(n.) A person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit.
(n.) A single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.
(n.) A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in draughts.
(n.) A large extinct bird (Pezophaps solitaria) which formerly inhabited the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigeuz. It was larger and taller than the wild turkey. Its wings were too small for flight. Called also solitary.
(n.) Any species of American thrushlike birds of the genus Myadestes. They are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. Called also fly-catching thrush. A West Indian species (Myadestes sibilans) is called the invisible bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since taking control of Solitaire we have made it our number one priority to make a fresh start with residents who felt they had been let down by Solitaire.
(2) The awkwardly named The Truth About OM Property Management (formerly Solitaire Property Management) & Peverel Group Companies, was set up in 2008 by a disgruntled Solitaire customer When he spoke to Guardian Money it was on the basis that we only publish his first name: Adam.
(3) It's increasingly easy now to find people who say "I'm not a gamer, I don't play computer games" but, when challenged, will admit that they play Angry Birds on their iPhone, or MafiaWars on Facebook, or solitaire on their PC during quiet times at work – if those aren't computer games, what are they?
(4) As she says “selling sustainability isn’t like selling a new brand of soap, it’s like persuading people to use soap in the first place.” Solitaire was named Ethical Entrepreneur of the Year 2008, is a member of the United Nations Sustainable Lifestyles Taskforce, Chair of the UK Green Energy Scheme, and is a London Leader for Sustainability.
(5) It is also important to note that Solitaire's entire senior operations team had been changed by early 2010.
(6) Money asked Peverel to justify the level of commission, and its spokeswoman told us it had been collecting the money on behalf of another company: "Solitaire Property Management Company passed this commission on to the landlord, Holding & Management (Solitaire) … Holding & Management (Solitaire) is not owned by or part of the Peverel Group."
(7) "We can confirm that Solitaire appealed the decision, as we believed it was wrong as a matter of law.
(8) It causes raised eyebrows when I explain this statistic includes entertainment which many people don't really think of as "games", such as casual or social games including Farmville and Solitaire.
(9) Peverel, which acquired Solitaire in mid-2008, lays the blame on practices that took place long before it managed the buildings.
(10) Given Solitaire's poor history, PPM implemented a £4m investment plan to improve services to residents, who were kept informed of changes.
(11) The ancient Greeks had Pythia, their Delphic Oracle; the Romans had their Vestal Virgins and, in Live and Let Die , Dr Kananga had his Solitaire.
(12) One of the first actions taken by PPM was to introduce a formal customer complaints procedure for Solitaire.
(13) The tribunal also ordered Solitaire (taken over by Peverel in 2008) to repay £67,000 that was missing from a long-term reserve fund for the buildings.
(14) Warren, who had her first hit in 1983 with Laura Branigan's Solitaire, doesn't do subtle.
(15) He tried ARMA, the Association of Residential Managing Agents, which told him to contact Solitaire's head of complaints.
(16) Initially, Holden tried to follow official complaint procedures with the property's manager, Solitaire Property Management.
(17) As we begin the final year of our improvement plan, we are confident former Solitaire customers are now seeing industry-leading standards of customer service, value for money and transparency.
(18) Solitaire is passionate (and occasionally argumentative) about the need to make sustainability desirable rather than doom-laden.
(19) Photograph: Solitaire Townsend Solitaire Townsend, CEO, Futerra Solitaire co-founded Futerra, Europe’s leading sustainable development communications agency, working with big brands, NGOs and government departments to make sustainable development so desirable it becomes normal.
(20) In a statement, it said: "Solitaire Property Management only became part of the Peverel Group in mid 2008.
Sultan
Definition:
(n.) A ruler, or sovereign, of a Mohammedan state; specifically, the ruler of the Turks; the Padishah, or Grand Seignior; -- officially so called.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(2) His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi The Crown Prince is a leading champion in the Middle East for improving child health.
(3) An adviser to the Sultan of Aïr, the town’s ceremonial leader , sighs.
(4) The U266, ARH-77, IM-9, and HS-Sultan cell lines strongly expressed beta 1 and alpha 4 integrins (89% to 98% positive), confirming that VLA-4 is the principal integrin on these cell lines.
(5) The 15-page speech on "the limits of law" was delivered by Sumption – once one of Britain's highest-earning barristers – at the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week.
(6) The house, which once belonged to Prince Jefri Bolkiah, the playboy younger brother of the Sultan of Brunei, boasts a ballroom with elaborate panelled walls edged with 24-carat gold leaf.
(7) There is other evidence of a rethink in the replacement of the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, with Prince Mohamed bin Nayef, the interior minister and architect of a successful campaign against al-Qaida.
(8) The author describes how nurse education has developed in the Sultanate and how, in spite of the influence and values of Western countries, the importance of the indigenous culture is not ignored.
(9) Both the Sultan and Cochin breeds were shown to possess two shank-feathering loci, and the data suggested that one of the loci in the Sultan contained the Pti-1L allele.
(10) Until recently multiply drug-resistant Salmonella typhi was uncommon in the Sultanate of Oman.
(11) He certainly seems to have exploited his firman or licence from the Sultan to remove "stones with inscriptions and figures" from the building with an enthusiasm that did not escape the critical notice of contemporary observers .
(12) In the National Neurosurgical Centre in the Sultanate of Oman, four patients with cranio-facial actinomycosis were seen over a 5-year period.
(13) But the risks of staying here are higher than leaving," Sultan, 28, told Guardian Australia.
(14) "The king is the umbrella to the people and the people are the pillars of the king," Sultan Abdul Halim said in comments issued through the national news agency, Bernama.
(15) Part of the problem is uncertainty about who has been in charge since the interior minister, Prince Naif, took over the Yemen "file" from the ailing Crown Prince Sultan.
(16) How to settle vexed land disputes over "ancestral domain", how to decide exactly which areas or "sultanates" will be included in the Bangsamoro, and how best to manage and share Mindanao's significant energy and mineral resources are all issues the peace process is addressing but is unlikely fully to resolve.
(17) The move could indicate the sultan is becoming more conservative as he ages, said Joseph Chinyong Liow, a Singapore-based professor of Muslim politics.
(18) Ugur Bilgin, culture secretary of the Alevi Pir Sultan Abdal cultural association, pointed to a persecution of the Alevi religious minority by the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP).
(19) The barracks were the site of a 1909 attempt by the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II to stop the liberal reforms that eventually led to Ataturk's modern republic.
(20) The Filipinos who landed in Lahad Datu, a short boat ride from the southern Philippines, insisted Sabah had belonged to their royal sultanate for more than a century.