(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.
Scribbler
Definition:
(n.) One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack.
(n.) A scribbling machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ideas matter – cue the cliche from JM Keynes about business people responding to the notions of some long-dead scribbler.
(2) For six decades, he had been what he called "a scribbler".
(3) At Girls Inc we focus on fueling girls’ self-worth through helping them overcome obstacles and set and achieve goals.” Read more Oddly Sustainable : Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(4) The only comparable performance of the era is Burt Lancaster ’s as JJ Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success (1957), another satanic scribbler with poison in his veins and his pen.
(5) Autodesk SketchBook was one of the best yet, with plenty of depth yet an accessible interface for the scribblers among us.
(6) SketchBook Pro SKETCHBOOK PRO £2.99 Published by computer graphics veteran Autodesk, SketchBook has quickly found a wide audience of casual scribblers and professional artists alike.
(7) More Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet Powering your computer with cigarette butts A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(8) But, as it happens, I am pretty sure it is one that my darling and brilliant late wife would advance, partly because as a historian she had a deep understanding of the role of scribblers in the creation and advance of our democracy, and partly because – despite everything – she never dumped the bleedin' Daily Mail.
(9) For what it’s worth, this scribbler would merely have loved to see him test his skills against Joe Louis.
(10) She exposed just how lamentably ill-equipped our society is when dealing with scientific advances, a field of endeavour that attracts our best brains but remains closed to most individuals, no matter how hard we science scribblers try to interest them.
(11) Read more Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(12) And that’s something that all of us, at every level and every function, can use more of.” Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(13) As Keynes observed of “madmen in authority”, the present government is “distilling its frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back” – in this case the ideology of the so-called Washington Consensus, with its cult of competition and markets and its absurd belief in rational choice.
(14) Read more Oddly Sustainable posts: Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Powering your computer with cigarette butts Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(15) Read more from Oddly Sustainable : Surprising solutions to environmental dilemmas Rhino-saving drones, smashable coffee cups and more Getting a charge in Vegas that’s good for your wallet A gold-rush retailer’s thoroughly modern social impact move Russ Blinch is chief scribbler at CopyCarbon.com and a blogger for the Huffington Post.
(16) Another scribbler compared the challenge facing Greece to the 12 labours of Hercules.