(n.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
(n.) See Hoemother.
(n.) A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(2) Hodge said it appeared that activities related to the Geneva branch of HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary were “pretty outrageous” and told Homer that tax investigators should have spoken to whistleblower Hervé Falciani, who initially obtained the list while employed as an IT worker in 2007.
(3) The agency’s current chief executive, Lin Homer, is due to face the Commons public accounts committee, chaired by the Labour MP Margaret Hodge.
(4) Armitage's stage version, commissioned for the in-the-round Royal Exchange in Manchester, a space that can encompass both the intimate and the epic, reworks The Iliad , adding an ending Homer never wrote.
(5) Aaron Hill drove in two runs with a homer and double, helping the Arizona Diamondbacks top the Chicago Cubs 3-1 and also split a four-game series.
(6) Young Commons reared and trained with Homers of the same age differed behaviorally from the Homers in a variety of ways and many fewer returned home from training and test releases, but the season for the fewer returns appeared to be more concerned with social behavior than with orientation capability.
(7) In Game Four two home runs from Jhonny Peralta and a homer apiece from Triple Crown-winner Cabrera and Austin Jackson led the annihilation.
(8) The tumor demonstrated Homer Wright rosettes, was positive for neuron-specific enolase and ultrastructurally revealed neurosecretory granules.
(9) And why did George Osborne and the Treasury sign a deal with the Swiss in 2012 which prevents the UK from actively obtaining similar information in the future?” One member of the Public Accounts Committee, said Homer should return to the committee to explain herself in light of the comments from the French finance minister.
(10) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
(11) Modern knowledge of renal physiology, kidney disease, and the body fluids in American medicine was established largely by Donald D. Van Slyke, Thomas Addis, John P. Peters, Homer W. Smith, and Alfred Newton Richards.
(12) Homer and Shakespeare have this in common: neither is afraid of a catalogue, either in The Iliad or in the history plays.
(13) Keith Vaz , the chairman of the Commons home affairs select committee, which accused the former UKBA head, Lin Homer, of "catastrophic leadership failure" while she was in charge, congratulated May for "delivering the lethal injection" to the organisation.
(14) Homer himself is a collection of poets, one of many.
(15) It's also somewhat bizarre that Domonic Brown , second in the NL in homers, was passed over, not to mention Pedro Alvarez, Pittsburgh's power threat.
(16) This paper looked at Orten and Soll's runaway typology and Homer's conceptualization of runaways as "running from" or "running to" something and expanded the context to include interactions with family and professionals.
(17) Lin Homer has been announced as the next chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
(18) David Cameron and Nick Clegg have both just stuck their feet in it, insulting the stay-at-homers and egging on the go-to-workers – but why bother to take sides?
(19) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, headed by environment secretary Liz Truss, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), whose chief executive is Lin Homer, continue to refuse to ensure that all their subcontracted staff are paid the living wage.
(20) Now Pedro Alvarez, who is tied for the NL lead with 36 homers, is at the plate with a chance to add to the Bucs lead...
Hover
Definition:
(n.) A cover; a shelter; a protection.
(v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something.
(v. i.) To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
Example Sentences:
(1) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(2) Greece's desperate plight hovers over the meeting, although formally there is no mention of Greece on the agenda or in the statements drafted for the meeting.
(3) So it was that Mané broke along the right and turned over a dangerous ball that needed Matteo Darmian’s intervention as Shane Long hovered.
(4) I was sitting in the room, reading all the negativity and death threats, and by now the helium balloons were half-full, hovering like jellyfish.
(5) Even if everyone in the world limited their fish consumption to once a week (I don’t eat other kinds of meat), the oceans would still be hovering on depletion.
(6) Military helicopters hovered overhead as supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed in the streets below.
(7) Horses grazing singly or in groups were aggressively defended by hovering males.
(8) From the vantage point of my 10-centimetre porthole, I glimpsed life forms with outlines like blown glass occasionally drifting past our lights, while small crustaceans hovered around like flies, keeping pace with our descent.
(9) In his dreamlike view of the world, bits of buildings are liberated to take on their own lives and attempt unexpected feats: floors can shift and windows can hover – and now, it seems, planes can spurt out shimmering aluminium vapour trails.
(10) They all hover around a standard Australian size 8-10, and all have a similar svelte, leggy look.
(11) Bill Clinton hovering just off screen in latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails Read more Platte River took over the device in June 2013, about four months after Clinton left the State Department, and turned it over to the FBI last month, the newspaper reported.
(12) Its growth has slowed in recent days and its size now hovers around 241,000 hectares.
(13) · In the early 1990s, television news programmes featured clips of advanced TM practitioners, known as yogic flyers, apparently hovering off the ground while sitting in the lotus position.
(14) Simmons was struck by the cravat, but also by a third man hovering in the doorway during viewings.
(15) The remark evoked a defensive response from those wedded to the ephemeral virtues of the "confidence fairy" – and who are concerned to keep her benevolent figure hovering above Britain's severely weakened economy.
(16) The potential for a trade war is hovering in the background as Congress and the Republicans agitate over what they regard as underhand tactics by Beijing.
(17) With it would come “the Mother of Planes, which would hover over space for up to a year and then swoop down to rescue righteous black Muslims from the great white wasteland”.
(18) A much bigger role for the market is not a recipe for a bigger or stronger society, because in practice businesses – especially the big US corporations that are hovering over the NHS – are accountable to no one but their shareholders and much more interested in their financial bottom line than social justice or equality.
(19) This turn may be hampered by drag on the abdomen during fast forward flight and would be most useful at low speeds or during hovering.
(20) Sarkozy, who is hovering in the wings threatening a political comeback, said as much last week.