(n.) The refuse matter which remains after the pressure of fruit, particularly of grapes.
(n.) A weight of various commodities, esp. of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces.
(n.) A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.
(n.) A German coin and money of account. See Mark.
Example Sentences:
(1) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
(2) Bostock, who is long thought to have had a tense relationship with chief executive Marc Bolland , is departing by "mutual consent to pursue other interests" on 1 October, when she will also leave the M&S board.
(3) GNM announced in October that Marc Sands, the marketing director, was to leave the company .
(4) Two of Miliband’s inner circle – his director of strategy Tom Baldwin, and speechwriter Marc Stears – had suggested that the party seek out £3 supporters before 7 May in an attempt to engage people with the Labour party.
(5) Coach Marc Wilmots called it a "slight" strain and said Kompany was working on an individual program with the medical staff.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Dutch National Ballet’s production of Coppélia Photograph: Marc Haegeman
(7) It was carnage,” said Marc Coupris, 57, a legal worker.
(8) Then King Henrik is hit on the ensuing play by Dustin Brown, who had been hit by Marc Staal and went tumbling - all are OK.
(9) John Arnold and Marc Leder have both given to Cory Booker, Joe Kennedy, and others.
(10) 02:13:42 (Captain Marc Dubois): "No, no, no … Don't climb … no, no."
(11) But Marc Ostwald at Monument Securities took a more sceptical view and said there were plenty of reasons not to chase the gilt "relief rally".
(12) Marc Lanza has been cooking all morning a Provençal daube, in one of Olney's favourite red-wine reductions, and its rich flavour fills the farmhouse kitchen that has been preserved just as Olney created it.
(13) The Kookaburras were undone by a 7th minute goal from Alex Casasayas, who put away a cross from Marc Salles.
(14) The 6ft 5in striker Marc Janko bangs in the goals, often supplied by the all-Stuttgart right-sided combination of Florian Klein and Martin Harnik.
(15) Meyler was in unfamiliar territory on the right side of defence and performed brilliantly in the second half but Germany’s next opportunity of note came on the opposite flank when Marc Wilson’s backpass to Forde was left short and the keeper nervously found the stand, despite his initial touch almost reaching Thomas Müller with a clear path to goal.
(16) I think Marc's getting frustrated with the attention he's getting because too many people have been too short-term," Moakes said.
(17) At the break Koller had brought on Marc Janko to play as the focal point, and Alessandro Schöpf, a midfielder, for the defender, Sebastian Prödl.
(18) Marc Bolland has taken over at Marks & Spencer and Dalton Philips at Morrisons.
(19) The president’s chief lawyer in charge of the case is Marc Kasowitz, a civil litigator who has long worked for Trump in business and public relations disputes in New York but has little experience in Washington.
(20) Marc Wilmots reacted to being binned out of the tournament by saying the team that binned them weren't very good .
Peter
Definition:
(n.) A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles,
(v. i.) To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; -- used generally with out; as, that mine has petered out.
Example Sentences:
(1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(2) Peter retired in 1998, when he was appointed CBE for his services to drama.
(3) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
(4) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(5) However, the gay and human rights activist Peter Tatchell has called the investigation “excessive”.
(6) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
(7) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
(8) The reality is I like football so much, I miss football, and when I have the chance to be back I will come back.” Mourinho, who was joined by his agent Jorge Mendes to speak to children at the NorthLight school as part of the Valencia chairman Peter Lim’s Olympic scholarship, added: “It’s quite a funny career.
(9) They head a list of casualties at the top echelons of the financial industry including UBS's ousted chief executive Peter Wuffli and Bear Stearns's former chief operating officer Warren Spector.
(10) It offers us a new start, and a far more hopeful future.” The first minister, Peter Robinson , described the deal as a “monumental step forward” for Northern Ireland.
(11) The scale of fees that potentially are there in the Italian banking market – from restructurings and consolidation – are substantial,” said Peter Hahn, professor of banking at the London Institute of Banking & Finance.
(12) I learned about this more extreme form of PMS a couple of weeks ago, at a conference dinner, where I ended up sitting next to Peter Greenhouse, consultant in sexual health in Bristol.
(13) Peter King, chairman of the House homeland security committee, said after he was briefed on the investigation that "close to" all 11 of the agents involved had brought women back to their rooms at a hotel separate from the one where Obama is staying.
(14) Peter Schweizer – whose book scrutinizing donations to the Clinton Foundation has earned sharp rebukes from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and liberally aligned groups – confirmed on Thursday plans to investigate Bush’s past financial dealings.
(15) When he was prime minister Tony Blair asked Peter Mandelson to tell the Prince of Wales to stop his "unhelpful" attempts to influence policy on GM and Mandelson accused him of being "anti-scientific and irresponsible".
(16) What the film does, though, is use these incidents to build an idiosyncratic but insightful picture of Lawrence, played indelibly by Peter O'Toole in his debut role: a complicated, egomaniacal and physically masochistic man, at once god-like and all too flawed, with a tenuous grip both on reality and on sanity.
(17) It quickly became evident that there was an opportunity to take the idea beyond a one-off event between Anglicans and Catholics and reach out to other religions, like the Muslim community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The St Peter’s XI practise under the Vatican flag.
(18) But while the duchess was surrounded by obstetricians and midwives, Natalie was at home with just her husband, Peter, an architectural technician, and a doula by her side.
(19) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
(20) Peter Hyman I think within our system we've got to test effectiveness.