(n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.
(n.) A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing.
Example Sentences:
(1) I seem to see Madonna Grimes drifting vacantly from job to job, a perambulating pain in the neck wherever she works.
(2) A brief account is given of a person, small in stature, with retarded development, who, following the breakdown of marital intimacy and the failure of his efforts to adopt a child, found sexual satisfaction by defecating in unoccupied perambulators and subsequently inflicting damage on them.
(3) The Steinway's perambulations are a symbol of that cumbrous, precious heritage of images and ideas that the refugees from Hitler carried into exile.
(4) Taking our afternoon perambulations, Sir Henry and I encountered the local naturalist John Stapleton out on the moor with his sister.
(5) Dancers will negotiate the slippery limestone rocks, disappearing into underground passageways and then popping up later in front of the perambulating audience; a choir's singing will rise as if from the centre of the earth.
(6) The abdominal symptoms develop latently and surgery prevalently ensues during the stage of intestinal wall necrosis or perambulating peritonitis.
Pram
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Prame
Example Sentences:
(1) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
(2) If you have young kids, bring a booster seat, as prams and pushchairs aren't allowed inside.
(3) Parish's (1972) Revised PRAM II did not detect any change, but Williams' (1971) PRAM II demonstrated a significant reduction in anti-Afro-American attitudes for those Ss who received 8 conditioning sessions.
(4) Prams triggered low-grade, non-specific anxiety: they were vehicles of entrapment.
(5) At our best we use it to spur on creativity, at our worst we launch our toys out of the pram and become drama queens instead of dramatists, citing conspiracy theories and the powers that be for destroying our work.
(6) Her baby daughter was also kitted out in Burberry, and Westbrook had a beige-check pram.
(7) Pickup, now 71, recalls the "horrible, infinitesimal detail of how accurate you had to be, partly because you didn't want stones bouncing off the pram into the audience".
(8) I mention David Miliband (whose claim for a £199 pram was rejected) and Jack Straw (who paid only half the amount of council tax he claimed back in allowances over four years – he apologised and repaid the difference).
(9) From there, it was a short hop to the repopularisation of the kind of archetypes that, in the 80s, were the preserve of boneheaded Tory MPs - not least that of the "Pram Face", defined on the website Urban Dictionary as "a girl who is a little rough round the edges and wouldn't look at all out of place at 14 years of age pushing a newborn through a council estate".
(10) New parents also face a £9,152 bill during the first twelve months of their new baby's life, taking into account expenditure on equipment such as buggies, cots and prams etc.
(11) The kindergarten teacher suffered a 5cm gash to her right hand, after intervening to stop a firework exploding in her three-year-old’s pram.
(12) These criminals are putting knives in kids hands, and the prams.
(13) The best casual game designers never assume that the player's attention will be fully on the game; they may be on the bus or even pushing a pram.
(14) Pavements and public transport become yours (I was once asked to get off a bus so a woman with a pram could get on, but let's not re-enact that ugly scene here) and the world can't get enough of you.
(15) Some claim that the pram in the hall is the enemy of art.
(16) The camera cuts back to show that alongside her in the gloom are other figures – but these are swathed in burkas, pushing prams.
(17) With the benefit of hindsight, Kid A's wilful racket now recalls the clatter of a rattle being thrown from a pram.
(18) I run in the dark with my iPod in full view and, like most Danish mothers, I would leave Liv sleeping in a pram outside a cafe.
(19) Three cases of accidental strangulation of children in prams are described.
(20) But that's very British – pram races, sea-boot races and a Jack in the Green festival that has very ancient roots.