(v. t.) To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.
(n.) an officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rachel Reeves, shadow chief secretary of the Treasury, said: "This doesn't feel like a safe haven to families and businesses and young people.
(2) The shadow work and pensions secretary, Rachel Reeves, said the 49% rise revealed “the Tory plan is failing”.
(3) "Decisions are being rushed, communities are not consulted or compensated and the lure of money from cutting emissions is overiding everything," says Rosalind Reeve of forestry watchdog group Global Witness.
(4) As there is no surer sign of things going hideously wrong than Duncan Smith trumpeting his brilliance, Reeves felt it as well to probe a little deeper.
(5) Reeves needs both hardness of head and kindness of heart, without trimming her messages to please difficult audiences.
(6) But it’s optimistic to imagine that such action would dispel all the rage MPs such as Reeves are encountering every day.
(7) It can't hurt, either, that he's kept the faith with a group of friends who, in some cases, go back to his Super 8 days: Cloverfield director Reeves, cinematographer Larry Fong, production partner Bryan Burk.
(8) Photograph: Barcroft Media Newsnight's new editor, former Guardian deputy editor Ian Katz, also has form with the comic sidestep after his Twitter "snoring, boring" gaffe about Rachel Reeves.
(9) The membrane preparation, isolated by the Reeves and Sutko's method, was purified ninefold over homogenates as judged from the results of measurements of (Na+K+)-ATPase and K+-p-nitrophenylphosphatase activities, sialic acid, and cholesterol.
(10) Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, Chuka Umunna, the shadow business secretary, and Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary, led a shadow cabinet fightback in support of Miliband on Friday night.
(11) The cmlB locus, determining increased resistance to the antibiotics chloramphenicol and tetracycline, also lies in this region (Reeve, 1966).
(12) "What I do is listen a lot during a session and try to pick up some little something from the musicians that might make the record more commercial" - a guitar lick by Hank Garland, perhaps, or a clipped piano figure from Floyd Cramer, whose Last Date (1960) was one of Atkins' early successes, along with Jim Reeves' He'll Have To Go (1959) and Skeeter Davis's The End of the World (1963).
(13) To accumulate phylogenetic information on the central histaminergic system, we investigated the histaminergic system in the brain of the Reeves turtle, Chinemys reevesii, using the indirect immunofluorescent method with antiserum against histamine.
(14) On the broader costs of social security, Reeves says that the government is failing to control costs because it does not grasp the adverse effects that falling wages and rising rents are having in pushing up the welfare bill.
(15) Labour will be tougher than the Tories when it comes to slashing the benefits bill, Rachel Reeves, the new shadow work and pensions secretary, has insisted in her first interview since winning promotion in Ed Miliband's frontbench reshuffle .
(16) Study has been made of the effects of a variety of metabolic inhibitors and divalent cations (Ni2+ and Mn2+), normally after 5 min exposure, on the biphasic uptake of inorganic phosphate (Pi) exhibited by phosphate-deprived cells of Escherichia coli, strains AB3311 (Reeves met-) and CBT302 (a (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase-deficient mutant).
(17) A simple model is used to explore the extent to which the uniquely comprehensive studies of western equine encephalomyelitis in Kern County, California, by Reeves and his colleagues over many years, explain the dynamics and epidemiology of the infection.
(18) Rachel Reeves , the shadow work and pensions secretary, said she had not seen the briefing document, but its length and detail underlines how seriously the party is taking the Ukip threat.
(19) Keiron Reeves, 29, who treating severe epilepsy with cannabis oil, said: "I feel much healthier and more confident in addressing everyday tasks like washing, shopping, tidying, all those things most people take for granted.
(20) Rachel Reeves, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said Labour would support proposals upholding the principle that "you have to pay something in before you get something out".
Rove
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Reeve
(v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.
(v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
(v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
(n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
(n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
(v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
(v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
(v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
(v. t.) To wander over or through.
(v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
(n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.
Example Sentences:
(1) During stereotactic surgery, electrical impedance was measured by means of a roving electrode technique with a sine wave current of 10 kc.
(2) Following spontaneous horizontal roving eye movement, both eyes deviated downward slowly from midposition, taking 1 to 2 seconds to reach the nadir.
(3) As his career has progressed, he has homed in ever closer on his immediate landscape, while roving further across history, literature and human consciousness – usually right out to the edges.
(4) Today, the national family is celebrating, and that very much includes those in this house.” Kaufman was an industrious constituency MP, holding roving surgeries around east Manchester every week and writing several forests worth of letters each year on behalf of his largely impoverished constituents.
(5) When roving forward City looked a team coasting in low gear who might punish the visitors at will.
(6) In an early taste of the blood-letting to come, former House speaker Newt Gingrich said he and figures such as Karl Rove – George W Bush's former strategist and co-founder of the Super Pac Crossroads – had been wrong in focusing on the economy.
(7) Rove is one of the most infamous faces of the GOP so having him speculate publicly about possible brain damage left the crowd “stunned”, reported the New York Post , with Clinton’s team immediately dismissing it and a former White House communications director who worked with Rove calling his comments “off the wall”.
(8) Both the prominent conservative strategist Karl Rove and the oil tycoons the Koch brothers have been putting together their own voter databases, but there is understood to be no communication between the lists, thus limiting their potency.
(9) The phenomenon of roving eye movement is discussed with regard to the supranuclear structures regulating binocular eye movements.
(10) You never ask a question and give your opponent a chance to offer an answer," Rove said.
(11) The model is compared to some published data on loudness matching and discrimination and to some new data of our own on the variability of loudness comparisons obtained in a two-interval, roving-level, loudness-discrimination experiment.
(12) This high degree of genetic variability comes from the traditional local population that is in the process of being upgraded to standardized breeds such as Saanen, Rove and, mainly, Chamois Alpine (95 percent of upgraded flocks).
(13) Three hours after onset of diarrhea, roving eye movements occurred.
(14) Like many of the subjects of Louis Theroux's Twilight of the Porn Stars ( Sun, 10pm, BBC2 ), Michaels first met the roving documentarian 15 years ago, when he was shooting the first series of Weird Weekends.
(15) His strategist Steve Bannon, the Riefenstahl -inspired new Karl Rove, has boasted of being the man behind the plan.
(16) Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, has joined a speaker's agency (amusingly, he's advertised just above Karl Rove).
(17) Adelson and his wife provided $10m of that last-minute total as well as $23m to American Crossroads, another pro-Romney Super Pac headed by veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove.
(18) The frequency discrimination threshold was measured at 15-, 35-, and 55-dB sensation level (SL), under conditions of (1) constant intensity, (2) roving intensity (plus and minus 6-dB burst-to-burst variation in intensity), (3) upward frequency change, and (4) downward frequency change.
(19) • Karl Rove's American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS have decided to open the vaults for the biggest ad buy yet of this cycle.
(20) He had been on the receiving end of a four-year assault from the American right – the alternative universe embodied by Fox News, which tore itself apart on air as pundit Karl Rove refused to accept the cold, hard facts set out by Fox's own number-crunchers – which sought to "other" the US president, to paint him as Barack Hussein Obama, the Kenyan Marxist Muslim bent on destroying America.