(n.) A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed.
(n.) A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement.
(v. t.) To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute.
(v. t.) To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game.
(v. i.) To act as umpire or arbitrator.
Example Sentences:
(1) The umpires allow them a different one, perhaps because the previous incumbent was wet - it landed in a puddle, where the water-sucking thing had egested, apparently.
(2) 11.21pm GMT Tweets Jeremiah Tittle (@WWWJT) @LengelDavid @Paolo_Bandini @HunterFelt @GdnUSsports remove the wooden beam from your own eye before you remove the speck from the umpires'.
(3) While nobody wants to see a World Series game end on an umpiring decision, it looks like the officials made the right call here ( watch them explain it themselves here ).
(4) As parliamentary umpire, Bishop could have used her imperious manner to have all members shaking in their boots.
(5) If the catcher blocks the runner before he has the ball, the umpire may call the runner safe.
(6) Updated at 3.33pm BST 2.30pm BST 57th over: England 124-6 (Ali 32, Prior 0) "Re over-chirping players," says Austin Elliott, "surely the umpires need a meaningful sanction?
(7) The six umpires conferred and then did exactly that, changing the ruling .
(8) He is the first active MLB umpire to die since John McSherry passed away of a heart attack on the field in Cincinnati on opening day in 1996, an incident that any baseball fan old enough remembers well.
(9) 2.31am BST Tigers 0 - Red Sox 0, bottom of the 3rd The umpires confer and, yes, it's just a strike on Pedey.
(10) "This is your fault," match umpire Ian Gould tells him as the players wait for the clouds to clear.
(11) Broad looks to use his front pad outside off, sparking two yelped appeals and two shakes of the head from umpire Davis.
(12) Third base umpire Jim Joyce made the obstruction call.
(13) Berdych probably set the drama rolling by complaining to the umpire about the balls, although Murray said he did not get involved in that discussion.
(14) It’s quite clear that umpires have no idea to judge the new rule that banned runners from barreling into catchers at the plate, one that came into effect this offseason.
(15) I used to have a reputation for arriving at cricket matches very early in my umpiring days and I will be getting to the ground this afternoon an hour and 20 minutes before the kick-off to make sure I don't miss anything.
(16) The controversial ruling came just days after the umpires had been at the heart of a key play in Game One, when a reversed ruling gave Boston the opportunity to score heavily .
(17) The public can see through this partisan political attack by the unions and the Labor party on one of Australia’s most distinguished and eminent jurists.” “Our political opponents, the Labor party, have been seeking to attack the umpire in this royal commission, namely justice Heydon himself, from day one,” he said.
(18) Updated at 3.32pm BST 2.12pm BST 53rd over: England 108-5 (Root 18, Ali 30) It's odd, this - the umpires tell the players to shut up, they say they will, they don't, and round and round.
(19) I can't tell but the umpires have called Young out which means the Rangers are out of this jam.
(20) It's a low fastball that Adams lets go - he's upset, Molina pops out of the dugout to make sure he's not ejected by the umpire for arguing balls and strikes, and that's the inning.
Walk
Definition:
(v. i.) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground.
(v. i.) To move or go on the feet for exercise or amusement; to take one's exercise; to ramble.
(v. i.) To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; -- said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person; to go about as a somnambulist or a specter.
(v. i.) To be in motion; to act; to move; to wag.
(v. i.) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct one's self.
(v. i.) To move off; to depart.
(v. t.) To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
(v. t.) To cause to walk; to lead, drive, or ride with a slow pace; as to walk one's horses.
(v. t.) To subject, as cloth or yarn, to the fulling process; to full.
(n.) The act of walking, or moving on the feet with a slow pace; advance without running or leaping.
(n.) The act of walking for recreation or exercise; as, a morning walk; an evening walk.
(n.) Manner of walking; gait; step; as, we often know a person at a distance by his walk.
(n.) That in or through which one walks; place or distance walked over; a place for walking; a path or avenue prepared for foot passengers, or for taking air and exercise; way; road; hence, a place or region in which animals may graze; place of wandering; range; as, a sheep walk.
(n.) A frequented track; habitual place of action; sphere; as, the walk of the historian.
(n.) Conduct; course of action; behavior.
(n.) The route or district regularly served by a vender; as, a milkman's walk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(2) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
(3) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
(4) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
(6) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(7) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(8) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
(9) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
(10) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
(11) He was unable to walk alone at 2 years of age and developed seizures and intermittent ataxia at 5 years of age.
(12) Dean Baquet, the managing editor in question, does admit in the piece that walking out was not perhaps the best thing for a senior editor like him to do.
(13) The ensemble electromyogram (EMG) patterns associated with different walking cadences were examined in 11 normal subjects.
(14) Walking for pleasure was generally the most common physical activity for both sexes throughout the year.
(15) Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor claimed that Obama had shoved back the table and walked out of White House talks, after Cantor refused to discuss the president's proposal to raise taxes on wealthier Americans.
(16) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
(17) Delabole residents Susan and John Theobald said: “We’ve always enjoyed being around the turbines and have often walked right up to them with our dogs.
(18) By the isolation of overlapping cosmid clones and 'chromosome walking' studies from the H-2Kk gene, we have obtained cosmid clones encoding the H-2Klk gene from two separate cosmid libraries.
(19) All horses underwent a gradually increasing exercise programme consisting of walking and trotting beginning one week after the first injection and continuing for 24 weeks.
(20) You couldn’t walk into the ward in your own clothes.