(n.) A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, -- used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart.
(n.) The laughing gull.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(2) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
(3) We continue to offer customers a great range of beer, lager and cider.” Heineken’s bid to raise prices for its products in supermarkets comes just a few months after it put 6p on a pint in pubs , a decision it blamed on the weak pound.
(4) The new slogan “for the thirsty” seems to lionise those who try different things: great for enticing new patrons but do you really want your loyal consumer base branching out beyond their usual pint?
(5) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
(6) Another pint of Guinness That evening we set out again, this time to O'Donoghue's in Fanore, a blue-painted stone pub set on the thin shelf of land between the sea and the great limestone mountain that is called the Burren.
(7) Hoping a few pints will finish off head and see heart triumph.
(8) I still have a few pints of gin and tonic before I go onstage but nothing stupid."
(9) He said: "A frothy pint of ale and a Snickers from the fridge."
(10) If you get a group of people together who wouldn't dream of drinking three quarters of a pint of viscous fatty liquid, and you got them to drink a mug of Horlicks, it would actually disrupt their sleep.
(11) In the vast majority of studies the documented daily intake levels have been over 150 g of ethanol (the equivalent of one pint of 80-proof spirits), often in the range of 250-300 g. Other potential risk factors such as malnutrition are rarely considered, and little information is available on the effects of more moderate daily intake.
(12) The maximum catalytic activities of PFK (PPi) in apex, stele and cortex of the root of pea (Pisum sativum) and in the developing and the thermogenic club of the spadix of cuckoo-pint (Arum maculatum) were measured and compared with those of phosphofructokinase, and to estimates of the rates of carbohydrate oxidation.
(13) Cameron took his jacket off and sipped from the half pint glasses of water – gin?
(14) Pint from £3.20 Brigantes Bar & Brasserie Brigantes Bar and Brasserie, York This bare, plain drinking space – stripped wooden floor, blue and cream colour scheme, Celtic cross logo – looks a bit like an O'Neill's, but the beer range is worlds away from the Oirish chain.
(15) But buyers rarely occupy the properties, leaving parts of prime central London empty of residents and any remaining local shops bereft of customers popping out to buy a paper or pint of milk.
(16) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
(17) One unit is 10ml of pure alcohol, equivalent to a measure of whisky, just over a third of a pint of beer or half a glass of wine.
(18) As with group 1, graded increases in left ventricular end diastolic pressure caused a rightward shift of the pressure-flow relation, with a direct relation between left ventricular end diastolic pressure and zero flow intercept (Pint = 0.93 X LVEDP + 3.9 mmHg, r = 0.89).
(19) He was the kind of bloke you’d book the morning cutting session with and have a pint with him at lunchtime – you wouldn’t book the afternoon one because that’d be after his pint!” Porky also encouraged bands to scratch in their own messages.
(20) You're as likely to see the entire brass section of the Halle Orchestra running across the road at the interval for a swift pint as you are a room full of drunken retired policemen.
Piot
Definition:
(n.) The magpie.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the Guardian last week : “What should be [the] WHO’s strongest regional office because of the enormity of the health challenges, is actually the weakest technically, and full of political appointees.” Medecins Sans Frontieres, whose volunteer doctors had begun to treat Ebola cases as soon as the outbreak was officially diagnosed in March – three months after the first case – had warned WHO in strong terms that this outbreak was different from previous ones.
(2) While in the past Ebola outbreaks have been self-limiting, this outbreak may be different, argues Peter Piot.
(3) What should be [the] WHO’s strongest regional office because of the enormity of the health challenges, is actually the weakest technically, and full of political appointees,” said Piot.
(4) They clearly underestimated the situation, partly because the African office dropped the ball, partly because member states, including the UK, cut [the] WHO’s budget for emergencies and haemorrhagic fevers (as proposed by WHO management),” said Piot.
(5) It was there that Peter Piot, currently director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine but then a young infectious disease expert, first encountered the virus and together with colleagues decided to name it after a river that flowed through the district.
(6) There is a particular need for trained nurses, clinicians, diagnostic laboratory technicians and sanitation experts, Piot told the school.
(7) In 1976 a thermos of blood from a Flemish nun who had died in Zaire arrived at the Antwerp lab where Peter Piot, the great microbiologist , was training.
(8) WHO's latest figures put the death toll at 1,552, almost as many as the combined death toll of the 26 outbreaks since Piot's discovery 48 years ago and has warned that the current spread could affect 20,000 before it is contained.
(9) We already have a lost year of schooling, of economic growth, and of lost confidence so we must not be rose-tinted about the challenge over the next decade.” Fighting Ebola requires a culture change in the west, as well as west Africa | Peter Piot and David Miliband Read more Despite a clear trend of declining Ebola cases, a 15 April deadline for eradicating the disease set by regional leaders is considered optimistic by many in the development community.
(10) If that happens, the region could be a reservoir for the spread of the virus, not only to other parts of Africa, but also the rest of the world, said Piot and Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust, in the New England Journal .
(11) First of all, nobody expected Ebola to pop up in west Africa – you only find what you are looking for,” said Prof Peter Piot, head of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
(12) Prof Peter Piot, the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who chaired the panel, said: “We need to strengthen core capacities in all countries to detect, report and respond rapidly to small outbreaks, in order to prevent them from becoming large-scale emergencies.
(13) Later that year Piot travelled to Zaire where he played a key role in containing the Ebola outbreak that killed 280 of the 318 people it infected.
(14) And Peter Piot, a microbiologist famous for discovering Ebola in the 1970s, stated recently that the reuse of syringes in west African hospitals was a major cause of the spread of the virus at the tail end of last year.
(15) A similar appeal at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine by its director, Professor Peter Piot, has resulted in 35 staff volunteering so far.
(16) Prof Peter Piot, now director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "This well designed trial in non-human primates provides the most convincing evidence to date that ZMapp may be an effective treatment of Ebola infection in humans.
(17) Societies that were being rebuilt after civil war have been devastated by Ebola and will need rebuilding once the epidemic is finally under control, said Piot, who believes the World Health Organisation has been too slow to respond.