(n.) One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.
(n.) A vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving him the advantage over the others. A person who gives his vote thus is said to plump, or to plump his vote.
(n.) A voter who plumps his vote.
(n.) A downright, unqualified lie.
Example Sentences:
(1) The morphological changes above the occlusion included shorter, plumper villi and shorter crypts, a reduction in histochemically stainable brush-border enzymes, but an increase in acid phosphatase.
(2) In happier, plumper bygone years, though, film-makers, especially Italian film-makers, had vaults full of money, and an insurmountable urge to expend it prodigiously.
(3) A lip plumper prosthesis was fabricated to approximate the partially incompetent lips and create an oral seal.
(4) Try the blanchbait, a plumper alternative to whitebait, deep fried and served with a chunk of bread and salad.
(5) BEST BUY: Trimbach Pinot Gris Réserve, Alsace, France (from £14.99, Tesco.com ; Great Western Wines ; winedirect.co.uk ) Though they are the same grape variety, Alsace makes its pinot gris in a plumper style than Italy makes its pinot grigio.
(6) Radio-resistant cells obtained by cyclic irradiation and subculture were larger (plumper) than the parent strain and showed a marked pleomorphism.
Unqualified
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) That means scrapping David Cameron’s unqualified teacher policy, which has produced a 16% increase in the number of unqualified teachers in our schools.
(2) The palace and the politicians expect a smooth succession to the reign of Charles III, even though he is a man who has spent his life demonstrating how woefully unqualified he is to be a constitutional king.
(3) Former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, also weighed in for Clinton in a New York Times opinion piece on Friday, declaring: “Donald J Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.” Republicans stumbling from the wreckage of a terrible week are worrying about how to contain the damage further down the ballot paper in November as people running for seats in Congress and at state level risk being swept away.
(4) The only unqualified support appears to come from David Cameron and Mr Osborne, and from French president François Hollande who confirmed at his meeting with the PM last week that he wanted it to go ahead.
(5) Its submissions to the consultation, which it forced the MoJ to rerun, states: “There will certainly be plenty of redundancies among qualified solicitors … Given the rates of pay under the new scheme, firms will not be recruiting qualified solicitors but unqualified paralegals.” Nicola Hill, president of the LCCSA, said: “We’re seeing the effect of a policy which puts the cost of justice above its value.
(6) How dare this unqualified mother of three challenge RGCB orthodoxy or attack the hypocrisy of those who condemned viable neighbourhoods as slums in order to build their own golden city from which anyone with choice escaped?
(7) But the institutions suffer from curricula being abandoned due to funding cuts, unqualified – but party-loyal – lecturers, and shoddily built institutions.
(8) On Wednesday, Seth Klarman, a billionaire hedge fund manager and sometime Republican donor, said he would work to get Hillary Clinton elected, condemning Trump’s “shockingly unacceptable” remarks and calling the candidate “completely unqualified for the highest office in the land”.
(9) But freedom of movement has never been an unqualified right, and we now need to allow it to operate on a more sustainable basis in the light of the experience of recent years.
(10) The issues surrounding skill mix are often highly contentious and, not surprisingly, various interest groups either welcome or reject attempts to examine the different combinations of staff, qualified and unqualified, experienced and inexperienced, in relation to costs, outcomes and quality of nursing care.
(11) There are only 14,800 unqualified teachers in schools.
(12) The authors review the literature cited to support this hypothesis and demonstrate that its unqualified acceptance is unfounded.
(13) In the pattern of factors predisposing to newly diagnosed cases of the disease, unsatisfactory housing and living conditions as well as unqualified physical labour performed under unfavourable production and extreme climatic conditions, which are often combined with hazardous habits and concomitant diseases, are becoming more common.
(14) There are clear majorities against unqualified teaching, especially emphatic among Labour voters (68%) and even more particularly Ukip supporters (73%).
(15) Unqualified NIs and older NIs revealed more features of technical nursing and outer teaching than other teachers.
(16) The treasurer, Joe Hockey, who is expected to lose his portfolio if Abbott loses the prime ministership, told reporters Abbott had his “unqualified support”.
(17) Though the results cannot yet be satisfactorily interpreted, they suggest possible reasons for previous conflicting results and show that it is impossible to make the unqualified statement that transport of glycylsarcosine is 'Na+-dependent'.
(18) Thankfully, there is no sign so far of another Oswald Mosley, and the British National party performed poorly in the election, but Gray detects some of the hallmarks of populism – "a diffuse sense of grievance directed at the political class" and "an indeterminate, unlimited hope" – in the 2008 election of the unqualified Boris Johnson as mayor of London, in the carelessly vengeful mood of many voters after the MPs' expenses scandal, and in the three-week wonder of Cleggmania.
(19) This discussion of contraception, pregnancy, and childbirth covers the following: accepting and discharging patients; legal duty of care; contract law; consent; records; time limit; criminal law; sanctions; children under 16; contraception; failed sterilization, vasectomy, and abortion; abortions; pregnancy; delivery; postnatal care; birth at home; and unqualified persons.
(20) These include the appointment of unqualified teachers and inadequate levels of supervision, because local education authorities have little role in monitoring schools.