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Hockey


Definition:

  • (n.) A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.
  • (n.) The stick used by the players.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A compilation of injuires sustained in an amateur ice hockey program over a tw0-year period revealed that the majority of those injuires were facial lacerations.
  • (2) But the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into housing that was established by Hockey, backed the need to review negative gearing.
  • (3) The diet of seven professional hockey players was studied for one week during the playing season to determine whether food selection could pose a problem for hockey performance.
  • (4) This is no doubt a captain’s pick by Malcolm Turnbull and we hope for the sake of the relationship that it has been a good pick.” The planned appointment of Hockey to the Washington role has been one of the worst-kept secrets in Australian politics .
  • (5) A registry, established by the Committee on Prevention of Spinal Cord Injuries Due to Hockey, of major injuries to the spine or spinal cord sustained while playing ice hockey contains 117 cases entered between January 1966 and March 1987; 112 of these injuries were sustained in Canada.
  • (6) His consecration took place at an ice hockey stadium in Durham, New Hampshire, and he wore a bulletproof vest under his gold vestments because he had received death threats.
  • (7) The treasurer, Joe Hockey, defended the government's planned changes to higher education during an appearance on the ABC's Q&A program on Monday night.
  • (8) She rejected suggestions Hockey had been sidelined by the appointment of the new head of the prime minister’s department, Michael Thawley.
  • (9) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
  • (10) Physicians have a duty to urge all hockey players to wear adequate head and face protection to prevent such injuries.
  • (11) Thirty-three cases of retinal detachment following hockey injury were seen during a 15-year period at the retina clinic of Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal.
  • (12) An abdominal hernia caused by blunt trauma in ice hockey.
  • (13) Our board of trustees already involves [the ice hockey player] Ilya Kovalchuk and his wife Nicole, and we are now negotiating with [the boxer] Roy Jones Jr, who recently received Russian citizenship.” It is clear that Shatov is an achiever more than than a dreamer – a down-to-earth character who will never forget where he came from.
  • (14) Even without an operation, a recurrent shoulder dislocation did not prevent one-third of the players from continuing with ice hockey.
  • (15) 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.
  • (16) For example, in May 2012 , Hockey said, “Australians are right to be concerned about handing Wayne Swan yet another increase in our nation’s credit card limit.” He then went on Alan Jones to argue that the government could not make claims that it was making savings if it was also increasing the debt ceiling from $250bn to $300bn.
  • (17) Hockey carried on in his budget speech about the age pension becoming unaffordable, but within three years this top-end superannuation concession will cost more than the age pension.
  • (18) Hockey made the order after receiving advice from the government solicitor.
  • (19) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
  • (20) At stake: rice cakes, a gift basket, and a somewhat condescending hockey puck.

Puck


Definition:

  • (n.) A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc.
  • (n.) The goatsucker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
  • (2) At stake: rice cakes, a gift basket, and a somewhat condescending hockey puck.
  • (3) 3.21am BST Puck drops... We're back, and we have action.
  • (4) 2.44am BST Kings 3-3 Blackhawks, 2:42, 2nd period A two-on one break for the Hawks - Shaw is skating with the puck across the blue line, passes to Niklas Hjalmarsson, who gives it back, cross ice to Shaw who fires and is denied!
  • (5) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
  • (6) Jagr nearly won it for Boston in the closing seconds of the second OT when the puck deflected off him and hit the post.
  • (7) Updated at 2.17am BST 2.15am BST Puck drops ...and we're back.
  • (8) 1.41am BST Rangers 0-1 Kings, 09:01, 1st period Hagelin puts the puck on net, Quick saves.
  • (9) Jeff Carter’s puck passed the line with approximately 0.07 seconds left in the first, delivering a devastating blow to New York.
  • (10) Also, the Kings were able to force key turnovers, none more important than Girardi's misstep that led to the winning goal from Justin Williams - the Rangers simply must be more careful with the puck to win.
  • (11) It was also possible to demonstrate that for a given speed of the puck the more flexible stick required a smaller force than the rigid one.
  • (12) Galactokinase deficient fibroblasts are not distinguishable from galactosemic fibroblasts by a test suggested earlier by Hill & Puck (1973).
  • (13) Pucks flew across the crease as the Habs ran heavy traffic around the netminder.
  • (14) 3.56am BST Kings 1-2 Rangers, 1:11, 3rd period Martinez shoots - Pearson redirects - where's the puck?
  • (15) But King was in the crease and The King could not move to get the puck - the refs ignore the obvious interference and the goal stands!
  • (16) That's what we're about to find out, but before the puck drops, and even after, why not join the blog, because, as we like to say, our blog is your blog.
  • (17) Now another chance for LA - off the faceoff - Brown gets the puck behind the pack, he's in front of the net but fires into the chest of Lundqvist!
  • (18) 1.31am BST Kings 0-0 Rangers, 13:44, first period Now it's Anze Kopitar carrying, carrying, behind the net, controlling, and now he's trying to wrap around, but it's off the blade of his stick and the puck slides across the crease.
  • (19) 3.17am BST Kings 3-0 Rangers, 16:57, third period The Kings carry the puck for a decent chunk of the advantage, mostly thanks to Anze Kopitar.
  • (20) Finally the ref stops play - but the puck is just inches in front of the goal line!