(n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.
(n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
(v. i.) To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.
(v. t.) To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
(2) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
(3) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
(4) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
(5) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(6) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(7) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(8) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(9) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
(10) Two epidemics of meningoencephalitis caused by echovirus type 7 and coxsackievirus type B 5 in the summer and autumn of 1973 in Umeå in Northern Sweden were compared.
(11) We are also running our graduate internship scheme this summer.
(12) Read more Grabban, who moved to Carrow Road from Bournemouth in 2014 for around £3m, has been a target for Eddie Howe for some time and the manager had three bids for him turned down in the summer.
(13) Summers was not a popular choice among many of the World Bank's developing country members.
(14) High degress of multinucleation were observed least frequenctly in the summer both in patients with and without known malignancy.
(15) Son was signed from Hamburg for €10m that summer to replace Schürrle.
(16) All the summer deals in graphical, Etch-a-sketch form .
(17) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(18) McNear was in New York that summer after her junior year and for nearly two months they were lovers in Manhattan.
(19) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
(20) The last time I saw Ruqayah was in the summer of 2014, in a chain cafe in Cairo’s largest shopping mall.
Sumner
Definition:
(n.) A summoner.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to LifeNews, Sumner’s research interest was the “life of Russian workers and their connection to the revolutions in the first half of the 20th century”.
(2) This paper elucidates their mutual relationship and corrects biographical inaccuracies concerning George Huntington and George Sumner Huntington.
(3) We report here three patients initially suspected to have MND, who later were diagnosed as a Lewis-Sumner syndrome.
(4) Laura Sumner, a history graduate from the University of Nottingham, was ordered to leave Russia in April for conducting research in Nizhny Novgorod archives on a business visa, although a pro-Kremlin tabloid suggested she was a spy.
(5) He finishes with a proud, defiant salvo: "Bernard Sumner used to have his head in his hands going 'Everybody's gonna blame me!'
(6) Claims of gun law in Moss Side were attacked this week by Phil Sumner, parish priest of St Wilfrid's, Moss Side, since 1976, who told the Manchester Evening News: "Many people who have been in this area for years have never seen a gun and know only what they read in the papers about the trouble.
(7) Sumner's offence was to criticise Brooks for supporting slavery.
(8) It is all a very long way from Wallsend, Newcastle, where Sting – born Gordon Sumner – grew up in a house "where literally the ship yard was at the end of the street – surreal!"
(9) "Nice goals, but the elephant in the post-2015 room is inequality," said Andy Sumner, a development economist at King's College London.
(10) According to Pavel Titov, a migration service official, Sumner had travelled to Russia to research archives in Nizhny Novgorod, but had received a commercial rather than an academic visa.
(11) But as Andy Sumner, a research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex, points out : "The case for continued UK aid to India is those 450 million poor people, most of whom live in India's poor states in a decentralised system where some Indian states have been compared to fragile states in Africa.
(12) I told Bernard Sumner this last year and he said: “We didn’t have any sparseness in our sound, we filled all the gaps.” But then they always did have a very different idea about how they sounded.
(13) The spectrum of the latter shows a uniquely large Aparallel(59Co) = 23.2 G. Although we confirm the reported failure of the Co3+HRP to catalyze peroxide-dependent oxidations of classical peroxidase substrates (Gjessing, E.C., and Sumner, J.B. (1942) Arch.
(14) Expert panel Jonathan Spruce , vice chair of the national transport expert panel at the Institution of Civil Engineers Isabel Dedring , deputy mayor for transport, Greater London Authority Greg Marsden , director of the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds Susan Claris , associate director at Arup , an engineering and design consultancy Jason Torrance , head of policy at Sustrans , a charity which focuses on sustainable transport Stephen Joseph , chief executive of the Campaign for Better Transport Abby Hone , principal transport planner for Brighton & Hove city council Rupert Fausset , principal sustainability adviser at Forum for the Future Hugh Sumner , senior transport adviser for London Gatwick Simon Warburton , head of policy and strategy for Transport for Greater Manchester A representative from Transport Systems Catapult will also be taking part To be updated as panellists confirm.
(15) The articles are William James Mayo's "Splenic Syndromes"; George W. Crile's "The Factors that Govern the Surgical Mortality of Operations for Hyperthyroidism"; Frank H. Lahey's "Modern Conceptions and Management of Biliary Tract Disease"; Allen B. Kanavel and Sumner L. Koch's "Preoperative and Postoperative Care of Patients"; and W. Wayne Babcock's "Operative Decompression of Aortic Aneurysm by Carotid-Jugular Anastomosis".
(16) Bad Lieutenant's first album, Never Cry Another Tear, is out now 1 The food never looked like the photo 2 Excepting the synth strings on There Is A Light, credited to The Hated Salford Ensemble 3 Scores 6.8 out of 10 on imdb.com 4 John Squire took his job 5 In the Joy Division scenes, Simm dressed as Sumner circa 1985 6 Symptom of OCD
(17) Two Harvard engineers are to spray sun-reflecting chemical particles into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet, using a balloon flying 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
(18) Jason Sumner, technology analyst at The Economist intelligence unit, argues that the launch is motivated by Twitter's recent IPO, when the company entered the stock market with a valuation of $24bn.
(19) When Marr started Electronic with Bernard Sumner, Morrissey opined: "He's replaced me.
(20) Her Majesty's Prison Manchester Andy got this one wrong Her Majesty's Prison Southall Street Her Majesty's Prison Manchester Victoria Manchester Prison Christopher Eccleston, Bernard Sumner and Sir Ben Kingsley are from which Greater Manchester borough?