya, worked as well.
  • (16) First of all, it’s important, in the situation Chelsea are in, that we have the most powerful squad possible,” said the Dutchman, who appeared less than impressed with Garde’s eagerness to make known his interest.
  • (17) There will be no further comment from the club at this stage.” A few hours before Garde’s departure, Villa announced that the former Football Association executive Adrian Bevington had taken on a role at the club, working with new Villa director and former FA chairman David Bernstein and the board in conducting the review into another season of under-achievement.
  • (18) The track is not exactly Metallica: others might peg it closer to avant-garde rock.
  • (19) By 1990, when he enrolled at Central St Martins, McQueen had learned tailoring in Savile Row, complex historical pattern cutting at Bermans & Nathans, avant garde construction at the hip designer Koji Tatsuno, and received a grounding in the workings of the fashion industry under Gigli in Milan.
  • (20) If the U8’s avant-garde modernism seems a good fit for the graphic designers and fashionistas that now frequent the line on their way to trendy Neukölln, other station signs still hark back to the capital’s authoritarian past.

Gird


Definition:

  • (n.) A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
  • (n.) A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.
  • (v.) To strike; to smite.
  • (v.) To sneer at; to mock; to gibe.
  • (v. i.) To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.
  • (v. t.) To encircle or bind with any flexible band.
  • (v. t.) To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.
  • (v. t.) To surround; to encircle, or encompass.
  • (v. t.) To clothe; to swathe; to invest.
  • (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Girding for the "mother of all battles" unions have also announced a series of strikes including a nationwide walk-out this Wednesday.
  • (2) We present preliminary experience with epidural pegs and foramen ovale electrodes used in 30 cases of intractable partial epilepsy where non-invasive EEG did not define a zone of epileptogenesis with sufficient precision to recommend resection, or to dictate precise placement of depth electrodes or subdural girds.
  • (3) Hold on to your hats and gird your loins, ladies and gentlemen, because there is life-changing news afoot: older dads have uglier children.
  • (4) Wayne Rooney breaks England record in Euro qualifying win over Switzerland Read more Until then, as Wales and Northern Ireland fans gird themselves for further tension to come and the final exhilarating release that must follow, and Iceland erupts in raptures, England’s had greeted qualified success with more of a shrug.
  • (5) Our correspondent in Athens, Helena Smith , reports: Just as Antonis Samaras is preparing to talk up the Greek economy – in a speech that is expected to emphasise that the debt-stricken nation’s dependence on foreign lenders could “soon” be over – unions are girding for battle.
  • (6) His father's sword he has girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him.
  • (7) Heidi Allen, the South Cambridgeshire MP who confronted Theresa May about the issue at Wednesday’s prime minister’s questions, told the Guardian: “MPs, lobby groups – we’re all girding ourselves for a campaign on this, and I won’t rest until I have tried my damnedest to get this at least softened.” She pointed out that the cuts will bite gradually, as UC is undergoing a staged rollout to households across the country.
  • (8) So why gird ourselves for a fight with Iran , a proud country of 75 million people with whom we cannot go to war without taking leave of our senses?
  • (9) As the train pulled into Moor Street, I was girding my loins for the job that had to be done.
  • (10) His involvement, along with the other four lawyers Apple hired for the case, offers a clear indication that the company is not just angling to protect its anti-surveillance “marketing brand”, as the government suggests , but rather is girding for a prolonged legal battle that could affect digital rights for years to come.
  • (11) They are the generation who protested in the 1960s and have girded themselves again to campaign for Palestinian rights.
  • (12) The gesture of changing first into his training gear and then into a match strip may have triggered an avalanche of mockery, but it spoke of the spirit of the club's old guard, who girded themselves for the battle that would finally bring Roman Abramovich the trophy of his dreams.
  • (13) Rulers from Italy and Spain to France and the Netherlands are abandoning austerity and girding themselves to counter-cyclical spending.
  • (14) In Britain we applaud the "civilising mission" of our imperial past, but are less happy to acknowledge the violence and brutality that so often girded our imperial endeavour.
  • (15) Hillary Clinton , if you believe the hype, is only weeks away from girding up for her second run for president in 2016, this time going all the way to the White House.
  • (16) Newcastle must now gird themselves for “12 cup finals” if they are to escapethe drop.
  • (17) But as the review group’s recommendations help reshape the debate over bulk surveillance, all sides are girding for a fight over the extent to which any entity ought to hold Americans’ data – a fight likely to determine whether bulk domestic surveillance ends, or continues in a new form.
  • (18) He was in the middle of a course of drugs to gird his strength, at the end of which doctors would be able to do more exploratory work.
  • (19) Rosenberg uses the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian hordes again, in a poem of that title, to illustrate the carnage around him: Sweet laughter charred in the flame That clutched the cloud and earth, While Solomon's towers crashed between The gird of Babylon's mirth.
  • (20) However, steel yourself and gird your loins for Keys To The VIP: A Professional League For Players ( online, originally broadcast on The Comedy Network ).

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