(n.) A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
(n.) Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
(v. t.) To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
(v. t.) Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
(v. i.) To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
(n.) A notch; a cut.
(n.) An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
(n.) A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
(n.) A kick on the shins.
(n.) A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
(n.) A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
(n.) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
(n.) A procuress.
(a.) Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
(v. t.) To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
(v. t.) To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
(v. i.) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
(v. i.) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
Example Sentences:
(1) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
(2) Ed Balls, the shadow home secretary, today called on the head of the Metropolitan police to reopen the investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World.
(3) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
(4) Weir soon has to hack away a cross from Bodmer which would otherwise have found Govou in the box.
(5) Where Brooks was concerned on the hacking charge, there was very little extra evidence to add to that platform of inference.
(6) The US started down this course during the Sony hack last year, and in this case, transparency might be the best deterrent in the future – which, by the way, is something both Snowden and the Snowden-hating national security blog Lawfare argued on Monday.
(7) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(8) The remarks are the most direct official response on the issue, although the government has previously said that it "resolutely opposes" hacking and criticised "baseless" claims.
(9) Besides tolerating commercial espionage via hacking, it also allows the hosting of thousands of sites that help spammers rip people off around the world.
(10) January 2011 • Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor (news), is suspended following a "serious allegation" relating to phone hacking during Andy Coulson's editorship of the paper.
(11) Jowell said she was first told that her phone had been hacked "on 28 or 29 occasions" by the police in May 2006.
(12) The two men ran Rigby down in a car before hacking him to death in the street near Woolwich Barracks in south-east London .
(13) The promotion would come as News Corp continues to face legal investigations into the phone-hacking scandal on both sides of the Atlantic.
(14) OPM hack: China blamed for massive breach at US federal agency Read more The full scale of the information the attackers accessed remains unknown but could include highly sensitive data such as medical records, employment files and financial details, as well as information on security clearances and more.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mark Karpeles, president of Mt Gox bitcoin exchange, bows his head during a press conference in Tokyo after a $400m hack.
(16) Maberley told him there were 6,000 instances of phone hacking, although only one case had been prosecuted, involving the royal reporter Clive Goodman, who subsequently went to jail.
(17) The decision to split up News Corp followed the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, which focused the attention of investors on the company's newspaper assets, which are far less profitable than its film and TV businesses.
(18) That police sources were making such claims was confirmed by Taylor's solicitor, who told MPs that a named police sergeant had told him that 6,000 people may have had their phones hacked into.
(19) He said Coulson quite clearly knew hacking was a breach of the Press Complaints Commission code and there might be privacy issues, but never knew it was a crime.
(20) The regulator said it did not find the evidence provided a basis to conclude Rupert Murdoch had acted in a way that was inappropriate in relation to phone hacking, concealment or corruption by employees.
Hackman
Definition:
(n.) The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire.
Example Sentences:
(1) He cites the seminal British director of the 70s, Nicolas Roeg, as his principle inspiration, recalling the closest he himself came to fainting in a movie as being in a cinema in Belsize Park, north London, watching Roeg's neglected 1983 movie Eureka , starring Gene Hackman.
(2) The theoretical framework for this research was a modification of the work motivation model by Hackman and Oldham.
(3) Eisenberg won a best actor Oscar nomination for his work in The Social Network, and assumes the role from the likes of Gene Hackman, who played the tech-savvy megalomaniac in the original Superman films, while Kevin Spacey took the role in Superman Returns.
(4) Where are the young Gene Hackmans and Robert Duvalls de nos jours?
(5) Brody has pedigree for this from his role in The Darjeeling Limited, while Gene Hackman set the bar for absent parents as the eponymous Royal Tenenbaum.
(6) Luthor was portrayed by Gene Hackman in the Richard Donner and Richard Lester films, with Kevin Spacey stepping in for the 2006 movie Superman Returns .
(7) But what they did gain was subtlety and sophistication: Crimson Tide featured characterful interplay between Washington and Gene Hackman, and was enhanced by its claustrophobic submarine setting, while Enemy of the State weaved a dense plot of paranoia and conspiracy.
(8) Gene Hackman and George C Scott weren't matinee idols but they became movie stars.
(9) You could look like Gene Hackman, or indeed Ted Heath, and still get on.
(10) Watch the clip here In 1998 he teamed up again with Hackman for Enemy of the State , a loose North by Northwest spinoff starring Will Smith.
(11) Very nervous, of course, because this group of wonderful actors – Meryl Streep, Shirley Maclaine, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss – was reading aloud her first screenplay.
(12) Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller and Gwyneth Paltrow agreed to play members of a family of geniuses in The Royal Tenenbaums .
(13) Four population inversions have been revealed in the chromosomes set of Drosophila lummei, Hackman, two of them being found for the first time.
(14) The cytochemical properties of a guanine-specific synthetic fluorescent analogue of actinomycin D, 7-amino-actinomycin D, have been studied in fixed and living preparations of L cells and polytene chromosomes of salivary glands of Chironomus thummi thummi and Drosophila lummei (Hackman).
(15) Gene Hackman's character in The Royal Tenenbaums is not a particularly kind or evolved person in any way, but he made him funny and that was the material that he was working with."
(16) Rarely seen without his trademark red baseball cap, he had collaborated with Denzel Washington, Tom Cruise , Bruce Willis , Brad Pitt , Will Smith , Robert De Niro and Gene Hackman , among others, on action movies and thrillers.
(17) As the Guardian’s Rose Hackman wrote in May , “unions today represent just 11.3% of American workers, down from 28.3% in 1954.
(18) Rarely seen without his trademark red baseball cap, he had collaborated with Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Robert De Niro and Gene Hackman, among others.
(19) Watch the clip here Scott's interest in crunching bits of enormous hardware continued with Crimson Tide (1995), a submarine drama starring Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington.
(20) Their deaths were the basis for the 1988 film Mississippi Burning, starring Gene Hackman.