(n.) A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches.
(n.) A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit.
(n.) A fish, the chub.
(n.) A stag that has cast its antlers.
(n.) A hornless animal (cow or sheep).
(v. t.) To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows.
Example Sentences:
(1) The arts broadcaster Lord Bragg said Hall, who moves to the BBC from running the Royal Opera House, had no option but to cut a swath through BBC middle management in the wake of the damning conclusions of the Pollard report into the Savile crisis.
(2) I welcome Nick Pollard's recommendations in this area.
(3) Pollard told a press conference following the publication of his report on Wednesday: "Perhaps the most worrying aspect was not the decision to drop the [Newsnight] story but complete inability to deal with the events that followed for a few months after the Savile investigation was halted."
(4) Lord Patten, the BBC Trust chairman, said in a press conference after the publication of the Pollard report that it was taking legal advice about Entwistle's payoff, which has attracted significant criticism.
(5) Distressed, ashamed and hopeless – the experience of being ‘fit for work’ | Dawn Howley Read more Tom Pollard, the policy and campaigns manager at the mental health charity Mind , said: “This worrying study shines a light on the damaging impact the work capability assessments can have on people’s mental health.
(6) The basis of Pollard's arrest was a memo he had written for the Sun newsdesk in 2009 after receiving a call from a woman in Manchester.
(7) The archaeologist and television presenter Tony Pollard wrote : "#twittersilence?
(8) Stephen Pollard, the lawyer representing Rose, previously defended the Barings Bank rogue trader Nick Leeson and property tycoon Vincent Tchenguiz in his successful fight against the SFO.
(9) "We have to be clear at that point I didn't know what that dark side was," Younghusband told Pollard's panel.
(10) I'm sure we'll learn more from the Pollard review, but it increasingly looks as if the editor, Peter Rippon, really wasn't sure of the story his journalists had brought him.
(11) One senior BBC executive resigned and another three were moved from their jobs following the publication of the 185-page report by Nick Pollard, the former head of Sky News.
(12) Entwistle, who left the BBC after 54 days as director-general, told Pollard that the question of how to handle the death of a celebrity with a dubious personal life was one of judgment.
(13) Pollard said he believed that police "hoped" they would uncover a phone-hacking scandal similar to that at the now-closed News of the World.
(14) The huge jump is in part due to payouts of £470,000, plus £107,000 in legal fees relating to the Pollard inquiry into the Savile scandal, to former director general George Entwistle, who left after just 54 days in November as the Jimmy Savile scandal engulfed the BBC.
(15) Glaciologists call such an event a collapse, but Pollard said it would not be rapid, and would take thousands of years to unfold: "We had a bit of a debate whether to use the word collapse in the paper.
(16) Pollard was arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods and subjected to a year-long investigation based on a memo he had written to his bosses at the paper in 2009.
(17) Pollard said that he feels the 60 peer reviews investigated by the DWP since February 2012 should be examined together and the results of any lessons learned or key issues that may emerge published.
(18) The Pollard transcripts revealed how little preparation Entwistle had before his disastrous appearance before MPs on the culture, media and sport select committee in October last year.
(19) Witnesses have been questioned for several hours in many cases, with Pollard presiding over a hearing in which past and present BBC executives are questioned by Alan Maclean QC , who advised Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell during the Hutton inquiry into the death of David Kelly – and whose findings led to the resignation of another BBC director general.
(20) He will also have to deal with the crisis of leadership exposed by the Pollard review.
Tree
Definition:
(n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
(n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
(n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
(n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
(n.) Wood; timber.
(n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
(v. t.) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
(v. t.) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(2) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(3) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
(4) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(5) Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is characterized by an absence of seromucous glands in the oropharynx and tracheobronchial tree, making children with this disease prone to viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
(6) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(7) A new family tree of the tyrannosaurs in the paper considers Lythronax to be very close to Tyrannosaurus and its nearest relatives.
(8) Increasing awareness of disorders such as coronary arterial spasm, functional impairment of subendocardial blood flow and the possible role of variant patterns of anatomic distribution of the coronary arterial tree, will provide a better understanding of their significance as determining or contributing factors in patients with the anginal syndrome.
(9) It's of her and Barack Obama planting an olive tree in Uhuru park in the city centre in October 2006.
(10) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
(11) The trachea and the bronchial tree (first through seventh order branches) both synthesized alpha1(II) chains.
(12) Using a large clinic population with adequate controls, significant correlation between ragweed, grass or tree pollen sensitivity and the dates of birth was not obtained.
(13) The criteria selected by a classification tree method were similar: palpable purpura, age less than or equal to 20 years at disease onset, biopsy showing granulocytes around arterioles or venules, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
(14) The results are consistent with an action of banana tree juice on the molecule responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, resulting in a labilization of intracellular Ca2+.
(15) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
(16) Reconstruction of the intrahepatic biliary tree was carried out in all patients using intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomies between common segmental hepatic stomata and a Roux-en-Y jejunal loop.
(17) Axonal trees display differential growth during development or regeneration; that is, some branches stop growing and often retract while other branches continue to grow and form stable synaptic connections.
(18) When the vascular supply is abnormal, reconstruction of the vascular tree of one or both organs may be needed.
(19) A major outbreak in Kent in 2012 saw 2,000 trees felled.
(20) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.