(n.) A small European falcon (Falco lithofalco, or F. aesalon).
Example Sentences:
(1) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(2) Off The Hook has facilities of up to £30,000 from the bank, a signatory to the Project Merlin agreement.
(3) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(4) Under this, 1% commission was to be paid if the $40m radar deal went through, to a Tanzania-registered firm, Merlin International Ltd. Mr Vithlani was the majority shareholder in Merlin, Mr Somaiya said, while he had a small token interest himself.
(5) Together with a business partner, accountant Allan Challinor, he presented his proposal and business plan to a number of banks – signatories to Project Merlin – hopeful they would see in ITL a successful company selling to established and promising markets worldwide.
(6) "She has reinvented family drama in Doctor Who, Robin Hood and Merlin and launched acclaimed contemporary series such as Spooks and Life on Mars as well as Cranford.
(7) Merlin Entertainments, which has already lost a reported £3m since closing Alton Towers last Tuesday, could face a large legal bill because of the accident, which came as millions of thrill-seekers plan visits to theme parks over the busy summer holiday season.
(8) Labour accused the government of "throwing in the towel" over cracking down on bankers' bonuses after the coalition announced a long-awaited deal – Project Merlin – between the banks and the coalition to lend £190bn to businesses and restrict pay at the bailed-out banks.
(9) They say YouTube is trying to cut out Merlin, the body that represents them in rights deals, and is instead making direct approaches to individual independent labels with a "non-negotiable" contract for its proposed streaming service.
(10) Eight days ago, to the jubilation of its critics and environmentalists, it emerged that the Scottish executive was "minded to refuse" the £500m scheme as it would seriously damage the moor's extremely fragile, internationally-protected habitats for rare birds such as dunlin, golden eagles, merlin, golden plover and red-throated divers.
(11) Merlin was then taken over by Topps and the result is that England are the only World Cup team that Panini can’t reproduce with logos or emblems, which is why the players all look like they’re wearing bibs in the photos.
(12) The British Bankers' Association, which is representing all of the banks signed up to Merlin, said the banks created a lending facility but that businesses chose not to use it.
(13) Her organisation has chosen to go public in an attempt to shame YouTube and its parent company back to the negotiating table with Merlin, the licensing agency that negotiates streaming rights for indie labels on a collective basis.
(14) Some birds of prey also thrived on grouse moors because of these plentiful food supplies: merlin were four times more numerous on grouse moors than in other locations (although this may be because, unlike hen harriers, they are too small to kill grouse).
(15) These projects will see existing Merlin brands such as The Dungeons adapted for the local market, in partnership with China Media Capital (CMC), it added.
(16) Of all the results announcements in the City this week, the one you really don’t want to be involved with will be hosted by the leisure group Merlin Entertainments.
(17) Madame Tussauds museum in Amsterdam, owned by Merlin Entertainments.
(18) Top 20 shows on the iPlayer – Christmas 2012 * 1 Doctor Who – the Snowmen (Christmas Day) 1.47m 2 EastEnders (Christmas Day) 1.4m 3 Miranda (Boxing Day) 1.32m 4 EastEnders (27 December) 1.25m 5 EastEnders (Boxing Day) 1.05m 6 Outnumbered (Christmas Eve) 899,000 7 EastEnders (Christmas Eve) 867,000 8 EastEnders (21 December) 818,000 9 Call the Midwife (Boxing Day) 769,000 10 Merlin (Christmas Eve) 743,000 11 Mrs Brown's Boys (Christmas Eve) 719,000 12 The Royle Family (Christmas Day) 674,000 13 Shrek Forever After (Christmas Day) 669,000 14 EastEnders (31 December) 666,000 15 Strictly Come Dancing: the Results (22 December) 606,000 16 Flushed Away (27 December) 606,000 17 Kung Fu Panda (23 December) 605,000 18 Merlin (22 December) 595,000 19 Restless (27 December) 548,000 20 Mrs Brown's Boys (Boxing Day) 547,000 * Online requests to view, 22 December to 1 January, excluding Virgin Media • This article was amended on 3 January 2013.
