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Garth


Definition:

  • (n.) A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.
  • (n.) A dam or weir for catching fish.
  • (n.) A hoop or band.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He’s also one of the first players to emerge out of the league to become one of its coaches, and his and general manager Garth Lagerwey’s canny use of the draft may well reflect his own experience as a player.
  • (2) Garth Gibbs, the Daily Mirror journalist who died a couple of years ago, used to claim cheerfully that he had not found the missing Lord Lucan in more places – from Cape Town to the Bahamas to Macau – than anyone else.
  • (3) Garth Caswell, HLA chair, says: "We believe that hospice lotteries are under threat from people mistakenly thinking they can achieve the same charitable goals of giving to local health-related charities and at the same time stand a chance of winning larger prizes by playing the health lottery.
  • (4) But the reality of a Trump rally, or at least this Trump rally, was about as threatening as a Garth Brooks concert.
  • (5) 01792 851616, bayviewgower.co.uk Y Garth, Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire A bolthole in the village of Dinas Cross, halfway between Fishguard and Newport, with statement walls featuring gold flocked and big bloom wallpaper, chandeliers and rich fabrics.
  • (6) Garth Greenwell 'Putting lipstick on a pig': experts on why Obama is lending Donald Trump a hand Read more Obama has been criticised for being too much style, too little substance.
  • (7) After Seattle’s early exit in the playoffs, nobody is batting an eyelid at suggestions he might soon be on his way to reunite with his former sporting director Garth Lagerwey in replacing Sigi Schmid.
  • (8) This from Brian Lunt Garth Crooks on BBC3 whilst Phelps on the red button!!
  • (9) Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Frédéric Kanouté Footballer , John Austin Former MP , Rodney Bickerstaffe, Bob Crow, Victoria Brittain, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Caryl Churchill Playwright , Rev Garth Hewitt, Dr Ghada Karmi, Bruce Kent, Roger Lloyd Pack Actor , Ken Loach Film-maker , Michael Mansfield QC, Kika Markham Actor , Luisa Morgantini Former vice-president, European parliament, Prof Hilary Rose, Prof Steven Rose, Alexei Sayle Author and comedian , Jenny Tonge House of Lords , Dr Antoine Zahlan, Geoffrey Lee Red Card Israeli Racism , Tomas Perez Football Beyond Borders , John McHugo Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine • This article was amended on 28 May 2013.
  • (10) The Tsar of Love and Techno is published 6 October by Knopf Facebook Twitter Pinterest Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire Photograph: Publicity City on Fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg The mere sale of this novel – for a reported $2m, following hard upon news that it had been optioned by the movie producer Scott Rudin – caused a kind of sensation in bookish circles.
  • (11) The crowd, which ranged from young British Muslims to leftwing activists to students and pensioners, listened to speakers including human rights advocate Bianca Jagger, singer Annie Lennox and the Rev Garth Hewitt, canon at St George's Cathedral in Jerusalem.
  • (12) Narrated by a dog, Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain was criticised for a sex scene, and Alexie’s award-winning novel for its strong language.
  • (13) Garth Crooks, the BBC TV presenter who played for Stoke City and Tottenham Hotspur through the hostile racism that enveloped football in the 1980s, called on the FA to charge Terry .
  • (14) A child star who grew up on the set of idiosyncratic British films including Garth Jennings’ Son of Rambow and Dexter Fletcher’s Wild Bill , Poulter is now 21.
  • (15) Cyrille Regis and Garth Crooks gave an hour-long address to the under-21 players at Burton as part of the awareness programme, reliving what it was like to be among the first black footballers in England.
  • (16) Garth Powis reviews the evidence that this approach may eventually lead to new, more selective drugs for treating cancer.
  • (17) Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was not extensively watched, but had some devoted fans, including Miramax's Harvey Weinstein who wanted to make a movie of it (he would later distribute Submarine in the US).
  • (18) I ask Ayoade if he's proud of Garth Marenghi, and he practically snorts.
  • (19) Garth Crooks, the former Tottenham Hotspur footballer who is an anti-racism campaigner, said: "If the FA don't act on the undisputed facts, and find Terry guilty of bringing the game into disrepute, a lot of good people are saying to me that there's no point in getting involved in the game at a senior level.
  • (20) Flights from London to San Antonio, booked on kayak.co.uk , start at around £460 return More Miles Than Money: Journeys Through American Music , by Garth Cartwright, is published by Serpent's Tail (serpentstail.com, £12.99)

Weir


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Wear

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Weir soon has to hack away a cross from Bodmer which would otherwise have found Govou in the box.
  • (2) The truth is, though, that Weir does not seem to favour one race over any other.
  • (3) Conflicting guidelines for excisions about the alar base led us to develop calibrated alar base excision, a modification of Weir's approach.
  • (4) With a 10th of Weir's workforce based in the rest of Britain, the EU's pension rules would mean the firm would need to pay off the company pension scheme's £60m deficit far more quickly or break the UK scheme up; both would mean extra costs.
  • (5) But then Weir has won the London Marathon six times and beat Hug by a single second in the 2012 race.
  • (6) Others may argue, as former US Olympic skater Johnny Weir has, that what they define as “politics” shouldn’t enter into the equation of whether a country is fit to host the Games.
  • (7) As Fiona Weir, chief executive of single parents charity Gingerbread, said today: "We fear that many parents will be pressured by their ex and by the new charges to stay out of the new system, and instead will enter into a private arrangement that offers no guarantee of regular, reliable income for their children."
  • (8) Weir, who had been regarded as a candidate to replace former boss Eric Daniels, and Kane are potentially entitled to around £1.7m and £1.6m each.
  • (9) Other important Stevenson titles: Treasure Island (1883); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); A Child's Garden of Verses (1886); The Weir of Hermiston (1896, posthumous).
  • (10) A similar spirit was invested in several stand-out movie roles: as an unconventional but inspirational English teacher in Peter Weir's Dead Poet's Society (1989); a homeless hobo and sort of holy fool in The Fisher King (1991), directed by Terry Gilliam; and a good-humoured therapist, for which he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting (1997).
  • (11) Today the Environment Agency estimates that 70% of London's 600km river network is concreted, covered over, interrupted by weirs or otherwise modified.
  • (12) Fiona Weir, chief executive, said: "A family having a second child could be over £1,200 worse off this year.
  • (13) The covariance of inbred relatives from a population in linkage and identity equilibrium in the presence of dominance and epistasis is formulated using a similar procedure to that which B. S. Weir and C. C. Cockerham used to derive a general expression for the genotypic variance.
  • (14) Analysts at UBS said Weir was "one of the most attractively positioned mining equipment businesses" with a strong after sales market and improving outlook for orders in 2014.
  • (15) You know,' says Weir, 'it all gets very annoying, being misunderstood.'
  • (16) The weir consists of longitudinal external (small) and internal (large) ribs containing cross-striated microfilaments and connected by a membrane.
  • (17) Philip Landau is an employment lawyer at Landau Zeffertt Weir
  • (18) Amy Weir, the chair of the board, said she believed there should be a debate on the pros and cons of mandatory reporting under which those responsible for the care of children should be obliged to pass on concerns about abuse to the police or other authorities.
  • (19) Although finding himself in general agreement with Weir, Murray disagrees with the latter's acceptance of very limited active euthanasia, and believes that more attention could have been paid to the social contexts of moral beliefs and to the political aspects of the debate over newborn care.
  • (20) The weir consists of interdigitating ribs all of which form one circle, i.e.

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