(n.) A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.
(n.) A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.
Example Sentences:
(1) That is a kind we have already been warned about — by Marco Polo in Italo Calvino’s deathless novel Invisible Cities .
(2) And if fancy hats and champers are more your scene, there's a free beach polo match here on 16 September, with public champagne bars and a barbecue.
(3) Officers were in low numbers and principally dressed in bright blue polo shirts emblazoned with “NYPD Community Affairs”.
(4) The real disgrace is the withdrawal of funding to mass participation, “local” sports such as basketball and water polo, which have the potential to do so much good in communities and cities across the country, in order to concentrate money on elite individuals who long ago ceased to be inspirational and now have a standing no higher than reality TV.
(5) He lost weight and took to polo in his late 40s with the enthusiasm of a man half his age, putting millions of pounds into the game in England, Australia and Argentina, and spending up to five months a year on the international polo circuit.
(6) Rake, married with four sons, keeps horses at his Oxfordshire home and has formed a polo team.
(7) He will hand control of the company, best known for its colourful polo shirts and preppy advertising campaigns, to a Gap executive in November.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mario Polo, of Boston Market, left, talks to job seekers Herby Joseph, right, and Kingsly Jose, center, at a job fair in Sunrise, Florida.
(9) Billboards and placards sprang up around Egypt, showing him not in his familiar uniform but in a tracksuit, polo shirt or smart suit, with a discreet prayer bruise – a mark cultivated by some devout men by pressing their foreheads hard to the ground during prayer – calculated to set housewives’ hearts aflutter.
(10) In a bid to increase sales, Ralph Lauren has added three new brands, including Polo for Women and Polo Sport, as well as expanded both its luxury business and online operations.
(11) In the past few years, they have drilled boreholes for polo and cricket pitches, stables, and people who want their own supplies.
(12) "My first job was packing Polos in a factory so I don't need anyone to tell me what it's like being a normal person on normal amounts of money."
(13) Papillomatous lesions intruding into the laryngeal airway were identified in an imported polo pony during a routine neurological examination for partial quadriplegia.
(14) Tight polo necks, worn as layers, and smart little denim jackets looked likely to be commercial hits.
(15) Embryos from homozygous polo females have aberrant mitotic spindles that are highly branched and have broad poles.
(16) He wanted to design ties that were bigger, better, glitzier, but the company was not interested so he set up on his own under the name Polo in 1967.
(17) He later developed synovitis, a rheumatoid condition of the tendon in the hand, after a polo fall.
(18) Serum samples obtained from 107 Polo horses showing clinical signs of viral respiratory disease were tested for precipitating antibodies to adenovirus by agar gel precipitation test and counter-immunoelectrophoresis method.
(19) What fun they all must have had in Kashmir, where polo was invented.
(20) The other disciplines to lose financial backing from the nation's high-performance sports agency were synchronised swimming, water polo, weightlifting, football for the visually impaired, goalball and wheelchair fencing, despite UK Sport having already spent almost £6m on these seven events since London 2012 in the belief that they were capable of challenging for medals.
Popo
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The fact that this film can be released in theatres doesn’t mean gay films in the future will be able to released in China,” LGBT film-maker and rights activist Fan Popo told AFP .
(2) Furthermore, the absence of immunoreactive CHI was demonstrated in a mutant of P. hybrida (genotype popo) which accumulates 2',4,4',6'-tetrahydroxy-chalcone in anthers as a consequence of lack of enzyme activity.
(3) In petunia, the gene Po regulates the expression of CHI in anthers: PoPo petunia lines contain CHI enzyme activity in petals and anthers, whereas popo lines contain the CHI enzyme only in petals but not in anthers.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A still from the film Mama Rainbow, about the relationship between gay children and their parents, made by filmmaker Fan Popo.
(5) As a result of the Po mutation, the substrate of CHI accumulates and therefore the pollen of a popo line are yellow or greenish.
(6) Because chiA encodes a functional CHI enzyme in flower petals of a popo line, we propose that the Po mutation is a mutation in the regulatory region of chiA abolishing chiA promoter activity in anthers but not in corollas.
(7) Photograph: Fan Popo Since starting the awards, the group behind them have expanded what they do to offer media training for LGBT-rights organisations and LGBT-rights training for journalists.
(8) Introduction of a chiA gene isolated from a PoPo line into a popo line resulted in a complementation of the mutation that was directly visible because the pollen color shifted from yellow to white.
(9) Filmmaker Fan Popo sued the government for taking his documentary Mama Rainbow down from the internet.
(10) Her song finished second in the Austrian competition after Trackshittaz's hip-hop atrocity Woki Mit Deim Popo ("Waggle your arse"), but this year the national broadcaster, ORF, chose Conchita as the country's representative.