(n.) A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
(2) Hope was living in a disused council building in Tower Hamlets, east London, and, by maintaining a physical presence on site, providing services for a property guardian company called Newbould Guardians.
(3) As such, only in localised situations, where a popular revolt has long been brewing against cartel politics – Tower Hamlets or Bradford, for instance – has the left made a breakthrough.
(4) We deplore the proposal of the secretary of state Eric Pickles to “take over” the democratically elected council in Tower Hamlets ( Report , 5 November).
(5) Hamlet, the prototype of inaction, the man who thinks "too precisely on the event", and who, when he does act, unleashes a bloodbath.
(6) Later, Dizzee Rascal drew big crowds in Tower Hamlets as he ran through the streets where he grew up, throwing his trainers into the throng and running in his socks.
(7) Ten minutes' walk away is the wonderful Blaise Hamlet (open dawn until dusk).
(8) In September 1974 a study was made of all residents of the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets, aged 65 or more, who were known to have been receiving continuous medical and nursing care in hospital for more than a year.
(9) The form of QE we propose by contrast would provide job security and local business opportunities and rebalance the economy, since its infrastructure improvements would take place in every city, town, village and hamlet in the UK.
(10) Best Shakespeare productions: what's your favourite Hamlet?
(11) He also appeared in a number of Branagh's films including Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and as Polonius in Hamlet (1996).
(12) Newer communities have settled in towns and cities such as Milton Keynes, Slough, Northampton, Southampton, and in London, notably Ealing, Tower Hamlets and Newham.
(13) The study population of 130,000 consisted mainly of subsistence cultivators who live in remote hamlets, and included about 27,600 women between the ages of 15 and 49 years.
(14) A Scotland Yard statement said: "On Friday 4 April the Metropolitan Police Service received three files of material from the Department for Communities and Local Government relating to the London borough of Tower Hamlets.
(15) He owed his late-flourishing film career to Branagh, appearing in a string of his movies: as Bardolph in Henry V (1989), Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the old blind man in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994), a cantankerous old thespian in A Midwinter's Tale (1995), Polonius in Hamlet (1996) and Sir Nathaniel in the musical Love's Labour's Lost (2000).
(16) The LGA was called in to help Tower Hamlets with the appointment of staff last year when several members departed.
(17) Subsequently, he returned to cameo roles in films as diverse as the comedy Bean (1997) and Kenneth Branagh's all-star version of Hamlet (1996).
(18) A south Londoner, she left her Catholic grammar school in Tower Hamlets with little clear idea of what to do.
(19) The letter to Morgan also noted that improvements were being seen in schools in Birmingham and Tower Hamlets inspected in the wake of the Trojan Horse allegations of Islamist influence.
(20) And, among several Hamlets on film, my favourite remains Gregory Kozintsev's 1971 version , which reminded us that Hamlet is only one figure in a bustling, hyperactive court.
Wick
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Wich
(n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned.
(v. i.) To strike a stone in an oblique direction.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I had a not altogether satisfactory talk with Mark this morning" begins a typical confidential memo from Nigel Wicks, Mrs Thatcher's principal private secretary, to the British ambassador in Washington.
(2) It’s a wicked thing to do.” Thomson said the federal government had not notified him about approaching boats since 2009.
(3) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
(4) Fluid pressure changes and digital load measurements were simultaneously detected and recorded by use of, respectively, modified wick-in-needle and force plate transducers coupled to a microcomputer.
(5) In cats, brain tissue pressure (BTP) was measured by the wick-catheter method.
(6) The lack of knowledge about proper feeding and the use of bottles, fingers, and cotton wicks, which contribute to infection, diarrhea, and malnutrition, indicates a need for better health education.
(7) The light stimuli are provided by a Ganzfeld stimulator and the potentials are recorded with a disposable corneal wick electrode.
(8) IFP was measured in squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck region in humans using the wick-in-needle technique.
(9) Our results on Ap4A are in contrast with those reported previously (C. Weinmann-Dorsch, G. Pierron, R. Wick, H. Sauer, and F. Grummt, Exp.
(10) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(11) titration with wicks pre-loaded with serial dilutions of rat plasma implanted post mortem for 15-20 min.
(12) Dance, perform, party in Hackney Wick One of my favourite venues in London is The Yard Theatre.
(13) Less conventional still is Muff Cafe, a custom-motorbike-workshop-cum-really-rather-good-organic-restaurant in Hackney Wick that a friend recommends on condition that "you don't fill it with Guardian readers".
(14) The wick catheter technique was developed in 1968 for measurement of subcutaneous pressure and has been modified for easy intramuscular insertion and continuous recording of interstitial fluid pressure in animals and humans.
(15) The corneal wick electrode is employed for bright flash electroretinogram (ERG) recordings and for research measurements of the early receptor potential.
(16) In the longer term, there is a risk that local government will be seen as being wicked or incompetent as it struggles to meet George Osborne's new spending figures.
(17) His next book was The Great Crash 1929 (1955), a wickedly entertaining account of what happened on Wall Street in that year.
(18) The mistake in most international crises is to over-personalise the issue by making a pariah of the wicked man and his corrupt family at the top and thinking that, once they go, all problems will easily be solved.
(19) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
(20) Tissue pressures were recorded using saline-filled cotton-wool wicks.