(n.) A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.
(n.) One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) The males had characteristic manifestations of the Martin-Bell syndrome.
(4) Martin Wheatley will remain head of the Conduct Business Unit and become the future chief executive of the FCA.
(5) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
(6) The human P-450 1 is 82% homologous to the s-mephenytoin 4-hydroxylase (Umbenhauer, D. R., Martin, M. V., Lloyd, R. S., and Guengerich, F. P. (1987) Biochemistry 26, 1094-1099).
(7) When Martin Luther King was assassinated, they sent state troopers to my high school in east St Louis.
(8) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
(9) There is Ed Sheeran , with a guitar and loop pedal, and Chris Martin leaping around the stage with the rest of Coldplay providing a dourer backdrop.
(10) Along with a lengthy list of cameos, Girls actor Gaby Hoffmann and Party Down star Martin Starr appear as former Neptune High classmates new to the Veronica Mars universe.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whether Sia, Jason Derulo, Coldplay’s Chris Martin or Sir Elton John is in the passenger seat, Corden plays the part of a real fan with a deep knowledge of their discography.
(12) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(13) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.
(14) A case of fragile-X syndrome (the Martin-Bell syndrome) in two male half-sibs from different marriages of their mother was described.
(15) George RR Martin , whose series of novels inspired the HBO drama , has woven a tapestry of extraordinary size and richness; and most of the threads he has used derive from the history of our own world.
(16) An 18-year-old mentally retarded male with the Martin-Bell syndrome was fragile X positive.
(17) Recent polls confirmed that Martin read the public mood right as a big majority put improved health and social services well above tax cuts.” Some of the counts across the 40 constituencies of the republic are expected to continue until Monday due to Ireland’s single transferrable vote system.
(18) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
(19) On Twitter, Jessica Martin said: “Cannot actually believe what’s happened!
(20) In a recent article , Martin Jacques comments on how New Labour, which built its fortunes on "there being no alternative", is now being forced into the humiliating circumstances of having to find one.
Martinet
Definition:
(n.) In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods.
(n.) The martin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lendl and Mauresmo are former world No1s but he is an unsmiling martinet with a cutting line in sarcasm, she a mentor who chooses her words like a schoolteacher.
(2) The youth-led Nuit debout movement, which grew out of protests against labour reforms , has been holding night-time sit-ins and debates nationwide since 31 March, earning praise from figures such as William Martinet, leader of the students’ union Unef.
(3) Finally he emphasizes Martinet's qualities of loyalty and intellectual honesty, as well as his role as creator and director of a team (Broca, and later Epee de Bois).
(4) Chris Bryant, the former minister for Europe and chairman of the parliamentary all-party Russia group, said in a statement: "Having visited the trial and seen for myself the farcical way in which it was being conducted, with ludicrous trumped up charges and a petulant martinet of a prosecutor, it is entirely predictable that [Khodorkovsky] has been found guilty."
(5) On the basis of Martinet's functional linguistics, Chomsky's generative grammar and Piaget's cognitive psychology, the authors conclude that the psychopathology underlying hebephrenic speech is a disturbance of language rather than of parole and that hebephrenic syntactical distortions are linked to the disturbance in the balance between assimilation and accommodation characteristic of schizophrenic thought processes.
(6) They compare them to the european ones (Nally-Martinet).
(7) The Alps are a unique area for attracting skiers – of whom 30% are foreign – but the expansion in the skiing market is elsewhere, in Russia, China and central Asia.” Enrico Martinet, La Stampa Poland Facebook Twitter Pinterest A walk on the beach after sunset on the Polish Baltic Sea coast near Choczewo.
(8) William Martinet, the leader of the students’ union UNEF , welcomed the proposals as “important measures for the young”.
(9) However, no "modern" retention complex (Nally & Martinet--R.P.I.--R.P.A.--"equipoise"...)
(10) I have seen more than enough of the spirit-sapping martinet stupidity of French management to confirm the confessions of corporate slacker Corinne Maier's Bonjour Paresse (Hello laziness!
(11) Stress is laid on the words of Martinet and Tubiana in 1950 "...treatment of varicose veins is far from being as simple as many believe...".
(12) Martinet, the author, who was his collaborator for more than 25 years, surveys his phlebological work, so diverse and so multiple that it embraces all subjects of the venous pathology of the lower limbs.
(13) A director is not a father, you have to find the part for yourself.” Callow, too, recoiled when the “meditative experimenter” of Joint Stock workshops became a “Toscanini-like martinet”.
(14) Chris Bryant, the chairman of the all-party Russia group in the UK parliament, said in a statement: "Having visited the trial and seen for myself the farcical way in which it was being conducted, with ludicrous trumped up charges and a petulant martinet of a prosecutor, it is entirely predictable that [Khodorkovsky] has been found guilty."
(15) The Guardian understands that the Southampton left-back is being bought without the approval of Van Gaal, so to hear how this squares with the martinet manager of repute who needs total control over team matters could be revealing.
(16) Martinet also expressed his support for the Nuit debout action, praising the “thousands of people who are gathering for democratic debates”.