(n.) A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno.
Example Sentences:
(1) He should buy a Tatts Lotto ticket.” The manager of opposition business, Tony Burke , said the case against Robert was “cut and dried”.
(2) Complaints were raised about a front-page Daily Star editorial, published on 28 September and headlined "Lotto tonic for Britain", and a Daily Express front page on the same day headlined "New lottery to make Britain better".
(3) and the Sun seethed: "Top Cannes film is most pro-IRA ever (and, yes, it did get a Lotto grant)."
(4) "We are now having trouble organising some fast production to let everyone have this shirt that will become a memory of a historic achievement," Lotto President Andrea Tomat told Reuters in an interview.
(5) Stage one While Team Sky and Ewan’s Orica controlled most of the 185km run from Beverley, the bulk of it into a brutally cold headwind, it was Lotto who took over arguably at the point when the win could have slipped away, after Steve Cummings played yet another astute tactical card by escaping on the final wind-assisted run-in.
(6) On the other hand, the Dutchmen in the Lotto NL-Jumbo team are acquiring something of an affinity for Yorkshire in spring, or what passes for it, over a British bank holiday weekend.
(7) I’ve seen miniature cars, townhouses, churches, motorcycle helmets and ballgowns used to thank the saints (and Brazil has many popular saints) for interventions such as good exam results, lotto wins or cancer cures.
(8) Stage two It was an opportunistic move and he never enjoyed more than 100 metres lead but it might have worked if Lotto had not kept tabs on him and he was swept up only as the peloton went under the Settle-Carlisle railway and into the town with a kilometre to go.
(9) Apparently this isn’t unique to my social circle – a 2013 Gallup poll found 68% of people would keep working after winning lotto.
(10) I’ve often debated the merits of continuing to work after winning the lotto with friends and family – I maintain that I wouldn’t but I always find myself in the minority.
Otto
Definition:
(n.) See Attar.
Example Sentences:
(1) But now they have a bullish and vociferous spokesperson in Guatemala's president, Otto Pérez Molina.
(2) I adored Chez Elles in Brick Lane's Banglatown; and Otto's , on Gray's Inn Road, looks set to be the capital's next insider secret, with a menu that doesn't appear to have met the 21st century: it does canard à la presse, for goodness sake.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Macabre allegory’: Otto Dix’s The Triumph of Death (1934).
(4) Bill Nighy plays the king of the demons; Miranda Otto the gargoyle queen.
(5) The Central American nation was praised for its crackdown on corruption in September after former president Otto Pérez Molina was ordered to stand trial for corruption, illicit association and bribery linked to a multimillion-dollar customs scam.
(6) To justify their large advance they invented a story that Otto Skorzeny, the man who organised the ex-Nazi escape network Odessa, had financed the robbery, a hoax that Read only learned of when he went to Brazil to interview Biggs.
(7) Otto Rank, one of Sigmund Freud's original followers, posited the existence of an "urge to immortality" as man's deepest drive.
(8) Otto postulated that disturbances of atmospheric pressure systems, caused by warming, was responsible for much of the increased risk.
(9) Writing last week in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the historian Andreas Wirsching likened Berlin's current dilemmas over Europe to those of Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century, suggesting the tug of war over the euro reflected a similar political dynamic that in the past had resulted in real wars.
(10) Enders, who promised there would be no relocation of EADS's German businesses, appears to have won the support of Germany's deputy economy minister Hans-Joachim Otto, who said the proposed company should be subject to less political influence than EADS has been.
(11) The achievement of an integrated survey by Otto Fenichel in 1945 marked the transition from a fragmentary to a synthesizing approach to identification and its inherent aspects of incorporation and ejection, introjection and projection, internalization and externalization.
(12) They, in turn, are joined by the likes of Guatemala's president, Otto Pérez Molina, the entrepreneur Richard Branson, 500 top leading US business figures, the Economist magazine and the Observer in calling for an alternative, including an end to outright prohibition.
(13) The Ukip leader insisted he would return to Scotland to continue campaigning for the party's candidate, Otto Inglis, in the Aberdeen Donside byelection for the Scottish parliament on 20 June.
(14) David Rapaport's collection of Otto Fenichel's Rundbriefe (1934-1945) is described as a recently rediscovered, 2,500-page primary source for studying the intellectual and organizational history of European-American psychoanalysis.
(15) Non-axial feet developed recently, such as the SAFE II and Seattle Light feet achieved higher scores in the older age group, while single-axis feet, such as the LAPOC and Otto Bock feet achieved higher scores in the younger age group (p < 0.05).
(16) This protein differs markedly from the Drosophila MT (Mtn gene) previously reported [Lastowski-Perry, D., Otto, E. & Maroni, G. (1985) J. Biol.
(17) The association between idiopathic chondrolysis of the hip and primary protrusio acetabuli (Otto's pelvis) is discussed.
(18) But Otto stuck to the German position that the proposed terms giving BAE shareholders 40% and EADS shareholders 60% of the combined company undervalued EADS.
(19) These microorganisms were identified following the Otto Bier and Bailey & Scott's techniques (3, 1).
(20) A half-century ago Otto Ullrich became the first clinical geneticist to assume the Chairmanship of a clinical department in a medical school.