(n.) A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait.
(n.) A small net used for taking fish from a larger one; -- called also tuck-net.
(n.) A pull; a lugging.
(n.) The part of a vessel where the ends of the bottom planks meet under the stern.
(n.) A long, narrow sword; a rapier.
(n.) The beat of a drum.
(v. t.) To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves.
(v. t.) To make a tuck or tucks in; as, to tuck a dress.
(v. t.) To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place; as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's arm, or into a pocket.
(v. t.) To full, as cloth.
(v. i.) To contract; to draw together.
Example Sentences:
(1) Medial canthal tendon resection and tucks or transnasal wiring are then performed.
(2) Moses buzzed about with intent, while Cesc Fàbregas relished a forward role tucked just behind Costa.
(3) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
(4) Iris tucking of at least one lens foot was noted in 28% of the cases.
(5) Tuck has been head here for 15 years and tells me at least a dozen times how happy she has been.
(6) The winger’s cross teed up Sánchez and he tucked away his 10th goal of the season.
(7) 8.23pm GMT "It's now time for you lucky lot to tuck into your dinners" - you know what that means?
(8) But now jellied eels, the gelatinous fare that makes even the most enthusiastic omnivore think twice before tucking in, are becoming popular outside the capital for the first time.
(9) 3.54am GMT 74 mins Zemanski will tuck into midfield and help keep an eye on Rosales.
(10) His profligacy was punished five minutes later when Jay Rodriguez demonstrated how the sidefoot finish ought to be executed, tucking away Adam Lallana's squared pass from the right at the far post.
(11) Ribery lashes the thing towards goal with thunderous fury, Pyatov does well to get down and save, but Mamadou Sakho is on hand to tuck the ball home from close range.
(12) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
(13) Whereas I always curiously seem to always be here in the office merely reporting the fact that celebrities are tucking into ... well, to be honest, I’ve no idea what the hell this is.
(14) It's not enough for arts to be tucked away in the 20% of time that's left in the curriculum."
(15) Monsieur Blue open daily midday-2am; Tokyo Eat open daily midday-midnight; Le Smack open midday-midnight Le Musée de la Vie Romantique Cafe Vie Romantique This is one of the most discrete but enchanting Parisian museums, an early 19th-century mansion tucked away down a narrow cul-de-sac in the backstreets of Pigalle.
(16) Lukaku was not to be denied, heading home an Arouna Koné cross in the 22nd minute and tucking in Ross Barkley’s exquisite pass on the stroke of half-time.
(17) A subhuman primate model of ASI was developed in order to study a novel muscle tuck procedure designed to preserve anterior ciliary artery circulation.
(18) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
(19) And when Cameron goes home to sleep in Number 10, and President Xi tucks himself under the silken bedspread of the Belgian Suite, one can only hope that, for a moment at least, they might be painfully aware that just a mile or so away, in an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, a replica of a Chinese political prisoner is lying in a mock-up prison cell for all the world to see.
(20) Furthermore, since clonidine affects the Type 3 behavior associated with tucking, but not the somewhat similar coordinated behavior involved in hatching and emergence from the shell (climax), we propose that this later behavior pattern be given a new name, Type 4 motility.
Tucker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.
(n.) A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.
(v. t.) A fuller.
(v. t.) To tire; to weary; -- usually with out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tucker confirmed that the concerns had been raised with him by the then No 10 permanent secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, rather than ministers.
(2) Bob Diamond did not believe he received an instruction from Paul Tucker or that he gave an instruction to Jerry del Missier.
(3) If Italy becomes another domino after a Spanish bailout the anger could be uncontainable (to use a word adopted by Bank of England deputy Paul Tucker in relation to another banking crisis).
(4) Police launch hate-crime investigation over Tyson Fury comments Read more “It’s true he’s been stripped of his IBF belt,” the IBF’s championships chairman, Lindsey Tucker, told the BBC.
(5) The first edition of the novel to appear under Plath's name, published in 1967, featured a cover designed by Shirley Tucker, with a bold type face and urgent concentric circles.
(6) The predictive values of gain or output may be inferred from current research and the Powell & Tucker paper confirms the previous work rather than repudiates it.
(7) As mentioned, the Ravens were able to defeat the Broncos last year in overtime with a 47 yard field goal by Tucker.
(8) Tucker remains one of the lowest paid kickers in the league with a $480,000 salary, which is good for 27th among kickers.
(9) 24, 505-517 (1979)] and recently by Tucker, Barnes, and Chakraborty [Med.
(10) MAMAs were higher for a 3000-Hz tone than for tones of lower or higher frequencies, as has been previously reported [D. R. Perrott and J. Tucker, J. Acoust.
(11) Crowley, the chief political correspondent at CNN, was variously accused of having "committed an act of journalistic terror" (Rush Limbaugh) to having committed an act similar to John Wilkes Booth assassinating Abraham Lincoln (the Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson) when she fact-checked Romney in Tuesday's debate.
(12) The remarks by Tucker blew apart a campaign by Osborne to prove that Balls was one of a series of senior Labour figures who tried to "fiddle Libor".
(13) Most lost incomes, saw their retirement savings shrink, or tried to open new businesses or take out loans but were unable to find cash," said Nick Tucker, UK and Ireland market leader at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, which has been compiling the report with Capgemini for more than 20 years.
(14) Indeed, we wonder if Mr Tucker would call an investigation to see if the GCA is investigating the supermarkets to the food industry’s benefit; it has the makings of a classic edition of the Thick of It!
(15) Tucker, 53, helped build Prudential's Asian franchise in the 1990s and was chief executive of the company from early 2005 until September 2009.
(16) Tucker told Radio 4's Today programme that while no managers had been dismissed, senior staff were having to undergo rigorous training and assessment.
(17) The BBC said its investigations added to evidence that the Bank of England had put pressure on commercial banks to push their Libor rates down and that the transcript of the phone conversation at Barclays called into question evidence to the Treasury select committee given in 2012 by the former Barclays boss Bob Diamond and Paul Tucker, former deputy governor of the Bank of England.
(18) We feast like kings on simple tucker cooked on a primitive fire.
(19) But Tucker said: "It is not a sufficient replacement at all.
(20) Diamond's appearance before MPs was followed by those of Agius and Jerry del Missier , the top Barclays banker who quit after issuing an instruction to cut the bank's Libor submissions in October 2008, as well as those of King and his deputy, Paul Tucker.