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Shall


Definition:

  • (v. i. & auxiliary.) To owe; to be under obligation for.
  • (v. i. & auxiliary.) To be obliged; must.
  • (v. i. & auxiliary.) As an auxiliary, shall indicates a duty or necessity whose obligation is derived from the person speaking; as, you shall go; he shall go; that is, I order or promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxillary be emphasized, the command is made more imperative, the promise or that more positive and sure. It is also employed in the language of prophecy; as, "the day shall come when . . . , " since a promise or threat and an authoritative prophecy nearly coincide in significance. In shall with the first person, the necessity of the action is sometimes implied as residing elsewhere than in the speaker; as, I shall suffer; we shall see; and there is always a less distinct and positive assertion of his volition than is indicated by will. "I shall go" implies nearly a simple futurity; more exactly, a foretelling or an expectation of my going, in which, naturally enough, a certain degree of plan or intention may be included; emphasize the shall, and the event is described as certain to occur, and the expression approximates in meaning to our emphatic "I will go." In a question, the relation of speaker and source of obligation is of course transferred to the person addressed; as, "Shall you go?" (answer, "I shall go"); "Shall he go?" i. e., "Do you require or promise his going?" (answer, "He shall go".) The same relation is transferred to either second or third person in such phrases as "You say, or think, you shall go;" "He says, or thinks, he shall go." After a conditional conjunction (as if, whether) shall is used in all persons to express futurity simply; as, if I, you, or he shall say they are right. Should is everywhere used in the same connection and the same senses as shall, as its imperfect. It also expresses duty or moral obligation; as, he should do it whether he will or not. In the early English, and hence in our English Bible, shall is the auxiliary mainly used, in all the persons, to express simple futurity. (Cf. Will, v. t.) Shall may be used elliptically; thus, with an adverb or other word expressive of motion go may be omitted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Before leaving New York on Wednesday, Charlie Chaplin said: “I shall probably be away for six months, but no more, for I have definite plans for my next film.
  • (2) According to the quantitative analysis between threshold titers of skin test and RAST titers using house dust and HD mites allergens, specific IgE production shall be decreased in the patients over 40 years old.
  • (3) We shall not decide the future of Britain's relationship with the EU.
  • (4) A survey shall be given on the physiological, pathophysiological and pharmacotherapeutic backgrounds of the biogenic amine 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin; 5HT), to be preceded by a few historical remarks.
  • (5) His line on white privilege is ace: “There ain’t a white man in this room that would change places with me,” he says on his DVD Bigger & Blacker , then adds gleefully, “And I’m rich!” He makes lots of films, too, but as is often the way with comedians, those are, shall we say, less gilded affairs.
  • (6) It is hoped that further biochemical studies shall confirm these groupings at a more fundamental level and eventually a system recognising the double-stranded RNA gene product relationships shall evolve.
  • (7) There may be cases in which youngsters have travelled overseas perhaps out of curiosity or with an interest but upon arriving shall we say in Turkey, through which a lot of these people are staged, get cold feet and decide they don’t want to pursue that objective.
  • (8) Within the scope of this paper I shall also attempt a brief description of the focal problems, examined, their operationalization in research methods, expected results, and a preliminary discussion of three demonstrative cases.
  • (9) In order to study the possible role of fibroblastic biological changes in periodontal disease, later on we shall compare the characteristics of normal fibroblast to those of fibroblast taken in periodontal disease.
  • (10) OK, I have a long experience in football but there are players who don’t have the [same] experience, so it shall have an influence.
  • (11) So a striker needs also a bit of luck and then the confidence is higher but he’s self-confident so I expect he shall score and maybe against Chelsea .” So far Van Persie has remained injury free, which is a fillip after previously admitting to managing persistent issues for years.
  • (12) In a 1958 debate on marriage, Robert Menzies himself that declared that the issue “closely touches the individual conscience of members”, adding that “though it will be a government measure, it shall not be treated as a party measure”.
  • (13) The surgical treatment of the chronic pancreatitis shall concerning indication to operation, tactics and kind of intervention always take into consideration an existing abuse of alcohol.
  • (14) Agreement on Japan, 11 February The leaders of the three great powers – the Soviet Union, UK and US – have agreed that after the war in Europe is terminated, the Soviet Union shall enter into war against Japan on the side of the allies on condition that: The status quo in Outer Mongolia shall be preserved.
  • (15) All rights reserved 'From Malta to Yalta': leaders in high spirits 1 January 1945 Prime minister to president and top secret We shall be delighted if you will come to Malta.
  • (16) Qualifying for insurance benefits requires that this activity shall have been finally given up and that the same or other hazardous activities are avoided in the future.
  • (17) So I shall break my cover and, for the first time ever, reveal this top secret dossier: “Welcome to Britain, Visitor!
  • (18) "I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long.
  • (19) We shall continue our measurements, particularly those of activity in persons, and doubtless we shall refine our estimates of collective dose, but they are unlikely to change significantly.
  • (20) More specifically I shall discuss how the distribution of the control of fluxes, concentrations and potentials, among the various enzymes (catalysts) in these systems has been measured and how this distribution can be understood in terms of the enzyme properties.

