(n.) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
(2) Moontain Hostel is a new pad for skiers on a budget, with dorm beds from just €20 and private rooms from €60.
(3) Newham council said some of the women in the hostel might qualify for the 15 units it makes available each year for hostel leavers.
(4) At the end of your journey is the Idwal Cottage youth hostel, and Cwm Idwal nature reserve.
(5) Under a partnership that dates back at least a decade, the Greater Manchester West NHS trust posts two community psychiatric nurses (CPNs), plus a support worker, at the probation service-run hostel.
(6) Staff from Hostel B displayed higher levels of EE, and were more critical, and these attitudes generalised easily into hostility and rejection.
(7) Tomlinson had been an alcoholic for some years and was living in a homeless hostel.
(8) Tweedle added that the ban has meant that it was now less common in hostels, but peoplewere still getting hold of it.
(9) The mothers and mothers-to-be – all under 25, many of them teenagers – have been served with eviction notices by the housing association that runs the hostel.
(10) Hostels are having to care for long term severely affected psychiatric patients discharged into the community.
(11) We recommend the development of a peripatetic service as outlined in this study, offering health care at hostels, day centres and other places where the homeless are to be found.
(12) We hear a lot about homes, and rightly so, yet we hear next to nothing about homelessness, about the people forced to sleep on the streets, in hostels and squats or on the sofas of friends and family.
(13) It’s operated by a young, talented photographer called Bheki Dube and his influence is everywhere – the hostel decor is fantastic – think industrial-chic warehouse apartment with lots of quirky touches.
(14) 73 Kloof Street, +27 21 424 6169, onceincapetown.co.za The Backpack Facebook Twitter Pinterest Founder-owners Toni Shina and Lee Harris have created a homely hostel spread across four adjoining houses with cool courtyards and flowery gardens, a chillout lounge, communal kitchen, health-food cafe and terrace bar.
(15) Data were gathered from 175 residents of 150 living units--mental handicap hospital wards, voluntary and private homes, local authority hostels and parental homes.
(16) The aim was to test the assumption that mass miniature x ray screening of the single homeless (hostel residents) is a cost-effective means of controlling pulmonary tuberculosis.
(17) She was just 17 and she had moved to a hostel in Victoria.
(18) About two thirds of the total time in the two institutions was spent in the hostel.
(19) A decision for hostel care instead of home care was associated with a low level of informal support and the absence of a carer who was a spouse or daughter.
(20) The friend's walls were covered in cheap porn, and every person I speak to in the hostel has ferocious love-bites on their necks.
Oxford
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.
Example Sentences:
(1) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(2) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(3) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(4) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
(5) The police investigating the 1991 murder of the Oxford student Rachel McLean had a strong hunch that the killer was her boyfriend, John Tanner, another student.
(6) The £77m, split between Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Newcastle, Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford and Norwich, will help improve existing cycle networks and pay for new ones, creating segregated routes in some areas.
(7) Adam Ramsay, 28, from Oxford, is volunteering over the weekend.
(8) The group receiving an Oxford meniscal-bearing implant, with no medial release, showed significantly better mechanical alignment than that receiving a fixed-bearing implant.
(9) "The more I've worked on data protection over the past 20 years, the more I've realised that at the heart of this, what matters as much as the privacy aspect is the issue of human decision-making," said Mayer-Schönberger, professor of internet governance at the Oxford Internet Institute.
(10) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
(11) Cambridge was on the target list but not Oxford; Bristol but not Brighton; and Edinburgh but not Aberdeen.
(12) "Our common sense is often our worst enemy," said Marcus du Sautoy , the Oxford maths professor who will be appearing in the Barbican season.
(13) Opsonization of Staphylococcus aureus (Oxford strain) and specific IgG subclass antibodies against formalised staphylococci were measured in plasmas from 27 patients with significant S. aureus infections and 35 healthy adults and 15 children.
(14) She decided to become a teacher when she visited inner-city schools on an Oxford scheme to encourage state school pupils to apply there.
(15) Studies of age-specific incidence in Scotland and Oxford showed a close correlation between the regions and between men and women.
(16) A Mantel-Haenszel analysis of fetal irradiation subfactors indicated that most of the "extra" X-rayed cases in the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers were radiation induced.
(18) This was coincident with the area of occurrence of ko-kq and ko-no Oxford-Hermitage hybrids.
(19) The Oxford and Bethesda methods are presently the most commonly used techniques for measuring these antibodies.
(20) Working in tandem with Westminster city council, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, the crown estate has pedestrianised several side streets, widened pavements, and introduced a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus and new traffic islands at Piccadilly Circus, along with two-way traffic on Piccadilly, Pall Mall and St James's Street.