(n.) In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.
(v. t.) To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate.
(a.) Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon.
(n.) A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.
(n.) An explosive shell. See Marron, 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
(2) However, the dihybrid cross with linkage group I marker maroon showed a highly significant departure from 39:13:9:3 ratio.
(3) Nominees: Sticks and Stones, Maroon Productions for Channel 4 Charlie and Lola "I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed", Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Children's Breakthrough Award - Behind the Screen Jonathan Smith - Make Me Normal, Century Films for Channel 4 "The jury said that this year's winner had directed a moving and inspiring documentary which forced the audience to consider the impact of autism and Aspergers syndrome and how it can impact on the lives of those it affects."
(4) But the crisis has left divisions more deeply entrenched than ever between the rich, Dutch-speaking north and poorer, French-speaking south, with melting pot Brussels marooned in the middle.
(5) The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.
(6) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
(7) Guardian US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg looked at the role cities would have to play in reducing emissions: At-risk cities hold solutions to climate change: UN report It is already taking shape as the 21st century urban nightmare: a big storm hits a city like Shanghai, Mumbai, Miami or New York, knocking out power supply and waste treatment plants, washing out entire neighbourhoods and marooning the survivors in a toxic and foul-smelling swamp.
(8) Mutants of the maroon-like complex, representative of the five known complementation classes, were subjected to fine structure mapping experiments utilizing a nutritional selective procedure which permits the survival of rare ma-l(+) progeny from large-scale crosses.
(9) The amount of retrodisplacement was greatest with Kennerdell-Maroon or four-wall decompression and the least with lateral wall decompression.
(10) Plus her parents recently moved back to Carlisle from Harrogate, and will be able to help with childcare if she ends up marooned in Westminster during the week.
(11) "He had a strange life, marooned inside communist East Germany in his west Berlin apartment just a stone's throw from where his hero Christopher Isherwood had once lived, and surrounded by expressionist art, bars and other musicians and artists," says Tobias Rüther, author of Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin .
(12) Dan Barron blames this result on the maroon jerseys, while Greg Phillips nominates the theme to Ronnie Corbett vehicle Sorry as the perfect Hazlehurst soundtrack for this shambles.
(13) Layali has spent her entire life marooned on this colonial holdover, which is not equipped for refugees.
(14) The King Jacob stopped 100 metres from the marooned boat, whose captain – believed to be a Tunisian – manoeuvred clumsily in the dark, ramming the Portuguese boat.
(15) Five genetically distinct mutants with increased bleeding times and abnormal dense granules were used: maroon (ru-2mr), light ear (le), ruby eye (ru), beige (bg1), and pale ear (ep).
(16) Neutrophils stained dark maroon and contained green granules, eosinophils contained bright blue granules, basophils revealed yellow and pink granules, and monocytes stained green with green and yellow vacuoles.
(17) Parents are no longer marooned at home, waiting for cultural news to reach them several weeks later.
(18) When questioned about this iconography of one of the 20th-century’s worst mass murderers, he conceded that Mao had “probably” been a monster, but added: “We will be arguing about this to the end of time.” In a sense, Briggs remained marooned in the optimistic period of his prime – the 40s to the 60s – a believer above all in what he called in one of his best books The Age of Improvement (1959).
(19) Parents risk being taken in by someone's promises, only to find their children suddenly marooned.
(20) Snowden has since fled Hong Kong for Moscow, where he is reportedly marooned while resisting US attempts to extradite him to face charges under the Espionage Act.
Marron
Definition:
(a.) A large chestnut.
(a.) A chestnut color; maroon.
(a.) A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) If public health and local government can successfully combine their respective expertise, added Marron, the end result could be that public health can then "drive the political agenda" both locally and nationally.
(2) U.S.A. 84, 7036-7040; McPherson, Perlak, Fuchs, Marrone, Lavrik & Fischhoff (1988) Biotechnology 6, 61-66] at the N-terminus.
(3) Singer Emma Marrone, who represented Italy in this year's Eurovision song contest, said Scuccia's success was "an insult to showbusiness" because the nun was not talented enough.
(4) The venerable castagna , once an essential foodstuff for poor Italians and now the basis of the sugary marron glace , is facing a double threat from the east, experts claim.
(5) Marron agreed the changes were an ideal opportunity to tackle deep-seated problems.
(6) Follow-up thought: A lot of coaches will now be asking what that pick says for Ryan Nassib - the quarterback who new Bills head coach Doug Marrone coached at Syracuse.
(7) Marron, head of the Public Health England transition team, acknowledged the challenge of working with local politics, but spoke of how public health as a result can "drive the political agenda" locally and nationally.
(8) But, Marron said, its closeness to government will prove an advantage and ensure that its expert advice is heeded.
(9) Public health also has powerful political support, Marron told the debate.
(10) Others were in place at upper river Eden, the rivers Lowther, Eamont, Kent, Bela, Cocker, Marron and Derwent as well as upper river, Derwent, Stonethwaite Beck and Derwent Water.
(11) Joining Guardian public services editor David Brindle – who chaired the main discussion – were Jonathan Marron, head of the department of health 's Public Health England transition team, chief executive of the Association of Directors of Public Health Nicola Close, chair of Skills for Care Professor David Croisdale-Appleby and joint director of public health at Camden Quentin Sandifer.
(12) The creation of the new NHS Commissioning Board means the Department of Health will in future do a lot less to set health policy, so public health professionals will have more freedom to lead, Marron said.
(13) Typical "glomeruli" consisting of a varicosity of "rosette" joined to the dendritic claws of the granule cells, and "en marron" systems with perikarya of type II Golgi cells were easily recognised.
(14) An exotic type of contact was described in the last decade, in the rat cerebellar cortex, under the designation of synapse en marron.
(15) Jonathan Marron, the Department of Health's director of PHE transition, also stressed in one of the earlier debates that PHE's closeness to the Department of Health will mean that its advice is taken seriously by officials and ministers.
(16) As well as audience members a number of speakers were invited to attend: Nicola Close, chief executive, Association of Directors of Public Health; Professor David Croisdale-Appleby, chair, Skills for Care; Jonathan Marron, director, Public Health England transition, Department of Health; and Dr Quentin Sandifer, joint director of public health, Camden.