(n.) A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
(n.) Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
(n.) A meeting by appointment.
(n.) Retreat; refuge.
(v. i.) To assemble or meet at a particular place.
(v. t.) To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled.
Example Sentences:
(1) That night, Weah borrowed from a Ronald Reagan script in promising supporters 'a rendezvous with destiny'.
(2) When flight controllers initially could not confirm deployment of the antennas in the minutes following its launch, they selected the backup rendezvous plan of two days and 34 orbits instead of the planned four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous.” A spokesman at Russian mission control said that the Progress “reached orbit but the full volume of telemetry (data transmissions) is not being received.” Russia’s mission control website said that the ship would dock with the ISS, where the international crew of six people awaits the cargo, on April 30.
(3) And with an A-list rendezvous just a three-digit credit card security number away, no wonder fan expectations have increased.
(4) Her blog was gaining a growing following, and she gave an interview by email to CNN and agreed to talk in person to the Guardian's correspondent in Damascus, though she did not show up to that meeting, as is not uncommon for activists in the city, saying she had seen secret police at the rendezvous cafe.
(5) They also were great at showing how dangerous this "final frontier" of outer space was, as in this episode where two crew members arrive early in their shuttle to a rendezvous with the Enterprise, only to find evidence that the ship has been destroyed and they are totally alone.
(6) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(7) The story of the Trump dossier: secret sources, an airport rendezvous, and John McCain Read more Coming just nine days before he enters the White House as the 45th president of the United States, Trump staged his first encounter with the world’s media since last July, admitting that he had actively avoided subjecting himself to press scrutiny in recent months on the grounds that we had been “getting quite a bit of inaccurate news”.
(8) Jaguar: 'Rendezvous' (starts at 01:18) - US Ben Kingsley, Tom Hiddleston and Mark Strong are all appearing as "British villains" in a commercial designed to emphasise Jaguar's movie heritage.
(9) Even in their undiluted misery back home in France and Italy, it would take a footballing spoilsport of the highest order not to want to cast an eye over the rendezvous between Argentina and Mexico at Soccer City in Johannesburg this evening.
(10) Katsu Naito's book West Side Rendezvous is out now.
(11) There were bacon rolls at £5.75 each according to the menu, and granola with yoghurt (£5.25) on the table at the Delaunay restaurant on the Aldwych – a rendezvous frequented by London's business and media elite – for the meeting which was chaired by the editor of the Times, James Harding.
(12) China is the third country after the United States and Russia to complete space rendezvous and docking procedures, Xinhua said.
(13) Ambulance rescue systems are of two types: the stationary, in which the physician travels with the ambulance, and the rendezvous, in which the physician and ambulance, travelling separately, meet at the accident site.
(14) On Sunday, the Greeks have a rendezvous with history.
(15) I think the difficult thing is just having to juggle your career and your spare time with a dog,” she tells me when we meet for our cutesily termed “welcome woof”, a brief rendezvous to check all three of us are happy at the prospect of handing over the leash.
(16) He says that he and his son were watching a baseball game in the US on 29 August, a date suggested for the secret rendezvous.
(17) The results of this investigation reveal that the prehospital treatment of cardiac arrest in Odense can be improved by participation of a doctor in the treatment, (particularly the rendezvous model).
(18) One bonus was that the kidnapped families had been left their cars, so a rendezvous outside Garara Qataf was arranged.
(19) The rendezvous in Ankara was beset by further uncertainty.
(20) The "rendezvous procedure" combines percutaneous transhepatic and endoscopic retrograde cholangiography.
Retreat
Definition:
(n.) The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
(n.) The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.
(n.) The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position.
(n.) The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.
(n.) A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action.
(n.) A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises.
(n.) A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat.
(v. i.) To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are saying they have paid with their blood and they do not want to retreat," said Saad el-Hosseini, a senior Brotherhood politician.
(2) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(3) The retreating rate constants deduced from the dissolution results were well coincident with the values directly determined by the needle penetration method, suggesting good applicability of the proposed equation.
(4) Flank marks, attacks, bites, and retreats were scored over a 15 min test period during which steroid-injected animals were paired in a neutral arena with vehicle-injected conspecifics.
(5) Although she was tempted to retreat from life, she realised she would have to force herself to live in as an imaginative way as possible.
(6) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
(7) The retreat of government forces had left tens of thousands exposed to the savagery of Isis, especially those from the country's minorities, including Christians and members of the Yazidi sect.
(8) Rebels moved unchallenged along a road littered with evidence of the air campaign and the speed of their enemies' retreat.
(9) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
(10) A thin (20-gauge) cryoprobe can be used to retreat retinal breaks without disturbing a previous scleral buckle.
(11) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe I is for Italy He lived for many years in a mountain-top retreat in Ravello on the Amalfi coast until he became too infirm to cope with the hills.
(12) Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom.
(13) Kiev's forces entered the city on Saturday after pro-Russia rebels retreated overnight.
(14) He told the conference: "As you succeed in getting more and more business, the incumbent's tactic is to retreat slowly.
(15) "This financial mercantilism - which is foreign banks retreating to their home base - will, if we do nothing, lead to a new form of protectionism," he said.
(16) In a controlled clinical trial in Hong Kong, 575 Chinese adults with smear-positive isoniazid-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis, who had previously been treated with first-line chemotherapy, were allocated at random to regimens of rifampicin plus ethambutol daily (ER7), twice-weekly (ER2), once-weekly (ER1), or daily for 2 months and then once-weekly (ER7ER1), or to a standard retreatment regimen of daily ethionamide plus pyrazinamide plus cycloserine (EtZC).
(17) The maintenance of the antiemetic efficacy of ondansetron was further studied in 28 patients (13 A, 15 B) in respectively 36 and 48 retreatment courses.
(18) They advised people living near the beach to retreat upstairs and hunker down in rooms away from the sea.
(19) But he has since retreated from that view and told his confirmation hearing that the Senate's report on the CIA's detention and interrogation programme had disturbed him.
(20) Retreatment with pamidronate again resulted in normocalcaemia.