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Heep


Definition:

  • (n.) The hip of the dog-rose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Remarkably, Fight the Power contains a sample of the English rock band Uriah Heep (3) .
  • (2) Some of the city’s best known modernist buildings date back to this period, including David Libeskind’s Conjunto Nacional , Franz Heep’s Edifício Itália , and Oscar’s Niemeyer’s iconic S-shaped Copan building .
  • (3) (3) Heep's 1970 prog-metal opus Bird of Prey is sampled.
  • (4) In truth, I did not much care for Heep, finding him a deeply aspirant member of the lower orders, but I bore myself with the dignity expected of distressed gentlefolk and treated him with a patronising contempt disguised as good manners.
  • (5) It does have to be admitted that there is something irresistible about the delivery of a custard pie to a face, even when the victim is a confused octogenarian belatedly starting a new life as Uriah Heep.
  • (6) As for you, Heep, I shall visit you in prison to lecture you once more."
  • (7) The inclusion of a Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Number index in HEEP has led to the need for a special database designed to link substance names with their appropriate CAS chemical compound Registry Numbers.
  • (8) rarities or Uriah Heep bootlegs, because, hey, it’s all vinyl, huh, vinyl’s great, it’s what we do downtown.
  • (9) Mr Cooke himself even described the late BCCI chairman Agha Abedi as "the living personification of Uriah Heep".
  • (10) "Why I have been investigating your business dealings with Mr Wickfield, Heep, and it seems you are a crook …" "So my father wasn't totally incompetent," cried Agnes.
  • (11) With Heep having finally been exposed as the crook I had always assumed his petit-bourgeois aspirations would lead him to be, I never enquired how someone as feckless as Mr Micawber should be such an astute accountant.
  • (12) It’s a treaty, he said, just that, and should not be viewed as a tablet brought down from on high with Australians behaving as Uriah Heeps grateful to be in the glow of American greatness.
  • (13) Just don't marry Uriah Heep now he's running your father's business."
  • (14) Tim Lott and Josephine Cox opted for Pip and Oliver respectively; Freya North chose Uriah Heep, describing him as a "loathsome character who seeps from the pages like a noxious gas"; Daisy Goodwin went for "the anti-heroine of Bleak House", Lady Dedlock, while Adele Parks favoured the "morally ambiguous" Nancy from Oliver Twist.
  • (15) And our hero proprietor, so famously fastidious about such matters, has to tell Uriah Heep: "That is not my job."
  • (16) But I certainly don’t feel that I need to be Uriah Heep-ish about it in any way.
  • (17) It really isn’t lost on me what a privilege it is to be given a show like this,” this latterday Uriah Heep tells his audience, “and I will really do my best not to let any of you down.” The reviews suggest Corden’s passed this supposed trial-by-fire, but what’s interesting is the criteria applied.
  • (18) I did not hesitate to work still harder for Mr Micawber's release and the only break in my day was the invitation to take tea with an unattractive clerk by the name of Uriah Heep.

Heer


Definition:

  • (n.) A yarn measure of six hundred yards or / of a spindle. See Spindle.
  • (n.) Hair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sturm, Stahl, and Heer sit a few chairs down from Zschäpe in what appears a state of permanent listlessness.
  • (2) In this paper, some developments in understanding the dynamical theory of HEER, particularly in recent years, are reviewed: 1.
  • (3) Kurt Gutzeit, the "Beratende Internist beim Heeres-Sanitäts-Inspekteur" was in charge of the hepatitis research in the army.
  • (4) India’s intelligence agency has warned of potential violence around the release of Kaum De Heere, a Punjabi film which portrays the assassination of India’s former prime minister Indira Gandhi .
  • (5) With the development of reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED), high energy electron microscopy (REM), and high energy electron energy loss spectroscopy (EEL) in surface science, the usefulness of HEER has been widely recognized and demonstrated.
  • (6) Zschäpe originally seems to have chosen her defence lawyers on the basis of their martial-sounding surnames: Sturm (“Storm”), Stahl (“Steel”), and Heer (“Army”), but she soon turned against them.
  • (7) High energy electron reflection (HEER) is an important technique in surface science and uses the information carried by high energy electrons reflected from surfaces to study surface structures and surface electronic states.
  • (8) Megan Heeres, art curator and community art and garden programme manager at Lafayette Greens, one of Detroit's city gardens, said she was worried about what the new mayor will and won't be able to do.
  • (9) However, a stationary dynamical solution for an arbitrary surface for HEER has not been obtained yet.
  • (10) As a consequence, every detail of the trial is being raked over, not least the surnames of Zschäpe's defence lawyers, Wolfgang Heer, Wolfgang Stahl and Anja Sturm, (army, steel and storm), words which are very evocative of Nazi language and history.

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