(n.) The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements.
(n.) The writ by which possession is obtained.
(n.) Release from wardship; deliverance.
(n.) That which is delivered out statedly or formally, as clothing, food, etc.
(n.) The uniform clothing issued by feudal superiors to their retainers and serving as a badge when in military service.
(n.) The peculiar dress by which the servants of a nobleman or gentleman are distinguished; as, a claret-colored livery.
(n.) Hence, also, the peculiar dress or garb appropriated by any association or body of persons to their own use; as, the livery of the London tradesmen, of a priest, of a charity school, etc.; also, the whole body or company of persons wearing such a garb, and entitled to the privileges of the association; as, the whole livery of London.
(n.) Hence, any characteristic dress or outward appearance.
(n.) An allowance of food statedly given out; a ration, as to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
(n.) The feeding, stabling, and care of horses for compensation; boarding; as, to keep one's horses at livery.
(n.) The keeping of horses in readiness to be hired temporarily for riding or driving; the state of being so kept.
(n.) A low grade of wool.
(v. t.) To clothe in, or as in, livery.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is painted all in black, save for three steel roller shutters that each represent a juncture of White's life: one is yellow, a nod to the livery of the upholstery business he started when he was 21; the second is red, the signature colour of his blues-rock band, the White Stripes; the last is blue, the colour he has latterly adopted for his solo career.
(2) I mean, obsessed.” When I visited Burton in the McQueen studio, the floors were still piled high with the distinctive yellow and green livery of the magazine.
(3) Uber succeeds because it can “prey parasitically on established taxicab and livery services” by cutting corners and ignoring laws meant to protect passengers, the plaintiffs said in the suit.
(4) A man stands up, spreads his arms wide and sings: “We love you Brian, we do.” He is instantly joined in the chant by a cluster of zealots dressed, like he is, from bobble hat to weatherproof boots in the royal blue and white livery of Sarpsborg 08 football club.
(5) They flew in on a private Boeing 777 airliner complete with customised "Panda Express" livery; a bespoke cuisine of bamboo, apples, carrots and specially prepared "panda cake"; and private suites of Perspex and steel.
(6) During the seven-year project, it refreshed its planes' liveries, refurbished its premium-class lounges and upgraded cabins in its longhaul aircraft.
(7) Chinese giant pandas have been a hit all around the world but seem to have a special cachet in Taiwan, where animal figures are so much in vogue that the airline company Eva Airways has found that festooning its aircraft in the livery of fictional Japanese figure Hello Kitty provides a powerful boost to sales.
(8) Their green-liveried vehicles also connect Jewish settlements across the green line to each other and to the centre.
(9) Both of the striken planes still had the old livery, so none of the images of the wreckage in Ukraine, or the reconstructions of the missing plane, have featured the new corporate paint job.
(10) Election banners and lorries with party livery line most routes and roundabouts in Baghdad.
(11) Modified methods, using selective organic extraction and absorption-distributional column chromatography, are described for isolation of prostglandines with high yield; the substances were differentiated by means of the methods used into series A, E, F. Use of radioimmunologic method enabled to obtain data on content of prostglandines in blood plasma and in thrombocytes of healthy people and of patients with ischemic heart impairments as well as on content of these substances in rabbit blood plasma, fatty and livery tissues.
(12) Liveried waiters served roast quail on Limoges china and poured Loire Valley wines, properly chilled against the equatorial heat.
(13) British Airways pilot Mitch Preston flew the first 787 in BA livery and is managing the model's entry into service.
(14) The Il-62 s used for VIP transport were previously painted in livery almost identical to that of Air Koryo.
(15) Peace broke out as Red Bull launched their new 2016 livery in London on Wednesday, with Horner saying he had been encouraged by the progress made by Renault in the winter.
(16) Five windows from business class could be seen above the red and blue stripe of Malaysia Airlines livery.
(17) I don’t have any objections to a Jack the Ripper museum, it’s a commercial enterprise like the London Dungeon and Jack the Ripper walking tours, but what I’m miffed about is the fact that we seem to have been completely deceived, in a way that is rather unpleasant.” Above the museum’s black and red livery frontage are two signs made to resemble London’s official English Heritage blue plaques.
(18) Counties lose their names, trains lose their livery, ginger snaps lose their flavour and mint humbugs their sharp corners ... under my derationalisation programme, Yorkshire would get back its Ridings, the red telephone box would be a preserved species, there would be Pullman cars called Edna, a teashop in every high street and a proper card index in the public library."
(19) Brown will stay with the group, known for its hard-nosed sales tactics and fleet of liveried Mini cars, as a non-executive director.
(20) Dressed in a sporty livery of black and white stripes, it was the deserved winner of the Carbuncle Cup for the worst building of the year, "for services to greenwash [those three wind turbines have never moved], urban impropriety and sheer breakfast-extracting ugliness".
Stable
Definition:
(v. i.) Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.
(v. i.) Steady in purpose; constant; firm in resolution; not easily diverted from a purpose; not fickle or wavering; as, a man of stable character.
(v. i.) Durable; not subject to overthrow or change; firm; as, a stable foundation; a stable position.
(v. t.) To fix; to establish.
(v. i.) A house, shed, or building, for beasts to lodge and feed in; esp., a building or apartment with stalls, for horses; as, a horse stable; a cow stable.
(v. t.) To put or keep in a stable.
(v. i.) To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(2) F(420) is photolabile aerobically in neutral and basic solutions, whereas the acid-stable chromophore is not photolabile under these conditions.
(3) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(4) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(5) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
(6) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
(7) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
(8) Reiteration VII (within protein coding regions of genes US10 and US11) and reiteration IV (within introns of genes US1 and US12) were stable between the isolates (group 1).
(9) This Mr 20,000 inhibitory activity was acid and heat stable and sensitive to dithiothreitol and trypsin.
(10) Under these conditions, arterial pressure and sodium balance remained stable.
(11) Stable factor-dependent B-cell hybridomas were used to monitor the purification of the growth factor from the supernatant of a clonotypically stimulated mouse helper T-cell clone.
(12) This study describes the consequences of acute prostaglandin synthesis inhibition on the hemodynamic effects of nitroglycerin in patients with stable angina pectoris.
(13) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
(14) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
(15) When antibodies were bound to cell-surface DPP IV at 4 degrees C, the immune complex remained stable for more than 1 h after rewarming to 37 degrees C, despite ongoing metabolic and membrane transport processes.
(16) Chemical modification of aldolase leads to formation of stable N epsilon (4-carboxybenzenesulfonyl-lysine (Cbs-Lys) and O-(4-carboxybenzenesulfonyl-tyrosine (Cbs-Tyr) derivatives.
(17) The administration of stable analogue of the leu-enkephalin did not alter the concentration of cortisole and aldosterone in the blood of white male rats whereas this concentration increased after administration of the parathormone.
(18) Both stable and labeled T3 were likewise found in these sera.
(19) Sec-alpha-halo-nitro compounds are active antibacterial and antifungal agents, and the sec-bromo derivatives are the most active and stable.
(20) These results indicate that the Mn-DTPASA complex is not stable.