(n.) A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.
(n.) A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.
(n.) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
(n.) A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
(v. t.) To strike with, or as with, a racket.
(n.) Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
(n.) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
(v. i.) To make a confused noise or racket.
(v. i.) To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
(v. i.) To carouse or engage in dissipation.
Example Sentences:
(1) I would hope that a Labour party led by Ralph Miliband's son would recognise that, and be committed to ending the capitalist racket once and for all.
(2) In language eerily familiar to student politicians across the land, Abetz continued: “The new managing director will inherit an unbalanced and largely centralised public broadcaster which has become a protection racket for the left ideology.” For decades the highly trusted public broadcaster has weathered a relentless stream of attacks by the crusaders of the (increasingly) hard right in Australia.
(3) "I was skint," claims Reni, adding, "when I went to audition for this lot I thought that they were a horrible racket, but I was struck by their commitment.
(4) There is the tennis racket kitted out with motion sensors to help you improve your game .
(5) The influences of body weight, skill level, and tennis racket construction onto the magnitude of vibrations at wrist and elbow were investigated.
(6) for the word "brave" at the end of the national anthem, still booed the Panthers' players as they entered the field and still made a racket as the opposition lined up for key third downs.
(7) Libertarianism in the hands of these people is a racket.
(8) "I've always liked being on the court, I never like just putting the rackets away for two and a half, three weeks.
(9) Mexican drug cartels have been waging an increasingly bloody war to control smuggling routes, the local drug market and extortion rackets, including shakedowns of migrants seeking to reach the United States.
(10) He's still a genius, he's still got it, and that bigger racket seems to be suiting him perfectly.
(11) Jamie changed rackets after netting a smash on the final point of the fourth game but there seemed something more fundamentally wrong with his tennis than his equipment.
(12) If the 40-year-old and his three co-accused are sent to the US they will face charges of racketeering, money laundering and copyright theft, carrying potential jail terms of 20 years.
(13) Their influence was such that they dealt directly with government ministers, he said, and steered clear of low-level criminal activities such as racketeering.
(14) Murray earned $1.9m (£1.1m) for his maiden major victory to go with career earnings of $21.5m (£13.4m) and is worth £24m through endorsements and prize-money; Perry turned pro after beating Budge and made much more through his famous shirts than he ever did with a tennis racket.
(15) Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit, filed in California, accuses the group of violating the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization Act.
(16) Ben Stephenson, the BBC's head of drama, said much the same at the Edinburgh festival but did not add that television is a racket, too.
(17) The officer told Amnesty some police have established a racket with funeral homes, who pay them for each dead body sent their way.
(18) The assistants – old garage heads who clearly loathed this racket the kids were making – dismissively lobbed a pile of white labels on to the counter.
(19) German publishers have attempted to sue Eyeo , the makers of the most popular ad-blocking software, Ad Block Plus, which charges publishers for putting them on a “whitelist” of sites whose ads it allows to pass through its systems (an approach Jarvis labels “racketeering”).
(20) Much of the mutual "business" of the SNB is based on simple rackets, construction on some of the biggest plots and state tenders, all controlled by a group of top people in the SNB.
Revel
Definition:
(n.) See Reveal.
(v. i.) A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal.
(v. i.) To feast in a riotous manner; to carouse; to act the bacchanalian; to make merry.
(v. i.) To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.
(v. t.) To draw back; to retract.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obama conceded that the revelations had caused trust in the US to plunge around the world.
(2) The revelations did not alter the huge body of evidence from a variety of scientific fields that supports the conclusion that modern climate change is caused largely by human activity, Ward said.
(3) And you’re doing it three weeks after the initial revelations, and only when your position is obviously under threat and with a no confidence motion in your position as Speaker looming.
(4) Gilmore added that the revelations couldcompromise Irish attempts to win further debt relief from the European Union.
(5) Hopefully the revelations here help those inside and outside the party to clear the air and decide their own next move.
(6) It was intended, however, as a response to more radical reforms proposed by congressman Justin Amash, a Republican from Michigan, and is likely to have relatively limited impact on the NSA's ability to collect data on US citizens through incidental means, the so-called backdoor provisions , which was seen as a bigger threat as Snowden's revelations continued.
(7) • The Spanish government has warned the US that revelations of widespread spying by the National Security Agency could, if confirmed, “ lead to a breakdown in the traditional trust ” between the two countries.
(8) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
(9) Nike's latest CSR report is a revelation for the amount of information they give."
(10) Sir Martin Sorrell , the chief executive of WPP, has said businesses continue to underestimate the importance the Edward Snowden's NSA electronic surveillance revelations have had on consumer attitudes to privacy and security.
(11) The revelation of the increase comes after the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and a host of senior doctors warned Theresa May in a letter that hospitals are “paralysed by spiralling demand” and the NHS “will fail” without an emergency cash injection.
(12) Snowden’s revelations have again framed the debate over the balance between our privacy rights and our need for security.
(13) Former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott said on Twitter that he will write to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt demanding that he block News Corp's bid to take full control of pay-TV company BSkyB following the revelations about Dowler.
(14) The fact that Fraser suggested Pinter write one of the pivotal scenes, in which Emma challenges Jerry to leave his wife, was a revelation, he says.
(15) What did us in here, what worked against us was this shocking revelation,” Clapper said .
(16) Couple this with the revelation that degrees might not even be worth the investment, and the sense of betrayal from those who have already graduated risks spilling over.
(17) Policy change after Snowden leaks EFF also found that the Snowden revelations about government surveillance of data have prompted technology companies to increase their protection of user data.
(18) If the president and Congress would simply obey the fourth amendment, this new shocking revelation that the government is now spying on citizens' phone data en masse would never have happened.
(19) A spokeswoman for the Guardian said the revelation of the US-UK correspondence on the destruction was disappointing.
(20) Updated at 8.30pm GMT 8.18pm GMT Clapper says NSA has spent thousands of man-hours cleaning up after the Snowden revelations , which he calls "a major distraction."