(v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.
(v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe.
(v. t.) To agree; to harmonize.
Example Sentences:
(1) He reiterated his jibe that the Republican convention had been like watching something from the past, a black-and-white newsreel.
(2) It seemed to be a jibe at the Serbs’ claims on Kosovo, whose population is overwhelmingly ethnic Albanian, and the photographs depicted on either side were equally inflammatory.
(3) Sal Russo, an influential strategist and founder of the Tea Party Express, said that even the terrorist jibe was a sign of success.
(4) The PBR took "no tough decisions", jibed the Conservatives, but it lopped £7bn off public spending and jacked up national insurance contributions by £3bn – fairly tough in anyone's book.
(5) Livingstone, the former London mayor, whose fractious relationship with the Standard reached a low point with his Nazi jibe at Jewish reporter Oliver Finegold , remains defiantly unapologetic about the incident and holds a healthy hatred of the title, now majority-owned by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev.
(6) Berg's jibe was "there's no longer anything original or particularly provocative about bowel movements presented as art".
(7) Ferdinand directed a jibe at a Twitter follower containing the word ’sket’, which is understood to be a slang term taken to mean a promiscuous girl or woman.
(8) Take Channel 4 political correspondent, Michael Crick, who tweeted a cruel jibe made about Abbott by a London cabbie just to make a point about Jeremy Corbyn.
(9) I actually don’t drink.” He smiles when repeating Hayden’s jibe.
(10) Ignoring Osborne's jibe that to threaten a debt default was like threatening "to burn my own house down in protest", Salmond warned that if there was no deal on sterling, there would be no deal on Scotland paying its share of the £1.6tn of national debt expected by 2016.
(11) And in response to tabloid-inflated hysteria about an influx of Romanian and Bulgarian welfare-hounds, Johnson cracks a cheap jibe about Transylvanians and tents – an undisguised slur on the Roma.
(12) Now he has a 4-5% chance.” Later in the debate, Trump and Cruz went at each other’s jugulars a second time – on this occasion over Cruz’s recent jibe that Trump subscribed to “New York values”.
(13) Charlene White, a presenter on ITV News London, received insults on social media after she appeared on screen without the poppy, with many of the jibes focusing on her race.
(14) Corbyn v Cameron at PMQs: was 'bunch of migrants' jibe intentional?
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump makes menstruation jibe at Megyn Kelly - audio Cruz said that Trump’s feud with Kelly was a sign of weakness: “If he thinks Megyn Kelly is so scary, what exactly would he do with Vladimir Putin?
(16) They’re both enjoying the challenge.” There have been inevitable jibes about Mauresmo being a woman working in men’s tennis.
(17) Corbyn v Cameron at PMQs: Google tax row sparks 'bunch of migrants' jibe Read more “They met with the unions and gave them flying pickets.
(18) Speaking at the launch of the new TechHub incubator in Old Street, the London mayor referred to Merkel’s jibe on Monday at the expense of Britain’s poor rural broadband.
(19) She is by far the most popular …" Ms Harman was careful not to smile at this gallant jibe, but most of the shadow cabinet thought it very droll and smiled happily.
(20) In the pantheon of American poets, Woody belongs midway between Walt Whitman and Bob Dylan , but it is his roots in Oklahoma that give his work an authentic voice, ringing out from the dusty midwestern plains: a welcome antidote to the easy jibe that, if you're poor and white in this part of the world, you're bound to be a redneck.
Wear
Definition:
(n.) Same as Weir.
(v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.
(v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.
(v. t.) To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
(v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
(v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
(v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
(v. t.) To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
(v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
(v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.
(n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
(n.) The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
(n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
(n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
(n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(2) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(3) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(4) The third patient was using an extended-wear soft contact lens for correction of residual myopia.
(5) A man wearing a badge that says "property team" quietly parries some of her points, but chooses not to engage with others.
(6) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(7) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(8) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
(9) Cabrera, wearing a bulletproof vest, was paraded before the news media in what has become a common practice for law enforcement authorities following major arrests.
(10) Excessive poppet wear has also been noted in the aortic position; poppet embolization has occurred on 2 occasions, and a third patient was found, at the time of reoperation for periprosthetic leak, to have opppet wear sufficient to permit embolization.
(11) Higher rates are reported by individual clinicians, and our recent in vitro wear tests of Proplast II Teflon interpositional implants suggest an in vivo service life of only 3 years.
(12) Then there were the mini-dress-wearing Barclaycard girls whose job was “to help educate and change people’s minds”.
(13) Wearing down women’s resistance has become eroticised – and, worse, normalised.
(14) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
(15) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(16) Increased wear-resistance of microsurgical instruments by facing, electric spark alloying and vacuum surfacing increases the working life of the instruments by 1.5-3 times.
(17) Bone cement particles promote polyethylene wear, which in turn promotes granuloma formation, bone resorption, and subsequent bone cement disintegration.
(18) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
(19) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(20) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.