(19) I once saw a merlin above Burgh Castle spiral in a relentless tight corkscrew as it pursued a skylark that steepled until it was only a dust mote.
(20) The 500-acre theme park was closed for four days as a result of the accident and Merlin Entertainments said that summer trade was weak after the crash .
Wizard
Definition:
(n.) A wise man; a sage.
(n.) One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter.
(a.) Enchanting; charming.
(a.) Haunted by wizards.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
(2) The former Massachusetts governor, like many Republicans, expected the Trump campaign to implode last summer, after he insulted Mexicans and said Arizona senator and 2008 Republican nominee John McCain was not a “war hero” because “I like people who weren’t captured.” This year, days after Trump did not immediately disavow an expression of support from David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, Romney said one of his sons was driving him to an airport when he asked: “When the grandkids ask ‘What did you do to stop Donald Trump ?’ what are you going to say?’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romney launches extensive attack on Trump: ‘A genius he is not’ That, Romney said, was the final push.
(3) Gomez has appeared in 106 episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place (a show about magically gifted kids which aired on Disney) and released three albums with her band the Scene .
(4) David Stubbs Wizards vs Aliens 5.30pm, CBBC New series of Russell T Davies’s drama, full of wizardry and big-league special effects.
(5) If teen stars Gomez (a former girlfriend of Justin Bieber and the star of Disney's The Wizards of Waverly Place) , Benson ( Pretty Little Liars ) and Hudgens (Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series) wanted to obliterate their wholesome reputations, this was one way to do it.
(6) His bestselling book is The Annotated Alice, a timeless compendium of footnotes to the two Alice books, and a decade ago he wrote a sequel to The Wizard Of Oz in which Dorothy and friends go to Manhattan.
(7) • Bad Idea Jeans Department : Should the NBA make room for fighting like the NHL as the Washington Wizards’ Marcin Gortat has suggested?
(8) The Witch Is Dead, the Wizard of Oz song which became the focus of an anti-Thatcher campaign on Facebook, was not just about where it would chart – but how much of it the BBC would play.
(9) Apparently there was something in the water as George Hill, immediately fouled by the Wizards with only six seconds left in regulation, went to the line with a two-point Indiana lead and a chance to make it a two-possession game instead, yep, hit only one of his two free throws.
(10) The Washington Wizards center Jason Collins has become, in his own words, "the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport".
(11) A classic late 30s Popular Front studio movie is not how most of us think of The Wizard Of Oz.
(12) But one has to ask how the former seven-year-old co-star of Barney and Friends and The Wizards of Waverly Place ended up in a movie that shows drunk girls urinating through their bikinis in public and forcing a gangsta-looking James Franco to suck off his handgun.
(13) It’s just the politics at the end of the day beat me,” Hockey told Mark Bouris, the founder of Wizard Home Loans and the host of Celebrity Apprentice Australia.
(14) This Japanese attraction will be the third of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme parks.
(15) Open Mon-Sat 11am-midnight; Sun 12.30pm-11pm Spoon Cafe Bistro Spoon Cafe Bistro This place used to be known as Nicolson's Cafe or "one of the places where a single mum called Joanne sat in a corner to write some book about a boy wizard".
(16) Lewis, 42, admitted he was "hugely embarrassed" after McKellen, 74, who plays the wizard Gandalf in the Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit films, responsed acerbically in the Radio Times.
(17) What is your position?” David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, is asking me about my position on Israel.
(18) When Barack Obama was photographed with a very weak beer in hand at a Washington Wizards game, the phone-in lines smouldered with anger.
(19) Even the revered “Wizard of Oz”, as Crosby is known, is facing pointed questions after promising that the party would have reached the “crossover” point in the polls by now – the moment when the Tories take a clear lead over Labour.
(20) Australian visual effects wizard Dave Clayton has been nominated for his work on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.