(n.) A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry.
(n.) The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The empirical specifications of anxiety were chosen so as to render the study comparable to previous investigations executed within the general framework of Spence's (1956, 1958) developments of Hull's (1943) notions concerning the relationship to drive level and learning task performance.
(2) Treatment of isolated C1 fractures should be governed by the rules of Spence.
(3) Peter Spence (@Pete_Spence) Haldane, Goodhart, and more on "Is this nuts?"
(4) Chris Spence (The Entrance) Moves to the cross benches in February amid corruption allegations.
(5) Spence advocates the gathering of brute data while denying or downplaying the epistemological value of theorizing and of interpretive understandings.
(6) Pavlov and his colleagues considered explanations based on the relationship between the test and trained stimuli, on reciprocal induction, and on gradients of generalized excitation and inhibition à la Spence.
(7) The cauldron of the Olympic Stadium was not the place to go into the rules and regulations," said Spence.
(8) Oxfam has already had to scale back life-saving work in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and sub-Saharan Africa – the poorest region in the world – due to unprecedented aid cuts.” Childfund Australia’s chief executive, Nigel Spence, said the budget had made “even deeper cuts to an already decimated aid budget”.
(9) Human fibroblasts in culture take up exogenous [choline-Me-3H,32P]sphingomyelin (SM) from the medium and incorporate it into cellular SM and phosphatidylcholine [Spence, Clarke & Cook (1983) J. Biol.
(10) Data from a survey of 58 gay men and 58 lesbians are compared to college men and women on Spence and Helmreich's (1978) Personality Attributes Questionnaire measures of masculinity, femininity, and androgyny.
(11) Meanwhile, Missouri's Democratic governor Jay Nixon looks safe in his gubernatorial re-election bid: Democratic incumbent Jay Nixon leads Republican challenger Dave Spence 53%-45%.
(12) Nita Spence, a 23-year-old energy consultant, said: "If it was open to the public, it would be a bit different.
(13) It allows the lateral breast and the tail of Spence to be radiographed in contact with the xeromammography cassette.
(14) A small cartilaginous Spence's cartilage lies in dorsolateral position towards the Chorda tympani.
(15) SHRINKING VIOLET RETURNS IN HIGHBROW DOCUSOAP UNLIKELY TO GARNER MUCH TABLOID ATTENTION Louie Spence's Showbusiness, Sky 1, 9pm – the star of Sky 1's Pineapple Dance Studios returned with his own series, debuting with 277,000 viewers, a 1.1% share of the audience.
(16) Support for this position comes from recent theoretical contributions of Bruner, Sarbin, Spence, Tulving, and others, who have emphasized narrative thought as a major form of cognition that is qualitatively different from abstract propositional or scientific thinking.
(17) As a natural outgrowth of its original function as an adoption agency, the Spence-Chapin Adoption Service moved into abortion counseling.
(18) The vote came after the general assembly heard from the Rev Elizabeth Spence, a lesbian minister from Ibrox in Glasgow.
(19) Unlike these philosophers, Spence tends to dichotomize coherence and correspondence theories of truth.
(20) Spence said it was good for Paralympic sport to see rivals emerging to challenge the supremacy of Pistorius, who had not lost a 200m race in nine years.
Spencer
Definition:
(n.) One who has the care of the spence, or buttery.
(n.) A short jacket worn by men and by women.
(n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) The survey also found that department stores – which include general retailers such as Marks & Spencer as well as traditional outlets such as John Lewis – had enjoyed their strongest surge in sales for 30 years.
(3) A new carpet piece, Soft Ground (Great Hall), is being woven specially for the echoing double height great hall, Spencer-Churchill's favourite room.
(4) Verdict Phil Spencer promised games and he delivered lots and lots of games, some of them really rather beautiful to look at.
(5) Former Marks & Spencer boss Rose, chairman of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, was on Monday highlighting an analysis that claimed to show EU membership was worth an average of £670,000 in extra trade for each business that exports or imports goods within the bloc.
(6) Sainsbury's £1bn bid for Home Retail Group rejected Read more Sainsbury’s said the takeover would create the UK’s largest non-food retailer – ahead of John Lewis or Marks & Spencer – with about 2,000 stores and 100,000 products combined.
(7) June 19, 2014 7.39pm BST How Nouri al-Maliki fell out of favour with the US Here's new reportage and analysis from the Guardian's Martin Chulov ( @martinchulov ) and Spencer Ackerman ( @attackerman ).
(8) Spencer has now heard that Andy, who got the boat remember, has been cracking on to Louise, even though Jamie warned him it would be like jumping into a polar bear's nest.
(9) A spokeswoman for Marks & Spencer said that while the firm had not seen a significant increase in applications this year for its management trainee scheme, which is open to entrants with two A-levels, competition remained intense; there are up to 3,000 applicants for just 30 places.
(10) But others do: gift cards for Amazon.co.uk, for example, expire one year from the date of issue, while Marks & Spencer gift cards are valid for four years, although each time a customer spends on the card the expiry date is reset to four years.
(11) GDP growth could be as high as 1% for the quarter, which would appear to justify comments by the Bank of England's chief economist, Spencer Dale, that growth is running at an annualised rate of 3-4%.
(12) You have to have internal expertise, you have to have some troops in the department able to interpret ministers’ words,” said Matthew Spencer, Green Alliance’s director.
(13) This paper represents an initial step in applying to complex clinical situations the symbolic logic developed by G. Spencer Brown and elaborated by Francisco Varela.
(14) Charles Spencer goes further: " The show's crowning glory is James Corden ," he writes in the Daily Telegraph.
(15) The Occupy protesters outside St Paul's Cathedral in London named their camp "Tahrir Square" while they sat cross-legged, sang songs and consumed Marks & Spencer sandwiches, oblivious to the obscenity of a comparison with freedom fighters who risked their lives in Egypt.
(16) None of the staff opted out of treating Spencer even though they were given an opportunity to do so.
(17) • They take action even if it may harm business Marks & Spencer's decision to charge for plastic bags, British Gas's encouragement of reduced use: these are not immediately obvious comfort zones for money-making enterprises.
(18) Clothing from its factories makes its way across the world, supplying big name brands in the west – from WalMart – the world's largest retailer (Asda is a subsidiary) – to high-street names like Tesco, Marks & Spencer and H&M.
(19) Spencer Thompson, the IPPR's senior economic analyst, said that while Britain's self-employed workforce "come in many shapes and sizes", some members of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting committee view the phenomenon as an indication of weakness in the labour market.
(20) Ben Altman Spencer, New York, USA • We believe the energy industry has been misrepresented in your article ( Big firms' gas bonanza threatens green energy , 21 April), which claims energy companies are lobbying governments and business to reject renewables in favour of natural gas.