(v. t.) To spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sequence similarity with the dipteran elements was the highest within individual domains of TED open reading frame 2 (pol region) that are also conserved among the retroviruses and encode protease, reverse transcriptase, and integrase functions, respectively.
(2) Yes: I would save the life of Ted Kaczynski, Idi Amin or Donald Trump, over any animal you could name.
(3) I inherited Ted-Fred from my mother, a one-eyed and wholly uncuddly pre-war sack of mange (the bear, not my mum), and I had briefly loved Albert, a brown knitted dog, although I have very little memory of him.
(4) Up-and-coming Tea Party favourite Ted Cruz issued a similar statementon Friday after the wave of disclosures, saying he would work with "colleagues in the Senate who share my concerns to ensure that we have all the facts about these surveillance programs".
(5) With the Republican primary in full swing, Ted Cruz, a hardliner by most measures, seemed a natural choice for this constituency.
(6) And in Colorado the fiercely anti-immigration conservative and former presidential candidate Ted Tancredo was comfortably overcome by a more moderate former congressman, Bob Beauprez, in the primary to choose the Republican candidate for the state's governor.
(7) Charlize Theron is set to star opposite Seth MacFarlane in the Ted creator's new comedy western A Million Ways to Die in the West, tipped as a homage to Mel Brooks's classic movie Blazing Saddles .
(8) As well as George Dyer, there was the murderer Perry Smith in the Truman Capote story Infamous, the hot-headed mobster child-killer in Road To Perdition, the brooding Ted Hughes in Gwyneth Paltrow’s Sylvia biopic and a belligerent Mossad assassin in Steven Spielberg’s Munich.
(9) The extension of the method to the biological sciences under the influence of Ted Hall is reviewed.
(10) But Gates’s decision to “bump off from art” and live “in the sphere of dirt, the dirty, the stuff that we think is in the ground” was revelatory, leading to invitations to Davos and a TED Talk, where he talked about how he revived a neighborhood with imagination and hard graft .
(11) For a "free form" class project in senior year I did a quiz show-style performance piece based on her life ("Ted Hughes cheated on Sylvia Plath: True or False?")
(12) The Texas senator Ted Cruz says the rise of Donald Trump makes him “very optimistic” the next occupant of the White House will be a conservative – perhaps himself – propelled there by the “volcanic rage” of voters.
(13) Ted Heath remained in office over the weekend after the general election on 28 February 1974, despite winning four seats fewer than Labour, as he tried unsuccessfully to form a coalition with the Liberals.
(14) The organisation cited recent films such as Get Hard, The Wolf of Wall Street and Ted 2, all of which it said used homophobic terms or made jokes at the expense of gay characters.
(15) Dilution of chick plasma with Tris-EDTA buffer containing dithiothreitol (TED buffer) induced a positive cooperativity in the interaction between corticosteroids and CBG.
(16) Ted Nugent, the ultra-conservative rock musician, is also voting for Trump.
(17) I think it’s okay as a Catholic to get my guidance as a Catholic from the Pope but certainly not economic policy or environmental policy.” Trump has previously questioned the faith of another adversary, Ted Cruz, saying: “You gotta remember, in all fairness, to the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba, OK?” Cruz’s father is an evangelical pastor who emigrated from Cuba, and the senator has pursued extremely religious voters throughout his campaign.
(18) These are people such as Texas senator Ted Cruz and Florida senator Marco Rubio , who has already announced his intention to visit Iowa this month, effectively firing the first shot of the 2016 campaign.
(19) The TEDs won best navigation, best visual design for functionality and best podcast.
(20) He demanded of education secretary Ted Short that more research be done into teaching deaf children, including finger-spelling.
Zed
Definition:
(n.) The letter Z; -- called also zee, and formerly izzard.
Example Sentences:
(1) • This is an edited extract from Feminism & Men by Nikki van der Gaag , published by Zed Books.
(2) Zed Nelson's film about survivors of the Lampedusa boat tragedy will air on Channel 4's Dispatches early next month.
(3) Image: Zed Books Photograph: Zed Books Even in the 27 member countries of the EU, in April 2013 women accounted for only 16.6% of board members of large publicly listed companies.
(4) Paul French is the author of North Korea: State of Paranoia, published by Zed Books.
(5) Updated at 12.43am GMT 9.57pm GMT There's a couple of other issues I need to bookmark but swimming with the news cycle for now, the Liberal senator Zed Seselja is on Sky News on a panel.
(6) Liberal senator Zed Seselja said it could be politically challenging to sell a corporate tax cut but the government’s modelling shows it would lead to greater productivity and jobs.
(7) Assata: An Autobiography, by Assata Shakur is available now from Zed Books, priced £8.99.
(8) I absolutely condemn racist language.” The government’s overhaul has prompted public concern from some of its own backbenchers, notably Ken Wyatt and Zed Seselja; and some deeply personal interventions from Labor MPs outlining their own visceral experiences with racism.
(9) Photograph: Zed Nelson for the Guardian If the bookshelves were not an example of excess, what would he consider an excessive claim?
(10) Photograph: Zed Nelson To reach the North African coast, Fanus had used a people-smuggling route fraught with danger.
(11) Photograph: Zed Nelson for the Guardian "Yes, exactly," Smith says, "lost in the crowd."
(12) To see what I then did with it, check out the fascinating world of The Soterion Mission and The Revenge of the Zeds , where you’re adult at 11 – and dead by 19!
(13) Government members, including Zed Seselja, have criticised the exemption as “too broad”, given the narrowing of offences set out in 18C.
(14) Photograph: Zed Nelson Two weeks later – after taking a train to Milan and a plane to Barcelona – Fanus finally arrived in Stockholm and was staying at Meron Estefanos's apartment.
(15) Photograph: Zed Nelson To achieve her aim, Fanus knew she must avoid being registered as an asylum seeker in Italy (under the EU's "Dublin" regulation , refugees must claim asylum in the first European country they enter).
(16) Photograph: Zed Nelson Within 30 minutes, a larger fishing boat had joined the rescue.
(17) Since Zollinger and Ellison described two cases of this disease in 1955 which would later recieve their names (ZED), more than 1,000 cases have been published in the world literature up to date.
(18) The task for my new series (so far The Soterion Mission and Revenge of the Zeds ) was simple: challenge the teenage stereotype and set the record straight.
(19) (5) Bobcat was big in 80s standup before signing up as squeaky-voiced maniac Zed in the Police Academy movies.
(20) Indefensible - Seven Myths That Sustain the Global Arms Trade, written by Paul Holden, is published by Zed Books (£12.99).