(n.) A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward.
(v. t.) To honor or reward with a medal.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of them got a gold medal in medicine, for being top of the year, but they dropped out for exactly these reasons.” These are not alarmist stories being spread by campaigners.
(2) Last month Kelli White, who won the 100 and 200 metres at the 2003 world championships in Paris, was banned for two years and stripped of her medals after admitting using THG.
(3) From Stranraer to Stornaway there is a fair chance every primary school child in the country will catch a glimpse of their heroine's gold medal at some stage, like it or not.
(4) When I had that keyhole surgery, I thought: ‘Maybe, if I come back, it won’t be to that top level.’ But with the support I have been getting from my coach, family and friends, I think that really motivated me to come back strong.” Kenya is more famed for its distance runners and steeplechasers than its hurdlers, but the country was left celebrating a surprise gold medal in the 400m hurdles when Nicholas Bett powered home from lane nine to smash his personal best to win in 47.79sec.
(5) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
(6) In the men's double sculls Wells and Rowbotham continued the form that has seen them medal in every World Cup event.
(7) You have a secret hope but you like to keep it a secret because it sounds so arrogant to say I can win a medal and then don't get one."
(8) The unprecedented investment came to fruition in Beijing, with a medal count that the sports minister Hugh Robertson says was the ultimate proof of concept.
(9) As Mo Farah charged down the home straight, 80,000 people roaring him on to his second gold medal of these Games, his eyes wide, teeth bared, the whole stadium knew they were witnessing history in the making.
(10) Nicholls, who had qualified automatically for the final, scored 85.5 from the judges on his first run but was eventually nudged out of the medals.
(11) The men and women between them can now boast four medals at this Games, surpassing their targets (they had hoped for one or two), not to mention the British women's best placing in 84 years in the team final.
(12) She was fifth in the world championships in Moscow last year, where she missed out on a bronze medal by 28 points, and such was her performance in Götzis that her crushing disappointment on being ruled out of the Commonwealth Games was especially understandable.
(13) He's been the league MVP for two years in a row, he's the reigning NBA finals MVP, he led Team USA to a gold medal in last summer's Olympics, he's on this year's All-Defense first team, oh and there's that Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year thing … OK, you get the idea, there's a lot of compelling evidence out there that suggests that the dude knows how to play basketball.
(14) We’re sacrificing our gold medal to help people in need,” said Thomas Glückselig, lugging a mound of bedding.
(15) It is trying to encourage people to register in their real names by adding a "medal of honour" for users who provide details for police checks.
(16) Given the paucity of British talent in the sport over recent decades, it is a tribute to Murray's remarkable consistency that in his last eight grand slam tournaments, he has reached three finals, four semi-finals and a quarter-final – not to mention overcoming Federer on Wimbledon's Centre Court to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
(17) Daley, who won a bronze medal at the London 2012 Olympics, said he wanted to reveal the news in a video because he didn't want his words to be "twisted".
(18) (Edinburgh) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fauja Singh is awarded a British Empire Medal.
(19) He hankered for a return to Spain but, despite collecting four winners’ medals in his first season and celebrating the first league title of his career the following year, things did not proceed entirely as he might have hoped at Camp Nou.
(20) "As a council we enjoyed great success with Jimi and HESCO Bastion working together with them to achieve a historic gold medal for the city at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and everyone who knew him will remember his quiet manner, good nature, and tremendous pride in being from Leeds.
Verso
Definition:
(n.) The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.
Example Sentences:
(1) For electron microscopy, the immunogold procedure was applied to sections of lowicryl-embedded samples; simultaneous detection of GABA- and TH-immunoreactivities was enabled by recto-verso double labelling with gold particles of distinct diameters.
(2) It is published by Verso priced £25, and is available from the Guardian bookshop for £20.50 including free UK p&p .
(3) Verso , for example, sells ebooks directly, many at a great discount, and also offers a free ebook download when customers buy a printed copy.
(4) This is an edited extract from The Revenge of History: the Battle for the 21st Century by Seumas Milne, published by Verso.
(5) Robin Verso, the Warwickshire probation trust chairman, has told the Tory minister that the risks involved in the current timetable for outsourcing 70% of the probation service's workload are unacceptable: "Our assessment is that performance is bound to be damaged and that public protection failures will inevitably increase."
(6) Living in the End Times is published on 5 July by Verso, £20.
(7) The Dilemmas of Lenin by Tariq Ali is published by Verso, priced £16.99.
(8) Hill was honoured by an OUP festschrift, Puritans And Revolutionaries, when he retired from Balliol in 1978, and Verso published a series of tributes and criticisms, Reviving The English Revolution, 10 years later.
(9) I suppose we have nothing more to lose.” Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Nadya Tolokonnikova and Slavoj Žižek is published on September 30 (Verso Books).
(10) · Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary Theory is published by Verso (£20)
(11) Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman is published by Verso.
(12) • Tariq Ali ’s The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Rebellion is published next month by Verso.
(13) Paul Mason's book Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere is published by Verso in January
(14) But a recent Verso survey estimated that barely 12% of books are discovered from social networks whereas 50% are passed on via personal recommendations.
(15) Application of a double, recto-verso, immunogold labelling method in electron microscopy revealed systematic colocalization of GABA and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) immunoreactivities in the axons innervating the intermediate lobe; in the neural lobe, almost all GABA-immunoreactive axons were also labelled for TH.
(16) This dream was the backdrop to my novel Fear of Mirrors , which I began writing soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall ( and has been recently republished by Verso ).
(17) • The new and updated edition of James Meek’s Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs To Someone Else, shortlisted for the Orwell prize, is out now from Verso at £8.99 rrp.
(18) Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture , by Justin McGuirk, is published by Verso • The tragedy of Tampico: a city of violence, abandoned to the trees
(19) His latest book is Inequality and the 1%, published by Verso
(20) Her book Dispatches from the Dark Side is published by Verso at £9.99.