(n.) The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk.
Example Sentences:
(1) What did surprise pundits was Hollywood's recognition of this unflinching Austrian film about ageing as a candidate for best picture, among such expected contenders as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Ben Affleck's Argo and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables .
(2) "Also, Although not noticeable in the league so far, in Europe you can really see they miss the steel and composure of Wanyama in the centre of the park and the opportunist nature of Gary Hooper up front."
(3) The problem is that rugby is a winter sport, played in stodgy conditions up north that don’t really allow for the development of faster, lighter genuine open-side flankers who can match the likes of Richie McCaw, David Pocock, Francois Louw and Michael Hooper.
(4) It was written by Sarah Hooper, who worked on Channel 4's Shameless, and is scheduled to launch in autumn next year.
(5) While big businesses have enjoyed access to new couriers, Royal Mail itself eventually reached such a dire state that the Hooper report urged the government to rewrite the law to clarify that competition was a mixed blessing.
(6) (S. P. Cohen, D. C. Hooper, J. S. Wolfson, K. S. Souza, L. M. McMurry, and S. B.
(7) When the Weigl was used as a moderator variable with the Hooper and also with the Benton, the p values for each test were somewhat reduced (p = .005 and .01), an indication of improvement in predictive power.
(8) Meanwhile, Norwich have confirmed that they will not be making any further bids for Gary Hooper.
(9) TV producer turned Arts Council chairman Peter Bazalgette is another possible candidate, as is Richard Hooper, former deputy chairman of Ofcom, and Lord Myners, the former City minister who recently quit the board of the Co-operative Group.
(10) More predictable were the three awards that went to Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – two technical, and a best supporting actress gong for Anne Hathaway's showstopping role as warbling prostitute Fantine.
(11) Proctolin strongly excites the lateral pyloric and the inferior cardiac neurons of the stomatogastric ganglion (STG), causing them to fire extended high-frequency bursts of action potentials (Hooper and Marder, 1987; Nusbaum and Marder, 1989a,b).
(12) Gary Hooper strikes twice as Leeds are thwarted at Sheffield Wednesday Read more That said, this was a perfect away performance from a Birmingham side at the other end of the spending scale, tight at the back, and clinical in attack.
(13) Despite Hooper's triumph at the Directors Guild of America awards a month ago , which are generally considered an accurate barometer of the Academy's intentions (only six times in their 63-year history have they not correlated), momentum had seemed to be falling back into the hands of David Fincher, who took both the Golden Globe and the Bafta two weeks ago.
(14) This work and the related experiments of DiSpirito and Hooper (DiSpirito, A.A., and Hooper, A.B.
(15) We had left her for just about an hour when they called us to tell us she had passed away.” When she celebrated her last birthday, the great-grandmother said: “I don’t feel very different to when I was 75.” Hooper broke a Guinness World Record last year when she became the oldest person to undergo a hip replacement operation, which was carried out by consultant orthopaedic surgeon Jason Millington at St Mary’s hospital in Newport.
(16) The solutions are obvious from this string, it is a question of doing something about them sustainably.” Reader comments Deona Hooper : “With recent news, I know many may feel the UK system is imperfect.
(17) The remaining five – Ben Affleck's Argo , Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – seem to address and express this particular year.
(18) "Let me be clear about what we are looking for," said Hooper.
(19) But it’s been treated as less.” Gillard tells Hooper there is no control group to tell her reliably whether a male leader in the same circumstances would have had an easier run.
(20) While Nancy, Diana , Unity and Decca pursued literature, fascism, Hitler and socialism, Debo's best friend in childhood was the family's old groom, Hooper, "the human end of the horses; the stables were my heaven".
Hooter
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The dehumanisation of women by Hooters and Unilad makes it easy for its supporters to threaten us with violence, because they help normalise the view that women are disposable objects.
(2) Hodgson and his players were kept awake on their first night by noise from a nearby Hooters bar and had to enlist the help of the mayor to shut down an open-air area and keep the volume down.
(3) The view is startling: Tower Bridge is slapped across the window like it's perched on your hooter as a pair of novelty specs.
(4) I believe that establishments like Hooters and communities like Unilad are contributing to the normalisation of this degradation, this violent language, this view of women as objects.
(5) It was a natural progression when he took over Juke Box Jury, chairing a celebrity panel as they assessed likely chart hits – hailed with a hotel reception bell – or misses – dismissed with a hooter.
(6) The hooter sounds for the first wave of swimmers, then the second.
(7) Sinfield was handed what would have been a relatively tough conversion anyway but, even with the changing of the lead on the line, he knocked it over – before Watkins’ try on the hooter sealed the farewell Leeds’ iconic trio of departing stars imagined back in February.
(8) Hodgson will be relieved to know that Hooters does not have a bar in Chantilly and officials in the French town have told the Guardian the more pressing concern will be to create a suitable training pitch at the run-down Stade des Bourgognes, a municipal ground that is home to an amateur side.
(9) The last journalist I had in here asked to go to Hooters,” grinned Ratzlaff.
(10) Can you get any loftier in tone or record than this (forgetting for a moment how the Mail's Quentin Letts describes him: "A retired Whitehall eminence who once held the claret jug for Roy Jenkins"; "his hooter is the colour of a lunchtime burgundy"; "tremendously urbane and chortlesome"; "beautifully mannered"; "the rich creaminess of a ripe Stilton")?
(11) Hooters supporters started to leave comments yesterday morning on the Bristol Feminist Network Facebook page , blaming us for its closure.
(12) Additionally, two-thirds of the women surveyed felt excluded from networking opportunities, including lunch meetings at Hooters and on the golf course, because they were women.
(13) However, just over a year later, Hooters announced that it had closed .
(14) There’d be lots of smoke and drink, but that’s where you had to be to participate.” Ryan learned her trade in secret, doing open mics while studying town planning and working at Hooter’s.
(15) Hooters closed not because of pressure from feminists (if that was the case, it would never have opened) but because the managing company went into administration.
(16) Last year the group helped organise a well-attended conference; in 2008, they ran a campaign to stop a branch of US restaurant chain Hooters (where lightly clothed women serve up the burgers) opening in Sheffield.
(17) I am sorry that people lost their jobs and sincerely hope that they find new work soon, but I believe that the closure of Hooters is fundamentally a positive step.
(18) Leeds responded well and after Watkins put Hardaker away for their side’s first points of the evening, Sinfield converted and then slotted over a penalty of his own to make it 8-8 before Walsh showed all his experience by kicking over a drop-goal on the hooter to hand Saints the slenderest of leads at the interval.
(19) Back in 2010, self-styled "breastaurant" Hooters applied for a licence to open in Bristol.
(20) After a strip club was refused a licence earlier in the month, the closure of Hooters represents one less business on the high street that seeks to make money by objectifying women.