(n.) The top or head of a mast; the part of a mast above the hounds.
(v. t.) To cause to go to the masthead as a punishment.
Example Sentences:
(1) It could be a melancholic experience, reflecting the state of the left in general – clipping off the mastheads at the end of the week of all the unsold copies of Weekly Worker , International Communist Current and Lalkar , making odd smelling vegan drinks for the older members of the co-op, ringing up a number left by someone who'd ordered Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus to tell them their book had arrived and finding that it had been ordered by a person now deceased.
(2) The title will simply be called the Sun, with an identical masthead to the daily, and insiders have been at pains to make it clear that the newspaper is not a "Sun on Sunday" – but instead simply a Sunday edition of the newspaper that will have some "specialist staff" but without its own editor.
(3) The only News Corp heritage masthead to rank in the top 10 is the Herald Sun, although news.com.au is No.
(4) The continued sniping between Rinehart and the board comes after three weeks of major upheavals at Fairfax, during which the company announced it was cutting 1,900 jobs, converting its two flagship mastheads from broadsheets to tabloids, and closing its two main printing presses.
(5) I have been increasingly uncomfortable with the “drawbridges” rhetoric on immigration of the far right, and was horrified to see similar suggestions on leaflets under Labour party mastheads.
(6) Many quoted Evelyn Beatrice Hall’s expression of Voltaire’s beliefs: “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.’’ When the Charlie Hebdo website , which was down for much of the day, came back online it carried the phrase Je Suis Charlie in bold letters, with Charlie written in the font of the publication’s masthead.
(7) A final question mark as to that goal perhaps comes from the diversity of otherwise of the site’s masthead.
(8) The newspaper costs 50p and the masthead describes it as “The newspaper that supports an independent Scotland”.
(9) However, Fairfax Media and some News Corp mastheads do not generally link to other news sources, while the Daily Mail and Guardian Australia do.
(10) DMA will be contacting News Corp after discovering repeated examples of stories and pictures being taken from MailOnline in recent weeks, without proper attribution or internet linking.” A News Corp Australia spokesman said: "We stand by the fact that we believe the Daily Mail Australia is breaching our copyright by lifting substantial slabs of original content from a large number of articles from our mastheads."
(11) The company's Australian mastheads include The Australian, the Herald Sun and Daily Telegraph.
(12) The working title on last weekend's dummy was "Sunday" and broke with the conventional "redtop" format for popular tabloids with a yellow and white masthead.
(13) A News Corp spokesman said: "We have taken this action because we believe the Daily Mail Australia is breaching our copyright by lifting substantial slabs of original content from a large number of articles from our mastheads."
(14) To run all this he has established a brand management business, employing dozens of people: a TV production company through which he controls both the product and the fees, a production line for the books, a collection of branded foods and cooking implements, the Jamie's Italian brand of mid-market restaurants, even a magazine with his name on the masthead, à la Oprah.
(15) The program has demonstrably failed to apply the same ‘recognised standards of objective journalism’ to which it is bound by statute and which it expects of the media each week.” In the interview, Mitchell was as open as he has ever been about the newspaper’s financial status, conceding that the masthead was not profitable and had not been so since 2008.
(16) By having our journalists and contributors feature with prominence in our campaign and [TV commercials], we are effectively communicating the core of what we offer readers.” A News Corp Australia spokesman told Guardian Australia: “Among other things, the campaign highlights that our mastheads deliver outstanding local news coverage.
(17) Cleveland was founded in 1796 by General Moses Cleaveland; the spelling changed in 1831 when the “a” was dropped to fit the city’s name on a newspaper masthead.
(18) At the heart of the changes, which will see the return of "London" to the paper's masthead, is a change of tone that will emphasise the positive and move away from what Greig and, he says, readers saw as a relentlessly negative tone.
(19) The letter sent to retailers showing The National’s masthead.
(20) At First Look, behind-the-scenes Laura Poitras is one of two main female names on a virtual masthead that just added John Cook from Gawker ( to run Greenwald’s magazine ) to join Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone ( to lead his own ).
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Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.
(n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
(n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.
(n.) Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
(n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.
(n.) Order; arrangement.
(n.) Ratification; approval.
(n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
(n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.
(n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.
(v. t.) To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
(v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
(v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
(v. t.) To ratify.
(v. i.) To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.
(v. i.) To make an estimate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Child benefit has already been withdrawn from higher rate taxpayers.
(2) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(3) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(4) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(5) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
(6) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(7) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(8) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(9) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(10) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
(11) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
(12) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(13) The second amino acid residue influences not only the rate of reaction but also the extent of formation of the product of the Amadori rearrangement, the ketoamine.
(14) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
(15) The main finding of this study is that diabetic adolescents with a high erythrocyte Na,Li countertransport rate have an arterial pressure significantly higher than patients with normal Na,Li countertransport fluxes.
(16) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(17) This difference is probably secondary to the different rates of delivery of furosemide into urine.
(18) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(19) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(20) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.