(n.) A professional mourner who wails at a funeral.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I met him in 1988 he seemed far keener to discuss Core than Concrete Bulletproof Invisible, the short-lived band that he and Shaw had then started with the former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock.
(2) Son of a baronet It also plays to the most damaging caricature of Osborne, as the privileged son of a baronet, keener on protecting his wealthy friends than helping ordinary Britons: something he has fought hard to shrug off by introducing his “national living wage”, for example.
(3) He is keener on numeric grades that could see around 10% of pupils awarded the top grade 1.
(4) The striker has a £25m release clause in his contract and after scoring 28 goals in 38 appearances in all competitions this season, Arsenal are keener than a dog on heat to secure his services for next season.
(5) But for all their talk of patient safety the doctors too have sometimes appeared keener on their own interests than they have looked like professionals preoccupied with the wellbeing of their patients.
(6) There is a keener awareness of the difficulties and intricacies involved in the construction and evaluation of clinical trials and results.
(7) Ministers believe that major companies involved in developing offshore wind technology – such as Siemens, Vestas and General Electric – will now be keener to invest in Britain, knowing it is committed to a huge expansion in renewable energy.
(8) Japan has become keener on free-trade agreements but may baulk at dismantling its agricultural protectionism.
(9) They have become sharper judges – student satisfaction surveys already reflect that – and will become all the keener after next year.
(10) Regrettably, no doubt, for those who are keener on the purification of public discourse, online censors seem disinclined to regulate with any consistency.
(11) The idea that we would be keener to pay tax if we knew exactly how it was to be spent is one of the most persuasive in modern politics.
(12) Rather, it's the more insidious tropes that I'd be even keener to eat my porridge without.
(13) The idea is that people will be keener on moving from one bank to another if there is more transparency about charges and interest rates .
(14) The Daily Mail, which is keener on making MPs accountable than it is to making newspapers that routinely attack them equally accountable, is cross: "Worse than meaningless," it thunders, quoting in support leftish bodies such as Unlock Democracy and greenish Tory MP Zac Goldsmith , whom it usually disaparages.
(15) "We have a leadership that seems keener on impressing the Conservatives as to how much we can be relied upon to take 'tough' decisions, than on asserting how much the Conservatives need us in order to remain in government," Sanders wrote.
(16) As in 2005, people are also keener on small fixes such as changing lightbulbs than on things that would push up prices or force people to live differently.
(17) The boys run down to the water’s edge in their float vests and plunge in, keener than on the day we started.
(18) Nicolas Cage , Elizabeth Banks, Catherine Keener, Kevin Kline and Paul Reubens are also said to be in negotiations.
(19) In the last few years the international donors have been keener to fund more development-orientated support in Libya, and in situations like this one in Libya, there is less capacity for a rapid humanitarian response,” he said.
(20) One person keener than most to advertise those numbers is Sir Michael Wilshaw , since they reflect his four-year tenure as chief inspector of schools.
Keeper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.
(n.) One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners.
(n.) One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc. ; the keeper of attached property; hence, one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver.
(n.) One who remains or keeps in a place or position.
(n.) A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.
(n.) A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3.14pm BST 14 mins: It's quite a pleasing thing that, some 22 years after the passback rule was put in place, fans still applaud a player heading the ball back to the keeper.
(2) It's straight at Stockdale, though the keeper needs two attempts to get the ball under control in these awkward conditions.
(3) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.
(4) Liam Fox, regarded as the flame-keeper of the Tory right, would also be a prime target for the Lib Dems.
(5) This was the keeper’s introduction to English football following his £17m move from Barcelona and perhaps, in hindsight, it was a mistake from Guardiola not to ease him in against West Ham a couple of weeks ago.
(6) Juan nearly pokes a backpass past an advancing Julio Cesar; the keeper does well to hack clear.
(7) Although Hart turned another Götze chance behind early in the second half, after Blaszczykowski and Lukasz Piszczek had neatly combined on the right, there was nothing he could do when Reus intercepted the blind pass Rodwell attempted to play to Nastasic and drove into the area before shooting across the City keeper.
(8) He's got the jump on Mathijsen, but not on the keeper, who surges off his line to clear.
(9) Meyler was in unfamiliar territory on the right side of defence and performed brilliantly in the second half but Germany’s next opportunity of note came on the opposite flank when Marc Wilson’s backpass to Forde was left short and the keeper nervously found the stand, despite his initial touch almost reaching Thomas Müller with a clear path to goal.
(10) As the storm rages, the keepers of the euro flame have lined up to offer radical ways to rewrite the single currency's rules to make the project more viable in the long term.
(11) Eventually, Ballance tried to reverse sweep Ajantha Mendis, but he could only edge to the keeper.
(12) You can’t have a go at him as the keeper has made a fantastic save for the second one.
(13) Gaddafi, as vigilant keeper of the flame, kept a weather eye open, heaping privileges on some and prestige on others in order to consolidate alliances and plaster over any cracks that threatened to appear.
(14) The keeper hurled himself in front of it to pull off an improbable block!
(15) Keepers clean the babies by using a cotton swab warmed to the same temperature as the mother's tongue.
(16) 90+2 min Howard Webb books the keeper Benaglio for timewasting.
(17) He makes it to the area and draws Krul, but his cheeky chip over the advancing keeper floats wide left of the open goal.
(18) Stokes sent a downward header towards the far corner from seven yards but the pesky keeper again meddled, diving full length to push it to safety.
(19) We felt Tim would be the most appropriate keeper to save penalties.
(20) Jelavic's penalty was saved by the Baggies keeper Ben Foster but Rosenior was on hand to head home the rebound and score his first senior goal since October 2009.