(n.) A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
(n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.
(n.) One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John.
(n.) A champion; a partisan; a lover.
(n.) A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.
(n.) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
(v. t.) To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(2) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
(3) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
(4) Or perhaps it was just because I was a little kid and more interested in them Weetabix skinheads, Roland Rat and Knight Rider.
(5) Peter Knights of WildAid, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Francisco, observed that people who argue against the destruction of ivory stockpiles think that having a legal supply is the answer to the poaching problem.
(6) He was later knighted for services to community relations.)
(7) His previous strokes of luck include being appointed chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority, the highest-paid quango boss in the UK, and being knighted for "services to regeneration" despite not being a Time Lord.
(8) Alfred was previously portrayed by Michael Caine in Christopher Nolan 's Dark Knight trilogy and the late Michael Gough in the earlier Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher movies.
(9) The first, or maybe, occurrence of the word "melancholia" is found in a French mediaeval book "Knight Yvain" (12th century).
(10) "If viewers think something is false or weird, that's when they reject it," says Gary Knight, commercial content director at ITV.
(11) Shopkeepers said they were afraid to open after gunmen believed to be working for the Knights Templar cartel threw firebombs at several of the city's businesses and city hall over the weekend.
(12) Talking of Batman, what about those rumours that he's been spotted on the set of Christopher Nolan's current movie, The Dark Knight Rises?
(13) If there is justice for Mark some of this sadness will end.” The family’s solicitor, Cyrilia Davies Knight, from Birnberg Peirce solicitors, said: “There are serious questions about whether this highly trained police officer, who shot Mark in broad daylight from an unobstructed view a few metres away from him, made a mistake that was reasonable and lawful.” She added: “A death of this kind is the cause of uniquely intense public concern as demonstrated by the disturbances after Mark’s death.
(14) In 1980, Knight and Griffen developed the "double-staple" technique, using a circular stapler to transect a linear rectal staple line.
(15) The original omitted Buddhism from a list of religions with more followers in England and Wales than the number of people who described themselves as Jedi Knights in the 2011 census.
(16) We just don’t believe the argument or the rationale is strong enough to transcend what has been around for thousands of years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jarica Jordan (right), Raven Knight (center) and a friend in downtown Fargo during the gay pride parade.
(17) The long piece of cloth bearing the image of a man's face and body which is kept in Turin dates from at least 1357 when it was first displayed by the widow of a French knight.
(18) Richard Knights Liverpool • As an ex-headteacher who deserted the profession when it became evident that Ofsted was the untouchable body by which the government ensured its will would prevail in schools, I hope that your paper pursues its investigation into the manner in which Ofsted operates .
(19) John Howard livened up the morning by observing that Tony Abbott's knights and dames initiative was so quaintly olde world that not even he would have gone there.
(20) The last time a euthanasia bill came before our parliament, much was made by Baronesses Knight and Finlay of the fact that allowing any form of assisted death had impacted badly on palliative care in Oregon.
Ryder
Definition:
(n.) A clause added to a document; a rider. See Rider.
(n.) A gold coin of Zealand [Netherlands] equal to 14 florins, about $ 5.60.
Example Sentences:
(1) In generic terms, I think people think they have a binary choice in life at the moment,” says Ryder.
(2) For a Sunday spell, Ian Poulter was in Ryder Cup mode.
(3) I call VIP’s Dave Ryder, who admits “the feedback has been mixed”.
(4) Ryder also warned that focusing on vocational training from an early age sometimes created a narrow perspective and that those with a broader academic background to draw on could be more well-rounded.
(5) "This is a rogue officer who should have faced disciplinary charges and if he had done, the likely probability is that he would not have been in that situation on 1 April 2009," said Matthew Ryder QC, counsel for Tomlinson's family at the inquest.
(6) Matthew Ryder QC, counsel for Trimingham, told Mr Justice Tugendhat the newspaper had a right to freedom of expression, but not to abuse her repeatedly under the guise of exercising that freedom.
(7) Col Patrick Ryder, spokesman for US Central Command, which is responsible for American military operations in the Middle East, declined to comment on the capture or detention of the militant.
(8) This year Randy Ryder will meet his mother for the first time.
(9) Ryder’s comment tempered speculation that the airbase agreement signals a shift in US policy towards attacking the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, as many Republican hawks and Syrian rebels desire.
(10) The report builds on a warning from the ILO director general, Guy Ryder, that income inequality and a rise in casual employment practices risk fuelling nationalist movements .
(11) Susanna Malkakorpi is a palliative nurse at the Sue Ryder Duchess of Kent Hospice in Berkshire.
(12) The Ukip leader, tongue firmly lodged in cheek, has recorded a “party political broadcast” on behalf of Paddy Power , exhorting punters to get behind Team Europe in this weekend’s Ryder Cup golf contest against the US.
(13) In September 2008, having by then had four meetings and lunches with senior NI and BSkyB executives, including the then Sun editor Rebekah Wade, Salmond offered Murdoch tickets to a Ryder Cup golf tournament in Kentucky as an official guest of the Scottish government.
(14) In Ryder's case his 65-year-old mother is an actress who once lived in Spain, but is now based in London.
(15) There is “no change in that position”, Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for the US forces in the Middle East, told reporters at the Pentagon on Friday.
(16) The team’s principal, Douglas Ryder, said: “One of the riders from another team said to Natnael Berhane: ‘Get out of the way you effing n*****’.
(17) End of life care campaign – coalition of organisations They say: Cicely Saunders International, Hospice UK, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Macmillan Cancer Support, Motor Neurone Disease Association, the National Council for Palliative Care and Sue Ryder came together in 2012 to campaign for the introduction of free social care for people at the end of their life.
(18) Murdoch was offered tickets to a Ryder Cup golf tournament in Kentucky by Salmond in September 2008.
(19) Without providing information on an ongoing inquiry, Ryder said that Central Command welcomed the inspector-general investigation and defended the integrity of the command’s war analysis.
(20) Standing there next to the acting BBC chairman, Richard Ryder, and apologising for almost everything.