(n.) Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.
(n.) That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing.
(n.) A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson.
(n.) A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
(n.) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
(v. t.) To teach; to instruct.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(2) The only lesson I’ll learn from this is don’t win in the third round.
(3) As the Independent prepares to bring out its new daily, i, what lessons could it take from its namesake in Portugal ?
(4) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
(5) The lesson, spelled out by Oak Creek's mayor, Steve Saffidi, was that it shouldn't have taken a tragedy for Sikhs, or anyone else, to find acceptance.
(6) Lessons have been learned from previous Games, not least London 2012, in how to best frame the sporting action for maximum impact – not only for those watching on television but those attending in person.
(7) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
(8) On Sunday, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice confirmed a serious further offence review would take place to see if lessons can be learned from the case.
(9) Among the implications of the less-than-impressive substantive results of the MWTA is the lesson that while a crisis can tilt the political balance in favor of regulatory legislation, it cannot as readily produce the consensus required to sustain that regulation at the levels promised in the legislation.
(10) Lord Mandelson told bankers today that the one-off tax that will be imposed on their bonuses in today's pre-budget report was not designed to "teach them a lesson".
(11) But when he decided to teach you a lesson, he was relentless, and he took no prisoners.
(12) There are harsh lessons in football and we have learned some over the last week.” Two James Milner penalties and goals from the impressive Adam Lallana, Sadio Mané and Philippe Coutinho took Liverpool’s tally to 24 in eight games.
(13) But you have to accept it, learn fast and mature, to be strong.” It would be a decade before those lessons needed to applied again.
(14) Mr Cameron said on Thursday that our duty is "to honour those who served; to remember those who died; and to ensure that the lessons learned live with us for ever".
(15) Our latest Global development podcast explores the lessons the Ebola outbreak can teach us about global health inequality, looking at the weaknesses in the current response, the shortfall in global health spending, and the actions required to prevent further outbreaks.
(16) Cameron also believes the planned peace talks can lure Assad's acolytes to break with their leader by vowing that if he goes, the existing military and security services will be preserved, saying the aim was "to learn the lessons of Iraq".
(17) According to Krugman, our governments have failed to learn the lessons of the Great Depression.
(18) One theory is that the army have learned the lesson of 2012 – the year they ruled Egypt and turned the people against them – that they will protect their interests and their privileged position and return as soon as possible to the director's chair – in the shadows.
(19) The lessons from successful, modern economies is that the state has to be active in supporting, promoting, and demanding innovation in order to flourish.
(20) The British and Canadian experiences provide lessons from which America can profit, and the Oregon health plan is an experiment in this direction.
Warmer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, warms.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
(2) Blood samples taken from children at certain ages and during the warmer months contained more lead than samples obtained during the cooler months.
(3) The warmer half-spindle was longer than the cooler.
(4) The same strains were isolated from the baby warmer mattress, baby cot, suction machine bottle and wall of the fridge.
(5) A total of 42% of the clinical isolates and 15% of the environmental isolates were enterotoxigenic (by the suckling mouse assay); these levels were significantly lower than those found in warmer environments.
(6) Less confidence can be placed in proxy-based reconstructions of surface temperatures for AD 900 to 1600, although the available proxy evidence does indicate that many locations were warmer during the past 25 years than during any other 25-year period since 900."
(7) In warmer water (18 degrees C), the parasites reproduced intensively only on the scaly form of fish, whereas no parasites were found on the scaleless form some days after infection.
(8) El Niño is declared when temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean are 0.8C above average, and brings a dry winter and spring to southern Australia and a warmer than average spring and summer to the eastern states.
(9) Sadly, this warmer weather has left many fashion retailers with a substantial stock overhang, raising the question of earlier and deeper discounts as we get closer to Christmas.
(10) The median innervated fingertips were warmer than those innervated by the ulnar nerves.
(11) This is considerably warmer than the mid-September average of around 17C (62.6F), the Met Office said.
(12) The statistical evaluation results that all children were dressed nearly in the like wise in spite of a considerable difference of the temperature in both crèches; only the covering of the arms was significant less in the warmer new-builded crèch.
(13) Obama received a rapturous welcome when he visited in 2010, though concrete results of the warmer relationship have been less obvious .
(14) We utilized arterial and venous catheters to create a circulatory fistula through the heating mechanism of a modified commercially available counter-current fluid warmer to achieve simple, rapid extracorporeal rewarming.
(15) But my standard of living is certainly less than when I worked, and I don't see it getting better, so I'm thinking of emigrating to somewhere cheaper and warmer.
(16) Boiling the hand warmers redissolves the sodium acetate in the water in the water released from the crystals, recreating the supersaturated solution, so you are ready for another chilly evening walk.
(17) Certainly Alan has far warmer feelings towards the Kop hero than whoever it was that compared him to Leicestershire's premier plodding lad rockers.
(18) But because meltwater can percolate down to lubricate the undersides of glaciers, and because warmer oceans can lift the ends of glaciers up off the sea floor and remove a natural brake, the ice itself can end up getting dumped into the sea, unmelted.
(19) Higher temperatures in the anaesthetic room, prewarming of infusion fluids and employment of infusion warmers should be employed with all anaesthetics.
(20) Tests run at 37 C were 28% less abrasive than those at room temperature, suggesting a softening of bristles because of the warmer temperature.