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Roper


Definition:

  • (n.) A maker of ropes.
  • (n.) One who ropes goods; a packer.
  • (n.) One fit to be hanged.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Roper, who was not in her post at the time, told the hearing: “[FCO staff] spent a lot of time talking about the details of the case.
  • (2) Far better then, for the movie, to give Roper a billionaire’s island in the sun with a palatial Gatsby -style villa at its centre and a sprinkling of cottages for his underlings and protectors.
  • (3) According to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, women favored the Democratic candidate in 2012 by 11 points, 2008 by 13, 2004 by three, and 2000 by 10 points.
  • (4) The results of calorie balance studies were compared with the roper data of FS infants in I trimester and II semester of life, which were described in our previous paper.
  • (5) Does she realise, for instance, that in her film Richard Roper goes down winning ?
  • (6) I went into the Roper archives to examine races where no incumbent was running for re-election, and only Al Gore, at around 55% in early 1997 for the 2000 run, comes anywhere close.
  • (7) At moments it almost seems so: as if Roper actually enjoys being a partner in his own destruction, just for the pleasure of pairing with someone as intelligent and ruthless as himself; almost as if he’s a little in love with his own executioner.
  • (8) I dug through the Roper archives and found three pollsters with favorable ratings taken during the final week of the campaign dating back to at least 1992.
  • (9) This paper gives an overview of the issues surrounding the development and use of models and presents research data which indicates that one model (Roper, Logan & Tierney's Activities of Living) is problematic in the long-term care of the elderly.
  • (10) I went back in the Roper archive and plotted the incumbent's approval rating against the favorability gap in the final months since 1980.
  • (11) Laurie, who won best performance by an actor in a limited TV series for playing arms dealer Richard Roper in The Night Manager, said: “I suppose it’s made more amazing by the fact that I’ll be able to say I won this at the last ever Golden Globes.” “I don’t mean to be gloomy, it’s just that it has the words ‘Hollywood,’ ‘Foreign’ and ‘Press’ in the title.
  • (12) We compared these data with similar data collected by the Roper Organization in the 1970s and found that smokers today are less likely to smoke inside public places.
  • (13) He was a gent, I could only mumble some nonsense about smelling the flowers.” Also notable in the picture is the understudy for goalkeeper Ivan Katalinic, George and Mildred Roper’s next door neighbour, Jeffrey Fourmile .
  • (14) Put another way, are Pine and Roper mutually aware of their purposes from the very start?
  • (15) Maybe that’s because Laurie’s Roper has been enter taining us for so long with his cool, his wit, his urbanity and his sheer wickedness that we don’t want to let him go.
  • (16) Hugh Trevor-Roper denounced it as this "meretricious, misleading work".
  • (17) An avenue of research suggested by Patrick Trevor-Roper's 'inquiry into the influence of defective vision on art and character' provides a possible solution to an art-historical problem.
  • (18) The only people who would have the authority to murder a high profile prisoner in defiance of the president would be the intelligence service, the mukhabarat.” Galloway added: “I haven’t heard from Damascus since then so I’m definitely off their Christmas card list.” Asked whether he knew that the former leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin, was also involved with the Khan family, Galloway said: “I would have been horrified had I been aware.” Earlier, Michael Mansfield QC, for the Khan family, had pressed the head of the Foreign Office’s consular section, Joanna Roper, about whether the department had been sufficiently active in its efforts to secure Dr Khan’s release.
  • (19) The teaching was supported by appropriate care planning within the Roper et al.
  • (20) The study is based on the theoretical model presented by Roper et al.

Rover


Definition:

  • (v. i.) One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate.
  • (v. i.) One who wanders about by sea or land; a wanderer; a rambler.
  • (v. i.) Hence, a fickle, inconstant person.
  • (v. i.) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
  • (v. i.) Casual marks at uncertain distances.
  • (v. i.) A sort of arrow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
  • (2) It is thought Tata, the Indian conglomerate that also owns Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea, is also preparing to cut several hundred roles in operations that serve the Scunthorpe plant, mainly at its Rotherham site.
  • (3) The striker, who is Agnew’s nephew, joined Boro for £11m from Blackburn Rovers in January but Karanka has since struggled to find room for him in his preferred 4-2-3-1 formation and Rhodes has started only four of a possible eight games, scoring one goal.
  • (4) The business posted a 58% increase in Chinese sales in the second quarter, boosted by demand for the recently launched Range Rover Evoque model.
  • (5) It’s a seismic moment for the industry and particularly the big European manufacturers who have done a lot of work on diesel: technologically, they have they made the wrong bet.” Some analysts believe fears of brand damage in Europe are overstated but Bailey says: “In the US it’s very different: VW have killed their diesel market and it has left them in a very difficult position.” For British manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, the timing of VW’s woes was ominous, as it unveiled two new diesels in America.
  • (6) Blackburn Rovers must be growing to detest the site of London.
  • (7) With Rovers 13th, Allardyce is sacked by new owners Venky’s , and replaced by Steve Kean.
  • (8) Also in the advanced planning stages is a rover to go to Mars.
  • (9) Had Nasa completely ruled out life on Mars it would pose problems for the European Space Agency, which plans to send its own alien-hunting rover to Mars in 2018.
  • (10) By about 7pm he was sitting in his car parked near the garages and at 7.20pm was heading out of town with April in the Land Rover.
  • (11) The five-year-old knew Bridger, Williams told him, and would have got into his Land Rover "smiling and happy".
  • (12) Politicians across all parties need to do more to engage the young voters of the future, because ensuring that their voices are heard and that their needs are central to manifestos is vital for a fair and progressive society.” Play Video 1:32 Jeremy Corbyn appears at music festival at Tranmere Rovers ground – video Numerous celebrities including Lily Allen, Stephen Hawking, Brian May, Steve Coogan, Danny DeVito, Liam Gallagher, Ricky Gervais, David Gilmour, Mark Ruffallo, and Rag’n’Bone Man endorsed Corbyn in the course of the election.
  • (13) Cellino raised eyebrows this summer when he appointed Hockaday, whose previous managerial experience was limited to an unimpressive stint at non-league Forest Green Rovers.
  • (14) "So we have all the trophies you describe (Freight Rover Trophy, the Sherpa Van Trophy, the Leyland DAF Cup, the Autoglass Trophy and the Auto Windscreens Shield) apart from the LDV Vans (but we do have the Simod Cup)."
  • (15) If we're allowed to cheat a little bit, Arthur and Fred Blackburn both played for Blackburn Rovers, with Arthur scoring on four occasions.
  • (16) The senior manager, Roy Hodgson, would be receptive to working with Southgate but also enjoys a close relationship with Appleton, whose fledgling managerial career has already taken in short spells with Portsmouth, Blackpool and Blackburn Rovers.
  • (17) The 58-year-old, who recently served a four-month ban by the Football League for failing to pay tax on a yacht, was acquitted of customs offences on the Range Rover, which had been imported from the United States.
  • (18) Six years after Rover's collapse, there is certainly plenty of open space at the centre of this formerly thriving town: hundreds of acres of flattened muddy fields where 6,000 skilled workers once toiled.
  • (19) Jaguar Land Rover, the Indian-owned but Midlands-based producer of the upmarket Defender and Range Rover models reported volumes rising by nearly 7.5% over the year while production at the Japanese-owned volume carmaker Honda fell by 12.3%.
  • (20) "My masters are staying up all night working for a solution," Xinhua posted to its microblog when the rover malfunctioned.