(n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) For Didier Deschamps, the big call for this last-16 challenge was whether to pick Antoine Griezmann or Olivier Giroud to join Karim Benzema and Mathieu Valbuena as the third attacking musketeer in France’s system.
(2) "Everybody's dressed as one of the Three Musketeers on acid.
(3) He said one word: D’Artagnan.” The noble musketeer fighting against the forces of evil is a positive portrayal.
(4) Kate Harwood, who has overseen hits including Cranford, Luther, Five Daughters and The Musketeers during her 24 years at the BBC , will join Fremantle as managing director of Euston Films in the summer.
(5) The second episode of BBC1's 10-part drama The Musketeers, which stars Peter Capaldi, suffered an audience dip of more than 1 million viewers, but remained the top-rating show in the 9pm hour against ITV's Mr Selfridge.
(6) Among them was 37-year-old Yusuf Idris, who bought a $40 (£26) home-made musket and joined his friends in a civilian vigilante effort after a savage assault in 2013 turned Baga into Nigeria’s new ground zero against Boko Haram .
(7) It was up against the last in the second series of ITV's Mr Selfridge, watched by 4.9 million viewers, a 21.5% share, once again ahead of its BBC1 drama rival, The Musketeers, which had 4.2 million viewers (18.6%) for its penultimate outing.
(8) Christie’s said interest in Picasso’s late period musketeer portraits has grown dramatically in recent years.
(9) When Lord North, prime minister at the time of the American revolution, received the news that British forces had lost the war, and with it the American colonies, he was reported to have been physically struck by the magnitude of the news, as if hit by a musket ball.
(10) Dedicated to the 1960s cinematographic heyday of Almería, the nearby provincial capital, it is plastered with location photos from Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago and The Three Musketeers, which were all filmed round here.
(11) In the battle of the 9pm dramas, it was Mr Selfridge that took the ratings honours, the ITV department store series was watched by 4.9 million viewers (21.5%) ahead of BBC1's The Musketeers, with 4.7 million viewers (20.4%).
(12) Despite the audience dip Musketeers was once again easily ahead of Mr Selfridge.
(13) Two centuries ago the round shot had screamed about the streets and the crackle of muskets resounded in its encircling country lanes.
(14) The mix of fierce individualism with the spirit of the three musketeers ("All for one and one for all") has kept American society internally dynamic and externally on top of its game.
(15) "Hangs him plain as day in the corner of his living room, next to the musket he was shot with."
(16) Which may or may not be a good idea depending on your view of that mix-and-match defence testing its weak points against Barcelona’s otherworldly attacking trio, the football equivalent of riding out to face the three musketeers with a breadstick in each hand.
(17) Yet Redwood’s remark that the national argument resembled “the English civil war without muskets” was more than a quip.
(18) Later, due to its popularity, they broadened the series out to talk about everything from slow-motion musket firing to the chemical properties of caffeine.
(19) For the American people can no more meet the demands of today's world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias.
(20) She was memorably described as one of the "three musketeers" of independent film finance in the UK, along with two other contenders for the MediaGuardian 100 – Christine Langan , creative director of BBC Films, and Tanya Seghatchian , head of the UK Film Council's lottery supported development fund.
Spanner
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, spans.
(n.) The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself.
(n.) An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose.
(n.) A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.
Example Sentences:
(1) An open-ended torque release spanner was set for 0.9 Newton-metres for clinical use such that the compressive load is sufficient to prevent pull-out even in the unlikely event of 60 lb being applied for up to 21 days.
(2) Another spanner in the Brotherhood's works was the recent decision by the supreme constitutional court to dissolve parliament, in which it was the majority bloc through its political arm, the Freedom and Justice party.
(3) 9.07pm GMT Final score: Panthers 21-20 Falcons For a moment it appeared as though the Falcons were about to throw a spanner in the works, driving up to near midfield with 30 seconds left to play.
(4) And despite what he says, it would be very tough for him to beat her.” Clinton spent last summer fighting accusations of inappropriate use of a personal email server during her time as secretary of state, an issue that threw an unexpected spanner in what was initially seen as a clear path to the nomination.
(5) Fulham thought they'd secured the striker's scrawl, but it now seems that Big Sam might be on the verge of throwing a spanner in the works.
(6) He thinks the party’s current stance on solving 21st-century problems is as outdated as “trying to overhaul an Apple MacBook with a spanner” and says decisions should be made by members networked via the internet rather than in local party meetings in draughty church halls.
(7) Fittingly, most traces of this Michael Green’s HowToCorp company have since been erased from cyberspace, perhaps by his own software, jammed in reverse gear with an imaginary spanner.
(8) If this is the tone in which the UK proceeds, then throwing spanners in May’s works will be irresistible to many of them.
(9) "Kim Dotcom could throw a real spanner in the works of this year's general election," Bryce Edwards, a political commentator and lecturer at the University of Otago, wrote on his blog.
(10) Barclays' decision threatens to throw a spanner in the works as Somalia embarks on reconstruction.
(11) "Coalition government and Ukip have thrown spanners in the old assumptions," says Sanders.
(12) A Scandal in Bohemia opens with Conan Doyle sidelining feeling as "grit in a sensitive instrument", a spanner in the works of the world's "most perfect reasoning and observing machine".
(13) 7 Get a spanner Things are going to go wrong much more often, so expect mini-disasters.
(14) Two series of bivalent ligands (P-X-P) containing the (R,S)-3-[(4-aminoaryl)oxy]-1-(isopropylamino)propan-2-ol pharmacophore and a connecting alpha,omega-dicarbonylpoly(methylene) [X = -OC(CH2)nCO-] or alpha,omega-N,N'-bis(carbonylmethylene) polymethylenediamine [X = -OCCH2NH(CH2)nNHCH2CO-] spanner were synthesized and evaluated for beta-adrenoceptor antagonist activity in rat heart and lung membrane preparations.
(15) But there's another, easier way of establishing whether someone is two spanners short of a tool box.
(16) There’s a social stigma, too.” The design of the new devices, from masculine chrome pipes like luxury motorbike spanners to delicate diamanté bling-sticks, helps, too.
(17) In short, they are all much better riders than me and calmly slide out of their saddles at the end of the day while I limp off as if I have been sitting on a bag of spanners.
(18) More self-harm to report: a single decision with the potential to devastate the finances of millions, blight some of the poorest communities in the developing world and throw a spanner in the workings of our aid agencies.
(19) The data suggest that further increases in spanner length and lipophilicity and optical resolution may improve the potential of a labeled bivalent beta 1-adrenoceptor antagonist to function as a myocardial imaging agent.
(20) Jack Lang (@snap_kaka_pop) Potential spanner in the works for Everton?