(n.) A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.
(n.) A vessel for washing; a large basin.
(n.) One of several vessels in Solomon's Temple in which the offerings for burnt sacrifices were washed.
(n.) That which washes or cleanses.
(n.) One who laves; a washer.
(n.) The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Jellied eels were always considered a regional dish, much like haggis is to Scotland, mushy peas are to northern England and laver bread is to Wales."
(2) Murray need all his best tennis in tough conditions to beat Kyrgios 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 in just over two hours in front of a packed Rod Laver Arena.
(3) He got away with this one, winning 7-6 (7-1), 3-6, 4-6, 6-0 in three and a half hours on a cool night on Rod Laver Arena that never properly warmed up in any sense.
(4) He was by turn patient, stubborn and just too damn good, winning a contest marked by swearing, stare-downs, minor tantrums, an odd time violation and some artful tennis on a chill, still night on Rod Laver Arena, with the man himself among an enthralled audience.
(5) 6.50am GMT Third set tiebreak: Dimitrov 7-6 Nadal* (* denotes next server) Dimitrov has all the space in the world (well a few metres of Rod Laver Arena) to crunch a shot down the line but sends it wide like he was Rafael Nadal .
(6) Photograph: AP Marine biologist Jennifer Lavers told the first day of the inquiry in Sydney on Thursday that she discovered more than one in 10 young flesh-footed shearwater birds – common visitors to Australian coasts – were dying from ingesting plastic or from plastic chemical contamination.
(7) The three-dimensional structure of one of these epitopes, recognized by monoclonal antibody NC41, has previously been determined (W. R. Tulip, J. N. Varghese, R. G. Webster, G. M. Air, W. G. Laver, and P. M. Colman, Cold Spring Harbor Symp.
(8) These artists are watching the machine of the music industry crumble away, so they’re thinking why the fuck not do whatever they want, and while they can still get away with it.” • Madonna plays Melbourne’s Rod Laver arena on Saturday and Sunday, Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 16 and 17 March, and Sydney’s Allphones arena on 19 and 20 March
(9) Most of the changes in the variants selected with monoclonal antibodies occur in those parts of the polypeptide chain which encircle the enzyme active site pocket in the three-dimensional structure (P. M. Colman, J. N. Varghese, and W. G. Laver (1983), Nature (London) 303, 41-44).
(10) The effects of overloading of the sample zone in density gradient centrifugation have been studied by use of a three-component shelf-lavered sample in which the total protein concentration was increased by addition of different amounts of albumin.
(11) Sequence analysis of the neuraminidase (NA) genes of influenza virus X-7(F1) and of 12 variants selected with monoclonal antibodies has been used to define in physical terms the antigenic structure of this NA, which was operationally established by R. G. Webster, L. E. Brown, and W. G. Laver (1984, Virology 135, 30-42).
(12) The final will be played in the 15,000-capacity Rod Laver Arena and the 15-year-old from Bristol, who is now based in Kansas in the United States, said: “I didn’t know until the players’ meeting that that was the deal.
(13) The outteromost laver of the cell wall of all marine ammonia-oxidizing bacteria So far isolated is made up of protein subunits arranged in a regular manner and linked together through metal-oxygen bonds.
(14) 7.51am GMT Rod Laver Arena is slowly starting to fill up with spectators ...
(15) On the Rod Laver Arena on a warm and gentle evening, blood and blisters first delivered the agony, then played at least a small part in cutting it short (although Murray made no excuses) as, his right foot wrapped and anaesthetised, he could not match the champion for movement in the closing stages of a four-set final that ebbed away from him.
(16) Swan saved three match points and won the next two games as well to secure her place in the final, which will be played on the 15,000-capacity Rod Laver Arena, against Slovakia’s Tereza Mihalikova.
(17) Laver's (1980) theory of monitoring is shown to be incongruent with the observed times, as is Levelt's (1983, 1989) main interruption rule.
(18) Berdych has now made at least the last four at every grand slam and claimed his first ever victory on Rod Laver Arena.
(19) History dictates it will be Williams accepting the warm applause of the crowd yet again when the dust settles on Rod Laver Arena, as the oldest Australian champion in the Open era, at 33, and still ranked No 1 in the world.
(20) Determinations of trace iodine in table salt, laver, and eggs were demonstrated as practical examples.
Waver
Definition:
(v. i.) To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.
(v. i.) To be unsettled in opinion; to vacillate; to be undetermined; to fluctuate; as, to water in judgment.
(v.) A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
(2) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(3) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.
(4) As a result, he wavers between relativism (regarding therapeutic interpretations) and objectivism (regarding scientific knowledge).
(5) Gomez has appeared in 106 episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place (a show about magically gifted kids which aired on Disney) and released three albums with her band the Scene .
(6) If teen stars Gomez (a former girlfriend of Justin Bieber and the star of Disney's The Wizards of Waverly Place) , Benson ( Pretty Little Liars ) and Hudgens (Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series) wanted to obliterate their wholesome reputations, this was one way to do it.
(7) Tory MPs campaigning in these seats have the difficulty of trying to win over voters at both ends of the spectrum: the Labour-Tory swing voters and the Ukip-Tory waverers.
(8) But still the 29-year-old Farah did not waver and sat in second, ready to strike, with two laps left.
(9) We’ve maintained that commitment, but we have to make sure that we’re spending that money as effectively as possible.” The announcement will dismay some rightwing Conservatives, who fear it could push some wavering voters to Ukip.
(10) After the election, he conceded there was “ some connectivity ” between human activity and climate change and wavered on a previous vow to “cancel” the Paris agreement.
(11) But one has to ask how the former seven-year-old co-star of Barney and Friends and The Wizards of Waverly Place ended up in a movie that shows drunk girls urinating through their bikinis in public and forcing a gangsta-looking James Franco to suck off his handgun.
(12) Any wavering youth considering passage to Syria will see that they, too, might become the most talked-about man or woman in Britain, at least until the next MP scandal.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest General election needed before Christmas, says Tory backbencher Labour former prime minister Tony Blair told wavering voters considering Brexit: “If you’re not sure, don’t do it,” as he wrote in the Sunday Times that withdrawal would be a “betrayal of British interest”.
(14) We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act.
(15) She continued: "The government is not only refusing to listen to the evidence, it is choosing to become a flag-waver-in-chief for the fracking industry, offering them generous tax breaks as well as allowing them senior roles within the government itself.
(16) We found that the patella displays complex but consistent three-dimensional motion patterns during flexion, which include flexion rotation, medial rotation, wavering tilt, and a lateral shift relative to the femur.
(17) The basic features included a brief, involuntary, coarse, irregular, wavering movement or tremble involving arm-hand alone, or arm-hand and leg together.
(18) Labour warns its own waverers with exactly the same threat: "Vote Clegg, get Cameron", which could be true too.
(19) But, Cameron stressed, Britain's resolve to support this remote British Overseas Territory "has not wavered in the last 30 years and it will not in the years ahead".
(20) He was criticised for his views on gay sex and abortion, which MPs in liberal, metropolitan seats said arose repeatedly as an issue with the public, and had helped Labour scoop up waverers even in strongly pro-remain constituencies.