(a.) Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.
(n.) The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of Scotland.
(n.) Collectively, the people of Scotland.
(v. t.) To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.
(n.) A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.
(v. t.) To cut superficially; to wound; to score.
(n.) A slight cut or incision; a score.
Example Sentences:
(1) In methods A and B the round biopsy field was bordered by copalite varnish, while method C utilized a scotch tape border.
(2) Successful photosensitization was achieved only when the nuchal skin was stripped with scotch tape before application of musk ambrette and ultraviolet radiation.
(3) The 2 Fat Butchers in Walmer offers high-quality free-range meat and excellent pork pies and scotch eggs.
(4) But the deficit story was allowed to run and run, and poor Miliband failed to scotch it on at least two prominent occasions.
(5) Scotch also took a hit, with Johnnie Walker Black Label's sales down 28% in the country.
(6) Scotch, by contrast, has incredibly strict regulation “which means you don’t get people making it in their garages”.
(7) An Australian walked into a bar in Edinburgh and asked for a scotch and soda.
(8) But in light of Trump’s international portfolio, the little-tested clause is unlikely to be scotched so easily.
(9) When advised for medical reasons to give up Scotch, he merely quadrupled his intake of champagne.
(10) Extracted maxillary pre-molars with MOD slot preparations were restored with composite resin bonded to enamel (P-30 and Enamel Bond) or composite resin bonded to enamel and dentin (P-30 and Scotch-bond).
(11) The bonding agents were Gluma (Bayer), Scotch-bond LC (3M) and Dentin Adhesit (Vivadent).
(12) A near record number of football fans discarded their TV sets to catch the Europa League final on YouTube, but despite its success the web giant has scotched the idea that it wants to challenge Sky and BT for Premier League rights.
(13) A 4-year-old Scotch Collie bitch was presented for examination because of hyperthermia and anaemia.
(14) • The Irish version suffered another blow in the 1920s when bootleggers labelled their illicit drink "Irish whiskey" • US soldiers who arrived in Britain and Northern Ireland when America entered the second world war in 1941 sampled the delights of Scotch and were cut off from consuming Irish whiskey as the Republic was neutral • The formerly state-owned Cooley Distillery near the border with Northern Ireland was soldin 2012 to American whiskey giant Jim Beam.
(15) The social services minister, Scott Morrison, who had been regarded as a potential treasurer in a Turnbull government, said in a statement that he was “voting for the prime minister and not standing in any ballots”, scotching earlier claims that he could be a contender for deputy.
(16) Alec O’Connell, headmaster of Scotch College, where Mo went to school, said the “catastrophe was a tragedy of the highest order”.
(17) There were also suggestions that Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe was being sought for the role, but Radcliffe quickly scotched the rumour .
(18) Ninety-one women employed full-time were administered the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS; Jenkins, Rosenman, & Zyzanski; 1974) and the Framingham Type A Scale (FTAS; Haynes, Levine, Scotch, Feinleib, & Kennel, 1978).
(19) The method used in these tests was the Scotch tape perianal swab.
(20) Daniel Ben Said, who supervises jetskis on the beach and used his motorboat to pluck a British man who had been wounded in the arm from the sea, scotched reports that Rezgui had reached the beach using a boat or jetski.
Thwart
Definition:
(a.) Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
(a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.
(a.) Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.
(prep.) Across; athwart.
(n.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.
(v. t.) To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air.
(v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.
(v. i.) To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner.
(v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition; to clash.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
(2) Bryan Hopkins Sheffield • David Cameron says he wants to tackle segregation between schools ( Four steps to thwart creation of ‘a barbaric realm’ , 21 July).
(3) As for the speaker in parliament Thura Shwe Mann, a former general, he has formed an improbable alliance with Aung San Suu Kyi, on the assumption that she might help him thwart the plans of his former cronies.
(4) In the recent local and European parliament elections, Labour gained 300 councillors and boosted its number of MEPs, but saw Ukip thwart its progress in key target areas, make gains in traditional party heartlands and top the European poll.
(5) But concerns about a slowing economy, jobs, civil rights and a lack of progress in the Kurdish peace process appear to have combined with worries that Erdoğan could assume quasi-dictatorial powers to thwart the president’s ambitions.
(6) A standoff between the two houses of parliament threatens to thwart a government-backed crackdown on multinational tax avoidance and a Labor-backed plan to increase tax transparency.
(7) So President Mujica may be thinking: "why not take the risk and embrace the possibility of becoming the first marijuana hero and the man who thwarted drug dealers?"
(8) The cataractogenic effect of oxyradicals, however, can be thwarted by nutritional and metabolic antioxidants such as ascorbate, vitamin E, and pyruvate.
(9) However, the over-riding view is that with Global's plan to buy GMG Radio outright all but thwarted, senior executives at German-owned Bauer will be breathing a sigh of relief.
(10) Experts say there are other arms of the federal octopus that could be squeezed in a bid to thwart Obama’s deferred action schemes, but even that would not affect the directive that tells immigration officials to focus on deporting “felons, not families”.
(11) The solution is for Hathaway to spend a year in sarky Manchester, where her attempts to go jogging will be thwarted by 324 days of rain, and if she so much as thinks about telling a Mancunian barmaid that she has poured those lagers fantastically well, she will swiftly learn an aloofness not taught in any American drama school.
(12) The report finds the company "deliberately" tried to "thwart" the 2005-6 Metropolitan police investigation into phone hacking carried out by the tabloid.
(13) But imperial Britain was not thwarted in any of these wars – however questionable we may now judge those conflicts to have been.
(14) This year the weather has tended to thwart these hopes, although after "the summer of sport" we might all need a break.
(15) Qerdaha is the heart of Alawite Syria , a hub for senior army officers and Shabiha, the pro-Assad militia accused of tremendous brutality in their three-year campaign to thwart the rebel uprising.
(16) 1.44am BST Rangers 2-1 Kings, 12:50, 2nd period Lewis stick handles towards the net but is thwarted by McDonagh, who is all over the place this game.
(17) The secret vote was an attempt to thwart the bill before it is put to a general vote.
(18) Part of the problem is procedural: that the will of the church’s parliament, the General Synod, is easily thwarted by a tiny minority of its members.
(19) Chloro substituents in the ring of other methoxylated benzoic acids also arrested their normal metabolism by the Nocardia: an ortho-chloro substituent thwarted both demethylation and ring-opening.
(20) The Liberal Democrat input is the second time they have helped thwart Gove's policies.