(n.) One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
Example Sentences:
(1) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(2) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
(3) Back to my favourite Tunisian poet: “If, one day, a people desire to live, then fate will answer their call.
(4) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
(5) We don't have to be like the long-ago poet who once wrote : "Did you exist?
(6) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
(7) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(8) As a sports writer, he never missed a deadline, which was surprising for a poet.
(9) Liu Xia, a poet, has never been accused of a crime but has been under strict house arrest since shortly after the news that her husband had won the Nobel prize.
(10) By the time he joined the Army, he had begun to believe he was "more deep and true as a poet than a painter".
(11) He began his career as a professor at Yale, specialising in the Romantic poets.
(12) Perhaps, too, it’s the reason why another great Scottish poet, Hugh MacDiarmid, blew hot and cold about him.
(13) She said: "It is fascinating to see how we change as poets.
(14) The Welsh national poet, Gillian Clarke , puts it more succinctly.
(15) Before her detention, the poet told the Guardian she was not particularly interested in politics and seldom read her husband's works, adding: "But when you live with such a person, even if you don't care about politics, politics will care about you."
(16) One former Clifton College student, Stuart Delves, compared the relationship between students and some of the English teachers at the school in the late 60s and early 70s to the film Dead Poets Society.
(17) The international community must honour the dying wish of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo by taking immediate steps to protect his wife, the poet Liu Xia , who has endured years of government persecution, friends and supporters have said.
(18) The accused candidates include poet Vladimir Neklyayev, 64, and former deputy foreign minister, Andrei Sannikov, 56, who were both beaten by riot police during the protests.
(19) "All I had was the poet's name and a few lines of the poem.
(20) The group is named after Ezra Pound, the American poet who sided with Mussolini during the war.
Pott
Definition:
(n.) A size of paper. See under Paper.
Example Sentences:
(1) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
(2) The main causes are Potts Disease, arachnoiditis, tropical spastic paraplegia, trauma, lathyrism and cord compression.
(3) The authors report 14 cases of atypical forms of Pott's disease: 7 cases of centro-somatic forms 4 cases of sub-occipital Pott's disease, 2 cases of posterior arch and one case of sub-ligamentous vertebral tuberculosis.
(4) Pyknotic profiles are present in the ganglion cell layer during the first 2 postnatal weeks, reaching peak numbers during the first 4 postnatal days (corresponding to the time of greatest loss of ganglion cells and their axons: Potts et al., '82; Lam et al., '82; Perry et al., '83).
(5) The morphology of the lesions, sites involved, and age of the specimen are consistent with a diagnosis of tuberculous spondylitis (Pott's disease).
(6) Intrathoracic Pott's abscesses are principally observed in developing countries but they are not exceptional in France, and their varied semeiology deserves to be described.
(7) Potts declined to say whether Morrisons would spend more or less this year, but he said more significant cuts were on the way.
(8) The total mortality varied from 25% in the Waterston group to 42% in the Potts group.
(9) He received three weeks’ training; the only safety equipment he had was sunscreen,” Potts said.
(10) Daryl Davis, 20, Danyelle Davis, 24, Barry Potts, 20, George Walder, 20, and Jack Walder, 24, were charged on Monday after Reker Ahmed was attacked near a bus stop in Croydon.
(11) Potts said Morrisons could sell its own label foods via Amazon or through its tie-up with petrol station operator Motor Fuel Group.
(12) The results of the treatment of 89 consecutive cases of Pott's paraplegia admitted to care in Korea are reported.
(13) The results point towards a possibility of estimating past exposure to Stanton or Pott fiber fractions of airborne man-made mineral fibers, even though only RFOM were determined.
(14) The authors present a case of cervical Pott's disease with severe neurological impairment and with a favourable course with medical and surgical treatment.
(15) More than 20 years after palliation, one of 15 patients were alive with an original Blalock-Taussig shunt and 9 of 22 with a Potts anastomosis.
(16) The Kantar figures will be a boost for the new chief executive, David Potts, who is on a mission to improve sales and profits after taking over in March.
(17) The Getty announced this spring that it had bought the picture, one of its first major acquisitions since appointing a new director, Tim Potts, who left the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge last year.
(18) The vacuum-disc phenomenon is of great diagnostic value as it is usually found in relation to degenerated discs and permits orientation of diagnosis towards classical arthrosis or Pott's pseudo-arthrosis when atypical radiological images are seen.
(19) Paul Potts, the mobile-phone salesman who won the first series of Britain's Got Talent and went on to become a global opera star, was her inspiration.
(20) She is the first gay companion to the Time Lord, though Moffat recently condemned the fuss that had been made over Potts’s sexuality.