(n.) An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.
Example Sentences:
(1) With armed gunmen surrounding the regional parliament, Crimea, heretofore a part of Ukraine with slightly more independence than other regions, voted in a new government of pro-Russian figures (including a man nicknamed 'Goblin') and decided to hold a referendum on Crimea's future.
(2) Filled with wood nymphs, spirits, goblins and sprites, long before Christian missionaries waded ashore, our forests reigned supreme.
(3) Rogue: Beyond The Shadows (Free) And some more dungeon-crawling in this polished action-RPG, with more goblins and golems than you can shake a (magical) stick at.
(4) Aksyonov, reputedly known as "Goblin" in Ukrainian crime circles, was officially named acting governor of Crimea.
(5) Seizure of Crimea's parliament and the referendum • Out with the old, in with the new: After gunmen seized the Crimean parliament on 27 February, it quickly began ousting government chiefs and installing new ones including a new regional prime minister, Sergei Aksyonov, whose alleged ties to Ukraine's criminal underworld have bestowed him the moniker " the Goblin ".
(6) Observations were made on 12 Columbian families who were haunted by 'el duende' (a special kind of imp, goblin, or poltergeist) and other spirits.
(7) With this method, it has been demonstrated that goblin is located in the plasma membrane.
(8) While OA markedly increased overall phosphorylation of many erythrocyte membrane proteins, including goblin, it did not affect goblin phosphorylation at specific cAMP-dependent sites.
(9) Useful” is Roberts’ favourite adjective to describe the site, and in the course of our conversation at the company’s bright north London office (where the most obvious decoration is a giant poster of fairytale goblin Rumpelstiltskin spinning flax into gold), she uses it several times.
(10) While Foxx was front and centre in that leaked Comic Con trailer from July , there has been a sense ever since that the villain in the piece might really be Chris Cooper's Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin of the Marvel comics.
(11) He also wrote five songs for Jim Henson’s fantasy film Labyrinth, as well as taking the role of Jareth the Goblin King.
(12) The data are compatible with a possible role for goblin in the hormonal control of ion movements across the plasma membrane.
(13) Goblin Valley boasts a campground with hot showers, a rarity in this dry desert state.
(14) He also unveiled a number of other castings, including Australian comic Barry Humphries as the goblin king and Evangeline Lilly from TV series Lost as an Elf named Tauriel.
(15) But should he throw in a couple of gratuitous love-interest types to distract from the incessant dwarf-goblin-elf-human-warg ultraviolence?
(16) Adult chicken skeletal muscle cells express polypeptides that are antigenically related to alpha-spectrin (Mr 240,000) and beta-spectrin (Mr 220,000-225,000), the major components of the erythrocyte membrane-skeleton, and to ankyrin (Mr 237,000; also termed goblin in chicken erythrocytes), which binds spectrin to the transmembrane anion transporter in erythrocytes.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest David O Russell on Joy: ‘If you’re going to live a fairytale you’ve got to go through the goblins’ – video interview Joy review: Jennifer Lawrence cleans up in amiably messy mop biopic Read more It was a strong weekend for the film industry all round in North America.
(18) The offending video clearly states that Chris Cooper's Norman Osborn, a character who in the comics and previous big screen versions has doubled as villain The Green Goblin, has died as the film's events unfold.
(19) Goblin phosphorylation at these sites was increased by norepinephrine and cpt-cAMP and rapidly reversed by K-252a and H-9, confirming that both inhibitors do block cAMP-PK activity.
(20) Crimea map Many express irritation with Aksyonov, who is rumoured to have past links to criminal groups – which he has denied – and who apparently went by the nickname “the goblin” in the 1990s.
Knocker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
(2) During Rio's carnival, large groups of suburban gang members - the "bate-bolas" (ball-knockers) - congregate in the city for a huge costume challenge .
(3) Yet as much screen time is devoted to her wholly unlikely quarry: one Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan, excellent), a mild-mannered grief counsellor who enjoys jogging and jolly family days out when he's not strangling trainee solicitors or scribbling pictures of his clients' knockers in his notepad while they try to tell him about their dead children.
(4) 75 min: "Andy Gray seems to be attracting a lot of knockers; I once saw him having lunch with Suzanne Dando in my local gymnasium restaurant, on that same subject," writes Matt Savage.
(5) 4.54pm BST "It's been such a long, hard season and so many knockers and so many people going against us.
(6) I say "possibly" because no one knows what gender the shooty-bang thing you controlled in Space Invaders was because it didn't have stubble or knockers to define itself by.
(7) He was an antique dealer by now, a "knocker", and in his youth, after the first world war, had been a violinist in a dance orchestra on grand transatlantic liners.
(8) Kidd has insisted that his new prize is not there to "do down" the Booker but to provide an alternative, but the Booker knockers have, of course, seen it differently.
(9) The QALY pliers tend to play down the former and the QALY knockers the latter.
(10) Top universities not to blame for lack of diversity, say state headteachers Read more The college, which was founded in 1509 and is thought to be named after an ancient brass door knocker that now hangs in the dining hall, offered places to 11% of the state school students who applied there, according to the study’s analysis of Oxford’s admissions figures for 2012-14.