(n.) A New Zealand parrot of the genus Nestor, especially the brown parrot (Nestor meridionalis).
Example Sentences:
(1) 75 min: Real Madrid substitution: Angel Di Maria off, Ricky Kaka on.
(2) It was sent into the box and Jaap Stam's free header went towards Kaka at the far post.
(3) 3.37pm BST Kakaddendum: "Just wanted to let you know that Kaka actually does have a World Cup winners medal," reports Ricky Barnhart.
(4) #NED An even more amazing stat is that Van Bommel hasn't been booked once during this World Cup - in the space of a couple of minutes against Brazil he could have seen yellows for tripping Kaka, I think, and blatantly clipping Lucio.
(5) He said information yielded by Ya'ari's detention has led to the arrests of two women: Haj Kaka, who he said was a spy who also procured arms for the extremists, and Hafsat Bako, described as a paymaster.
(7) Anyway, Kaka 's return to Milan will undoubtedly the story of the day on the peninsula, though there are still some potentially interesting deals in the works, as Juventus field enquiries for Fabio Quagliarella and Roma do the same for Marco Borriello .
(8) 8.59pm BST 57 min: Real subs: Coentrao and Higuain off, Kaka and Benzema on.
(9) Then the ball squirts out to Kaka at the edge of the area.
(10) Kaka in particular is a personal friend of da Silva, and has spoken of his desire to play in the USA, though at one point the presence of his younger brother Digao on the New York Red Bulls line up, and the fact Kaka owned an apartment in the city, had caused speculation he may in fact be on his way there.
(11) Kaka has also been linked with LA Galaxy, at the time when David Beckham was confirmed as being on his way from that club — indeed his former Real Madrid team mate used one of his farewell press conferences at the Galaxy to talk up Kaka as a possible prospect for the Galaxy.
(12) There had been some suggestions that the Rossoneri - despite having already sold Kevin Prince Boateng - might need to raise cash to cover Kaka's wages.
(13) Last week Orlando had claimed to be in advanced negotiations with Kaká, but for many Orlando fans, whose team are the current champions of US Soccer’s official third tier, USL Pro, the deal only felt real Kaka touched down in Orlando on Monday night.
(14) Former World Player of the Year Kaka and Robinho, the one-time phenom who inspired Pele to stop a training session and tell the then teenager he reminded him of himself, would certainly fit the bill, and help satisfy some of the 214,369 people who “liked” Orlando City’s Brazilian Facebook page within two months of it being set up.
(15) ET21: Shimmying down the left, Kaka tries to muscle his way around the the back of the Bayern Munich defence.
(16) Teams: Brazil: Julio Cesar, Maicon, Lucio, Juan, Michel Bastos, Felipe Melo, Silva, Elano, Kaka, Robinho, Luis Fabiano.
(17) And here's Paolo Bandini : "You may or may not be interested to know that Kaka to Milan is pretty much official now.
(18) The long MLS courtship of Kaka has been one of the league’s worst kept secrets, but little movement had been expected before the World Cup.
(19) The headline team news consisted of Matija Nastasic being preferred to Joleon Lescott in central defence for a debut to remember, and for Real, Michael Essien beating Mesut Ozil, Luka Modric and Kaka to a place in Mourinho's 4-3-2-1 formation that had Ronaldo marauding from the left.
(20) Real 1-0 Dortmund (Benzema 83') (agg 2-4) Fine play by Kaka before Ozil pings in a cross from right and Benzema stabs home from close range.
Mama
Definition:
(n.) See Mamma.
Example Sentences:
(1) Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), an outfit that previously operated under the banner of iEngage until controversy forced a rebrand , has decided that the worst it can say about Tell MAMA, the best means it can find of turning it into a satanic organisation, is to say that it associates with gays and Jews.
(2) The minimum audible movement angle (MAMA) thus defined was observed to increase as the source velocity increased.
(3) Between January 1, 1989, and April 7, 1989, 2,237 blood donors were enrolled in the study at the transfusion centre of the Mama Yemo Hospital.
(4) Ninety-eight (40%) of 243 acquired immune deficiency syndrome inpatients at Mama Yemo Hospital, Kinshasa, Zaire, presented with a history of diarrhea for at least 1 month.
(5) Urea derivative recovery by the sampling system, isocyanate-MAMA reactivity, and linearity of the calibration curve were evaluated in the laboratory.
(6) Of 207 online perpetrators of anti-Muslim abuse, 63 followed Nigel Farage’s Twitter account, according to Tell Mama analysis.
(7) With a back catalogue including Mexican road movie Y Tu Mama Tambien, dystopian near-future parable Children of Men and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Cuarón has been nominated for Oscars before, but not in this category.
(8) In the seven days before the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris on 7 January, in which 12 people were killed, there were 12 incidents reported to Tell Mama, but there were 45 in the seven days that followed.
(9) MAMAs were higher for a 3000-Hz tone than for tones of lower or higher frequencies, as has been previously reported [D. R. Perrott and J. Tucker, J. Acoust.
(10) The possible associations between Plasmodium falciparum malaria and HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) seropositivity were investigated in 1986 at the Mama Yemo Hospital in Kinshasa, Zaire.
(11) The two women have worked together pretty much throughout their careers, from Saturday Night Live (highlights include Poehler playing Hillary Clinton to Fey's Sarah Palin) to their forays into film, Baby Mama and, of course, Mean Girls .
(12) system was used to develop a rapid, sensitive, and quantitative kinetic-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (k-ELISA) for detecting antibodies against Schistosoma mansoni adult microsomal antigens (MAMAs).
(13) Between July 1973 and December 1974, 304 autopsies were done at Hopital Mama Yemo, Kinshasa, Republic of Zaire.
(14) Fiyaz Mughal, from Tell Mama , an organisation that monitors Islamophobic incidents, said about 60% of victims were women who wear a headscarf or hijab.
(15) And tensions in the town, which elected two BNP councillors in 2008, have been reflected in a spike in reported instances of Islamophobic abuse nationally, according to the monitoring group Tell MAMA .
(16) In addition, 5 (19%) of 27 controls admitted to Zaire's Mama Yemo Hospital for causes unrelated to AIDS were found to be positive for antibodies to HIV.
(17) Mughal said Tell MAMA had recently submitted research into far-right networks’ use of Twitter to the company but nothing was done.
(18) In August 1984 an ORT service was established at Mama Yemo Hospital in Kinshasa, Zaire.
(19) A former rebel who uses a pseudonym, Colonel Mama, said ex-combatants emerge scarred from the invasive treatments of witch doctors.
(20) Hits like Fujiyama Mama and Let's Have a Party appealed to a wider audience, and she was inducted into the Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame in April 2009.