(n.) One who strings; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
(n.) A libertine; a wencher.
(n.) A longitudinal sleeper.
(n.) A streak of planking carried round the inside of a vessel on the under side of the beams.
(n.) A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(2) Eiluned Pearce and Robin Dunbar of Oxford University recently worked with Stringer and compared the skulls of 32 Homo sapiens and 13 Neanderthals, finding the latter had eye sockets that were significantly larger.
(3) Stringer’s statement said: “We are all familiar with the events that led to the death of Eric Garner and the extraordinary impact his passing has had on our city and our nation.
(4) Even Rob Stringer, the president of the Sony Music Label Group and one of the most powerful men in the music industry, only became aware of The Next Day's existence a month ago, when he was invited to the studio in New York to hear some tracks.
(5) He was a tougher guy than Stringer Bell or John Luther, and – to judge by many stories – very nearly as appealing to the ladies.
(6) Take Stringer or Luther – that seems to be a common denominator in the characters I play."
(7) Sir Howard Stringer hired David Letterman for US network CBS and was the first non-Japanese national to run electronics group Sony.
(8) He is backing the former Sony boss, Sir Howard Stringer .
(9) These days, people in the street no longer call Elba Stringer Bell.
(10) I don’t know if a new leader can tear up that agreement with their constituents.” Graham Stringer, the MP for Blackley and Broughton, added: “As Jeremy has in the past, I have always thought the shadow cabinet should be elected.” Simon Danczuk, the MP for Rochdale, is understood to have already looked with colleagues at how a slate of moderate MPs could be compiled to fill key posts.
(11) Best wishes, Frank Field MP (Birkenhead), Ronnie Campbell MP (Blyth Valley), lan Davidson MP (Glasgow South West), Roger Godsiff MP (Birmingham Hall Green), Kate Hoey MP (Vauxhall), John Mann MP (Bassetlaw), Graham Stringer MP (Blackley & Broughton)
(12) However, Stringer and Buck stress that they are not arguing that Neanderthals definitely did not eat vegetables or could not have used certain herbs as medicines.
(13) In other words, there was a long, gradual takeover by modern humans – an idea that is likely to be demolished at this week's conference, Stringer said.
(14) Professor Chris Stringer is the research leader in human origins at the Natural History Museum, London
(15) Following a judicious review of the claim and facts of this case, my office was able to reach a settlement with the estate of Eric Garner that is in the best interests of all parties,” Stringer said.
(16) The airport has launched its own inquiry, although MP Graham Stringer questioned whether David McMillan, the non-executive director, conducting the review, could be regarded as independent as he was primarily responsible to shareholders.
(17) "This new venture will allow Sony Music and all Sony divisions to develop and pursue a host of new opportunities with this supremely talented individual," said Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and chief executive of Sony Corporation.
(18) It should never have been over that road.” Labour MP Grahame Morris said airshows should be “limited to displaying over water”, while fellow Labour MP Graham Stringer, a former chairman of Manchester airport and former member of the Commons transport committee, told the Daily Mirror “there should be a serious look at the regulations with a view to tightening them up”.
(19) "Before his switch to Heerenveen, Viktor Elm scored four games in his final match for Kalmar, while playing alongside brothers Rasmus and David," notes Steve Stringer.
(20) "An example of that sort of cannibalism was provided by the Andes air crash in 1972 when survivors ate the flesh of those who had been killed in the accident," said Stringer.
Thwart
Definition:
(a.) Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
(a.) Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.
(a.) Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.
(prep.) Across; athwart.
(n.) A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.
(v. t.) To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air.
(v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.
(v. i.) To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner.
(v. i.) Hence, to be in opposition; to clash.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
(2) Bryan Hopkins Sheffield • David Cameron says he wants to tackle segregation between schools ( Four steps to thwart creation of ‘a barbaric realm’ , 21 July).
(3) As for the speaker in parliament Thura Shwe Mann, a former general, he has formed an improbable alliance with Aung San Suu Kyi, on the assumption that she might help him thwart the plans of his former cronies.
(4) In the recent local and European parliament elections, Labour gained 300 councillors and boosted its number of MEPs, but saw Ukip thwart its progress in key target areas, make gains in traditional party heartlands and top the European poll.
(5) But concerns about a slowing economy, jobs, civil rights and a lack of progress in the Kurdish peace process appear to have combined with worries that Erdoğan could assume quasi-dictatorial powers to thwart the president’s ambitions.
(6) A standoff between the two houses of parliament threatens to thwart a government-backed crackdown on multinational tax avoidance and a Labor-backed plan to increase tax transparency.
(7) So President Mujica may be thinking: "why not take the risk and embrace the possibility of becoming the first marijuana hero and the man who thwarted drug dealers?"
(8) The cataractogenic effect of oxyradicals, however, can be thwarted by nutritional and metabolic antioxidants such as ascorbate, vitamin E, and pyruvate.
(9) However, the over-riding view is that with Global's plan to buy GMG Radio outright all but thwarted, senior executives at German-owned Bauer will be breathing a sigh of relief.
(10) Experts say there are other arms of the federal octopus that could be squeezed in a bid to thwart Obama’s deferred action schemes, but even that would not affect the directive that tells immigration officials to focus on deporting “felons, not families”.
(11) The solution is for Hathaway to spend a year in sarky Manchester, where her attempts to go jogging will be thwarted by 324 days of rain, and if she so much as thinks about telling a Mancunian barmaid that she has poured those lagers fantastically well, she will swiftly learn an aloofness not taught in any American drama school.
(12) The report finds the company "deliberately" tried to "thwart" the 2005-6 Metropolitan police investigation into phone hacking carried out by the tabloid.
(13) But imperial Britain was not thwarted in any of these wars – however questionable we may now judge those conflicts to have been.
(14) This year the weather has tended to thwart these hopes, although after "the summer of sport" we might all need a break.
(15) Qerdaha is the heart of Alawite Syria , a hub for senior army officers and Shabiha, the pro-Assad militia accused of tremendous brutality in their three-year campaign to thwart the rebel uprising.
(16) 1.44am BST Rangers 2-1 Kings, 12:50, 2nd period Lewis stick handles towards the net but is thwarted by McDonagh, who is all over the place this game.
(17) The secret vote was an attempt to thwart the bill before it is put to a general vote.
(18) Part of the problem is procedural: that the will of the church’s parliament, the General Synod, is easily thwarted by a tiny minority of its members.
(19) Chloro substituents in the ring of other methoxylated benzoic acids also arrested their normal metabolism by the Nocardia: an ortho-chloro substituent thwarted both demethylation and ring-opening.
(20) The Liberal Democrat input is the second time they have helped thwart Gove's policies.