(n.) A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
(interj.) Ho! Halloe! Stop!
Example Sentences:
(1) Jason Kenny's campaign in the match sprint will not end until Monday assuming all goes well, but he got off to the best possible start when he set a new Olympic record in qualifying over the flying 200m, bettering Sir Chris Hoy's 9.815sec from Beijing by over a tenth of a second.
(2) Baugé's body language afterwards indicated he had been on the receiving end of another severe psychological blow; both men progressed to the quarter-finals, but Kenny has already shown that he amply merits his selection ahead of the defending champion, Hoy.
(3) Hoy and others fear that the Kincora inquiry, which is based in Northern Ireland and taking hearings at the court in Banbridge, County Down, will not have access to sensitive MI5 intelligence files on the people who ran Kincora.
(4) That is why many Mexicans are very disconnected with the Galaxy,” said Eduard Cauich, sports editor for Hoy, a Spanish-language weekly published by the Los Angeles Times.
(5) "Governments must show all the energy and cunning of Chris Hoy and Mo Farah until they win [the fight]," he told the audience.
(6) plcS mapped approximately at 67 min on the 75-min chromosomal map (B. W. Holloway, K. O'Hoy, and H. Matsumoto, p. 213-221, in S. J. O'Brien, ed., Genetic Maps 1987, vol.
(7) As Hoy sees it, increasing the number of track cyclists boils down to one issue: access.
(8) The MPs must have felt they were being addressed by the Old Man of Hoy.
(9) Kenny was selected because he has a proven record of rising to the occasion for major championships and because it was believed that his youth would enable him to recover more quickly than Hoy between matches in a tournament where the first two legs in the final were separated by 15 minutes.
(10) Previous behavioral assays showed that crickets discriminate the low frequencies of the species calling song (4-5 kHz) from the high frequencies contained in the vocalizations of insectivorous bats (Nolen and Hoy, 1986a).
(11) British cycling team thrown into chaos by departure of Shane Sutton Read more The Australian, who mentored Sir Chris Hoy and Sir Bradley Wiggins to Olympic success before taking over the top role in British Cycling in 2014, was already under scrutiny after allegations of sexism made by the track rider Jess Varnish at the weekend.
(12) All right, maybe Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy and Jessica Ennis will sneak ahead of the mayor at the finish line.
(13) A unique source of ipsilaterally mediated inhibition, tuned to the calling song frequency, accounted for the poor response to calling song and hence the neuron's high-frequency selectivity, and the behavioral and physiological effects of 2-tone suppression of high frequencies by the calling song (Nolen and Hoy, 1986b).
(14) As a result, five of the best 10 qualifiers from the world championships were absent here, including Hoy, who took bronze at the world's behind Baugé and Kenny.
(15) Hoy now stands alone, a national hero, as the only man who has won three gold medals on two wheels in a single Olympic games, but countless other cyclists have felt the same as he did after five minutes whirling round the bankings: "There was a sudden acceleration, a burst of speed, and I was hooked.
(16) Part of the London gold rush was dependent on two riders at the end of their careers – Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton.
(17) Hoy is an enthusiastic proponent of his sport: "It's exhilarating as you fly down the bankings.
(18) The establishment of the fund represents the largest single injection of public money into cycling in England, and was due to be formally launched by Cameron alongside Britain's most successful Olympian, the track cyclist Chris Hoy.
(19) The 24-year-old's status as the stealth champion of British cycling – compared to the cover stars Hoy, Pendleton and Wiggins – looked set to change after the coaches made their unexpected call in June and it will certainly change now.
(20) Certainly the newspaper Hoy, Diario del Magdalena had little doubt who was to blame for their defeat.
Loy
Definition:
(n.) A long, narrow spade for stony lands.
Example Sentences:
(1) Read more Reputex says the detailed rules confirm none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new liquefied natural gas processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(2) Luke Alexander Loy was not one of George Osborne’s “hard-working people”.
(3) This would include $1.9bn for EnergyAustralia, which runs the Yallourn brown coal power stations in Victoria, $1.5 billion for Origin, owner of the huge Eraring black coal power station in NSW and $1 billion for AGL, which owns the brown coal Loy Yang A station in Victoria.
(4) AGL, which owns Loy Yang, Bayswater and Liddell power stations and is Australia’s single largest greenhouse gas emitter, has also called on the government to regulate that brown-coal-fired power stations close when they reach their scheduled shelf life, about 50 years.
(5) A bridge between the older painters of the GDR and the young artists of a unified Germany, he keeps the hours of a factory worker: nine to six every day, with a midday break to prepare lunch for his wife, the painter Rosa Loy.
(6) Reputex says the detailed rules, signed off by cabinet on Tuesday, confirm that none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new LNG processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
(7) Here's Eintracht keeper Egon Loy in action that night ... Ball (l), the spectacular Egon Loy (r) 7.16pm BST Diego Costa, Pepe, Sergio Ramos ... anyway, for the record, there have only ever been two sendings off in European Cup or Champions League finals.
(8) Environment Victoria, the premier environment group in the state, has released a report called Preventing the Preventable on Thursday on the costs of cleaning up three coalmines in the Latrobe valley east of Melbourne: Hazelwood, Yallourn and Loy Yang.
(9) Kreis has repeatedly insisted a decision has not been made, and his club owner Dell Loy Hansen is still publicly holding out hope that a revised, lucrative offer can keep the coach, but there was a valedictory feel to Kreis's comments at the Thursday evening press conference, when he acknowledged that ever since the final game of the season against Chivas, he's had to deal with the sensation of knowing that each game "might be the last match that I get to coach with this group," even as he insisted that "the decision has yet to be made."
(10) Atfa Azimi, 16, solves a maths problem in the bombed-out carcass of Loy Ghar school.
(11) Loy Yang is one of AGL’s largest brown-coal stations and produces about one-third of Victoria’s energy.
(12) Luke Loy had a life, until his benefits started falling away | Frances Ryan Read more “It was very daunting, like being in court,” he says.
(13) RSL owner Dell Loy Hansen said: "I'd like to thank Jason for a remarkably successful run during his nine years with Real Salt Lake as both a player and as a head coach.
(14) Hazelwood, owned by GDF Suez, emits 15.5m tonnes of greenhouse gases a year, followed in the rankings by Yallourn and Loy Yang B.
(15) He replaced Michael Fraser, an enthusiastic supporter of fossil fuels who acquired coal assets such as Loy Yang power station in Victoria .
(16) Additional members of the US team included Terry Tamminen; Jim Green, adviser to Joe Biden, now the vice-president who then headed the Senate foreign relations committee; Mark Helmke, adviser to Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the committee; and Frank Loy, a former state department negotiator on climate.
(17) Both Green and Loy have been nominated to jobs in the Obama administration .
(18) [Nelson AG, Arnall DA, Loy SF, et al: Consequences of combining strength and endurance training regimens.
(19) The bonds of the resin to two of the tested alloys, Bondi-loy and Vitallium, showed tensile strengths of approximately 18 MPa.