(n.) A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
(2) Just by adding a sofa, table and chairs and some plants, we have turned this house into a home, and solved the housing crisis for one of the 6,500 rough sleepers or thousands of other homeless people in London.
(3) When the news about the attack in Woolwich broke, by pure coincidence Ross Caputi was crashing on my sofa.
(4) At the famed Winter Palace , formerly the home of the Egyptian royal family, ornate gold-and-glass chandeliers hang over empty brocade sofas, awaiting visitors.
(5) Today The Great British Bake Off (BBC1), inspired – for no special reason – by Gogglebox, which seems to have two new sofa critics.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents sit on a sofa on a balcony of a damaged building in Aleppo’s al-Shaar neighbourhood in Syria.
(7) When my wife Mia finally gets home, I hand the baby over and drop exhausted on to the sofa.
(8) Since furanoses in the envelope form are analogous (in some ways) to half-chair or sofa conformations and since lactones with six-membered rings probably have half-chair or sofa conformations, the results indicate that beta-galactosidase probably destabilizes its substrate into a planar conformation of some type and that the galactose in the transition state may, therefore, also be quite planar.
(9) Many iPad users see the device as a more relaxed device than a computer: something to be kept close at hand on the sofa or even in bed, with its instant-on nature.
(10) "I've ended up with everything I could want – a pool table, a table football table, dining table and chairs, sofas, carpets.
(11) Christine Bleakley, Chiles's co-presenter on The One Show, had been linked with a possible move to ITV to join Chiles on the GMTV sofa.
(12) The couple, who are Polish nationals, claimed he had fallen off a sofa.
(13) I arrive at my hotel, a friendly, functional place with a crackling fire and big sofas.
(14) A bookish teenager regarded as the smartest of the Murdoch brood, James endured an awkward adolescence in the public eye and was famously photographed asleep on a sofa at a press conference while working as a 15-year-old intern at his father's old paper, the Sydney Mirror, a picture the rival Sydney Morning Herald gleefully ran on its front page the next day.
(15) So, yes, Daft Punk are very famous indeed, but the two Frenchmen sitting side by side on a sofa in a luxurious Paris hotel suite – Thomas Bangalter, 38, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, 39 – are very much not.
(16) Clash of the sofas: BBC v ITV An age-old rivalry with plenty of previous, gone are the days where you'd sigh when you found out a match was on ITV not BBC.
(17) We hear a lot about homes, and rightly so, yet we hear next to nothing about homelessness, about the people forced to sleep on the streets, in hostels and squats or on the sofas of friends and family.
(18) After all, who needs private detectives to follow Tom Watson when you can find out about his office playlist and Portal 2 marathons from the comfort of your own sofa?
(19) The online auction service has been redesigned with a focus on bigger images and a touchscreen interface, making it the perfect way to browse from the sofa.
(20) He then took aim at the viral picture of Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway sitting in the Oval Office in a strange, overly comfortable manner, shoes on the sofa.
Sola
Definition:
(a.) See Solus.
(n.) A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc.
(fem. a.) Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not even a late red card for the substitute Kike Sola could tarnish the Basque club’s joy as they ended Barça’s hopes of repeating their 2009 feat when they won all six competitions they contested: the Champions League, La Liga, the King’s Cup, the European Super Cup, the Spanish Super Cup and the Club World Cup.
(2) The frequency of infertile marriages in rural areas of Papua New Guinea has been reported by a number of people: 24.3% in Tabar in 1953; 17% in Tigak, 4.1% in the Solas area, and 2.8% in Lemankua.
(3) 27, 3677; Bertini, I., Briganti, F., Luchinat, C., Scozzafava, A., & Sola, M. (1991) J.
(4) The aim of this work is to answer the question as to whether the TiO2 semiconductor integrated into the toothbrush "Denta-Sola" has any effect on the removal of plaque.
(5) Sola Tayo, an associate fellow at Chatham House, says the characterisation of the herdsmen as militants obscures the abuses they also face.
(6) A modified combined indirect ophthalmoscope and magnifying loupes with illumination was made by mounting a pair of Zeiss loupes below the SOLA indirect ophthalmoscope eye-piece.
(7) It has been found that in cell system the scavenging effects of sinB and solA, as judged by ESR spin trappings, on hydrpxyl radicals (.OH) are greater than vitamin E and vitamin C and the scavenging effects on superoxide anion (O2) are greater than vitamin E but lower than vitamin C. With respect to the Fenton reaction, sinB has the strogest scavenging effect on .OH (77%) and solA has strong scavenging effect on .OH (63%), both of them larger than that of vitamin E (35%) and vitamin C (56%).
(8) Because of this discriminatory effect between hydroxide and bicarbonate, the tin compound can be useful in certain experimental conditions as seen for the study of the anion "carrier" of the red cell membrane ("cousin, J.L., Motais, R. and Sola, F. (1975) J. Physiol.
(9) (A marvellous post-independence cartoon captured the situation perfectly: it showed an overcrowded train, with people hanging off it, clinging to the windows, squatting perilously on the roof, and spilling out of their third-class compartments, while two Britons in sola topis sit in an empty first-class compartment saying to each other, “My dear chap, there’s nobody on this train!”) Nor were Indians employed in the railways.
(10) Sola Adesola, senior lecturer, Oxford Brookes University , Oxford UK, @AGPUK Higher education in Africa: Race is an invention Read more Start innovation hubs: We need huge amounts of money supporting innovation.
(11) David Robertson, director of the Solas Centre for Public Christianity and a Free Church of Scotland minister in Dundee, is also doubtful.
(12) With the use of the electron spin resonance spin trapping method, the scavenging effects of schizandrol A (solA) (5 x 10(-4) M) and schizandrin B (sinB) (5 x 10(-4) M) have been studied and compared with the effects of vitamin E (5 x 10(-4) M) and vitamin C (5 x 10(-4) M).
(13) It was really moving,” said Enrique Sola Campillo, a volunteer, of the first few moments of the day.
(14) The following lenses or lens coatings were found to be suitable for use by PUVA patients: Orcolite UV 400, Orma UVX, Rodenstock Lambda 400, Sola UV Gard 400 and Polaroid polarizing lenses.
(15) The properties of PP1M, together with those of smooth muscle PP1M [Alessi, D., MacDougall, L. K., Sola, M. M., Ikebe, M. & Cohen, P. (1992) Eur.