(n.) An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.
(n.) Any small square or quadrangular member
(n.) A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally.
(n.) A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square.
(n.) A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile.
(n.) A glazier's diamond.
(n.) A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.
(n.) A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.
(n.) Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.
(n.) Earnest desire or longing.
(v. i.) To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.
(v. i.) To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.
(v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.
(v. t.) To quarrel with.
(v. t.) To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.
(n.) One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Belfast, the old quarrels just look likely to drag on in their old familiar way.
(2) I have no quarrel with the overall thrust of Andrew Rawnsley's argument that the south-east is over-dominant in the UK economy and, as someone who has lived and worked both in Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne, I have sympathy with the claims of the north-east of England as well as Wales (" No wonder the coalition hasn't many friends in the north ", Comment).
(3) This quarrel split the black movement down the middle, and was compounded by Du Bois's ideas on leadership.
(4) The pair departed La Liga last summer, only to quarrel again at Chelsea and Manchester City.
(5) Berezovsky, a Kremlin insider in the days of Boris Yeltsin, left Russia in 2000 after a quarrel with Vladimir Putin and has been the subject of an extradition order by Russia .
(6) Premeditated murders are also rare in Finland (roughly 40 per year), but homicides sadly occur out of quarrels between socially marginalised drunken adult men.
(7) It's a quarrel between substance and form, if you like, a question of emphasis – does a country's nature owe most to its history, or to its land?
(8) It fell to Van Rompuy to deal with quarrelling national leaders over the EU's worst ever crisis – the euro, the sovereign debt and financial turmoil.
(9) But American conservatives for the most part have had no quarrel with vaccines – unless they are on a collision course with other deeply held beliefs, said John Evans, who teaches bioethics at the University of California at San Diego and is married to Schreiber.
(10) Although Arendt agreed with the final verdict of the trial, namely, that Eichmann should be condemned to death, she quarreled with the reasoning put forward at the trial and with the spectacle of the trial itself.
(11) While we are rooted here going la-la-la auld Ireland (because at this distance in time the words escape us) our neighbours are patching their quarrels, losing their origins and moving on, to modern, non-sectarian forms of stigma, expressed in modern songs: you are a scouser, a dirty scouser.
(12) The quarrels he had with most of his subordinates culminated as he was in command of the East Indies Squadron, applying sometimes exaggerated punishments.
(13) The few big publishers that now continue functioning at all under the deliberately destructive pressure of Amazon marketing strategies are increasingly controlled by that pressure.” The tech giant is not only trying to control the bookselling industry but also the publishing world, she writes: “Amazon uses the BS Machine to sell us sweetened fat to live on, so we begin to think that’s what literature is.” She assures her readers that her “only quarrel with Amazon is when it comes to how they market books and how they use their success in marketing to control not only bookselling, but book publication: what we write and what we read.” She stressed that she has no issue with other areas of the tech giant’s business, including self-publishing: “Amazon and I are not at war.
(14) A case of a 35-year-old male who died suddenly after a blow on the chest by his opponent during a quarrel.
(15) They never subsequently claimed exclusive credit, and never quarrelled.
(16) By the 1970's the quarrel shifted from affective questions to matters of effectiveness and efficiency.
(17) Establishment outrage reached spittingly aggressive proportions when Ali, pleading deferment on religious grounds, told reporters: “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong … no Vietcong ever called me ‘nigger’.” Within an hour, outraged, all US boxing bodies suspended his licence and stripped him of his title.
(18) I was brought up in a culture that shied away from argument because wherever there is quarrelling there will sooner or later be murder.
(19) But Quo Vadis laid bare an inhibition possibly implanted in his schooldays or by his quarrelling parents; he could not portray passionate feelings without looking foolish.
(20) One rhetorical feature of her book on Eichmann is that she is, time and again, breaking out into a quarrel with the man himself.
Tiff
Definition:
(n.) Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor.
(n.) A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or contention. See Tift.
(v. i.) To be in a pet.
(v. t.) To deck out; to dress.
Example Sentences:
(1) Continuing, unauthorised US drone attacks against insurgents inside Pakistan, a source of deep public outrage, formed the backdrop to a string of ensuing tiffs over visas, reductions in the CIA presence, and the "outing" of the CIA station chief.
(2) One tabloid describes that moment as "playful", unwittingly anticipating Saatchi's later claim that the photos of him with his hands around his wife's throat merely caught them in the middle of a "playful tiff" .
(3) And the Oscar may go to … 40 key movies in contention for 2016 awards Read more Sandwiched between the Venice and Toronto festivals, both of which also screen Oscar-hopeful fare (Venice recently premiered Tom Hooper’s new bid for hardware, The Danish Girl , which next screens at Tiff), Telluride boasts fantastic Oscar odds: six of the last seven best picture winners premiered at the festival – four of them (Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech, Argo, 12 Years a Slave) were world premieres.
(4) A program for achieving density profiles of Tiff images is described.
(5) Photograph: Tiff The Imitation Game , starring Benedict Cumberbatch as enigma codebreaker Alan Turing, is set for a Canadian premiere, suggesting it may debut elsewhere beforehand.
(6) It is designed to process sequences of sagittal tongue sections that are digitized in real time and stored in standard tagged image file format (TIFF).
(7) At one crucial point in the game Murray was incandescently upset with Jamie for standing in his sight line at one end of the court but the tiff subsided when the elder Murray moved as he was told.
(8) Photograph: TIFF Ben Mendelsohn schools Jack O'Connell in the art of prison life in David Mackenzie's powerful new drama.
(9) Trump had a well-publicized tiff with Fox News after one of the network’s top hosts, Megyn Kelly, challenged him during the first Republican debate.
(10) If this is what her husband calls a playful tiff one fears what a serious one might look like.
(11) Challenged over the shocking images published in the Sunday People, Saatchi responded that what appeared to be a brutal and humiliating instance of public violence was no more than a "playful tiff".
(12) Photograph: Tiff But many premieres are still to be announced – in North America as well as in Italy (Toronto drip-feeds its lineup in three batches).
(13) Trump’s victory makes the upset of Brexit look like a quaint tiff over a round of golf.
(14) "This is not a 'row'; it is not a 'tiff': it is an incidence of domestic violence," she said.
(15) Unfortunately for Tiff, which celebrated its 40th birthday this year, the slate was considered a bit of a letdown.
(16) Now the record's finished they say they never even tiff.
(17) To complicate things further, during a tiff with his record company Def Jam last year, Nash put out a free download album under his birth name.
(18) Yet while most British bands spend years slogging through magazine interviews, starting fake tiffs with other bands for column inches and touring the nation's Barflys in hope of some elusive buzz, Alt-J have somehow managed to find success without fame.
(19) Parameters evaluated at baseline and on the last day of treatment included (i) results of respiratory function tests (FEV1, IVC, FVC, TIFF, PEF, MEF75, MEF50, MEF25) performed before the stimulation test with nebulized water; (ii) total number of coughs during a 2-hour period after the stimulation test; (iii) bronchial responsiveness, quantified by calculating the volume of nebulized water required to induce a 20% reduction of FEV1 below the basal level.
(20) Charlie Kaufman’s breathtaking , Kickstarter-funded stop-motion romance had perhaps the best run of all the films to screen: it won Venice’s Grand Jury Prize during Tiff (it actually world-premiered at Telluride), and was acquired in a surprising move by Paramount Pictures, which intends to give it a qualifying run.