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Waid


Definition:

  • (a.) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 100 esophagectomies were performed at the Waid Hospital in Zürich between 1981-1988.
  • (2) An account is given of 169 rectal anastomosis performed with the EEA-stapler between 1981 and 1984 in the Municipal Hospital Waid of Zurich.
  • (3) Staples is collaborating with the veteran comics writer Mark Waid, telling a new origin story for the perpetual teenager, enlivened by some Ferris Bueller-style fourth-wall breaking by Archie, who has just broken up with his high-school sweetheart Betty.
  • (4) Some of us,” she said, “are gainfully employed, live in the suburbs and drive fancy cars.” Democrats are outspending Trump on advertising in Arizona, and Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine, recently campaigned in Phoenix, noted political strategist David Waid.
  • (5) An account is given in this paper of 480 patients who had been hospitalised for colonic diverticulosis or diverticulitis in the surgical department of the Municipal Waid Hospital of Zurich, between 1970 and 1986.
  • (6) From 1973 to 1990 190 consecutive patients were admitted to the department of surgery of the Stadtspital Waid, Zurich, with a diagnosis of acute pancreatitis.
  • (7) Patients admitted to the Department of Surgery (134 beds) of the Waid Community Hospital in Zürich (400 beds) after 1st Jan. 1979, and who received antibiotics during the period between 22 Jan. and 31 March were included in the study (n = 154).
  • (8) Data were collected concerning 307 arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis created in 186 patients between 1970 and 1988 at the Municipal Hospital Waid of Zurich.

Waif


Definition:

  • (n.) Goods found of which the owner is not known; originally, such goods as a pursued thief threw away to prevent being apprehended, which belonged to the king unless the owner made pursuit of the felon, took him, and brought him to justice.
  • (n.) Hence, anything found, or without an owner; that which comes along, as it were, by chance.
  • (n.) A wanderer; a castaway; a stray; a homeless child.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fringe right parties do tend to collect a number of waifs and strays.
  • (2) The fiercest denunciation came from the minister without portfolio, Kenneth Clarke, who characterised Ukip candidates as waifs and strays, feeding on prejudice about immigration.
  • (3) After a hard day at the Vatican, the pontiff likes little better than watching films in which a resolute priest battles the Nazis and a circus strongman takes a waif as his slave.
  • (4) "The fringe right parties do tend to collect a number of waifs and strays.
  • (5) The brochure was promoting a scheme where you take waif kids and kids of the pauper class and the slums before they could be corrupted by the poverty and crime of England and send them to Australia for education and opportunity in schools like Fairbridge, where we would become strong and long-limbed by working the farms,” Hill says.
  • (6) Waif-like figures, mostly young men from Morocco and Algeria, rushed to grab the polystyrene cups.
  • (7) It was symptomatic of the first half that Stoke’s wonder waif, Bojan Krkic, harassed Cazorla into coughing up possession on halfway in the 25th minute before out-fighting Per Mertesacker to set up a Stoke attack that culminated in a dangerous corner.
  • (8) Chapter 39 also forgot about women altogether when it spoke of outlawry, for women were not outlawed they were “waived”, which meant left as a “waif”.
  • (9) Five minutes in and you realise that this is not a permanent home – simply the Swedish base camp of a huge nomadic family with its roots in the 1960s, whose friends and collaborators connect some of the most unlikely names, from Ornette Coleman to Ari Up from the Slits, from Martina Topley-Bird to waifs and strays such as "that strange young man that Cameron met in the street and let live in our house for a while".
  • (10) Last week even a waif washing car windscreens at traffic lights was executed.
  • (11) Dramas set in these times tend either to be full of the sort of tubercular waifs whose lives are so mud-spattered they become slapstick, or cheeky orphan chimney sweeps saying things like “Cor it’ll be nippy by St Modwen’s Day and no mistake, guvnor!” next to a lovely shire horse.
  • (12) The lines were written only a few days before his death: Through these pale cold days What dark faces burn Out of three thousand years, And their wild eyes yearn, While underneath their brows Like waifs their spirits grope For the pools of Hebron again For Lebanon's summer slope.
  • (13) Ukip has "fruitcakes, loonies, waifs and strays" in its ranks and among its supporters, Kenneth Clarke has said after a spate of stories questioning the credentials of the party's candidates in this week's local elections.
  • (14) But it is now also a parliamentary waif without a home or useful purpose.
  • (15) Waifs were everywhere; the odder-looking the better.
  • (16) This caustic ensemble comedy is about a neurotic actress (Julianne Moore) haunted by her dead mother, a repellent Bieber-esque teen star (terrific up-and-comer Evan Bird) and a deranged waif (Mia Wasikowska) with a dark past.
  • (17) When I mention that I live near Tony Benn , and often see him taking an hour to buy a pint of milk because he patiently engages with every passing waif and stray who wants his advice on something or other, Farage's eyes light up.
  • (18) The teenage waif became a symbol of sanctions-busting, of the weasel ways in which western governments eroded the campaign to isolate Pretoria.
  • (19) Since the supermodels of the 90s – the likes of Elle Macpherson and Claudia Schiffer – retired their bronzed Amazonian limbs, the favoured look has been vacant and waif-like: an ethereal type, easily made bland and identikit for the catwalk after hair and makeup.
  • (20) Ukip said that Lynam, the face of television sport during the 1980s, sent the party rewritten lyrics to Send in the Clowns , mocking Conservative critics who lambasted Ukip as a bunch of fruitcakes, loonies, waifs and strays .

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