(n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
(v. t.) To surround with a moat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Khao Soi Khun Yai, Sri Poom Road, next to Wat Kuan Kama, Old City, North Moat; meal for two £1.60-£3 Warorot evening market Facebook Twitter Pinterest You could pick other food markets (Sompet, Thanin, Chiang Mai Gate, Chang Phuak Gate) and be as deliriously sated, but the night-time street food at Warorot remains special to me.
(2) When you read of such sentences, remember that this is the same country in which – just a few years ago – over 300 parliamentarians were found to have claimed expenses to which they weren’t entitled; hundreds of thousands handed over to some of the richest people in the country for duck houses, moat repairs and heating their stables.
(3) Bars and cages are out; moats and discreet electric fences are in.
(4) He stepped down from contesting the 2010 election after it emerged he had claimed £2,200 for the cleaning of the moat at his 13th-century manor house.
(5) It is believed that they went across the small moat to the north of the centre, and got as far as the car park, where they shouted "Our world is not for sale" before being arrested.
(6) An Englishman's home is his castle, and that castle now includes a moat to keep the peasants out.
(7) He informed the housing association retrospectively, and Moat says it "reluctantly" gave permission for the sub-let to run its two-year term, which ends on 13 February.
(8) It sits, forlorn, in a moat of open space, like a lone domino.
(9) Douglas Hogg , who was ordered by the Tory party leadership to repay the £2,200 cost of clearing his moat, politely declined.
(10) Missing correspondence between MPs and Commons officials must have given most of the game away regarding Tory expense claims for moat cleaning and duck houses.
(11) Yet I recall influential voices – including in cabinet – arguing that rather than confront the problem (under IMF supervision), Britain should pull up the drawbridge behind the moat of the English Channel.
(12) Facebook, which still has sites eulogising murderer Raoul Moat and Holocaust deniers, said it drew the line on groups that attack others, a bold move considering the site's WikiLeaks page boasts more than 1.3 million supporters.
(13) We get lost on our way out and end up standing in the darkness, trapped by a maze of brutalist architecture and a large moat, laughing at our inability to navigate one of the most iconic structures in London.
(14) Minimal bodily adjustment was necessary for free foraging, whereas discrete food presentations on land (DFP-land) and in a moat (DFP-moat) promoted a gross reorientation of the animal's entire body.
(15) "Is it really true that a Romanian side once built a moat filled with crocodiles to stop the crowd from invading the pitch?"
(16) And they have dug a legal moat around the charmed circle, criminalising, for example, the squatting of empty buildings and most forms of peaceful protest.
(17) Activists tried a variety of methods to enter the conference centre, approaching in large groups from several directions and, at one point, sending several hundred people running with seven giant lilos to bridge a moat next to the centre.
(18) Elizabeth Austerberry, the chief executive of Moat, said: “These people are not going to go away.
(19) The couple can't understand why Moat won't allow them to continue sub-letting for a further period.
(20) When he wasn't writing, he was usually swimming, most often in his moat, or wallowing in the massive cast-iron bath that lived at the back of the house.
Mort
Definition:
(n.) A great quantity or number.
(n.) A woman; a female.
(n.) A salmon in its third year.
(n.) Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
(n.) A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.
(n.) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were stated postoperative complications and early results of palliative treated patients (mortality 19,8%) and radicaly operated patients (postoperative--hospitality mort.
(2) » Une résidente du village, Bella Kabatesi, 18 ans, dont les parents sont morts suite à une maladie lorsqu’elle avait quatre ans, a utilisé l’énergie solaire pour alimenter une veilleuse en mémoire du fondateur du village, désormais décédé.
(3) The New York Daily News – neglected plaything of forgotten Canadian media magnate Mort Zuckerman – has also flipped and endorsed Mitt Romney in this election.
(4) We are seated on sofas in a cavernous, wood-floored room in his Los Angeles base, Studio Della Morte, where instruments (several gongs, a discarded accordion on the floor) compete for space with macabre props (cow skulls, dolls in various states of metamorphosis or dismemberment) and oddball paintings (a hare with boxing gloves).
(5) The methodology was a combination of occupational hygiene surveys, including a preliminary hazard analysis, with a comprehensive assessment of the safety and health systems in use based on the 'Management Oversight and Risk Tree' (MORT) method [Knox and Eicher, MORT User's Manual, Revision 2.
(6) With its wall-sized mural of a skull and crossbones and the slogan "Atlético Até a Morte" (Atlético Until Death), it was impossible not to notice the bar, which is the base of the torcedores organizados – or supporters' club – of Atletico Paranaense.
(7) Concentrations of lead in venous blood of all children and in samples from the home environment of Mort Bay children.
(8) Luís Boa Morte, a Portuguese who played in the Premier League for West Ham and Fulham, summed up his countrymen’s feelings when he said: “As we all know, Nani is an excellent player.
(9) The series, which tells the story of Jeffrey Tambor’s Mort and his transition towards becoming Moira, has an indie-movie aesthetic and a wry, gentle touch.
(10) Palouzie, president of VIVRE SA MORT, Association Européenne pour la Réhabilitation Sociale du Mourir, discusses attitudes of the public and the medical profession in France and Belgium toward death, the dying cancer patient, and terminal care.
(11) She put on roller skates, lifted her dress and sang Les Feuilles Mortes, while bare-assing the audience.
(12) It's got the best equipped "black box" theatre I've seen, and I sat with an audience of chinstrokers through an electronic concert by Mort Subotnick.
(13) The only mistake she ever made, relationship-wise, was media magnate Mort Zuckerman, in the late 1980s.
(14) Mort Bay and Summer Hill, residential localities in inner Sydney.
(15) The first of those, OSS 117 N'est pas Mort , debuted in 1956, five years before Terence Young's Dr No, the first 007 film.
(16) What the reviewers of Juvenalia discerned was true not just of our little show, but of the original from which it was drawn: the Satires stand in a tradition to which Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen, but equally Max Miller and Jackie Mason and Bernard Manning all belong, the comic improvisation on a theme.
(17) Initial rate of uptake for low lysine concentrations is mort tissue.
(18) The golden arc of Woolacombe Sands comes into view and beyond is Morte point, where Tarka once hunted for bass.
(19) Marion Dowdings, former deputy chair of his local party and now chairman of its supper club, receives an OBE, while Simon Mort, president of the neighbouring Oxford West Conservatives , receives the same.
(20) Among the different techniques the transumbilical route seems to be mort effective than recently thought of.