(n.) An Australian tree (Acacia Doratoxylon), and its tough wood, used by the natives for spears.
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Vine
Definition:
(n.) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
(n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
(2) It is Vine who initiated this latest assault on Ed’s character.
(3) Vine's short-notice inspection report on border security checks at Heathrow's terminals 3 and 4, published on Thursday ,says that many of those who are being drafted in are ex-UK Border Agency employees who are being rehired, or staff who have been working elsewhere in the Home Office but have only been given basic training to work on the airport passport desks.
(4) I consider that lengthy delays in publishing reports risk reducing the effectiveness of independent inspection, which depends to a large extent on timely publication of findings, and it is contributing to a sense that the independence of my role is being compromised.” Vine disclosed in his letter that he was so perturbed by the proposals that he sought a legal opinion.
(5) John Vine, the chief inspector of immigration, who is conducting the official inquiry into who, including ministers, knew what when in a row which has put the home secretary's political reputation on the line, is to publish an interim report as early as next week.
(6) These may involve either nutrition, as in calcium deficiency in some lettuce varieties, tomato, and bell peppers, or direct toxicity (chloride or sodium toxicity, or both) in tree and vine crops.
(7) Vine also criticises the searching priorities of the Border Force and HM Revenues and Customs by highlighting that 68% of freight consignments targeted for checks at the border are actually undergoing a physical examination while 43,000 low-risk cargoes were being checked.
(8) Sources said that some of Vine’s previous reports had been delayed for months by May and then released en masse.
(9) Photograph: Rex Feeding into this narrative, an email from Sarah Vine, Gove’s wife, was accidentally sent to a member of the public, leaking details of her reservations about Johnson’s popularity with members and media bosses.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Vine about the Scottish independence referendum.
(11) Mr Vine said: "Some time ago I decided I would have to leave Newsnight if I went to Radio 2 and that's a wrench, but no journalist could turn down such a magnificent offer from what is the UK's most successful radio station.
(12) I first had stuffed vine leaves at my grandad's guesthouse in Southend, and deeply regret not pilfering his recipe before he passed away.
(13) You're like Tarzan, swinging from vine to vine" – Pete Campbell Sterling Cutler Cooper Gleason Draper Holloway Chaough Campbell.
(14) Vine says the files in these "complex" cases, which go back to 2003, were discovered in boxes that had been transferred last March from a UKBA unit in Croydon to their offices in Sheffield where they had not been dealt with at the time of the inspection.
(15) • He listed journalists who were close friends , including the Times's Daniel Finkelstein and Sarah Vine, the wife of education secretary and former Times journalist Michael Gove.
(16) House Democrats’ Vine British politics has been much slower to get involved.
(17) It has been a principle of successive governments that under-subscribed state schools should wither on the vine, so why not apply the same principles to the private sector?
(18) Add your own advisory lines from Shakespeare on the comment thread below – or share them on Instagram, Vine or Twitter with the #gdnbard hashtag.
(19) ― A Fatal Inversion, as Barbara Vine (1987) Our children, when young, are part of ourselves.
(20) I’ve got vines of them going all up my other arm and round my shoulder,” he says proudly.