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Tyne


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lose.
  • (v. i.) To become lost; to perish.
  • (n.) A prong or point of an antler.
  • (n.) Anxiety; tine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
  • (2) Heights, weights and head circumferences were obtained from two groups of primary school children: 1016 children from throughout Oxfordshire, a rural county with few areas of deprivation, and 219 children from an economically deprived part of the city of Newcastle on Tyne.
  • (3) I have no quarrel with the overall thrust of Andrew Rawnsley's argument that the south-east is over-dominant in the UK economy and, as someone who has lived and worked both in Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne, I have sympathy with the claims of the north-east of England as well as Wales (" No wonder the coalition hasn't many friends in the north ", Comment).
  • (4) The English pilot, which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region, will be produced by News 3, a consortium of Trinity Mirror, the Press Association and the TV production company Ten Alps.
  • (5) While Osborne’s pitchbook was heavy on projects in the major northern cities of Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne, Hammond will attempt to secure investment for other urban areas including Sunderland, Stockport and Ellesmere Port.
  • (6) Football Weekly Extra: City through, Arsenal out, and the biggest Tyne-Wear derby for decades Read more Chelsea and Arsenal were outplayed by superior teams in the knockout rounds.
  • (7) One objective of the Kroc Study was to develop methods that would allow valid amalgamation of results from laboratories at the six clinical centers and a central biochemical laboratory at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • (8) The England pilot – which is being run in the Tyne Tees and Borders region – will be contested by ITN's consortium, which is backed by Melvyn Bragg , which includes Johnston Press, Newsquest, Metro Radio and ITV Tyne Tees and Borders news staff.
  • (9) A survey of the nutrition labelling of 880 varieties of foods on sale in three stores in Newcastle upon Tyne was undertaken in May-July 1989.
  • (10) UTV, the Northern Ireland ITV franchise holder, is to bid to run a replacement ITV news pilot in the Border and Tyne Tees region, having already thrown its hat into the ring for Wales .
  • (11) (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear) Miss Dianne Cynthia Gibbons.
  • (12) Referee: Mark Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear) 5.10pm BST Team news ... Liverpool line up as they did against Stoke, while Aston Villa make two changes from the eleven who started against Chelsea.
  • (13) Maternity units and community in Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • (14) virus in Newcastle upon Tyne 13 children developed R.S.
  • (15) The FMB will pilot an adult training scheme with Gateshead college, near Newcastle upon Tyne, starting in March, where 15-20 former military and unemployed people will be retrained using funds from the Local Enterprise Partnership and the Skills Funding Agency.
  • (16) Patients were identified from the records of the Regional Neurological Centre and Muscular Dystrophy Group laboratories, Newcastle upon Tyne, and by writing to local doctors.
  • (17) Trinity Mirror has also launched a bid for the English news pilot in the Tyne Tees and Border ITV regions, with Ten Alps and the Press Association.
  • (18) A silence descended on Greenock and Belfast, the Mersey, the Wear, the Tees and the Tyne, and very few people beyond those localities made a fuss.
  • (19) The deal adds Meridian and Anglia to Granada's portfolio, joining Yorkshire, Tyne-Tees and LWT.
  • (20) The antibody with the greatest sensitivity in radioimmunoassay was one raised against human CRF, Ab-code R1 (provided by Dr E. Hillhouse, University of Newcastle upon Tyne).

Tyre


Definition:

  • () Curdled milk.
  • (n. & v.) Attire. See 2d and 3d Tire.
  • (v. i.) To prey. See 4th Tire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aedes aegypti and Toxorhynchites splendens were found only in discarded tyres.
  • (2) Protesters set fire to rubbish bins and tyres, creating pillars of black smoke among the apartment blocks and office buildings in central Tehran.
  • (3) Called a truck stand, it involves balancing on the front tyre with your hands in the air.
  • (4) Many leapt from the tyres they were swinging in to furrow their brows and howl in anger.
  • (5) When four leather strips were tied to the back tyre of the bicycle before laying the track, the one dog tested took the correct direction significantly more often than predicted by random choice.
  • (6) Amsterdam Uber drivers have been blocked in by taxi drivers and one reported having his tyres slashed.
  • (7) Within a month of his appointment, he had brokered a "four-figure" deal with local firm Kettering Tyres, and in a SL game against Bath City on January 24 1976, Kettering became the first British club to run out with a company's name emblazoned on their shirts.
  • (8) Switching to the faster soft tyre for runs in FP2, Hamilton again comfortably had the edge by 0.443sec over Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen.
  • (9) The heat is getting oppressive but we stay alert and try to move with the flow, sticking to the left as much as possible and keeping an eye out for potholes and drain covers whose grilles face the direction of travel – lying in wait to trap unwary bike tyres.
  • (10) They reportedly threw rocks and paint at the car before smashing a window and slashing one of its tyres.
  • (11) When her car broke down, she ended up out of work with other labourers on a pea-picking farm, selling her tyres to buy food.
  • (12) The Formula One tyre manufacturer, Pirelli, expressed concerns at the decision and has warned that any decrease in viewing figures would lead to difficulties.
  • (13) The group's senior UK executives have privately told MPs in the West Midlands for months that the pound's fluctuations were undermining a plant that has exported more than 300m tyres since it opened in 1927.
  • (14) In Brisbane during October 1988 one larva of the exotic dengue vector Aedes albopictus (Skuse) was collected by quarantine officers from a consignment of used vehicle tyres imported from Asia.
  • (15) "I was getting cards saying 'I hope you die in an ambulance on the way to hospital now you have closed this one… ' I had my car tyres slashed, 'Bitch' written on my windows, and 'Shut your effing mouth'."
  • (16) The eight Goodyear tyre factory workers held two managers hostage in a meeting room for 30 hours in a high-profile “bossnapping” incident in the northern town of Amiens in 2014.
  • (17) Vettel was fourth on the timesheet, 1.120sec down, with Rosberg fifth after making a mistake on his fast lap on the soft tyres.
  • (18) Emma Sheppard, with an accomplice, brought three police cars to a juddering halt on New Year’s Eve 2014 in Bristol by puncturing their tyres with the crude device made of plywood and nails.
  • (19) He singled out measures taken against China’s steel, solar panel, ceramics and tyre industries.
  • (20) They tied up Badus and Amisi's wife, put them inside a tyre and burned them alive.

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