(n.) A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray with black stripes. It is worn by both sexes in Scotland.
(n.) Goods of any quality or material of the pattern of a plaid or tartan; a checkered cloth or pattern.
(a.) Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scotch plaid; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another; as, plaid muslin.
Example Sentences:
(1) It may not point to independence – nor, given that large swaths of Wales remain firmly dominated by Labour, mean any huge advance for Plaid Cymru.
(2) Now remarried, and a father, he is standing for Plaid Cymru, again in the Cardiff Bay seat.
(3) He asked for details of farm subsidies paid to opposition politicians including the Welsh Tory leader, Andrew RT Davies, the Welsh Liberal Democrat chief, Kirsty Williams, and Plaid Cymru's Llyr Huws Gruffydd.
(4) A spokesperson for Plaid Cymru said: “On 5 May, Wales chose not to elect one single party to govern Wales with a majority.
(5) In Scotland and Wales respectively, the major parties are joined by the Scottish National party and Plaid Cyrmu.
(6) We find that as the stereo depth separation of the two component gratings increases, the probability of seeing a plaid declines.
(7) She added that Plaid Cymru wanted the SDC to be retained in Wales.
(8) Her answer was prompted by a question last week from Plaid Cymru's sustainability spokesperson Leanne Wood AM.
(9) Her first major initiative was to set up an economic commission headed by the former Plaid MP Adam Price, one of the party's brightest sparks.
(10) The Welsh Liberal Democrats also called last night on the coalition Plaid Cymru-Labour Welsh government to join the growing campaign.
(11) He had always subscribed to the pacifist principles at the heart of Plaid Cymru's philosophy.
(12) Compared with Scotland, Plaid and Welsh independence seem beached.
(13) Only in Wales does something resembling political orthodoxy seem to be holding; but then again, it is not that long since Plaid Cymru was temporarily booting Labour out of some of its post-industrial heartlands.
(14) With the aid of a series of demonstrations (plus two formal experiments) we (1) propose a new explanation for the fact that edge line terminators in a "barber pole" display are perceived as intrinsic; (2) show that inner line terminators in a plaid pattern (i.e.
(15) This is why decisive action is needed to protect our social housing to make sure it is available for those who need it most.” Dyfed Edwards, the Welsh Local Government Association spokesperson for housing and a Plaid Cymru councillor in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, said: “With many thousands of people currently on housing waiting lists, and at a time of acute shortages of affordable homes, the proposal from Welsh government to abolish right to buy is a welcome step in tackling a growing problem in Wales.” Mark Isherwood, the Welsh Conservative shadow minister for housing, was unimpressed.
(16) Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood tackled him on the subject during the seven-way discussion, saying it was scaremongering and that he should be ashamed of himself.
(17) Follow the right people At the time of writing, Murdoch follows only four people: @jack (Twitter's executive chairman, Jack Dorsey); @markpinc (co-founder of Zynga, which makes social games such as FarmVille); @plaid_page (an account apparently run for Google's Larry Page); and @Lord_Sugar (the artist formerly known as S'ralan).
(18) Plaid Cymru has socialism in our aims, to create a decent socialist world.
(19) She anticipated that Plaid Cymru activists and members of the Welsh assembly would travel to Scotland to help the yes campaign during the referendum campaign, using up their summer holidays.
(20) Labour left reeling in Wales as Plaid Cymru takes Rhondda Read more Ukip made a breakthrough , winning seven seats , including one for the disgraced former Tory minister Neil Hamilton.
Sett
Definition:
(n.) See Set, n., 2 (e) and 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) I tried hard not to think of a time hence when I could count every tree in the wood, when the badger sett would be in an open field.
(2) Badger baiting and sett interference, including tunnels being ploughed up by farmers or dug out by property developers, were the most frequently-reported incidents.
(3) The submaximum effort tourniquet technique (SETT) is becoming more widely used as part of the clinical assessment of chronic pain patients despite little information about the scaling of this technique.
(4) Somerset police have recorded three reports in the last 15 months: one for a badger killing and two for interfering with a badger sett.
(5) The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) response to the freedom of information request stated the trials aimed to "determine whether any available mechanisms have the potential to achieve humane and effective outcomes in real sett situations".
(6) The tests, at an undisclosed location, are examining how the poisons carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide flow through complex badger setts.
(7) If you put a high seat over a sett you could kill most of them fairly quickly.
(8) Two cases of CAGE treated by recompression after submarine escape tank training (SETT) accidents are described.
(9) Mead, an influential figure in the region, is in favour of gassing diseased badgers in their setts to control bovine TB in cattle, a technique which was scrapped by the government in 1982 after scientific experiments showed it was inhumane for badgers that received sub-lethal doses of the poison.
(10) Almost 700 incidents of badger persecution were reported in 2013, including badgers killed by dogs and snares and setts gassed with vehicle exhausts, according to a report by the Badger Trust .
(11) Investigations are continuing into eight of the 27 reports, which also includes illegal interference with setts.
(12) Badgers consistently avoided close contact with cattle by changing routes from sett to foraging site and by foraging much less in areas of fields occupied by cattle.
(13) "He confirmed the final licence conditions had yet to be met by the cullers but could be fulfilled at any time, meaning badgers could begin to be killed immediately.As winter approaches, time is fast running out for the cull to begin because badgers lie low in their setts in the cold weather.
(14) On the back flyleaf are the names of 26 plants, 22 of which were "To be sett & sawin in ye garding".
(15) Two residential floors for the disabled in a Home for the Jewish Aged were the setttings for this research.
(16) One hundred eleven impotent men and 25 potent men were prospectively evaluated with a standardized exercise treadmill test (SETT) used to noninvasively define their pelvic hemodynamics.
(17) The Badger Trust report details a wide range of badger persecution, such as poisoning and setts being burned out with petrol.
(18) Ratio scaling procedures resulted in a linear function, presumed to underlie clinical application of the SETT, for only 11% of the subjects.
(19) Animal welfare groups were further outraged when the ministry demonstrated how to use snares and Nature Conservancy, recognising political realities, urged gassing setts instead, which was considered humane by animal welfare organisations.
(20) Secret government trials of gassing badger setts have been underway since the summer of 2013, according to documents released under freedom of information rules on Thursday.