(n.) The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.
(n.) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
(v. t.) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.
(n.) A light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods.
(n.) A large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition.
(n.) A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2.
(n.) A fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
(n.) A wing with which the air is beaten.
(v. t.) To fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
(2) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(3) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
(4) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
(5) The purity and configuration of each isomer of the free acid and N-chloroacetylated derivative were ascertained by: (a) paper chromatography in five solvent systems, (b) elemental analysis, (c) Van Slyke nitrous acid determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (d) Van Slyke ninhydrin determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (e) optical rotation.
(6) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.
(7) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(8) The planar 7H-pyridocarbazole cations form stacks approximately parallel to b. Interactions between stacks occur by weak van der Waals forces.
(9) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(10) Close van der Waals' contacts between the Cys22-Cys63 and Cys51-Cys75 disulfide bridges and the central hydrophobic core composed of the Trp25, Leu46, His48a and Trp62 side-chains are among the distinguishing features of the kringle 2 fold.
(11) He numbered the Kennedy family and Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond thrillers, among his friends and spent millions on amassing a first-class art collection, featuring works by Manet and Monet, as well as Van Gogh.
(12) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
(13) This structure is further characterized by approaches of both the carbonyl and the furan O atoms to ring H atoms with separations which are slightly less than the sum of the relevant van der Waals radii.
(14) The European commission president, José Manuel Barroso, and the EU council president, Herman Van Rompuy, were both right to brand it unacceptable.
(15) If this was his last match as Manchester United manager, Louis van Gaal at least went out on a note of triumph.
(16) Experimental results were compared with the Van Straaten and Peppas model (1990) and satisfactory agreement was obtained.
(17) The characteristics of the iodide-induced inhibition of cyclic AMP accumulation in dog thyroid slices have been previously described [Van Sande, J., Cochaux, P. and Dumont, J. E. (1985) Mol.
(18) The linearity was tested by comparison between SO2 measured with a Van-Slyke apparatus and the microphotometer.
(19) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
(20) Nguyen Van Hai criticised the government for its handling of tensions with China over disputed islands in the South China Sea.
Vanguard
Definition:
(n.) The troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.
Example Sentences:
(1) At its vanguard is the historic quarter of Barriera di Milano, which is being transformed by an influx of artists and galleries.
(2) The trust drew up a contract with Vanguard to treat 400 patients.
(3) CND costs The Vanguard-class fleet operates out of the deep-water naval base at Faslane on the Clyde, but also makes use of the US navy’s base at Kings Bay in Georgia.
(4) For example, Vanguard is majority owned by MML Capital.
(5) The spokesman said Scottish Power was at the vanguard of developing wind power - it has 12 windfarms in the UK - and other renewable sources of power, but added: "At the same time, we are going to need coal and gas to support that."
(6) So too were Shia militias, which have often been at the vanguard of the fight against Isis elsewhere in the country, especially in Diyala province, between Baghdad and Kirkuk.
(7) Was it patient waiting lists or patient care at the forefront of their minds when the senior Musgrove management team penned the contract with Vanguard?” Laurence Vick, a lawyer representing some of the patients affected, said many concerns remained.
(8) The severity of stenosis using DSCAG with a 512 x 512 x 8 bit matrix was semiautomatically measured on the cathode ray tube (CRT) based on enlarged images on the screen of a Vanguard cine projector which were of the same size as those of or 10 times larger than images of Cine-CAG.
(9) Indeed, far from being irrelevant, school nurses are the vanguard in the fight against drug use, teen pregnancy and child abuse.
(10) Using a commercially available analyzer (Vanguard XR70) we confirmed intra- and interobserver reproducibilities in 34 narrowings in 9 patients.
(11) Cameron said that the vanguard communities, each to be given a team of civil servants, will be the "training grounds" of the 'big society'.
(12) Moore had even greater problems with the Royal Naval commanders of the four Vanguard-class submarines armed with Trident nuclear missiles.
(13) Hezbollah is also believed to be at the vanguard of an offensive in the Qalamoun mountains just east of the Syrian border, which looms as a strategic battleground in the overall fight for control of the country.
(14) AstraZeneca's second-largest shareholder, Vanguard, is a "passive" investor that holds a 4.74% stake through index funds that it manages.
(15) Since that time, women from the higher social groups have comprised the vanguard of the movement back to breastfeeding.
(16) What feels different now is that who’s at the forefront of the conversation is no longer the old vanguard of primarily cisgender, heterosexual black men,” Cullors told me.
(17) Small quantities of glioma associated antibodies probably circulate within the patient's serum but there is definite evidence of depression of the cell-mediated vanguard of the immune response.
(18) Photograph: Reuters She is principally a reporter for Vanguard, an international current affairs show, and covered stories in countries including Mexico, Vietnam and China.
(19) The lives of the Vanguard submarines will be prolonged to fill the gap.
(20) A group can act as political vanguard and proceed in a more expeditious way to reach new common objectives, such as defence, economic security, combating inequalities and support to the young people.” Gozi added that it would be easier for the EU to pursue such reforms following Britain’s decision to leave.