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Raffle


Definition:

  • (v.) A kind of lottery, in which several persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then determine by chance (as by casting dice) which one of them shall become the sole possessor.
  • (v.) A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes.
  • (v. i.) To engage in a raffle; as, to raffle for a watch.
  • (v. t.) To dispose of by means of a raffle; -- often followed by off; as, to raffle off a horse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They remain organised by ethnicity, but unlike in Raffles’ day, the PAP’s idea wasn’t to separate the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and the rest, but to carefully integrate them – so the demographics of each block reflect the demographics of Singapore as a whole, in theory preventing the formation of volatile ethnic enclaves.
  • (2) The vascular mantles of the endochondral layer of labyrinthine bone in dog (Canis f. intermedius Woldrich) and monkey (Pithecus fascicularis Raffl.)
  • (3) Raffles hitch-hiked ahead of the troupe, often sleeping rough, to busk for new bookings.
  • (4) On transforming from their original round shape, the induced cells displayed the well-developed microvilli, spindles, or raffles that are characteristic of macrophages or dendrocytes.
  • (5) Well I am being uber-careful but there are SO many secrets around that it is quite hard to keep track, Oik says to forget the Black & White Ball even happened, especially the peerage raffle & I think it is still secret about Chope and Bone, because Bone has not told Mrs Bone they are in love yet & it is deffo a total secret about my shop party because of the whole not-being-allowed-to-capitalise thing?
  • (6) The response rate in the 1762 who were told about the raffle was no higher than for 950 subjects who served as controls.
  • (7) The event included a barbecue, drinks and a raffle, with prizes of vodka, champagne and a biography of Vladimir Putin .
  • (8) TO CELEBRATE THAT DEAL The classic Singapore Sling cocktail at the Raffles hotel.
  • (9) "Mildly ischaemic" cells featured raffled and invaginated cell surfaces, reduced matrix density, disorientated mitochondrial cristae due to swelling, and giant mitochondria.
  • (10) At a 2003 charity gala for the Florida-based Unicorn Children’s Foundation a misunderstanding over a raffle prize announcement resulted in a police investigation that lasted nearly a month.
  • (11) Then, in February 1953, Littlewood and Raffles rented the Theatre Royal, Angel Lane, E15, for £20 a week, a dilapidated palace of varieties reeking of cat urine.
  • (12) Today’s Singapore is far more precisely the result of Lee Kuan Yew’s vision than the Manchester of the East ever was of Sir Stamford Raffles’,” wrote science fiction author William Gibson in Wired magazine in 1993, three years after Yew stepped down.
  • (13) Exhausted and miserable, she walked out at the crowning moment when she and Raffles had managed to buy the theatre.
  • (14) But the second world war intervened and he had to go to the local Raffles College instead, where he acquired some basic economics, and met his future wife, Kwa Geok Choo.
  • (15) Obama had made an impromptu visit to Stonehenge , just a mile from Janice and James Raffle's home.
  • (16) Fashion parades, balls, raffles, and weekly deductions from thousands of workers' pay packets were integral to success of the Cancer Appeal-a-thon in the Illawarra region.
  • (17) We ran a letter-writing campaign, a big fundraising effort; coffee mornings, raffles, a black-tie ball.
  • (18) Her relationship with McColl was over and Gerry Raffles, handsome and nine years younger, had to her amazement, fallen wholeheartedly in love with her: their bond was to last more than 30 years.
  • (19) The gastric mucosa changes induced by enterogastric reflux remain to interest, thus, 20 patients with surgical duodenal ulcer disease were studied, and after raffle, they consisted in 2 groups of 10 patients each, in which were performed antrectomy and truncal vagotomy, with reestablishment of the gastrointestinal continuity, in the group I, through a Billroth II gastrojejunostomy, and, in the group II, by a Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy.
  • (20) Janice Raffle took to Twitter, saying: "I can see president Obama!

Raffled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Raffle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They remain organised by ethnicity, but unlike in Raffles’ day, the PAP’s idea wasn’t to separate the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and the rest, but to carefully integrate them – so the demographics of each block reflect the demographics of Singapore as a whole, in theory preventing the formation of volatile ethnic enclaves.
  • (2) The vascular mantles of the endochondral layer of labyrinthine bone in dog (Canis f. intermedius Woldrich) and monkey (Pithecus fascicularis Raffl.)
  • (3) Raffles hitch-hiked ahead of the troupe, often sleeping rough, to busk for new bookings.
  • (4) On transforming from their original round shape, the induced cells displayed the well-developed microvilli, spindles, or raffles that are characteristic of macrophages or dendrocytes.
  • (5) Well I am being uber-careful but there are SO many secrets around that it is quite hard to keep track, Oik says to forget the Black & White Ball even happened, especially the peerage raffle & I think it is still secret about Chope and Bone, because Bone has not told Mrs Bone they are in love yet & it is deffo a total secret about my shop party because of the whole not-being-allowed-to-capitalise thing?
  • (6) The response rate in the 1762 who were told about the raffle was no higher than for 950 subjects who served as controls.
  • (7) The event included a barbecue, drinks and a raffle, with prizes of vodka, champagne and a biography of Vladimir Putin .
  • (8) TO CELEBRATE THAT DEAL The classic Singapore Sling cocktail at the Raffles hotel.
  • (9) "Mildly ischaemic" cells featured raffled and invaginated cell surfaces, reduced matrix density, disorientated mitochondrial cristae due to swelling, and giant mitochondria.
  • (10) At a 2003 charity gala for the Florida-based Unicorn Children’s Foundation a misunderstanding over a raffle prize announcement resulted in a police investigation that lasted nearly a month.
  • (11) Then, in February 1953, Littlewood and Raffles rented the Theatre Royal, Angel Lane, E15, for £20 a week, a dilapidated palace of varieties reeking of cat urine.
  • (12) Today’s Singapore is far more precisely the result of Lee Kuan Yew’s vision than the Manchester of the East ever was of Sir Stamford Raffles’,” wrote science fiction author William Gibson in Wired magazine in 1993, three years after Yew stepped down.
  • (13) Exhausted and miserable, she walked out at the crowning moment when she and Raffles had managed to buy the theatre.
  • (14) But the second world war intervened and he had to go to the local Raffles College instead, where he acquired some basic economics, and met his future wife, Kwa Geok Choo.
  • (15) Obama had made an impromptu visit to Stonehenge , just a mile from Janice and James Raffle's home.
  • (16) Fashion parades, balls, raffles, and weekly deductions from thousands of workers' pay packets were integral to success of the Cancer Appeal-a-thon in the Illawarra region.
  • (17) We ran a letter-writing campaign, a big fundraising effort; coffee mornings, raffles, a black-tie ball.
  • (18) Her relationship with McColl was over and Gerry Raffles, handsome and nine years younger, had to her amazement, fallen wholeheartedly in love with her: their bond was to last more than 30 years.
  • (19) The gastric mucosa changes induced by enterogastric reflux remain to interest, thus, 20 patients with surgical duodenal ulcer disease were studied, and after raffle, they consisted in 2 groups of 10 patients each, in which were performed antrectomy and truncal vagotomy, with reestablishment of the gastrointestinal continuity, in the group I, through a Billroth II gastrojejunostomy, and, in the group II, by a Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy.
  • (20) Janice Raffle took to Twitter, saying: "I can see president Obama!

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