(n.) A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of Neptune.
(n.) A three-pronged spear or goad, used for urging horses; also, the weapon used by one class of gladiators.
(n.) A three-pronged fish spear.
(n.) A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction.
(a.) Having three teeth or prongs; tridentate.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'll admit to not having realised that more than £100bn would be committed to Trident – I half-remembered reading that it would cost £20bn, so went online, only to discover that the higher figure checks out .
(2) He voted in favour of the Iraq war and replacing Trident, and against more EU integration.
(3) Rather than challenging the Lib Dem policy on Trident, Miliband chose to criticise Cameron's comments about the renewal of Trident in last Thursday's leadership debate.
(4) The Labour leadership is understood to be pressing for its MPs to abstain on the grounds that the party’s policy is under review and the real vote on Trident will come in the decisive “main gate” decision on renewal next year.
(5) One of the Conservative party's most influential voices on defence has conceded that Britain can no longer be regarded as a "division-one military power", and raised questions over the sense of replacing the Trident nuclear fleet with a new generation of missile-launching submarines.
(6) Cadbury became the world's largest confectionery company in 2003 after buying up a number of gum brands, including Trident and Stride, but ceded the number one spot to Mars when it took over gum maker Wrigley last year.
(7) In morphology it is similar to D. bargusinica Skrjabin 1917, D. campanae Anderson 1959, D. dollfusi Anderson 1959, and D. epsilon Johnston and Mawson 1940, but can be separated from these species by combinations of trident size and spicule size and morphology.
(8) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
(9) The idea that opposition to the renewal of Trident is an extreme policy confined to the British left is absurd.
(10) The report also raises serious questions about the funding of Trident .
(11) Tony Blair has promised a decision on replacing Trident by the end of the parliament, which could mean after he has left office.
(12) And while one may think that the bishops of the Church of England don’t quite have the sex appeal of Russell Brand, we think that we should counter it.” While the bishops stress that their letter is not intended as “a shopping list of policies we would like to see”, they do advocate a number of specific steps, including a re-examination of the need for Trident, a retention of the commitment to funding overseas aid and a reassessment of areas where regulations fuel “the common perception of ‘health and safety gone mad’”.
(13) With Trident, by contrast, it displays a hot-headed rush to spend before thinking, which approaches oniomania .
(14) Trident will be just one of many issues the review will look at; there isn’t a separate review.” Livingstone told the Guardian, prior to the publication of his comments about Jones, that some New Labour MPs had fallen into a “great depression” since Corbyn’s victory in September’s leadership contest.
(15) He advocated re-investing some of the money allocated for Trident on keeping jobs in the affected areas.
(16) The beta, gamma-bidentate of chromium(III)ATP (Kd = 8 microM) had a higher than the alpha, beta, gamma-tridentate of chromium(III)ATP (Kd = 44 microM) or the cobalt tetramine complex of ATP (Kd = 500 microM).
(17) Corbyn then spoke to Hilary Benn and offered him the shadow foreign secretary position, even though Corbyn knew he was pro-Europe, pro-Nato and pro-Trident.
(18) Threats may now come from ideological terrorists unlikely to be deterred by a big missile, but Trident is more flexible than it appears; missiles can be loaded with small warheads enabling precise strikes against installations or terrorist cells within nations – or rogue states.
(19) After more than five hours of discussion, parliament voted in favour of Trident renewal by a majority of 355 in a motion backed by almost the entire Conservative party and more than half of Labour MPs.
(20) The most recent polling shows that backing the full replacement of Trident is not necessarily a vote winner, nor is opposing it necessarily a vote loser.