(n.) A spot within another of a different color, as upon the wings of some insects.
(v. t.) To cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island.
Example Sentences:
(1) Viruses isolated from ticks (Ixodes uriae) from a seabird colony on the Isle of May, Scotland, were shown by complement fixation tests to be related to the Uukuniemi and Kemerovo serogroups.
(2) That was incorrect: for example, the Isle of Wight has never had a female MP.
(3) The problem, said Dr Kinsey, was that Shakespeare's "sceptred isle ... set in a silver sea" is now set in a sea of rubbish.
(4) But there are two key factors which are slowing down the crucial progress of renewable energy in the Western Isles.
(5) People born in the Southern Regions and in the Isles, when compared with people ever resident in Turin, have low mortality from malignancies and accidents and in general from all causes of death but respiratory diseases.
(6) Six-revolute-joint instrumented spatial linkages (6R ISLs) have become often-used devices to measure the complete six-degree-of-freedom motion of anatomical joints.
(7) Researching his book, he travelled to Kyrgyzstan, Australia, Tasmania, America, and throughout Europe and the British Isles.
(8) A curious mixture, born in South Africa and living on the Isle of Man, he draws on the oddities of both as a source for gags.
(9) Having personally witnessed their live act (Black Flag frantically twanging Bootsy’s Rubber Band) at Dingwalls in late August, I thought I’d made a great discovery until, two breathless days later, and a mere few hours before they left these fair isles, the Peppers deposited their press kit in my lap.
(10) The owners of a wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight won a repossession order today in their attempt to end an occupation of the plant by workers protesting at planned job losses.
(11) Vestas has confirmed the closure of two sites on the Isle of Wight and Southampton with the loss of 425 jobs.
(12) Gastrointestinal tuberculosis continues to occur sporadically in hospitals in the British Isles.
(13) Most immediately in Zurich is the likely publication of a settlement made in court in the Swiss canton of Zug, in connection with alleged bribes paid to senior Fifa officials in the late 1990s by the marketing company ISL.
(14) Nearly 11,000 islanders had objected to the scheme, which had been supported by the Western Isles council and the island's main community trust.
(15) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
(16) Six systems for defining and evaluating disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (the Ropes system, the National Institutes of Health [NIH] system, the New York Hospital for Special Surgery system, the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group [BILAG] scale, the University of Toronto SLE Disease Activity Index [SLE-DAI], and the Systemic Lupus Activity Measure [SLAM]) were tested on 25 SLE patients who were selected to represent a range of disease activity.
(17) 'A n excessive sense of entitlement" was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself.
(18) The apogee, for me, is his book Terra Nullius , a 2005 Australia travelogue that indicts Britons and white Australians for terrible abuses such as the transportation of Aborigine women to the chillingly named Isle of the Dead where they were given inappropriate and often fatal syphilis treatment, and the extensive forced separation of "half-blood" children from their families to prison-like camps.
(19) Information will be available at goldenballyork.co.uk • Today sees the official re-opening of one of the British Isles's most remote convenience stores.
(20) He has a fixation with islands (Cyprus, Sicily, The Tempest 's nameless "isle").
Misle
Definition:
(v. i.) To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle.
(n.) A fine rain; a thick mist; mizzle.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
(2) However, evidence obtained by the committee showed the document had "deliberately misled" the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), she said.
(3) Asked if he thought the committee had been misled, Whittingdale replied: "I'm not sure yet."
(4) "The suggestion that I deliberately misled the committee and refused to apologise are both untrue and unfair," she wrote in a letter to Keith Vaz, the committee's chairman.
(5) • Crone and the former NoW editor Colin Myler "misled the committee by answering questions falsely about their knowledge of evidence that other News of the World employees had been involved in phone-hacking and other wrongdoing".
(6) People might have died if the public had been misled on that point.
(7) Chief among them is that the administration misled the American people about the nature of the attack during a presidential election campaign and stonewalled congressional investigators.
(8) The Speaker, John Bercow, is certain to grant an urgent statement to MPs requiring ministers to explain whether they have misled the house, or acted in breach of a parliamentary resolution.
(9) As Alan Johnson came close today to accusing Scotland Yard of having misled him over the scandal, a leaked Home Office memo shows that the last government decided against calling in Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary after intense internal lobbying.
(10) Your article ( Senior police officer 'misled parliament' over phone hacking , 11 March) repeats comments made by Chris Bryant MP in Thursday's debate in the Commons.
(11) Duncan Smith and David Cameron have brushed aside claims that MPs were still being misled about UC's progress after the head of the civil service on Monday said the business case for universal credit had not been signed off by the Treasury.
(12) Asked by BBC Radio 4's Media Show if she thought the committee had previously been misled, Hodge said: "We will have to discover that next Monday.
(13) "I am amazed that the case is being made that in some way these students, misled, going into a most dangerous place – perhaps the most dangerous place on Earth – should be forced to allow a programme to take place that they oppose," he said.
(14) In the House of Commons last week, Chris Bryant MP said that Yates had misled the committees by claiming that it is illegal to hack voicemail messages only if they have not already been heard by the intended recipient.
(15) Deutsche Bank share price In a similar case, rival Goldman Sachs agreed in April to pay $5.06 billion to settle claims that it misled mortgage bond investors during the financial crisis.
(16) "One way of reading the contradictory explanations between the sergeant at arms and what the DPP has said is that the police misled her, and I think that's a very serious issue which needs to be looked into," he told Sky News.
(17) In a recent statement, the PCC denied that it had been "materially misled" by accepting previous assurances from the News of the World that Goodman had "acted alone".
(18) Two years ago the PCC published a report following allegations it was misled by the News of the World during an inquiry into phone hacking at the paper it conducted in 2007.
(19) "It's the people who were persuaded to vote no who were misled, who were gulled, who were tricked effectively.
(20) "The commission came to a view – based on the information available at the time – as to whether it had been misled by the News of the World.