(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.
Nestor
Definition:
(n.) A genus of parrots with gray heads. of New Zeland and papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka.
Example Sentences:
(1) These deuterium-dependent shifts have been previously ascribed to exchangeable protons on imidazole ligands [Nestor, L., Larrabee, J.
(2) "We don't have any choice over our future," said Nestor Candido, 39, as his family sheltered under a plastic sheet.
(3) This process is associated with the induction of interleukin 1 beta (IL-1 beta) gene expression (Strulovici, B., Daniel-Issakani, S., Oto, E., Nestor, J., Jr., Chan, H., and Ping-Tsou, A.
(4) Although Jara – currently on loan at Nottingham Forest from West Bromwich Albion – did not go to ground, the pair immediately became embroiled in a verbal altercation but the referee, Nestor Pitana, took no action.
(5) And two years ago, in a hard-hitting speech, Bergoglio seems to have taken a dig at the Argentina of president Cristina Fernandez and her former husband, and ex-president, Nestor Kirchner: "Today is an invitation to wake up once more to humility, and the humility of accepting who we are and what we can do, to be big enough to share things without cheating or putting on appearances, because we cannot forget that unbridled ambition will only mean that the supposed victor is the king of a desert, of a razed land," he said.
(6) Nestor Librando, a 31-year-old carpenter, took the body of his two-year-old son to a chapel in Tacloban.
(7) Jean-Nestor Abia, 50, who has worked here since 1984, says: “We are weeping because Mobutu is no longer alive.
(8) Similar observations were made on a promonocytic cell line, U937, which expresses PKC alpha, PKC beta (Strulovici, B., Daniel-Issakani, S., Oto, E., Nestor, J., Jr., Chan, H., and Tsou, A.-P. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 3569-3576), and PKC epsilon.
(9) Nestor Shufrych, a deputy in Ukraine’s parliament, said on Facebook on Sunday that Viktor Yanukovych , 33, who had the same name as his father, was driving at the time of his death.