(n.) A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, / long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel.
(n.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, insiders said that late on Friday afternoon Pennant-Rea contacted Darcey to say they were not convinced that a seven-day operation for the Times and Sunday Times was off the table and would not therefore be approving Witherow and Ivens's appointments.
(2) And imagine handing one of those pennants over, shaking hands just before leading your country into a World Cup final!
(3) The six directors include Rupert Pennant-Rea, a former editor of the Economist and deputy governor of the Bank of England; Stephen Grabiner, a venture capitalist who previously worked in the Telegraph's commercial department; and Veronica Wadley, former editor of the London Evening Standard and ex-deputy editor of the Daily Mail.
(4) A History of Bradford City AFC in Objects , a new book by lifelong supporter John Dewhirst, appears not much more promising than a compulsive collection of memorabilia – but it is much more than the sum of its badges, pennants and other ephemera which the author admits his wife and three daughters would eagerly de-clutter tomorrow.
(5) This hatred is exacerbated when the Cards crush you season after season of course, to the tune of 19 pennants and 11 World Series titles.
(6) Pennant-Rea is also a former editor of the Economist, while Lord Marlesford is a former journalist on the same magazine.
(7) Pennant believes that Clarkson's apology does not address the root of the problem at the corporation.
(8) Pennant said Clarkson's apology did not address the diversity problem at the BBC.
(9) Despite mounting pressure on the BBC to sack Clarkson, Pennant is unconvinced that such a "kneejerk" move is the right response.
(10) Jon Walters and Kenwyne Jones tried to test the new goalkeeper with long shots early in the game, though both flew harmlessly wide and Amos dealt with his first cross from Jermaine Pennant comfortably enough.
(11) The wingers weren't getting enough crosses in early on, but Pennant's delivery for the second goal was excellent.
(12) Author and publisher Cass Pennant is a former member of the InterCity Firm.
(13) The Giants won NLCS Game Seven 9-0, powered by a five-run third inning, to win the National League pennant.
(14) Perry Boys Abroad, by Ian Hough, has been released by Pennant Publishing
(15) Simone Pennant, the founder of the The TV Collective, which helps run Henry's campaign, said such "incidents will keep happening" unless the BBC hires more black and Asian staff on Top Gear and its other shows.
(16) Psilotornus confertus Machalska, 1974 was found in the water-shrew Neomys fodiens Pennant, 1771 in the Oriental Pyrenean Mountains.
(17) In France, the larval forms (daughter sporocysts, cercariae and metacercariae) of M. oocysta develop in Hydrobia ulvae Pennant living on Norman coasts of the Channel; they are described again.
(18) However, it is understood that there is behind-the-scenes contact between the Times independent directors and News Corp executives – with Mike Darcey, the chief executive of News International, in contact with Rupert Pennant-Rea, one of the independent directors.
(19) "Our real role is to ensure that the editors of the Times and Sunday Times are able to run their newspapers according to their own judgments and with the resources adequate to that task", according to the leader of Wapping's "independent national directors", Rupert Pennant-Rea.
(20) Mike Darcey has a scheduled meeting next month with the directors but is expected to talk to the de facto chairman of the directors, former deputy Bank of England governor Rupert Pennant-Rea, in the coming days to see if they can establish a way of winning their approval for John Witherow and Martin Ivens, who were announced as "acting editors" of the Times and Sunday Times, respectively late on Friday.
Repeater
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, repeats.
(n.) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
(n.) A repeating firearm.
(n.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate point.
(n.) A person who votes more than once at an election.
(n.) See Circulating decimal, under Decimal.
(n.) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(2) Nine of 14 patients studied for documented clinical relapse had positive repeat studies.
(3) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(4) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
(5) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(6) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(7) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
(8) A domain containing a CA repeat, similar to ones found in other late, cAMP-induced Dictyostelium genes, is required for cAMP-induced and developmental expression.
(9) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(10) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(11) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
(12) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(13) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
(14) Each species has approximately 500 core histones cluster repeats per haploid genome.
(15) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(16) Examinations, begun at day 150 of gestation in 33 monkeys and between days 32 and 58 in four other animals, were repeated at intervals of one to seven days.
(17) During that time they have repeatedly demonstrated the likely existence of signalling molecules or morphogens that control the pattern of development in the embryo.
(18) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
(19) Plasmids containing the inverted repeat alone bound ER, though less efficiently than did plasmids containing the entire sequence.
(20) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.