(v. t.) To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
(v. i.) To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
(v. t.) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
(n.) A pulling with force; a violent pull.
(n.) A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul.
(n.) That which is caught, taken, or gained at once, as by hauling a net.
(n.) Transportation by hauling; the distance through which anything is hauled, as freight in a railroad car; as, a long haul or short haul.
(n.) A bundle of about four hundred threads, to be tarred.
Example Sentences:
(1) One tip was that he should not mention he was flying to Germany as "obviously" the environmentalists "hate short-haul flights".
(2) Suffice to say, it was a long, difficult haul with various scares and alarms along the way.
(3) Two more wins against the claret and blues of West Ham and Aston Villa would take Tottenham to 72 points, equalling their Premier League record haul set last season.
(4) They learned from a good example.” His replacement, Diego Costa, duly hauled the hosts level by scoring his 20th league goal of an impressive first campaign in English football from the penalty spot after John O’Shea tripped Cuadrado.
(5) After hauling the food back to the cottage, they drew up a rota for the cooking, with some preparing breakfast for the group, and others sharing the duties for lunch and dinner.
(6) Zack Snyder's comic-book reimagining, which opens in the UK and US this Friday, is being tipped for an impressive box office haul.
(7) In Northern Ireland, the APD charge is £13 for short haul, while the charge for long haul has been abolished.
(8) "Some of you may have heard we have a new judge this year," said Forsyth, summoning his finest brow-raise and hauling the audience at least temporarily on side by sheer force of showbiz will.
(9) Sir Bobby Charlton, who is now a United director, will not have his record haul of 49 England goals taken from him just yet.
(10) In early November, I was contacted by my good friend Jamie Stone, who said he wanted to go and offered his truck and trailer to haul supplies.
(11) "This is an important day for the United Kingdom, but you can't haul the country of the United Kingdom against the will of its people.
(12) Tory MPs aware of the discussions in the party point to a deal on cheap air passenger duty for long-haul flights from Belfast, announced last week, as the kind of offer that may persuade DUP MPs to back the boundary reforms.
(13) Over the following years, he was hauled in again and again, questioned over and over, before finally, he decided to leave.
(14) The committee's final haul accounted for about 20% of roughly $78m in contributions this election cycle.
(15) Politicians including the prime minister were highly visible during a Games that delivered the best British medal haul for more than a century, but practitioners such as Jon Glenn, head of youth and community at the Amateur Swimming Association, said: "The government needs to start showing by its actions that it values physical activity.
(16) Just when Poland seemed to be labouring, two touches of blissful simplicity hauled them level.
(17) Studies of transzonal travel indicate that desynchronization of performance and physiological rhythms occurs following long-haul flights.
(18) The army was equally quick to crack down, hauling offenders off for “attitude adjustment” or worse.
(19) Soldado could have embellished his open-play haul just before that but glanced a header inches wide from a Paulinho cross.
(20) The ones that are standing today were hauled back into place from the 1950s onwards.
Move
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.
(v. t.) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.
(v. t.) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
(v. t.) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion.
(v. t.) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.
(v. t.) To apply to, as for aid.
(v. i.) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.
(v. i.) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.
(v. i.) To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another.
(v. i.) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.
(n.) The act of moving; a movement.
(n.) The act of moving one of the pieces, from one position to another, in the progress of the game.
(n.) An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(2) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(3) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(4) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(5) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
(6) Five of them had a fast-moving Eco RI fragment 5.6 kb long that hybridized with zeta-specific probe but not with alpha-specific probe.
(7) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(8) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
(9) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(10) Dzeko he has failed to hold down a starting berth since his £27m move in January 2011.
(11) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(12) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
(13) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(14) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
(15) Johnson said the move would save businesses £350m from not having to meet the more exacting standards, which will now only have to be met by buses.
(16) Like many families, we’ve had to move to escape the fighting.
(17) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
(18) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(19) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
(20) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.