(n.) A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.
(n.) A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
(n.) An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
(n.) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
(n.) The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
(n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
Example Sentences:
(1) John, who has just been released from prison on licence after serving four years for gouging a man’s eye out , admits: “I used to see Tyson on the television.
(2) Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have accused Turing of price-gouging.
(3) There was a deep gouge across the back of his head and blood was welling through his copper- coloured hair.
(4) Make a hole in the radius with a small gouge with insertion of the pin to the fracture site and then drive it into the proximal fragment.
(5) How it gouges money from those who don’t own only to put it in the pockets of those who do.
(6) The following technical devices have been adopted: -- curved unilateral incision into deep fascia --interlaminar space widening by chisels and gouges, avoiding the use of rongeurs -- sodium succinate methylprednisolone injection into dural sac.
(7) "I bought her, and I still can't believe this, I might as well have gouged out my own eyeballs with a rusty spoon, but I bought her a personalised number plate which was M155 LTD. Miss Living The Dream.
(8) The crumpled metal cockpit floor featured large gouges.
(9) Olympe de Gouges, born in 1748, led in Paris, the brilliant and dissolute life of a rather mediocre writer and a passionate feminist, demanding for women the right to go into politics.
(10) Their white tents stood near the brown earth gouged by the armoured trucks that had carried them there – the closest point to Mosul they had reached before an assault on Iraq’s second largest city.
(11) Topology favoring attachment was inherent in 0.45-mum filters and was produced in plastic by gouging irregular excavations 10 to 15 micrometer deep.
(12) Karen McVeigh Governor Christie (@GovChristie) We have activated temporary hotlines to report price gouging.
(13) Greedy, gouging bastards, depriving students of their last few pennies in a relentless quest for profit.
(14) Yemen's humanitarian crisis leaves a million people in dire straits – in pictures Read more Maurer, who recently visited Yemen and Iran to negotiate broader humanitarian access, said air raids had gouged craters in the streets of the Yemeni capital Sana’a.
(15) Crash patterns-such as cut and damaged vegetation, gouges, debris scatter, burn areas, etc.,-and their spatial relations can be very effectively evaluated by the analysis of stereo aerial photographs.
(16) He has people eating their sons in pies, men with their eyes gouged out, and merciless sexual jealousy.
(17) With a chisel or a gouge, cuts are made in the cortical surface of the bone on both sides of the fracture line, and numerous scales are lifted but remain attached at the base, like the petals of a flower.
(18) In what will come as welcome news to defenders across the land, chippy Chelsea striker Diego Costa may also be leaving these shores to gouge, elbow, snarl and kick his way around his old La Liga stamping ground.
(19) The worst of the episodes involved Mousa Dembélé, who gouged at Diego Costa’s eyes during a wider mêlée sparked by a confrontation between Danny Rose and Willian.
(20) ); (2) exploitation of bark surface insects and the use of trunks as a platform to locate terrestrial prey (Saguinus fuscicollis, S. nigricollis, and Callimico); (3) manipulative foraging and bark stripping to locate concealed insects and small vertebrates (Leontopithecus); and (4) tree gouging and year-round exudate feeding (many Callithrix).
Swindle
Definition:
(v. t.) To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
(n.) The act or process of swindling; a cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The solar hypothesis was championed publicly in March by the controversial Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle.
(2) One of my strongest memories of Malcolm is watching him reduce Richard Branson to tears by refusing to allow him to invest in my film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle .
(3) He sent me information about the film The Great Global Warming Swindle.
(4) But for Americans who are learning about the agreement, it is clear that the real "us against them" is not America against the more independent nations of the developing world, but TPP countries' citizens against a corporate swindle being negotiated behind their backs.
(5) As his 28-page petition seeking the Dallas injunction makes clear, even before the fevered allegations of "epic swindle" and conspiracies by the three directors and RBS, Hicks is obsessed with the $822m (£513m) valuation put on Liverpool by Forbes magazine and his belief that the club should fetch a fortune approaching that.
(6) They do the crossing of the Sahara desert, they are swindled, they are often being ransomed, it’s an incredibly violent trek to get to Libya and then cross into Europe.
(7) The court of grave crimes in Baku found leading Azeri activists, 59-year-old Leyla Yunus and her 60-year-old husband, Arif, guilty of swindling and tax evasion yesterday, and sentenced them to eight and seven-and-a-half years in prison respectively.
(8) Either a substitution without proxy or a swindle of one spouse by the other occurs in vital areas of their relation.
(9) Some environmentalists blame the public's doubts on last year's Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, and on recent books, including one by Lord Lawson, the former Chancellor, that question the consensus on climate change.
(10) But those people would have no problem swearing an oath disingenuously, since they intended from the outset to swindle or bring down the institution anyway.
(11) The Texas District State Court petition accuses the chairman, Martin Broughton, appointed by the creditors Royal Bank of Scotland in April to oversee the sale of the club, and his fellow directors of acting as "pawns" of RBS to perpetrate an "epic swindle" in selling the club to NESV for less than half its supposed market value and ignoring several higher offers.
(12) They forever print tabloid tales of benefit cheats on the swindle, which is bad – I used to do it – but the reality that we lose £1bn a year on all benefit fraud combined, and £25bn on tax avoidance and evasion by big companies and the super rich is seldom reported.
(13) Cameron's role, in Putin's eyes, as modern-day useful idiot may be further enhanced by the former's cautiously oblique references to bilateral concerns including corruption, legal swindles encountered by British businesses and human rights issues.
(14) In other cases, the procedure may become a nightware coupled to a swindle, and even endanger the life of the hopeful mother-to-be.
(15) Magnitsky exposed the biggest tax swindle in Russian history, and was put to death by Russian officials for his pains.
(16) In other words, the emissions scandal is not confined to Volkswagen, to a single algorithm, or to the US: it looks, in all its clever variants, like a compound global swindle.
(17) Signatories included Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, editor of Energy and Environment, Jones's least favourite journal, and Martin Durkin, the British TV producer notorious for his programme The Great Global Warming Swindle.
(18) A spokesman for Guinness World Records told German paper Taz: "It seems that at the time Guinness was duped by this swindle just like the rest of the media."
(19) The Office for National Statistics report published yesterday on migration has provoked some predictable hysteria: the Sun’s headline is “Great Migrant Swindle”, while Allison Pearson in the Telegraph claims that “the gap between ONS migrant figures and the truth is as wide as the Grand Canyon”.
(20) For some reason, I can also vividly recall seeing an import single featuring Malcolm McLaren singing You Need Hands: presumably some lunatic at a continental record label had looked at the soundtrack of the Sex Pistols' film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and concluded that the track with most commercial potential was the one that featured their manager tunelessly bellowing his way through the old Max Bygraves number.