Spall


Definition:

  • (n.) The shoulder.
  • (n.) A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.
  • (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.
  • (v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
  • (v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frosty … Rafe Spall in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
  • (2) He was a much smaller man than Tim Spall but I decided not to worry about that.” Dick Pope was honoured at Cannes with a technical award for his cinematography for bringing the paintings to life: the film is filled with Turneresque colour: rose, amber, palest blue… “It’s interesting,” Leigh says, “that this is the first full-length film we have made with a digital camera.
  • (3) His first spell there, while successful, was dotted with rows with players – especially Rivaldo – and his second spall was something of a disaster.
  • (4) He takes the title role in this comedy about divorced dad Rafe Spall’s attempts to find Santa’s lost reindeer, bust the big fellow from prison after a run-in with the authorities and thereby save Christmas.
  • (5) Spall's performance has been much celebrated for its emotional depth, despite Turner's vocabulary in the film often consisting of grunts, snorts and spitting saliva onto the canvas.
  • (6) It is, perhaps, strange that after all they have been through, the Spalls should have chosen so strenuous – and potentially hazardous – a pastime.
  • (7) Thus to see Timothy Spall in Mr Turner mindlessly attacking a badly painted oil sketch was a painful experience for those that love and study art, spoiling for me what otherwise was a beautifully shot and constructed film.
  • (8) There was nothing for the hottest Broadway ticket of last year, a revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal directed by Mike Nicholls and starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall.
  • (9) Timothy Spall deservedly won the best actor award at Cannes this year for his portrayal of the painter JMW Turner as a kind of intermittently tender warthog.
  • (10) Julianne Moore was named best actress for her performance as a demented Hollywood diva in David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, while Britain's Timothy Spall won the best actor prize for his grunting, growling masterclass as marine painter JMW Turner in Mike Leigh's period drama Mr Turner .
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Timothy Spall stars in the forthcoming Mr Turner, directed by Mike Leigh Photograph: Allstar Picture Library “The skies over Thanet are the loveliest in all Europe,” he wrote of the area around Margate, where he painted more than 100 oils and watercolours.
  • (12) However, Spall, 57, has been painting for a decade, mostly canvases of anguished angels.
  • (13) He reckons Mr Turner will take the Palme d'Or, the Dardennes brothers socialist drama Two Days, One Night will have the second place Grand Prix, and Timothy Spall will be shut out of best actor by Channing Tatum or Steve Carell, both in Foxcatcher.
  • (14) But there is strong competition from Leviathan, a Russian epic inspired by the Book of Job and full of barbed digs at the Moscow administration, and from Mike Leigh's artist biopic Mr Turner, starring Timothy Spall.
  • (15) The costume drama, Leigh's first since his depiction of the eccentric Gilbert and Sullivan partnership in Topsy-Turvy, will star Timothy Spall as the enigmatic painter, with Marion Bailey, Dorothy Atkinson and Paul Jesson in supporting roles.
  • (16) Peter Bradshaw on Mr Turner – Timothy Spall dazzles as JMW Turner
  • (17) Turner is played by Timothy Spall , who has already received the Cannes best actor award for a tremendous and disconcerting performance.
  • (18) Notable names missing include Daniel Radcliffe, rave-reviewed for The Cripple of Inishmaan, Denzel Washington (A Raisin in the Sun) and the hottest Broadway ticket of last year, a revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal directed by Mike Nicholls and starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Timothy Spall, who ‘had an amateur notion of doodling’ had to study painting to prepare for his role in Mr Turner.
  • (20) Since Tim Spall had agreed to be in it by then and he's not what one would call svelte ... [Laughter] ... it pointed me in the direction where my imagination could get going with things that are an ongoing preoccupation.