(v. t.) To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stewart Snape, of its plant health service, said: "We know there could be OPM [oak processionary moth] in the woodland because we found a nest in it last year.
(2) His Sizewell B inquiry , which occupied Aldeburgh's Snape Maltings for much of the early 1980s, was tortuous and expensive.
(4) There are children like Freddy Snape , who sounds like any other teenager, only less surly; and youngsters like William Thanh , who doesn't communicate with words at all.
(5) The year 2016 took Prince, David Bowie, Professor Snape and most of our sanity.
(6) Patience (After Sebald) will be screened on Friday at Snape Maltings, Suffolk, as part of After Sebald: Place and Re-Enchantment, a weekend exploration of WG Sebald's work.
(7) "The special rule is a death warrant for the polar bear," said Bill Snape, senior counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity.
(8) Encouraged by this high-altitude success, in 1984 Macartney-Snape, Mortimer and Hall set out on their most ambitious target to date – a new route on the north face of Everest without bottled oxygen.
(9) We’ve talked about a couple of things that will stay private but about what we think might work for us,” Pardew, who has worked extensively with Snape over recent years said.
(10) Parts of Suffolk were identified as being at high risk of flooding on Friday night, including Lowestoft seafront and docks, the north bank of Lake Lothing, Oulton Broad near Mutford Lock, Snape, Iken and surrounding marshland, and Southwold and surrounding marshes.
(11) A new cast will be announced for the tour, which is scheduled to stop off Edinburgh, Bath and Birmingham among other cities this year, but Fiery Angel's Edward Snape has suggested that a West End return could be possible.
(12) On Saxon Square, a pristine quadrangle of shops and cafes at the northern edge of town, I meet Dee and Graham Snape, 68 and 71 respectively, having coffee in the sunshine.
(13) Katie Snape, who books the guests for Sky News, is highly committed to getting more women on screen, and says she often has trouble booking the number she would like.
(14) The basolateral membrane of mouse duodenal enterocytes can be selectively labelled in vitro with 59Fe by incubating intact enterocytes with 59Fe(III)-nitrilotriacetate at 0-4 degrees C. It has been proposed that this labelling represents binding to a site important in the transfer of intracellular Fe to the portal plasma (Snape, S., Simpson, R.J. and Peters, T.J. (1990) Cell Biochem.
(15) The Snape Proms , at the end of the summer, has several gigs that would make a family outing, including a Mary Poppins singalong and a concert by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
(16) Among the survey participants was 17-year-old Laura Bizzey from Snape, in Suffolk, who has minicore myopathy and is studying for her GCSEs.
(17) Freddy Snape embodies the kind of success the organisation believes should be more widespread.
(18) The manager has sought the input of the former England off-spinner and respected sports psychologist Jeremy Snape as part of the preparations, with further motivational presentations planned for the squad before the 4pm kick-off.
(19) I don’t love playing second fiddle to a phone, but you never know what news someone might be awaiting Laura Snapes Laura Snapes, music writer and editor Man is the learning animal and etiquette is a series of protocols that ensure the wheels of society remain greased.
(20) In 1978, as part of a larger ANU team, Macartney-Snape reached the summit of the 7,000m Dunagiri in India, but Hall suffered frostbite and missed out on the summit, later losing a few toes.
Snipe
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
(n.) A fool; a blockhead.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know I have the courage to deal with all the sniping but you worry about the effects on your family."
(2) The sniping followed an article by Cameron in the Sunday Times , in which he called on the coalition to provide a "strong, decisive and united government" in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for "division and navel-gazing" at a time of social and economic insecurity.
(3) This isn’t so much the old push-and-run Spurs as push-and-run-and-snipe-and-hustle, albeit in a controlled kind of way.
(4) She’s handling it very well,” Garner-Snipes replies.
(5) In a lifetime in public life, I've never seen the same sort of storm of background briefing, personal sniping and media frenzy getting in the way of decent people doing a valiant job trying to cope with unprecedented natural forces.
(6) The Queensland government documents state the dumping will have “significant residual impacts” on the Australian painted snipe, which is nationally listed as endangered.
(7) Jeremy Corbyn has faced down his critics in the parliamentary Labour party, calling for an end to the “back-biting, public attacks and constant sniping”.
(8) Wesley Snipes is fearless Facebook Twitter Pinterest The actor elicited as many gasps as he did laughs in introducing Lee while speaking in a put-on thick African accent.
(9) Rather than just standing on the sidelines and sniping, it’s important to engage, to talk to people, to talk about our interests and to raise, yes, difficult issues when we feel it’s necessary to do so.” The prime minister denied the UK had been selling its principles for the sake of trade deals for the post-Brexit era.
(10) Photograph: Google Newspapers, of course, have their own reason to snipe at Google.
(11) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
(12) The charges relate to the massacre at Srebrenica, where more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed by Mladic's forces ; the shelling and sniping operation against Sarajevo; wider ethnic cleansing in the region; and taking hostage 200 UN peacekeepers and military observers to use as human shields.
(13) After generations of daughters being on the receiving end of snipes and barbs, I'm happy to take this.
(14) Sir Paul Kenny, the general secretary of the GMB union, called for MPs who opposed Corbyn’s election to leave the party if they planned to “snipe” and ponder their future in public.
(15) Instead, her defences were overwhelmed by a frenzy of blogging, narcissism and sniping from the worldwide web.
(16) However, Cameron faced fresh sniping from within his own ranks, with backbencher Brian Binley publicly calling on him to axe George Osborne as chancellor in the forthcoming cabinet reshuffle.
(17) Sniping between cabinet ministers descended into accusations of “grandstanding” and being “ stupid “.
(18) The Tupamaros, experimental as ever, saw no point in returning to violence, so they joined the Broad Front in 1989 and sniped at it from the left, warning against the evils of centrism.
(19) With the new political year opening with another round of strategic sniping by the former prime minister Tony Abbott, Morrison pointedly welcomed this development as “an extraordinary achievement by Malcolm Turnbull”.
(20) ), sniping that "Friedan didn't share a view from the corporate boardroom".