(n.) A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Qatar’s royal family may have snapped up Canary Wharf for £2.6bn this week, adding to its London portfolio of Harrods and the Shard skyscraper, but the Gulf billionaires’ property spree has finally run into a dead end – a humble town hall bureaucrat.
(2) When Google bought Boston Dynamics, it was in the midst of an acquisition spree spearheaded by Andy Rubin, the former head of Android.
(3) In a sign that the killing spree has left no sector of Norwegian society untouched, the royal court has announced that the 51-year-old was the stepbrother of Mette-Marit, Norway's crown princess.
(4) Stephen King, the chief global economist at HSBC, the former Goldman Sachs economist Gavyn Davies and Roger Farmer, a professor of economics at the University of California, told MPs on the Treasury select committee that it would be unwise to embark on a large-scale spending spree to boost growth while government debt remained high.
(5) Things start getting out of control when Rocket's younger gang target the clients of a sleazy motel and the raid, intended to be bloodless, becomes a killing spree.
(6) The banks, whose irresponsible lending spree did much to produce the crisis in the first place, are raking in squillions, the bulk of the hundreds of billions in bailout funds lent by the eurozone since 2010.
(7) By the time a second, more explicit warning was sent, Cho was near the end of his shooting spree.
(8) The Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, ascended to power last year after his father, who oversaw the World Cup bid and set in train the huge spending spree, handed over power.
(9) In what appeared to be a planned spree – Rodger uploaded YouTube videos in which he denounced women for spurning him and vowed to take “great pleasure in slaughtering all of you” – he allegedly started by stabbing three men repeatedly in an apartment some time before 9.30pm on Friday.
(10) The pattern of consumption (e.g., amount consumed per occasion, spree drinking) was also unrelated to impairment, and the critical neuropathological factor appeared to be the total amount of lifetime alcohol consumption.
(11) Apartment building spree: will it lead to a glut, or transform the way we live?
(12) I n March 2012, a 23-year-old petty criminal named Mohamed Merah went on a shooting spree – a series of three attacks over a period of nine days – in south-west France, killing seven people.
(13) But it was there in the resolve of Liverpool’s players, confidence drained and playing before an anxious audience, in the pragmatism of a manager prepared to omit from his starting line-up £113m of a £117m summer spending spree and in Johnson’s match-winning goal.
(14) Twenty minutes into the spree he took the bizarre step of making a 911 call in which he reportedly referred both to Islamic State and the Tsarnaevs, the brothers who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013.
(15) It is too soon to deliver a verdict on the value for money achieved in the spree but flair is insufficient.
(16) He was arrested on Sunday after a shooting spree that killed a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather outside a popular Jewish community center, and a third victim outside a nearby Jewish retirement home in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park.
(17) Soldiers went on looting sprees, and 1 victim of their marauding became a 12-year old boy who got shot for refusing to part with his bike.
(18) Most of the woes can be traced to businesses bought during a massive acquisition spree after 1999, when Sir John Bond was chairman.
(19) There are about 400,000 Nepalese workers in Qatar among the 1.4 million migrants working on a £137bn construction spree in the tiny Gulf state.
(20) The spree in summer clothes buying in April means fewer shorts, sandals and other seasonal items will be bought in coming months.
Sprue
Definition:
(n.) Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.
(n.) The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.
(n.) Same as Sprew.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aetiology of tropical sprue, which is common in Puerto Rico and absent from Jamaica remains to be explained although a hypothesis has been put forward.
(2) The inflow rate at the middle stage of casting was evaluated as v = 21.05 + 1.79 C (C: the cross-sectional area of the main sprue).
(3) These results showed rapid clearance of the D3-3H in the subject with tropical sprue and steatorrhea indicating depletion of vitamin D stores in the tissues and decrease in the net absorption of the dose when given orally.
(4) Finally, there appears to be an increased incidence of intestinal malignancies (lymphoma, adenocarcinoma) in nontropical sprue.
(5) Normal jejunal pattern reported by some workers in patients with tropical sprue could possibly be due to inadequate sampling of the total biopsy piece.
(6) These findings in patients with chronic tropical sprue are similar to findings in normal Indians and suggest that jejunal handling of sodium and water is abnormal when compared with normal English subjects, but that the mucosa is not in a secretory phase as seen in certain other diarrhoeal states or in the acute early phase of sprue.
(7) In addition, excessive alcohol use, smoking, malnutrition, and a latent case of sprue were involved in bringing about the folic acid deficiency.
(8) In the case of glycyl-L-leucine considerably more glycine and leucine were found in the perfusate in patients with sprue than in the control subjects.
(9) Bacterial overgrowth, which sometimes occurs after infective diarrhoea in the tropics and gives rise to tropical sprue, is a result of stasis.
(10) Celiac sprue and Crohn's disease have very rarely been documented in the same patient.
(11) The margin widths of the flared and the straight sprue attachment groups were significantly less than the abrupt or gradual constriction attachment group (p less than 0.05).
(12) However, intestinal permeability was decreased in patients with idiopathic sprue and increased in those with idiopathic hyperamylasemia.
(13) These 12 cases had a mean of 30.4 lymphocytes per 100 superficial colonic epithelial cells, compared with means of 8.4 in sprue cases without colonic epithelial lymphocytosis, 4.8 in normal controls, and 32.4 in nine cases of lymphocytic colitis without concurrent celiac sprue.
(14) The virus of transmissible gastroenteritis produced sprue-like lesions in the small intestines of young pigs.
(15) Three additional cases of small-bowel adenocarcinoma in association with nontropical sprue are reported.
(16) In a series of 28 sequential patients found to have microscopic changes characteristic of sprue on biopsy, distinctive endoscopic changes were found in 22 (in 6 of 9 with sprue in relapse, and 16 of 19 presenting with initial symptoms).
(17) Two patients with tropical sprue had agamma-A-globulinaemia.Turnover studies with (125)I-labelled IgG showed a high rate of synthesis in three Indian controls and an appreciably reduced or low rate in seven of the eight cases of tropical sprue.
(18) We report coexistent collagenous colitis and collagenous sprue in a 62-year-old woman with diarrhea.
(19) The radiologic findings are described of mucosal folds thickening in coeliac sprue in patients with short clinical history.
(20) The mean amount of internal porosity from all analyzed sites for each sprue design was calculated as a percent site porosity per total site and differences between the experimental sites and groups tested.