(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.
Hart
Definition:
(n.) A stag; the male of the red deer. See the Note under Buck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(2) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.
(3) April 17, 2013 The third floor isn't doing so well either: Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) Capitol police email Senate offices: Police "are responding to a suspicious envelope on the third floor of the Hart Senate Office Building."
(4) The targets of the manager included Samir Nasri, Joe Hart and Micah Richards.
(5) Miranda Hart as Chummy Brown in Call the Midwife By now, we are huddled around a heater.
(6) The deal will be effective from 28 February, meaning Defoe has the opportunity to add to his 142 goals for the White Hart Lane club.
(7) To dye for … England's Joe Hart applauds fans after the Costa Rica game; their response to his hair is not pictured.
(11) Konoplyanka had already thudded a free-kick against the upright, with Joe Hart and the entire City defence anticipating a cross, before the Ukraine international opened the scoring on the half-hour, capping off a 10-minute spell of concerted pressure.
(12) Once more the opportunity arose from a lack of cohesion down City’s left, Victor Wanyama breaking up play in midfield and feeding Tadic, who advanced and slipped a precise ball between Kolarov and Eliaquim Mangala to Mané, who emphatically finished past Hart.
(13) It’s an exciting process.” The BBC is in talks with the production company Hart co-founded with David Walliams and comedy producer Jo Sargent , King Bert, about the show’s return.
(14) April 17, 2013 5.43pm BST A Capitol police spokesperson on the situations in Russell and Hart senate office buildings: "All I can tell you right now is we're investigating suspicious envelopes in both."
(15) However, it is early days for Pochettino’s side and Tottenham’s credentials will be fully tested by Liverpool, whose 5-0 victory at White Hart Lane last season led to André Villas-Boas losing his job.
(16) Monkey chants rang out at White Hart Lane this month as visiting Lazio "Ultras" from Italy abused three Spurs players.
(17) So much so that the Olympic discus champion Robert Harting even withdrew from consideration.
(18) In her first straight dramatic role, albeit one with comedy elements, Hart has proved a hit: Chummy's awkward flirting with Constable Noakes, wobbly cycling and surprise medical ability delighting the show's more than 10 million viewers.
(19) This means if you wanted to use your small local family solicitor's practice, which doesn't appear on your mortgage lender's panel of approved solicitors, you may end up paying twice if they continue to represent you, as the lender will also instruct their own solicitor to act for them in relation to the mortgage," says Gary Score, partner at law firm Hart Brown.