(n.) A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.
(n.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45¡, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described.
(n.) A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways.
(v. t.) To plaster or make fast with mortar.
(n.) A chamber lamp or light.
Example Sentences:
(1) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
(2) Apple held an unprecedented online sale on Friday and retail giants like WalMart have combined their online and bricks and mortar sales.
(3) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
(4) Growing up in Walters Way – and knowing that my parents built our house – taught me that there is an alternative to buying on the open market, and that houses don’t need to be made from bricks and mortar.
(5) But, in contrast to mammals, the highly attenuated corneocytes of avians, which results from a paucity of keratin filaments, produce a 'straws-and-mortar' tissue, rather than the 'bricks-and-mortar' tissue of mammals.
(6) The median incubation period calculated from day of arrival at the mortar firing site was 17 days (range 2-78) for the 15 confirmed cases.
(7) "Yesterday Palestinian terrorists fired 11 mortars from the vicinity of an UNRWA school in Zeitoun, Gaza," the IDF said on Twitter about four hours after the strike on the school in Rafah.
(8) I don't mean the year communism collapsed and democracy-loving Berliners tore through bricks and mortar with their bare hands.
(9) Crush the pistachios with a mortar and pestle, and set aside, then finely crush the cardamom seeds.
(10) Today, retailers offer their customers multiple touch points, whether that is a bricks and mortar store, online or mobile.
(11) Associated Press said 44 Sunni detainees were executed by pro-government Shia militiamen after Sunni insurgents reportedly tried to storm the jail near Baquba, but the Iraqi military put the death toll at 52 and said the Sunni prisoners were killed by mortar shells.
(12) As a result, the conflict has moved closer to residential areas, where the warring parties are fighting with indiscriminate weapons such as mortars, rockets and grenades.
(13) Even when they mortar us, it is hard to know where they come from.
(14) No matter how much you enjoy cooking, you definitely won't need a mortar or a pestle.
(15) He added: "It may also fail to reduce the violence or shift the momentum because the regime relies overwhelmingly on surface fires – mortars, artillery, and missiles."
(16) The Israeli military said gunmen had fired mortar bombs from near the school and it shot back in response.
(17) For many traders, street food is a means to a more conventional end: you start out selling from the back of a van and, if you amass a big enough following, you might end up with a bricks-and-mortar restaurant.
(18) They show the interrogation in April 2007 of a suspected insurgent, "Hanif", detained and questioned about a mortar attack on a British base.
(19) Syrian rebels groups briefly seized control of the Quneitra border crossing after hours of sustained and intense fighting with tanks and artillery, during which several shells exploded inside Camp Ziouni, a UN compound inside the demilitarised zone, and three mortars reportedly exploded inside Israeli-occupied territory.
(20) In the case of Airbnb, it’s facilitating the buy-to-let marketplace, and lets people like me – who have the assets to sweat – make a profit to cover the cost of more assets, which can then be priced accordingly to cover their own bricks and mortar (or, in my case, fuel and waterproof blacking).
Perrier
Definition:
(n.) A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Perrier award, meanwhile, prompted a personal crisis: for several years, Kitson seemed ashamed of having won it and afraid of the mainstream success that it, and Phoenix Nights, promised.
(2) The younger generation of comics – who include 2002 Perrier award winner Daniel Kitson, Josie Long and recent Edinburgh comedy award winner Tim Key – are pioneering a brand of standup that wishes no offence to anyone.
(3) She was one of the poshest people I had ever met – she drank Perrier water, which at that time was exotic beyond belief.
(4) For the past 27 years, Burns has also run what used to be known as the Perrier comedy awards in Edinburgh .
(5) He's a Perrier award-winner – with the sketch troupe The League of Gentlemen – but no household name.
(6) Kitson has had two career-defining experiences: starring as the recurring character Spencer the barman in the Peter Kay sitcom Phoenix Nights , and winning that 2002 Perrier.
(7) If you can buy a bottle of Perrier for £1 in my shop or down the road in a nice-looking shop for £1.50, then why wouldn’t you?” Poundland online?
(8) Concerning a hapless band attempting to find success with both music and women, it was Perrier-nominated at Edinburgh, found a home on Radio 2, then crossed the Atlantic to settle very nicely on HBO.
(9) The 2004 Perrier award winner appears at first glance to be finally doing a standup show.
(10) Now one of the most bankable comedians in the UK, McIntyre's career famously began in front of tiny audiences at the Edinburgh fringe, where he was nominated for the Perrier best newcomer award in 2003 .
(11) Sarah Kendall is a Perrier Award-nominated comedian and mother.
(12) Other winners of the prize – formerly known as the Perrier Award – include Frank Skinner, the League of Gentlemen and Daniel Kitson.
(13) Calculation of adequate gentamicin dosage regimen during steady-state based on individual pharmacokinetic parameters according to Gibaldi & Perrier was then studied in 35 newborn infants during therapy.
(14) Fry has since characterised his friendship with Laurie as "untainted by any sort of schoolboy rivalry" and together the threesome went on to dominate the Footlights comedy club, winning the first Perrier award at Edinburgh in 1981.
(15) I was putting my Perrier water in the fridge when the doorbell rang.
(16) We were pitted against them for the Perrier and I said I wouldn't mind if they beat us.
(17) The award, previously sponsored by Perrier and now sponsored by Fosters, is a major marker of new comedy talent and has been won by most well-known British comedians since it was first launched in 1981.
(19) Christie, Lyons and Porter all have shows at this year's fringe, three of more than a thousand comedy shows over August which include regulars such as Stewart Lee and Richard Herring and returners such as Frank Skinner, 23 years after he won the Perrier comedy award.
(20) Ten years after winning the Perrier award for comedy , Kitson – bearded, stammering, northern and little known beyond the live comedy and theatre circuits – is routinely cited as "the best comic of his generation" and lionised by other comics.