(n.) A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.
(n.) A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
(n.) A grain sieve.
(n.) To play on the harp.
(n.) To dwell on or recur to a subject tediously or monotonously in speaking or in writing; to refer to something repeatedly or continually; -- usually with on or upon.
(v. t.) To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are not a people who harp upon colour or race,” he said.
(2) Harping on endlessly about a woman’s hair, legs and handbag instead of her ideas and achievements can be horribly belittling, a way of refusing to take her seriously as a professional.
(3) Total mercury and methylmercury values in the tissues of the experimental animals indicated that harp seals can tolerate high levels of mercury in the brain and that the observed renal and hepatic dysfunction were related to the high accumulation of mercury in these tissues.
(4) ECoG of both hemispheres, EOG, neck EMG and EKG were recorded in 2 white (age 10 days) and 2 gray pups (age 1 month) of harp seal.
(5) Hematological and blood chemistry values were examined in harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus) exposed to daily oral dosages of methylmercuric chloride (MMC).
(6) On the right is her rival, Kosciusko-Morizet, known as NKM, 40, a former minister in Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right government, nicknamed "the harpist" ever since she was photographed for Paris Match lounging in a party gown in a forest next to a harp, like some posh wood nymph, in 2005.
(7) Further simulations showed that the lower critical temperature of a lean newborn harp seal pup with standard metabolism is only--1 degree C while it is depressed to--59 degree C as the pup grows, aquire a 10 cm thick layer of blubber and the metabolism increases to 1.5 times standard.
(8) Following a long and rich tradition of "blues doctors", Middleton is an accomplished frontman with Dr Harp's Medicine Band .
(9) That’s the case at the Ice Music Festival in the Norwegian ski resort of Geilo, where even the instruments – harps, xylophones, guitars and trombones – are made of ice, bringing a wholly original atmosphere and sound.
(10) The relationship between KP and HRP resides in the repeated polyhistidine sequences, (His) 6-9, from the core of the multiple tandem repeats of HRP, whereas, the peptide Ala-His-His is commonly shared by HRP and two other proteins of P. falciparum (soluble HARP and SHARP).
(11) They took up so much time that “laser harp” player Gene Breads didn’t get any time to play his instrument.
(12) Photograph: Martin Godwin for The Guardian Not that he wants to harp back to the days when he went to work with a trowel.
(13) World Cup knockout stage interactive planner World Cup knockout stage interactive planner Updated at 2.14pm BST 2.06pm BST The murkiness in the application of football's rules is something I have frequently written about - endless harped on about - and the lack of transparency, as well as the sheer inaccuracy, of time-keeping is equally annoying.
(14) The largest harp seal population in the world is found in Canadian waters of the Northwest Atlantic.
(15) Expired air temperature (Tex), metabolic rate (MR), and skin (Ts) and body (Tb; rectal) temperatures were recorded in four or five young (1-2 yr) harp seals (Phoca groenlandica) in air [mean air temperature (Ta) = -30, -10, or 10 degrees C] and in water [mean water temperature (Tw) = 2.3 or 24.8 degrees C, with Ta = -30, -10, 0, or 10 degrees C].
(16) condition of my present instrument I only produce ridicule"; it was enough to buy him a new harp.
(17) Samples of blubber, liver, kidney and brain, obtained from 10 male, 6 female neonatal, and 4 lactating female harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus), were analysed for DDT, dieldrin, PCB, and total mercury.
(18) There is a bizarre irony that if a woman talks about receiving abuse, more people feel compelled to abuse her – for “harping on” about it; for being a “professional victim”.
(19) This was not Soviet propaganda, harping constantly on one note.
(20) S harp Objects had also gone through several stages.
Harper
Definition:
(n.) A player on the harp; a minstrel.
(n.) A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in Ireland.
Example Sentences:
(1) The immigration minister, Mark Harper, said: in a statement: "Today's operations highlight the routine work we are carrying out every day to stamp out illegal working.
(2) He made his political base in this western province, which has long felt sneered at: Harper has spent his political career redressing the balance.
(3) Opposition to Harper is evenly divided between two major opposition parties – the Liberals and the New Democrats – so the one-third of voters who vote Conservative are set once again to choose Canada’s national government.
(4) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(5) Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister, has said that the battle of Vimy , where Canadian troops carried a crucial ridge in the face of a strong German defence, showed Canadians' "unwavering commitment to defending peace and freedom".
(6) The Evangelist Christian right is at the heart of Harper's Conservative party, and after years of being shushed, it will now demand an end to a number of things, including abortion rights.
(7) A former intern's case against Harper's Bazaar is moving through the courts.
(8) Cave added that her organisation was engaged in a freedom of information battle with Cabinet Office minister Mark Harper, who is overseeing the coalition's plans to introduce a lobbying register.
(9) Paterson’s contribution is to identify the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott , and the Canadian premier, Stephen Harper , who have arguably done more harm to the living planet than anyone else alive, as champions of environmental protection .
(10) Although prime minister Stephen Harper apologised for the school system in 2008 (as did the Roman Catholic Church in 2009), his government has always denied that it was a form of genocide.
(11) After he had written a number of successful short tales, his publisher, Wesley Harper, had advised him that "readers in this country have a decided and strong preference for works (especially fiction) in which a single and connected story occupies the whole volume."
(12) After hours of speculation Mark Harper, previously announced as a minister of state in the Department for Work and Pensions, appeared to have his title converted to take on the role.
(13) Speaking later alongside Mr Salmond outside St Andrew's House, Mr Harper said the Greens were likely to only support the nationalists on an issue-by-issue basis - a model known as "confidence and supply" - rather than in a full coalition.
(14) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : Harper Adams University Runner-up : University of Sheffield Runner-up : University of Leicester Research impact Facebook Twitter Pinterest Professor Mary Herbert and Dr Louise Hyslop from Newcastle University with their research impact award for pioneering IVF techniques.
(15) Beverley McLachlin, chief justice of the supreme court, blocked Harper’s choice for a new high court judge: she was denounced in terms which caused a wave of complaint that Harper was interfering in the independence of the judiciary.
(16) Harper has spent the last few days in Brighton and the deal finally got the green light from Real Madrid this morning, with Brighton confirming the deal.
(17) It's reasonable to believe AV would have denied Harper a majority.
(18) The pair decided to help Harper and Evelyn - now calling themselves Nightmares On Wax - by setting up a label.
(19) The ‘C’ team would have been the next step up for Harper, who was born in February 1996, after departing the Juvenil A side, effectively Madrid’s Under-19s.
(20) There is, frankly, plenty that Harper refuses to acknowledge beyond the current recession, but the nice thing about a three-party system is that there are usually plenty of distractions from talking about anything at all.