(1) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
(2) Chelsea may believe they are capable of more than the mishmash they have offered up previously in the aftermath of this win.
(3) In the approach to war, both the US and the UK governments mobilised a mishmash of arguments in a campaign of persuasion that was based not on rigorous analysis of intelligence but on the selective use of data and informants.
(4) The government’s decision to back a third runway at Heathrow has been informed by a mishmash of misinformation and missing information.
(5) This audience included 1.1 million watching the BBC HD simulcast – a frisky figure for a channel that has otherwise struggled to establish itself, featuring as it does a mishmash of programming from all the corporation's TV channels other than BBC1 (which has its own dedicated HD channel).
(6) On one level, Reddit is a mishmash of literally thousands of different communities, all overlapping slightly.
(7) It is otherwise a mishmash of free-market wizardry and global cop role-playing.
(8) I think it is just about one of the most shocking things that I have seen in my lifetime in this country.” At Ukip’s biggest ever conference, held in Ed Miliband’s constituency town of Doncaster, the party unveiled a mishmash of policies designed to appeal to former Labour and former Conservative voters.
(9) ‘This guy is making progress’ O’Malley is a mishmash of a stray Kennedy and the type of policy obsessive who even thinktanks keep locked away in a back office cubicle.
(10) The result isn't the mishmash you'd expect (despite the eccentric dish names).
(11) Momentum is a mishmash of sensibilities but any comparison with Militant is overblown.
(12) In all three acts, Kawase sings in an enticingly awkward mishmash of English and Japanese, sometimes starting a sentence in one language and finishing it in the other.
(13) Like many of the systems set up in the rush to independence, education throughout South Sudan is a mishmash of ideals and the possible.
(14) Underlying the unloved mosaic of contemporary British benefits lurks a mishmash of half-forgotten principles.
(15) It's also an odd mishmash of sensibilities: Depp; Thompson (but not good Thompson); and revivified actor-writer-director Bruce Robinson, who was slowly coaxed out of retirement by Depp himself for the first time since the debacle that was Jennifer 8.
(16) The urban heat island effect (and all its attendant causes, effects, and cause-effect mishmashes ) will expand its reach, for example raising temperatures in the Piedmont region by between 2-6C.
(17) Stagg was fortunate in that the judge in the original case, Mr Justice Ognall, was robust and self-confident enough to see the case against him for what it was – a mishmash of suppositions and mild coincidences, sprinkled with some fanciful psychological speculation.
(18) As part of the debate surrounding the 1988 Education Reform Act, Hull wrote Mishmash (1991), a devastating analysis of the use of food metaphors by rightwing opponents of an inclusive and pluralistic religious education and his work continued to oppose “religionism”, Hull’s term for those protecting themselves from “contamination” from other faiths and worldviews by withdrawing into their own tribalistic enclaves.
(19) The ideas in the original consultation document, which emerged from work in the Centre for Social Justice , were roundly condemned by most authoritative commentators; they had muddled measures, indicators, associations, consequences and risks in a multi-dimensional mishmash, which was almost certainly impossible to deliver, technically or data-wise.
(20) Perhaps only an estate agent could say that about a mishmash of camouflage and country house green.
Play
Definition:
(n.) To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
(n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
(n.) To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.
(n.) To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.
(n.) To act; to behave; to practice deception.
(n.) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays.
(n.) To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.
(n.) To act on the stage; to personate a character.
(v. t.) To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump.
(v. t.) To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.
(v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin.
(v. t.) To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks.
(v. t.) To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman.
(v. t.) To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.
(v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
(n.) Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
(n.) Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game.
(n.) The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.
(n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit.
(n.) A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.
(n.) The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play.
(n.) Performance on an instrument of music.
(n.) Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.
(n.) Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(2) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
(3) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(4) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(5) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(6) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(7) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(8) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(9) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
(10) In concert with TF expressed by monocytes and macrophages this endothelial cell procoagulant activity may play a role in the pathogenesis of thrombotic disease.
(11) To determine whether or not the glycan moieties in hTPO play a role in the disease-associated epitopes in Hashimoto's thyroiditis, radiolabeled recombinant hTPO was immunoprecipitated after digestion with N-glycanase.
(12) Immunohistochemical observation of myoepithelial cells with monoclonal antibody from human mammalian cancer suggested that these cells play an important role in the process of glandular ducts formation.
(13) Anti-human factor V IgG decreased this enhanced thrombin formation in the presence of platelets, indicating that factor V from platelets was playing an important role in thrombin formation.
(14) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
(15) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(16) The behaviour of DAO suggests that the enzyme plays an important role in the control of intracellular diamine concentration.
(17) It was with unanimous consent.” He denied that Trump’s tweets had played a part, saying: “No, no, no.
(18) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(19) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(20) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.