(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.
Stone
Definition:
(n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded stones.
(n.) A precious stone; a gem.
(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: -
(n.) The glass of a mirror; a mirror.
(n.) A monument to the dead; a gravestone.
(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
(n.) One of the testes; a testicle.
(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed.
(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility; torpidness; insensibility; as, a heart of stone.
(n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing; -- called also imposing stone.
(n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
(n.) To make like stone; to harden.
(n.) To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
(n.) To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
(2) Follow-up studies using radiological methods show worse results (recurrent stones in II: 21.2%, in I: 5.8%, stenosis of EST in II: 6.1%, in I: 3.1%): Late results of EST because of papillary stenosis are still worse compared to those of choledocholithiasis.
(3) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
(4) In conclusion, 1) etiology of urinary tract stone in all recurrent stone formers and in all patients with multiple stones must be pursued, and 2) all stones either removed or passed must be subjected to infrared spectrometry.
(5) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.
(6) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
(7) In cholesterol stones and cholesterolosis specimens, relatively strong muscle strips had similar responses to 10(-6) M cholecystokinin-8 in normal calcium (2.5 mM) and in the absence of extracellular calcium.
(8) No significant complications were related to ESWL and 90% of those followed up after successful ESWL proved stone-free at 6 weeks.
(9) The addition of alcohol to the drinking-water resulted in the formation of stones rich in pigment.
(10) One biliary stone showed cholesterol with spherical bodies of calcium carbonate and pigment.
(11) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
(12) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(13) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
(14) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(15) It is no longer necessary for the kidney to be free of stones at the end of the operation.
(16) So let's be clear: children taking this drug, which is administered orally, do not get stoned.
(17) Patients with unilateral renal stone(s) with at least 1 diameter between 7 and 25 mm.
(18) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
(19) Recurrent stones are usually "silent," and we do not usually treat asymptomatic stones.
(20) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.