(v. t.) To separate from the awns; -- said of barley.
(a.) Having no awns or no horns; as, hummelcorn; a hummel cow.
Example Sentences:
(1) They too will almost certainly play a 4-2-3-1, with Messrs Piszczek, Subotic, Hummels and Schmeizer lining up from right to left in front of goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller.
(2) Updated at 8.36pm BST 8.22pm BST 35 min: Another long ball towards Ronaldo is cut out, this time by Hummels.
(3) Most of the team is about 25,” said the defender Mats Hummels of a side that put 11 goals past Portugal and Brazil and also overcame France and Argentina.
(4) Updated at 8.23pm BST 8.04pm BST Brazil v Germany - line-ups ... Brazil: 12-Julio Cesar; 6-Marcelo, 23-Maicon, 13-Dante, 4-David Luiz; 17-Luiz Gustavo, 5-Fernandinho, 20-Bernard, 11-Oscar, 7-Hulk; 9-Fred Germany: 1-Manuel Neuer; 16-Philipp Lahm; 20-Jerome Boateng; 5-Mats Hummels; 4-Benedikt Hoewedes; 7-Bastian Schweinsteiger; 6-Sami Khedira; 18-Toni Kroos; 8-Mesut Ozil; 13-Thomas Mueller, 11-Miroslav Klose Referee: Marco Rodriguez (Mexico) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Meet Marco Rodriguez, tonight's referee.
(5) Borussia Dortmund’s Mats Hummels is his current No1 choice.
(6) Moments earlier Vermeer came out of his goal to put off Lewandowski after a great long ball from Hummels.
(7) Benzema was denied by another Hummels block and Blaise Matuidi had a shot saved by Neuer.
(8) Sample, M. Hummel, D. Braun, M. Birkenbach, and E. Kieff, Proc.
(9) Louis van Gaal has been given the green light to pursue Mats Hummels after Borussia Dortmund admitted the Manchester United manager’s prime defensive target is for sale in the close season.
(10) It’s a crucial period.” Van Gaal, who has been in regular contact with the United executive during the World Cup, will step up his efforts to strengthen the squad next week, with Borussia Dortmund’s Mats Hummels, Real Madrid’s Ángel Di María and Juventus’s Arturo Vidal high on his list of priorities .
(11) Mats Hummels, the Dortmund defender, said: "The game was really close and its very disappointing for us.
(12) The Dutchman is targeting Roma’s Kevin Strootman, who would cost around £30m, Borussia Dortmund’s Mats Hummels who may be priced up to £35m, Atlético Madrid’s Diego Godín – in the region of £25m – Barcelona’s Dani Alves, for around £15m, and may potentially move for Arjen Robben, with the Bayern Munich winger costing no less than £40m.
(13) Hummels, who is now 25 and could cost up to £30m, was then at Bayern Munich, having joined as a six-year-old when his father moved from Bergisch Gladbach – his birthplace – to became a youth team coach at “club Hollywood”.
(14) Capacity of the resulting cation-free peptide to bind Ca++, Mg++, Na+ and K+ was examined with the method of Hummel and Dreyer (Biochim.
(15) Borussia Dortmund’s Mats Hummels, Roma’s Kevin Strootman, Southampton’s Nathaniel Clyne and Barcelona’s Dani Alves would all do very nicely.
(16) Six members of that team started against Brazil: Manuel Neuer, Benedikt Höwedes, Mats Hummels, Jérôme Boateng, Sami Khedira and Mesut Özil.
(17) Yet the world champions are still short on goalscorers and, as Mats Hummels suggested before the game, there are probably more players in the current squad who want to assist rather than put the ball in the net.
(18) The prime potential acquisitions include Bayern Munich's Arjen Robben, who does not take his place in Holland's squad until after Saturday's German Cup final, the winger's club team-mate Thomas Müller, an attacking midfielder, and the Borussia Dortmund central defender, Mats Hummels.
(19) On Boxing Day in 2006, Old Trafford was the destination for Hummels who, along with a friend, was sent by his father, Hermann, to watch Sir Alex Ferguson’s team take on Wigan Athletic as a gift to mark his birthday of 10 days before.
