(n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.
(a.) Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
(v. t.) To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.
Example Sentences:
(1) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(2) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(3) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved beta-carotene for use in humans for prevention of the photosensitivity associated with the orphan disease, erythropoietic protoporphyria.
(4) It has recorded donations totalling around £175,000 since 2002, and said in its latest Charity Commission accounts that money had been spent on mosque building projects, funding for orphan children, and refugee projects in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
(5) Some 25,000 orphans in central Malawi are fed, clothed and housed by Madonna's charity.
(6) An additional 281 drugs and 141 biologicals have been entered into development and designated as orphans.
(7) In 2005, four years after Adam's body was found, two women and a man were convicted of child cruelty for torturing and threatening to kill an orphaned refugee who they claimed was a witch.
(8) And while I also believe that banning adoptions by Americans is unethical (this is personal for me – as an American, I am also now banned from adopting, and as a young mother, I find something seriously wrong with this), I also believe that Russia's orphan problem can be solved by making changes that must happen on a local level, and not as the result of a top-down decree.
(9) Others, who lost everyone, took in orphans in an attempt to rebuild a family.
(10) This includes safe disposal of bodies – which are highly infectious – tracing the contacts of people who are sick, protecting orphans and children left without families, raising awareness in communities of the risks of infection, providing food, clothing, medical supplies, water and sanitation services and also running some treatment centres.
(11) As part of their studies, orphans at the centre will be taught a curriculum based on Spirituality for Kids, linked to the Kabbalah school of mysticism, of which Madonna is a follower.
(12) Abraham’s uncle, who is already looking after three sets of orphaned relatives, said he would care for his nephew despite struggling to feed his enlarged family.
(13) "Pepfar would include one additional element: caring for victims of Aids, especially orphans.
(14) We must sent a strong message to the orphaned mothers who have lost their children that we stand beside our people."
(15) Here dominate some drugs for AIDS, which is a significant problem in medicine, but also some drugs for rare diseases ("orphan drugs"), like Gaucher's disease, precocious puberty etc.
(16) Of these children, 28% lived with their families, 30% were orphans, and 42% were abandoned.
(17) He said: “Among the horror of the refugee crisis, one of the most harrowing images has been the thousands of orphaned children fleeing conflict.” “Britain has always been a compassionate and welcoming country, and I am delighted that the government has finally, after months of pressure, committed to vital humanitarian aid.
(18) But the number of orphans we found was far more than we could cater for.
(19) In 2007, with war raging in Darfur, they realised that the orphans left stranded by the conflict would need a new home.
(20) The charity sent hundreds of social workers across the country to urban and rural communities to establish the true extent of the orphan problem.
Pointer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, points.
(n.) The hand of a timepiece.
(n.) One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen.
(n.) The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star.
(n.) Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.
Example Sentences:
(1) And Norris Cole hits a "good night everybody" three-pointer.
(2) These data, indicative of a relative inertness of physiological functions of nervous pointer dogs compared with normal pointers, are consistent with the behavioral and some of the biochemical findings previously reported.
(3) The cecal foramen pointer was invented for a Sistrunk median cervical cyst operation.
(4) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
(5) The system involves computer analysis and graphic display of vectors created from rotational and linear potentiometers that are activated by listeners using a hand-held pointer as they track an acoustic event.
(6) After a Renaldo Dixon layup made it a three-point game, the Aggies took advantage of a misplayed inbound pass from Xavier Thomas to gain possession, getting the ball to Kevin Aronis who made a game tying three-pointer with nine seconds left.
(7) Hence, the radiological correlate of the pseudo-obstruction of the colon is not specific, but it does supply a pointer to the disease of its shows dilation of the caecum, colon ascendens and colon transversum with air-pockets and reflected imaging as well as a usually not dilated colon descendens with remarkably little air.
(8) In Game Five, San Antonio's Manu Ginobili returned from the dead and Danny Green broke Ray Allen's NBA Finals record for made three-pointers while Allen was right there on the opposing bench.
(9) Elisabeth Afseth, bond market expert at Evolution Securities, reckons that the first pointer of a fresh credit crunch was returning could be seen on August 18 this year when the European Central Bank revealed that one bank had borrowed $500m for a week – as it could not find the money on the open market.
(10) Chapman's answer could be a pointer to the future of mass tourism.
(11) Photograph: Graphic South Africa Manager Carlos Alberto Parreira Fifa ranking 83 Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Uruguay Manager Oscar Tabárez Fifa ranking 16 Doubtful None Injured None Suspended Lodeiro Match pointers • Uruguay qualified for the knockout stage the last time they were managed by Oscar Tabárez at a World Cup (1990) • South Africa have won just two of their 13 encounters against South American opposition • Uruguay have managed just one win in their last 17 finals matches • Four of South Africa's last six World Cup finals games have been draws • Uruguay's only previous World Cup encounter against an African team was in 2002, drawing 3-3 with Senegal
(12) I thought it was like [Joe] DiMaggio’s hit streak.” The arena was covered in blue and gold and roaring for the home team, cheers that were even louder for each of Curry’s 10 three-pointers.
(13) Napier returned in the game's second half hitting a barrage of three-pointers against a stunned Villanova, eventually scoring 21 in the second half.
(14) 3.11am BST Heat 58-77 Spurs, end of the 3rd quarter LeBron James makes a three-pointer, which is good for Miami, but Tony Parker ends his game-long scoreless streak with a 17-foot basket.
(15) Tim Duncan responds with a two-point shot, but Rashard Lewis Can't Lose, makes a three-pointer here.
(16) Fever, pigmentation, and clubbing were also pointers to these two conditions.
(17) These findings are discussed in the context of the nervous pointer dog as a model for human anxiety disorders.
(18) LeBron James gives the ball to Ray Allen, and HE comes into the scoring action with a three-pointer.
(19) He called another team meeting yesterday and it is easy to imagine him going through all the same pointers as after the Chelsea game at Stamford Bridge 11 months ago.
(20) Overall, trials favour an effect in chronic active disease, and there are pointers to an effect in maintenance of remission.