(n.) A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) 'Portland, Oregon and sloe gin fizz, if that ain't love then tell me what is, uh huh…" Best name in the league... You're not fooling anyone Simon.
(2) Gin sales jumped 55% compared with the previous year, with upmarket products such as Warner Edwards rhubarb gin and Sipsmith sloe gin performing particularly well.
(3) It was a fantastic autumn for fruits, berries and nuts, especially apple and sloe, beech nuts and acorns.
(4) The prickles were of palm-tree (2 cases), sloe-tree (2 cases) or unknown (2 cases) origin.
(5) Right now wade, ankle deep, through flame-coloured leaves, catch a glimpse of ripening blue sloes shimmering in the undergrowth and dodge overhanging boughs laden with berries and rose hips.
(6) An abundance of holly, mistletoe and other berries such as sloe and hawthorn this autumn and early winter, far from being a predictor of cold and snow, has been a reaction to the warm spring when the trees could produce more blossoms.
Soe
Definition:
(n.) A large wooden vessel for holding water; a cowl.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Meikhtila district chairman, Tin Maung Soe, said one Buddhist man was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on Thursday for causing grievous harm in connection with the killing of two Muslim men.
(2) Photograph: Aung Naing Soe For decades the government has sought to curb the ever-spiralling canine population with regular mass culls.
(3) In the group of participants with sensorineural hearing loss, the incidence of SOEs decreased linearly with increasing click threshold or the detection-threshold of evoked otoacoustic emission.
(4) Cross-tabulations demonstrated that only rapidity and loss of consciousness at onset were associated with the presence of a cardiac SOE to a significant degree.
(5) The country lost the king and queen, the heads of state,” said Soe Win.
(6) Since all three emitting monkeys belonged to the macaque genus, the present study was conducted in a group of 102 pigtail monkeys in an attempt to corroborate the incidence of SOEs in a readily available macaque species.
(7) Tin Maung Soe said most of the 73 people charged with crimes related to the rioting there are Buddhists.
(8) The amplitudes and frequencies of both SOEs and stimulus-frequency emissions (SFEs) were routinely recorded, while transiently evoked (EOE) and distortion-product emissions (DPEs), at the frequency 2f1-f2, were occasionally examined.
(9) Thai authorities have since arrested dozens of people, including a powerful mayor and a man named Soe Naing, otherwise known as Anwar, who was accused of being one of the trafficking kingpins in southern Thailand.
(10) These results demonstrate that the macaque monkey offers a unique nonhuman primate model for the study of SOE phenomena.
(11) Photograph: Aung Naing Soe for the Guardian Militancy in Rakhine state is not a recent phenomenon.
(12) In the normal population, the incidence of SOEs decreased from 68% in the group of infants less than 18 months old to 0% after the age of 70 years old.
(13) A genomic DNA analysis suggested that the majority of endogenous elements were close to full length in size and that the highly truncated sequences which we described previously (Soe et al., J. Virol.
(14) Soe Win has more modest goals: to see the country’s regal history acknowledged and discussed; the holding of royal ceremonies; and perhaps the restoration of the Golden Palace in Mandalay, destroyed by the British during the second world war and now mostly serving as a dusty barracks.
(15) Although these symptoms were highly specific for cardiac SOE, they were not sensitive.
(16) This examination revealed nine primates (9%) with SOEs with three demonstrating bilateral emissions.
(17) Diagnosis of embolic stroke is based on identification of a source of embolus (SOE) and on neurologic symptoms acknowledged as "clinical criteria."
(18) Criterion validity was measured by correlating SOE scores with multiple-choice examination (MCQ) and objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) scores.
(19) On Tuesday the company admitted the names, email addresses and phone numbers of 25 million Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) customers were stolen in the attack, which also hit 77 million PlayStation Network gamers.
(20) An SOE consisting of four predetermined clinically oriented scenarios was administered to 23 second postgraduate year surgical residents.