(n.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.
(n.) See Sea gherkin.
Example Sentences:
(1) A putative non-diffusible inhibitor isolated from dark-grown gherkin hypocotyls inhibited the homogeneously purified mustard lyase.
(2) It will certainly become – is already – a London landmark and will take its place on T-shirts and tourist shows along with Tower Bridge and the Gherkin.
(3) Equally, the award made to Norman Foster's striking 30 St Mary Axe (aka the Gherkin) was at a time when there was great excitement about the latest development in new City skyscrapers, an excitement somewhat deflated now that City money appears to be as trustworthy as a Bob Maxwell pension scheme.
(4) Swiss Re spent about £238m building the Gherkin on the site at St Mary Axe of the Baltic Exchange shipping market, which was badly damaged by an IRA bomb attack in 1992.
(5) London Live has unveiled a series of five 25-second trails, which will be used as an intro to news coverage and shows on the channel, featuring locations including Boxpark in east London , Oxford Circus and the Gherkin building in the City.
(6) The Gherkin, voted London's favourite tower, has been put into receivership 10 years after its completion helped transform the capital's skyline.
(7) The inhibitor preparations inhibit phenylalanine ammonia-lyase isolated from a number of plant tissues and also cinnamic acid-4-hydroxylase (trans-cinnamate, NADPH:oxygen oxidoreductase (4-hydroxylating), EC 1.14.13.11) from gherkins and peas, but not a wide range of other enzymes.
(8) Cameron said: "We need thousands of offshore turbines in the next decade and beyond – each one as tall as the Gherkin [the Swiss Re skyscraper in London].
(9) The Gherkin office tower in the City was bought by Brazilian billionaire banker Joseph Safra for more than £700m last month, while the Qatari Investment Authority acquired HSBC tower in Canary Wharf for more than £1.1bn.
(10) Swiss Re spent about $400m (£238m) building the Gherkin on the site of the Baltic Exchange, which was badly damaged by an IRA bomb attack in 1992.
(11) The Gherkin, which has won multiple awards, has run into trouble at a time when dozens of new skyscrapers are planned.
(12) Picture the Cheesegrater strapped to the Walkie-Talkie , with most of the Gherkin thrown in, all bundled up in a great glass shroud.
(13) Today, London's skyline is dominated by such sights as the Cheese-grater in Leadenhall, the Walkie-talkie in Fenchurch Street, the Gherkin in Aldgate and the Razor at Elephant and Castle.
(14) Climb the steps and you are treated to a glorious panorama of the Shard, the Gherkin and Canary Wharf – a whole spread of city from Westminster to the Isle of Dogs and north to the humped ground of Highgate, shimmering in the smog like a mirage.
(15) Glyn Mummery, a partner at FRP Advisory, which helps with financial restructuring, said the multi-currency financial arrangements in place at the Gherkin were not uncommon in big London property deals and there could be further casualties.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy 1 The Gherkin One of London’s most recognisable silhouettes, the 180m Gherkin was last week bought by Brazilian banker Joseph Safra in a deal thought to be worth more than £700m.
(17) In December Guardian reporter Paul Lewis was stopped and searched while taking pictures of the Gherkin building in London and Grant Smith, an architecture photographer, was apprehended around the corner while photographing Sir Christopher Wren's Christ Church.
(18) We're high up in the Gherkin in the City of London and Garry Sidaway, director of security strategy at Integralis, a firm which advises government agencies, pharmaceutical and financial services multinationals, is giving my computer a security MOT.
(19) Close to, familiar and not-small objects, such as the Gherkin and HMS Belfast, look like large toys.
(20) I had some sympathy for the PC, who it turned out had been at the Gherkin by coincidence.
Jerkin
Definition:
(n.) A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.
(n.) A male gyrfalcon.
Example Sentences:
(1) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
(2) The degree of protection afforded by three jerkin G-suit systems (British, Canadian and Swedish) using different pressures against the adverse physiological effects produced by high levels (50 mm Hg and 70 mm Hg) of positive pressure breathing (PPB) was investigated at ground level in 10 male subjects.
(3) Get in the formation, let’s start triangle jerkin’ Included in the list mostly because it rhymes “merkin” with “triangle jerkin”, this song began as a joke to be played only once in Australia (in Aussie slang, “map of Tasmania” is a euphemism for female pubic hair) and is Amanda’s statement for freedom of expression via pubic hair .
(4) January 14, 2016 Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) The Oscars are gonna be so white that Chris Rock is gonna have to walk through the back door of the venue, like the olden days.
(5) Respiration was recorded using a jerkin plethysmograph.
(6) Like a children's story, all the Drax staff had to wear bright red jerkins.
(7) R&B isn't quite as staggeringly strange and futuristic as it seemed at the start of the noughties: in perhaps the decade's solitary example of genuinely odd and innovative music that wasn't by Radiohead finding a mass audience, producers Timbaland, the Neptunes and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins competed to see who could make the weirdest-sounding No 1 single.
(8) Black women on magazine covers in September showcase our greatness | Morgan Jerkins Read more Take Hunger Games actress Amandla Stenberg, who published a video on cultural appropriation that went viral and has pushed back against racist stereotypes .