(n.) A large estate where work of any kind is done, as agriculture, manufacturing, mining, or raising of animals; a cultivated farm, with a good house, in distinction from a farming establishment with rude huts for herdsmen, etc.; -- a word used in Spanish-American regions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morrissey: "We've had a great deal of personal support from the people at the Hacienda when they could easily have ignored us for signing with Rough Trade in London rather than Factory in Manchester and that's good because, as Johnny says, that means attitudes are at last changing."
(2) He attempted new versions of Factory, endlessly curious for the next new thing, the next pop-culture revolution, but he never managed to follow his great innovations, Factory, or the Hacienda, or So It Goes.
(3) Outside Bissau city are exclusive Hispanic-style haciendas with wide verandahs, turquoise swimming pools and gates patrolled by armed guards.
(4) • This article was amended on 28 May 2012 to clarify a comment that only 150 of the units at Hacienda Requelme are occupied.
(5) Heavily armed guards protect the thousands of cattle that roam its lush pastures and the hacienda-style complex built on a hill at the farm's centre, complete with swimming pool.
(6) You’ve got the wrong city if you think hate will tear us apart.” The tweet from former Hacienda DJ Dave Haslam was only 13 words long, but it said an awful lot.
(7) Wilson certainly had a way of revving it up when the man behind Factory Records and the Hacienda nightclub – music mogul, broadcaster, impresario and professional Salfordian – earned his crust presenting Granada Reports, staring into the cameras with a level of self-adoration not often witnessed on regional news programmes and clearly loving the fact his opinions went straight into people’s living rooms.
(8) In the living room, stacked floor-to-ceiling, are boardgames, hundreds of them: Africana, Parfum, Pirate’s Cove, Whitechapel, Tzolk’in, Goa, Hacienda.
(9) Approaching 50, his reputation is such that his mother presented him with a silver pot of Marmite when he moved to the US, which he keeps in a “mini-pub” full of British memorabilia in his hacienda-style house in Los Angeles.
(10) Meeting friends, getting together with people ... it’s about the gathering as much as anything else.” Haslam agrees: “Those of us from the Hacienda generation and beyond, we do have a very utopian sense of what music can do,” he says.
(11) Hacienda Eden, Playa Troncones, Guerrero The name is not an idle boast: commanding a spot in the middle of gorgeous Manzanillo Bay, 22 miles north of Zihuatanejo, Hacienda Eden’s 10 rooms and four bungalows fill primarily with repeat guests.
(12) Among her last gestures before she and Devine split was an astonishing performance at the Hacienda in Manchester , on 5 November 1982.
(13) Thirty-three Alouatta palliata were captured during the wet season at Hacienda La Pacifica near Canas, Costa Rica.
(14) In a stunt that pre-dated Lady Gaga by three decades, she once performed at the Hacienda, in Manchester, in a dress made from scraps of commercial meat, while two other women handed out raw meat wrapped in porn to the crowd.
(15) We have isolated four strains of EEEV from sentinel hamsters exposed at Caño Mocho and Madre Vieja sites in 1973 and 1974, and three strains of EEEV in Hacienda (Hda.)
(16) • Pitches £4pp inc breakfast, glamping tents from £16 for two, reservations preferred laserrana.com.co 4 Hacienda Venecia, Manizales, Caldas This site, also in coffee country in central western Colombia, is close to the verdant Los Nevados national park and ticks lots of boxes.
(17) My spirits lifted the moment I arrived at the hacienda-style property set amid sprawling ejidos (community-owned farms), mainly because it bombards you with colour, from hand-painted tiles on the walls to bright ceramics in the central cactus garden.
(18) The first dancers at the Hacienda weren’t Bez types, but black kids breakdancing and doing jazz dancing.” What made this all possible is the fact that Manchester has always been an immigrant city – home to huge communities from Ireland, the Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent.
(19) Burnham, a passionate Stone Roses fan who boasts about seeing the Fall at Manchester’s legendary Hacienda and whose last gig was the Maccabees at Manchester’s Albert Hall, has also pledged to make Greater Manchester “the unrivalled music capital of Europe, if not the world”.
(20) From the air, you can see the Spanish hacienda villas, and the obligatory black four-wheel-drives are everywhere, with the obligatory scantily-clad girl, James Bond style.
Ranch
Definition:
(v. t.) To wrench; to tear; to sprain; to injure by violent straining or contortion.
(n.) A tract of land used for grazing and the rearing of horses, cattle, or sheep. See Rancho, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ranch and management x ranch effects accounted for more of the variation in shrink than PC did.
(2) These results indicate overall productivity estimates of 51 and 120 kg of weaner calf per cow per year and 86 and 188 kg of 18-month old calf per cow per year for the cattle post and fenced ranch respectively.
(3) But their joy didn't last long; a week later, 11 rhino were found on a single day at two private ranches northwest of Johannesburg.
(4) In the video, Pablo Hernan Sierra says he organised a militia that operated from the Guacharacas ranch owned by Uribe's family in the northwestern state of Antioquia in 1996 when Uribe was the state's governor.
(5) From the latter finding, it can be inferred that the 4 serodemes were present on the ranch throughout the study period.
(6) The practicing veterinarian or animal husbandman must evaluate the specific climatic conditions prevailing on the farm or ranch in question and integrate the components of that climate into the management or health practices to be recommended.
(7) In 2003 he was the subject of a documentary by the British filmmaker Martin Bashir in which he admitted to sleeping in the same room as children at his ranch.
(8) Other hobbies included watching husbands die, remarrying on the Southfork ranch lawn, and being played by a different actor for a season.
(9) Bundy is accused of recruiting hundreds of supporters to his ranch in 2014, where the US bureau of land management was making arrangements for his cattle to be impounded due to unpaid grazing fees and fines dating back to 1998.
(10) The potential impact on aquatic ecosystems of supplementing the diets of beef cattle with selenium (Se) was studied on 4 northern California ranches.
(11) The oil's back too, gushing forth on Southfork ranch within seconds of the start of the new pilot.
(12) All mink on the ranches were tested during the pelting season and before the breeding season for 4 consecutive years.
(13) Federal police had said they encountered a truck and took fire from its passengers before being led to the ranch.
(14) The frequency of trypanosome infection in Glossina morsitans submorsitans and G. tachinoides, at the game ranch of Nazinga (Burkina Faso), was examined.
(15) Local power officials at the meeting said the move would also cut power to several surrounding ranches and that the only way to isolate the wildlife refuge would be to send men to the site to cut the local lines.
(16) From serum specimens taken in 1982 and 1987, the median half-life of 2,3,7,8-TCDD in these Ranch Hand veterans was found to be 7.1 yr (95% confidence interval about the median of 5.8-9.6 yr).
(17) Half-body tick collections and visual assessment of tick burdens were performed monthly over six months on 100 bulls at the Kenya National Boran Stud, Mutara Ranch, Kenya.
(18) He claims that since he began working with lions at the ranch in January, the owners have not sold on any lions to be hunted.
(19) Rancher Cliven Bundy outside his ranch house on April 11.
(20) They are kept in a small pen behind the Lion's Den, a pub on a ranch in desolate countryside 75 miles south of Johannesburg.