(n.) A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.
(n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
(n.) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
(v. t.) To tie together, or hold, with a leash.
Example Sentences:
(1) The activated matrix (an imidazolyl carbamate) is relatively stable to hydrolysis but smoothly reacts with N-nucleophiles such as those present in either affinity chromatography ligands or leashes, e.g.
(2) Two cases are presented in which radial forearm flaps with a proximal vascular leash are used to cover such defects without the need for microsurgical expertise.
(3) In February, President Barack Obama said drone strikes are "kept on a very tight leash" and "have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties".
(4) ethynyl estradiol), we investigated a series of 17 alpha-substituted estradiol compounds to determine the optimal properties of a leash at this position.
(5) He described them as five bundles of aberrant pyramidal fibres which separate out as leashes from the corticospinal fibres at different levels and each had its territory of bulbar nuclei (like the Reich which is the territory of the German empire of which there were only three).
(6) These findings suggest that the long 'leash' provided by PEO hydrogels may give the heparin more access to the thrombin-antithrombin pair than the tight bond to PVA, and that crowding of heparin units on a surface limits access of the thrombin-antithrombin pair.
(7) The walkers may be the ones with the pockets full of Pedigree Schmackos, barks the subtext, but ultimately it's the walkees who hold the leash.
(8) Thus Singapore’s indigenous capitalists were kept on a short leash.
(9) Two pole-leashes attached to 2 points on the harness gave the handler considerable control over the posture of the monkey, making it easier to teach the monkey to walk with a leash and to climb into its restraint chair or test apparatus.
(10) "And whenever he came out the dressing room he'd be pulling on the leash, tail wagging – let's go, let's get it done."
(11) The sketch show Rubbernecker featured four little-known talents: Robin Ince, Stephen Merchant, Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais – familiar, if at all, from Channel 4's 11 O'Clock Show, which also let Sacha Baron Cohen off his leash.
(12) The stationary phase consisted of iminodiacetic acid (IDA) chelate groups, bonded to small particle, wide pore silica gel by means of a polyether hydrophilic leash.
(13) Parliament needs to change the watchdog before it lets the rottweiler off the leash.
(14) Energy efficiency is a no-brainer, as is letting the GIB off the Treasury leash.
(15) A chest harness and pole-leash method to transfer rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) weighing up to 16 kg from home cage to primate restraint chair was designed.
(16) The hope, it seems, is that the outsourcing show will continue, but with better-managed firms on a tighter leash and smaller operators encouraged to enter the market.
(17) "It felt like it was on a leash for years and … we've come off the leash and just responded in that way basically," says one interviewee.
(18) Conditions for the coupling of a range of ligands and leashes have been evaluated.
(19) I think the difficult thing is just having to juggle your career and your spare time with a dog,” she tells me when we meet for our cutesily termed “welcome woof”, a brief rendezvous to check all three of us are happy at the prospect of handing over the leash.
(20) Mundine said the move would “let bigots off the leash”.
Trinity
Definition:
(n.) The union of three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) in one Godhead, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three persons as to individuality.
(n.) Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindu trinity, or Trimurti.
(n.) Any symbol of the Trinity employed in Christian art, especially the triangle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
(2) News International will face stiff resistance from rivals such as Sunday Mirror and People publisher Trinity Mirror and Daily Star Sunday owner Northern & Shell, which benefited from the closure of News of the World last July.
(3) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
(4) Back in 2001, the Guardian Media Group partnered with Associated to print Metro in Manchester, while Trinity Mirror joined forces with Associated in a similar arrangement in Liverpool and Cardiff in 2006.
(5) The English pilot, which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region, will be produced by News 3, a consortium of Trinity Mirror, the Press Association and the TV production company Ten Alps.
(6) In a statement to the London stock exchange, Trinity Mirror said Bailey had ensured the company delivered robust profits through the worst and longest economic downturn in UK history.
(7) Trinity Mirror attempted to placate investors in April with a new pay deal for Bailey that reduced her remuneration by about £500,000, but that failed to satisfy some major shareholders.
(8) Keating was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, and educated at Merchant Taylors' school in Middlesex and Trinity College Dublin, where he read English and French.
(9) Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, said that the company made £25m in savings and would have increased adjusted operating profits year-on-year if not for a £22m rise in newsprint prices.
(10) Trinity Mirror could face at least two more legal actions over alleged phone hacking, including from a former football manager, according to the lawyer who brought civil claims against the company's newspapers on Monday.
(11) The FoI figures revealed that the Discovery School in Newcastle opened with only a third of its planned pupil numbers, the Harris Academy in Tottenham, north London, opened with 58 pupils, rather than the planned 240, and the Trinity Academy in Lambeth, south London, opened with 15 pupils when it had planned to admit 120.
(12) This compares favourably with rivals Johnston Press and Trinity Mirror, which recently reported sliding profits and 4.6% and 8.7% first-half declines in total revenues respectively.
(13) "[The] restructuring proposals for its UK national titles represent the next stage in [our] aim to create one of the most technologically advanced and operationally efficient multimedia newsrooms in Europe," Trinity Mirror said.
(14) The industry's representatives at these talks were not two Tory peers, but a group of four including the Legal Director of Trinity Mirror, and the Director of the Newspaper Society, both representing the regional newspapers so regrettably excluded from the Delauney meeting.
(15) This was fronted at first by Lord Black of Brentwood, the Conservative peer who is a director of the Telegraph group, and latterly by Paul Vickers, a director of Daily Mirror publisher Trinity Mirror.
(16) Justin Welby , formerly of Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, embarked on a reconciliation between Shell and the Ogoni people of south-east Nigeria.
(17) A union spokesman said: "The cull comes after the total directors' pay and pensions bill for Trinity Mirror last year was £3.9m – £1.3m of which was cash bonuses.
(18) However, to compensate Bailey, Trinity Mirror said that its chief executive would be eligible to receive a higher long-term incentive scheme.
(19) However Trinity Mirror said it remained "confident" that the company will "deliver a robust performance" in 2010 in line with expectations.
(20) Trinity Mirror's Daily Record circulated 330,316 copies in Scotland each day on average last month.