(n.) A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can throw tarts at the Queen of Hearts, help the Caterpillar smoke his hookah pipe, make Alice grow as big as a house and then shrink again.
(2) Wasn’t it unbecoming of the man dubbed the new Terrence Malick to direct scenes with genial tokers discussing pioneering methods of joint construction , or hookah-puffing sex-pest wizards ?
(3) David Moyes was “not impressed” by newspaper pictures of Van Aanholt apparently smoking such a hookah at a central Newcastle shisha lounge this summer and has made it clear that he will not countenance any repeats.
(4) The tobacco smoking habits of male and female rural subjects using hookah were associated with increased Cd levels in hair and nails.
(5) What is more, hummus has not supplanted peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, hookahs have yet to be installed in congressional chambers, male elected officials continue shaving their facial hair, Egyptian soap operas and al-Jazeera have yet to replace Fox News and CNN, and the Iron Sheik , sadly, is still not the White House spokesman.
(6) In Alewa, turbaned men sit in groups smoking hookah pipes, buffalo are hosed off in the middle of stone-laid roads and dogs catch the mid-morning rays of an Indian winter sun.
(7) The Caterpillar will smoke his hookah in a new way when you tilt your iPad, or you can throw more pepper the second time around.
(8) The unit sent officers to infiltrate student groups, mosques, religious bookstores, hookah bars and any predominantly Muslim areas to spy on people.
(9) It's not just because the Tubino brothers keep their shop packed high with cannabis pipes, herb grinders and rolling paper – or because of the giant green hookah in the display window – that would-be customers are pouring in.
(10) An early job as a mail boy at an advertising agency (where, just like Mary Ann, I was required to raise the American flag every morning for my conservative boss) brought me into daily contact with a Mona-esque copywriter who declared herself "creative" by flaunting a hookah and a Victorian toilet in her office.
(11) His frustration, his alienation, blossomed into the caterpillar at the hookah and Humpty Dumpty and the Mad Hatter.
Hubbly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It's brown, crusty and cratered, like somewhere Hubble may have sent back a photo of.
(2) The telescope, which is perched on the summit of Mauna Kea, a volcanic island in Hawaii, picked up signs of methane in the planet's atmosphere that could not be seen by either Hubble or Spitzer .
(3) The fact that Nasa had to struggle for years to raise funds for a single space telescope, the Hubble, while the defence establishment was building a plant in which these instruments could be mass manufactured may seem startling.
(4) These findings support the close association between hukkah (Indian hubble bubble) smoking and lung cancer.
(5) Until now, scientists have only been able to analyse the atmospheres of such distant worlds using the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, which are in orbit around the Earth.
(6) Finkelstein used the Mosfire (Multi-Object Spectrometer for Infra-red Exploration) instrument on the Keck telescope to survey 43 distant galaxies that had been glimpsed by the Hubble Space Telescope but never confirmed.
(7) In the same issue, scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope reveal pictures of another planet, called Fomalhaut b, 25 light years from Earth in the constellation of Piscis Australis.
(8) Hubble at 25: the space telescope's timeline - in pictures Read more The Progress was carrying “1,940 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of oxygen, 926 pounds of water, and 3,128 pounds of spare parts, supplies and scientific experiment hardware,” Nasa said.
(9) That includes the Blue Marble, a photograph taken by the Apollo 17 crew as they travelled towards the moon in 1972, the “first selfie in space”, taken by Buzz Aldrin during a spacewalk in 1966, and the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, most recently in 2014.
(10) Hubble Space Telescope images There are some beautiful images coming back from the Hubble Space Telescope, but blind people can't see them.
(11) But more hope rests on Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope, a successor to Hubble, which is due to launch in five years, and the European Extra Large Telescope , approved for construction at Paranal at a council meeting of the European Southern Observatory in December last year.
(12) The two telescopes donated by the NRO have mirrors 2.4 metres in diameter – the same as the Hubble observatory's – and from space they could spot "a dime sitting on top of the Washington Monument", according to a Nasa official.
(13) "There's no question that as we send humans farther out into the solar system, certainly to Mars," that laser communications will be needed to send high-definition and 3-D video, said Nasa's science mission chief, John Grunsfeld, a former astronaut who worked on the Hubble space telescope.
(14) Hubble Space Telescope images turned into 3D-printed scenes.
(15) Astronomers have already used Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer , the agency's orbiting infra-red observatory, to take a quick look at the thick atmospheres of some gas giants beyond the solar system.
(16) Officials at Nasa have been given an unexpected gift by American spy chiefs: a pair of space telescopes, each as large as the Hubble observatory.
(17) "I wouldn't call Kepler down-and-out just yet," said Nasa associate administrator for space science John Grunsfeld, who as a former astronaut undertook several spacewalks to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.
(18) "Not only will it allow us to see farther into the history of the universe, it will do so with unprecedented sharpness, providing images that are 10 to 15 times sharper than the Hubble space telescope ."
(19) NASA reported this month on the project of two astronomers at the Space Telecope Science Institute who are turning Hubble images into 3D-printed pictures with stars, filaments, gas and dust .
(20) These two newly discovered supermassive black holes were found by analysing data from the Hubble Space Telescope and two of the biggest ground-based telescopes in the world, the Gemini North and Keck 2 facilities in Hawaii.