(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.
Jeer
Definition:
(n.) A gear; a tackle.
(n.) An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship.
(v.) To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker.
(v. t.) To treat with scoffs or derision; to address with jeers; to taunt; to flout; to mock at.
(n.) A railing remark or reflection; a scoff; a taunt; a biting jest; a flout; a jibe; mockery.
Example Sentences:
(1) But, truth be told, Putin is also at a loss when he gets jeered.
(2) The jeers were meaningful and the cheers, well, they just were a sign of entertainment.
(3) "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country," he told a jeering audience at Columbia University in New York during his UN visit.
(4) It was reported that the Greek tourist board had asked TV networks to keep the crowd volume low amid fears Greek fans in the stadium would drown out the German national anthem with jeers.
(5) One investor who spoke up in defence of bonuses – the former City fund manager and Conservative party donor Patrick Evershed – was jeered by one of those present, who shouted "call him a taxi".
(6) "I found that most of the MPs just sat jeering at everybody and not actually listening to what people were saying – just what my image of parliament is in my head," said one participant.
(7) Behind the chancellor, Tories kept up a wall of noise, laughing and jeering at the misery guts on the benches opposite.
(8) Goodes, who has been in the headlines all week after being the target of much jeering from Hawthorn fans during a rematch of the 2014 grand final, was again targeted vocally and loudly at the SCG.
(9) Dundee’s Harkins then slashed wide in the fourth of four added minutes before the final whistle brought jeers raining down on the home side.
(10) And take their boos and jeers as confirmation that it’s on to something.
(11) in the manner of John Major as the Tories jeered some more.
(12) Winmar, who played 251 AFL games, made a stand against racism in 1993 when he lifted his jumper and pointed to his skin after being jeered by Collingwood fans at Victoria Park.
(13) It was all very well for erstwhile broadsheet newspaper readers to jeer "Who cares?"
(14) In a move that sparked laughter and jeers in the Commons, the shadow chancellor pulled out a copy of the Quotations from Chairman Mao to make a point about George Osborne’s attempts to sell off state assets to the Chinese.
(15) The police said they had no evidence of the incident, captured on camera by a jeering mob, but opened investigations to find out if the men were "sodomites".
(16) Burkhardt encountered sharp criticism from Quebec politicians and jeers from Lac-Mégantic residents while making his first visit to the town.
(17) (There is jeering, because the Lib Dems say this is there policy.)
(18) Police officer Thet Lwin, speaking at the scene, said the fire was triggered by an electrical short "and not due to any criminal activity" but was jeered by the crowd for saying so.
(19) Remember the Trump supporter who disagreed with everything Trump said but explained: “He’s just my kind of guy.” Like it or jeer, these are the people who now win elections.
(20) Sterling’s omission from the starting XI had created the pre-match buzz and the substitute was jeered by plenty of travelling supporters by the tunnel in the corner as he returned to the dressing room after the warm-up.