(20) "You are so right about Hummels, Paul," agrees wise Barry Praag.
Hummer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.
(n.) A humming bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are no yellow Lamborghinis or Hummers blasting music.
(2) During a conference in 2008, she distributed a fleet of hummers to regional bosses.
(3) The latest incarnation of the Batmobile - usually a sleek sportscar - looks like someone crossed a Hummer with a Lamborghini and a stealth bomber, then got a T-Rex to sit on the result.
(4) Or if I'm in a more socially conscious form of my default setting, I can spend time in the end-of-the-day traffic jam being angry and disgusted at all the huge, stupid, lane-blocking SUVs and Hummers and V12 pickup trucks burning their wasteful, selfish, 40-gallon tanks of gas, and I can dwell on the fact that the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles driven by the ugliest, most inconsiderate and aggressive drivers, who are usually talking on cell phones as they cut people off in order to get just 20 stupid feet ahead in a traffic jam, and I can think about how our children's children will despise us for wasting all the future's fuel and probably screwing up the climate, and how spoiled and stupid and disgusting we all are, and how it all just sucks ...
(5) Outside Gucci, a driver kipped yesterday in a black seven-series Mercedes; nearby someone had parked their giant Hummer jeep on the pavement.
(6) In this traffic, all these vehicles stuck and idling in my way: it's not impossible that some of these people in SUVs have been in horrible car accidents in the past and now find driving so traumatic that their therapist has all but ordered them to get a huge, heavy SUV so they can feel safe enough to drive; or that the Hummer that just cut me off is maybe being driven by a father whose little child is hurt or sick in the seat next to him, and he's trying to rush to the hospital, and he's in a much bigger, more legitimate hurry than I am - it is actually I who am in his way.
(7) GM, which is 60% owned by the US treasury, has cut its workforce from 318,000 three years ago to 209,000 globally and has got rid of brands such as Hummer, Saab, Pontiac and Saturn.
(8) I’m not going to sit back and buy a Hummer and just let it all slide.
(9) The organization will begin to disintegrate into several smaller, uncoordinated entities – ultimately failing in their objective of creating a strong state.” Manning was posted to Forward Operating Base Hummer outside Baghdad where as an intelligence analyst she had a ring-side seat on the largely Sunni insurgency, poring through classified databases to track the movements and tactics of groups including Isis.
(10) 9.01pm: Meanwhile, in other news on the motor industry front - General Motors has just announced that it is shutting down the gas-guzzling Hummer brand after a sale to China's Sichuan Tengzhong.
(11) Among registrations of new passenger cars were 850,000 SUVs – a rise of 24% – including 425 Hummers.
(12) GM, America's biggest carmaker, is selling brands such as Hummer and Saturn as it scrambles to slim down its operations.
(13) If the world was going to end next week I'd have commemorative ARMAGEDDON RIGHT ON IT 2K12 T-shirts made for me and 35 close mates, hire a white stretch Hummer to take us to Nando's in Brent Cross, and ride it all out over a family platter or 10 and a bucket of cheeky Vimtos.
(14) Yet if Punta is testament to the utter incongruence of money and taste, José Ignacio, occupying a thin peninsula in the middle of two wide coves, is a restrained, elegant demonstration of how high-end development can be done well - the Jaguar to Punta del Este's luminous yellow, souped-up Hummer.
(15) In fact, the biggest problem for Qahtani was her husband sitting next to her in the family Hummer.
(16) Hummer limousines (£400 an hour), fire engines and party buses (from £350 an hour), rickshaws and helicopters (and even tractors in rural locations) are also becoming more popular choices, Brookman says.
(17) This difference has been attributed [Hummer & Millán (1991) Biochem.
(18) When the couple eventually move here, I trust they will get their Hummer serviced at Kwik Fit, sport K-Swiss trainers on their feet and eat only Special K for breakfast, followed by KFC for lunch with a Kit Kat for pudding.
(19) One of the earliest personal computers, the Apple-1, will also go under the hummer alongside Turing's work.
(20) The prisoner was seen to be gasping for air for up to 14 minutes in a procedure that one observer, Lawrence Hummer, described in the Guardian as horrendous and inhumane.