(n.) One of a vagabond race, whose tribes, coming originally from India, entered Europe in 14th or 15th centry, and are now scattered over Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Spain, England, etc., living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany.
(n.) The language used by the gypsies.
(n.) A dark-complexioned person.
(n.) A cunning or crafty person
(a.) Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies.
(v. i.) To play the gypsy; to picnic in the woods.
Example Sentences:
(1) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(2) There was no difference in LC50 between the two strains to larvae of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), eastern hemlock looper (Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria), and whitemarked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma), whether expressed as total alkaline soluble protein, activated toxin protein, or International Units as determined by bioassay against Trichoplusia ni.
(3) A third clone hybridized to at least 17 sites on the chromosomes indicating the presence of repetitive sequences in the gypsy flanking DNA.
(4) She also warned over increasing stigma being shown toward Gypsies, Travellers and Roma struggling to find accommodation.
(5) In 2012-13, 12% of prisoners at HMP Elmley, Kent, 11% at HMP Gloucester and 10% at HMP Winchester identified themselves as being Gypsy, Romany or Traveller.
(6) The population understudy was composed of 156 children, with ages ranging from 1 to 14 years; they were stratified in three socio-environmental groups (white-family unit, gypsy-family unit and orphanage), and also divided into subgroups according to age.
(7) In the other, unstable mutator strain (MS) which is derived from SS, the gypsy copy number and the frequency of its transposition are greatly increased.
(8) Earlier this year, I stayed in a remodelled gypsy caravan in the garden of the owner’s home while making my way back to the UK via Burgundy.
(9) These three uncommon features of the gypsy promoter may be characteristic of a subset of pol II promoters, exemplified by certain retrotransposons and developmental genes of Drosophila and by Tdt, the mouse terminal deoxynucleotidyl-transferase (TdT) gene.
(10) His own favourite among his books published was The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest For A Family Secret (1997), about his grandfather, John Sampson.
(11) We have studied the HLA-class I and class II antigen distribution in a sample of 75 Spanish Gypsies and 74 Spanish non-Gypsies by serology, restriction fragment length polymorphism, and protein chain reaction and hybridization with allele-specific oligonucleotide probes.
(12) The patients were assigned to one of two groups depending on their ethnic origin - Gypsy or non-Gypsy.
(13) Also unlike most pol II promoters, the gypsy promoter, which lacks a TATA motif, was found to have an essential sequence at the transcription initiation site, mutation of which abolishes transcription.
(14) Aldehyde dehydrogenase I isozyme deficiency was found in four persons including two gypsies.
(15) • Gîtes (sleeping 4-7 from €450 a week, 020-3603 1160, babyfriendlyboltholes.co.uk Croas Men farm, near Morlaix Accommodation options at this unusual campsite include ridge tents and a gypsy caravan but the best option for families is La Maisonnette, a simple wooden house overlooking a donkey meadow.
(16) The TEs that were observed generally exhibited heterogeneous distributions, with the exception of F, gypsy and 412 which were ubiquitous, and 297, G, Sancho 2, hobo and FB which were not detected.
(17) There are highlights, among them the Foo Fighters' energising effect on a flagging audience, the noise the same audience makes when James Blunt appears - half cheer, half menacing low growl - and Madonna's unexpected duet with Eugene Hutz of thrillingly dissolute gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
(18) Only by reaching a very old age no old gypsy can reach an important position in his society.
(19) According to Trevor Phillips , former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, for Gypsies and Travellers "Great Britain is still like the American Deep South for black people in the 1950s.
(20) His story of a Gypsy drug dealer threatened with eviction from his caravan in a Wiltshire wood became, rather than drowning in over-ambitious "Themes", fantastically mercurial.
Traveler
Definition:
(n.) One who travels; one who has traveled much.
(n.) A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
(n.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.
(n.) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
(n.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(2) MI6 introduced him to the Spanish intelligence service and in 2006 he travelled to Madrid.
(3) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(4) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(5) Thirty-six dogs were seropositive, 28 of which had not traveled to endemic areas.
(6) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(7) Travel around Fukushima today and there is little evidence of disaster or trauma.
(8) Pulse-chase experiments showed that the ornithine transcarbamylase precursor and the thiolase traveled from the cytosol to the mitochondria with half-lives of less than 5 min, whereas the three fusion proteins traveled with half-lives of 10-15 min.
(9) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(10) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
(11) Ultimate nonsurvivors of ICU admission (36 per cent) had shorter out-of-hospital times, shorter travel distances, and increased interventional support, as assessed by the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System applied over the telephone and prior to departure at the referring hospital.
(12) Routine vaccination of travellers to endemic areas cannot be recommended; however, for people travelling to regions with a high transmission rate vaccination should be considered.
(13) As travelling is generally increasing, this disease might be encountered more frequently also in Europe.
(14) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(15) Most cases of typhoid fever in the United States occur in international travelers, with the greatest risk associated with travel to Peru, India, Pakistan, and Chile.
(16) He knows polymer notes from travels in Australia, where they were first introduced in 1988, and he wants Britain to "move with the times" too.
(17) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
(18) In a triple tier configuration, females concentrated 66% of their travel on the top tier.
(19) After filming, he stayed on in the Middle East for several weeks to travel.
(20) The findings suggest that health planning could be considerably enhanced by a better understanding of patient preferences for medical care travel behavior, the origins of these preferences, and their relationship to the use of available medical care opportunities.