(n.) The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
(n.) A fish plate for rails.
(v. i.) To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast.
(v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
(v. t.) To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hardy has a 10in tattoo of Lee along his left shin.
(2) The 70-year-old describes a life of comfortable detachment from mainstream society, but with long periods in which he and his 74-year-old wife, Shin-yeol, are at the mercy of the elements.
(3) Rich, clear and with real depth, these are the prize awaiting anyone who picks up the shin, cheeks and tails before they're put in the mincer.
(4) Then there was his finish – it came off his shin but did anybody in Wales really care how he scored?
(5) The idea came to Kim, he said, when he heard that Seoul's repressive, militaristic Park regime had closed down Shin Films.
(6) Shin Dong-hyuk said he was tormented to see his father alive and speaking in the video released by Pyongyang in October.
(7) Tommy Banks, Bolton's left back, was exhausted by his efforts to halt Matthews, contracting cramp in his shins, and four times leaving the field for treatment in the final quarter hour.
(8) Sometimes resigned to his stay, Shin took comfort in his increasing material well-being, and in making movies again.
(9) 9.33pm BST 73 min: Pedro this time looks for Torres in behind – but his pass rattles straight into the shins of Francisco Silva.
(10) To know how CA125 proceeds from tumor cells into the circulation, a CA125-producing, ovarian-cancer-cell line (SHIN-3) was transplanted sub-cutaneously into nude mice.
(11) This puzzling confession, Shin writes, lingered in his mind as he drove in a Mercedes to the new office of Shin Films.
(12) Training for a marathon is a real challenge for your joints, tendons and cartilage, and so we tend to see regular distance runners developing problems with their knees, hips and shins,” says Vollaard.
(13) A spokesman for North Korea’s Association for Human Rights Studies said on Wednesday that Shin’s admissions “self-exposed” the flimsy foundations of efforts to censure Pyongyang for its rights record.
(14) 465 cases of exertion pain (18%) were located in the shin.
(15) Many pictures in the book – of families cutting cane, of men shinning up coconut trees – replicate the rural sights I see when I visit.
(16) The police station at Shin Kalay is not much to look at.
(17) A popular theme in Shin's films - not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s - concerns the plight of women chafing under the limits of society's expectations, such as The Evergreen Tree (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write.
(18) Rheograms of the shin have shown a decrease and asymmetry of the specific blood flow, less elasticity of arteries, less velocity of their blood filling in patients with malformations of the fibular bone.
(19) One of the South Korean investigators, Shin Sang-cheol, sacrificed his career to express his belief that the Cheonan had run aground in a tragic accident and with reports of evidence tampering circulating, even the South Korean public wasn't widely convinced of North Korean involvement: a survey conducted in Seoul found less than 33% blamed the DPRK.
(20) Lee Young-pyo executes an elaborate series of stepovers down the left - Cristiano Ronaldo eat your heart out - but just as he looks to have Maxi Pereira beaten, he lets the ball clank off his shin and out of play.
Syriac
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch.
(n.) The language of Syria; especially, the ancient language of that country.
Example Sentences:
(1) In May, masked men abducted Syrian priest Jacques Mourad, from the Syriac Catholic Mar Elian monastery in Qaryatain, near the Isis-held ancient city of Palmyra.
(2) Clashes are ongoing near Tal Tamr, an Assyrian town that straddles the river, where forces from the Syriac Military Council militia and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) – the militia that emerged victorious in the battle for the border town of Kobani – are defending the town.
(3) "We are deeply worried for the lives of archbishop Mor Gregorius Yohanna Ibrahim of the Syriac Orthodox Church and bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church," said Katrina Lantos Swett, who chairs the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (Uscirf).
(4) There have been bad things happening to Christians in Syria … So you could imagine that she is a willing participant.” So far, Mother Agnes has spoken at 16 locations around the US, mostly Catholic churches, particularly Syriac Antioch churches which serve the Syrian Christian diaspora.
(5) It returned Mor Gabriel, a 1,700-year-old monastery in Mardin, to the Christian Syriac community .
(6) Bishop Yuhanna Ibrahim, head of the Syriac Orthodox church in Aleppo, and Bishop Boulos Yaziji, of the Greek Orthodox church in the city, were abducted by gunmen Syrian state media called "terrorists".
(7) The mix of Christian denominations is ancient and mind-boggling: Syriac Catholic, Syriac Orthodox, Chaldean Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Assyrian.
(8) According to a Syriac Christian who lives in Damascus but is originally from Qaryatain, the town’s Christian population has dropped to only 300.
(9) They are not destroying our present life, or only taking the villages, churches, and homes, or erasing our future – they want to erase our culture, past and civilisation,” said Habib Afram, the president of the Syriac League of Lebanon, adding that Isis’s actions were reminiscent of the Mongol invasion of the Middle East.
(10) What our people are facing is part of a series of attempts to uproot them from here,” Kino Gabriel, one of the leaders of the Syriac Military Council, said by telephone from Hassakeh.
(11) Monks at the 4th-century Mar Behnam monastery, a major pilgrimage site run by the Syriac Catholic church, were allowed to take only the clothes they were wearing.
(12) Why is it that the Syriacs have been returned their monastery and the Greek Orthodox have been left out?
(13) A Demand for Action, a rights group that campaigned for the EU resolution, said: “We will continue to take our message to the halls of power around the world and will never stop demanding justice for our innocent victims of this genocide and doing all we can to make a home for Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs and other minorities in the Middle East.” Confirmation of the attack on Dur-Sharrukin came as Isis – also known as Isil, or in Arabic Daesh – appeared on the verge of its first major setback in Iraq, with Iraqi forces led by Shia militias and backed by Sunni tribal fighters and Iraq’s army appeared poised to retake Saddam Hussein’s hometown .
(14) This month the first wedding since what Assad loyalists call the liberation was celebrated in the quarter’s first-century Syriac Orthodox church, Umm al-Zennar.
(15) Syria conflict four years on: share your stories Read more “This is another episode in the targeting to the Christians of the east,” Habib Afram, president of the Syriac League in Lebanon, which represents the Assyrian minority , told the Guardian.
(16) It’s unprecedented,” said Afram of the Syriac League.
(17) I don’t believe that there is an international community, or that there are values anymore.” David Vergili, a member of the European Syriac Union, said Isis had done “tremendous damage to the social fabric of the Middle East”.
(18) Everything that doesn’t conform to the most strict Wahhabi standards of acceptability, anything that is beloved by people that Isis doesn’t like, anything that represents non-Isis interpretations of Islam such as Shiism or Sufism, and anything from before the time of Muhammad.” Sanhareb Barsom, an official with the Syriac Union party across the border in Syria’s Hassakeh province, where the Assyrian community has also come under assault by Isis, told the Guardian: “These are not Assyrian artefacts, these are artefacts for all of humanity.” Isis kidnapped more than 200 Assyrians in a sweep through villages south of the Khabur river last month, where members of the community had settled after the Simele massacre in the 1930s by the then-kingdom of Iraq.