(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...
Omer
Definition:
(n.) A Hebrew measure, the tenth of an ephah. See Ephah.
Example Sentences:
(1) It made perfect sense to use to spread those kinds of features and hardware around the wrist instead of throwing them all into one thick lump under the screen on top of your wrist,” said Omer El Fakir, industrial designer of Blocks.
(2) They chose only to lift the subsidies, leaving other major items untouched – for example, the majority of the budget is still directed to the war,” said Omer al-Digair, chairman of the Sudanese Congress Party.
(3) Groups of children from 5 different places of residency were tested: (1) urban children from the city of Beer-Sheva; (2) children from Omer, a suburb of the city; (3) children from rural communes ("kibbutz"); (4) children from small agricultural settlements ("moshav"); and (5) seminomadic bedouin children.
(4) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Leigh Daynes, executive director of Doctors of the World UK, said he had encountered 10-year-old Syrian boys living in a ditch at the edge of a farmer’s field outside Saint Omer.
(5) The uncle of the Deghayes boys, Omer, was also linked to LIFG, an outlawed group that the US state department says has links with al-Qaida.
(6) The Authors describe history, etiopatogenesis, clinic, therapy of omeral epicondilitis, very frequent affection.
(7) Omer el-Hamdoon, president of the Muslim Association of Britain, said: “My reaction to the cartoon is disgust, but tending more to annoyance as well because I feel that what’s happening here is not that different from what we witnessed back in 2005 with the Danish cartoons when media outlets went into a cycle of just publishing the cartoons just to show defiance.
(8) At about that time, Beattyville’s police chief, Omer Noe, and the Lee County sheriff, Johnny Mann, were jailed for taking bribes to protect drug smugglers.
(9) How Twitter reacted to Nadiya's Great British Bake Off victory Read more Her victory “demonstrated the inclusivity of British Muslims in society”, according to Dr Omer El-Hamdoon, president of the Muslim Association of Britain.
(10) The flames went all the way up to the sky,” said Omer Yilmaz, who works as a cleaner at the nearby Dolmabahce mosque, directly across the road from the stadium.
(11) Another 12 people were killed in an ambush involving a roadside bomb in Sangin district in Helmand province, also in the south, on Friday evening, said Omer Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
(12) Mehreen Omer (@mehreen_omer) @MohammadFarooq_ The current Education Spend to GDP ratio in #Pakistan is hardly 2%, which is one of the lowest in the world!
(13) "We do not have any formal information," spokesman Waheed Omer told the Guardian today.
(14) Zlatan Ibrahimovic says PSG owners will ‘hunt down Champions League’ Read more And in ‘throw enough of it at the wall’ news, United are also set to decimate Bayer Leverkusen by swooping for the defender Omer Toprak , the midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu and the striker Karim Bellarabi .
(15) Omer Simjee, Employment partner at Irwin Mitchell said: “This is a significant ruling and although being ‘fat’ is not enough in itself to be considered disabled, it could if it restricts an individual’s ability to actively and fully engage in their work.
(16) Doa’a Kutbi Omer, public health officer, International Medical Corps, Attouahi, Aden “Snipers had already taken up positions in the neighbourhood and the area was besieged.
(17) Three policemen were killed and four badly wounded in a 20 minute firefight, according to Omer Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor.
(18) We put all of the bodies in pickups and brought them to Omer Ben Al-Khattab mosque in Jdaidet Artouz.
(19) Omer would be detained at Guantánamo Bay from 2002-2007 and interrogated over “general-to-specific information on LIFG personalities and activities” within the UK.
(20) The Rockets had been planning to make a free-agency push, clearling up the cap space beforehand by sending Jeremy Lin to the Lakers and shipping off backup center Omer Asik to the New Orleans Pelicans.