(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.
Job
Definition:
(n.) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
(n.) A piece of chance or occasional work; any definite work undertaken in gross for a fixed price; as, he did the job for a thousand dollars.
(n.) A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
(n.) Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
(n.) A situation or opportunity of work; as, he lost his job.
(v. t.) To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
(v. t.) To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
(v. t.) To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract.
(v. t.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods.
(v. t.) To hire or let by the job or for a period of service; as, to job a carriage.
(v. i.) To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.
(v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
(v. i.) To carry on the business of a jobber in merchandise or stocks.
(n.) The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the typical patient man.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(2) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
(3) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(4) Of course the job is not done and we will continue to remain vigilant to all risks, particularly when the global economic situation is so uncertain,” the chancellor said in a statement.
(5) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
(6) When compared with self-reported exposures, the sensitivity of both job-exposure matrices was low (on average, below 0.51), while the specificity was generally high (on average, above 0.90).
(7) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
(8) "We do not think the Astra management have done a good job on behalf of shareholders.
(9) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
(10) For enrolled nurses an increase in "Intrinsic Job Satisfaction" was less well maintained and no differences were found over time on "Patient Focus".
(11) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(12) It did the job of triggering growth, but it also fueled real-estate speculation, similar to what was going on in the mid-2000s here.” Slowing economic growth may be another concern.
(13) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
(14) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(15) Which must make yesterday's jobs figures doubly alarming for the coalition.
(16) Such a decision put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
(17) This defeat, though, is hardly a good calling card for the main job.
(18) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(19) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(20) Pearson had been informed after that bizarre incident that he was out of a job only to be told that he was back in work a few hours later .