(n.) A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.
(n.) A ridge or streak rising above the surface, as of cloth; hence, the texture of cloth.
(n.) A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
(n.) Certain sets or strakes of the outside planking of a vessel; as, the main wales, or the strakes of planking under the port sills of the gun deck; channel wales, or those along the spar deck, etc.
(n.) A wale knot, or wall knot.
(v. t.) To mark with wales, or stripes.
(v. t.) To choose; to select; specifically (Mining), to pick out the refuse of (coal) by hand, in order to clean it.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(2) Numerical results for the population of England and Wales are shown.
(3) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
(4) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
(5) It may not point to independence – nor, given that large swaths of Wales remain firmly dominated by Labour, mean any huge advance for Plaid Cymru.
(6) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(7) Hospitals in Wales collected £5.4m in parking charges in 2006-07 and hospitals in England took more than £100m.
(8) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
(9) Bringing the Prince of Wales into service “will involve very considerable additional costs, additional manpower, extra aircraft and the considerable amount of support and protection needed to make it viable”, say the MPs.
(10) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.
(11) The bill will create a six-month time limit for family courts in England and Wales to reach decisions on whether children should be taken into care and will require the court to take into account the impact of delays on the child.
(12) There were a record 354 deaths in prisons in England and Wales in 2016.
(13) 31 October TB met the Prince of Wales after he took Prince William hunting.
(14) The annual number of confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease in both Nottingham, and England and Wales, reached a peak in 1980 and has since declined.
(15) A comprehensive analysis of repeat rates has been obtained from an observational study of radiological practice in diagnostic X-ray departments throughout Wales.
(16) The most recent figures show 3,046 confirmed cases in England and Wales, compared with 1,669 cases last winter.
(17) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
(18) When he was prime minister Tony Blair asked Peter Mandelson to tell the Prince of Wales to stop his "unhelpful" attempts to influence policy on GM and Mandelson accused him of being "anti-scientific and irresponsible".
(19) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
(20) A spokesperson for Plaid Cymru said: “On 5 May, Wales chose not to elect one single party to govern Wales with a majority.
Whip
Definition:
(v. t.) To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
(v. t.) To drive with lashes or strokes of a whip; to cause to rotate by lashing with a cord; as, to whip a top.
(v. t.) To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy.
(v. t.) To apply that which hurts keenly to; to lash, as with sarcasm, abuse, or the like; to apply cutting language to.
(v. t.) To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking; as, to whip wheat.
(v. t.) To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like.
(v. t.) To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass.
(v. t.) To overlay (a cord, rope, or the like) with other cords going round and round it; to overcast, as the edge of a seam; to wrap; -- often with about, around, or over.
(v. t.) To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread; as, to whip a ruffle.
(v. t.) To take or move by a sudden motion; to jerk; to snatch; -- with into, out, up, off, and the like.
(v. t.) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
(v. t.) To secure the end of (a rope, or the like) from untwisting by overcasting it with small stuff.
(v. t.) To fish (a body of water) with a rod and artificial fly, the motion being that employed in using a whip.
(v. i.) To move nimbly; to start or turn suddenly and do something; to whisk; as, he whipped around the corner.
(v. t.) An instrument or driving horses or other animals, or for correction, consisting usually of a lash attached to a handle, or of a handle and lash so combined as to form a flexible rod.
(v. t.) A coachman; a driver of a carriage; as, a good whip.
(v. t.) One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread.
(v. t.) The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
(v. t.) A small tackle with a single rope, used to hoist light bodies.
(v. t.) The long pennant. See Pennant (a)
(v. t.) A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.
(v. t.) A person (as a member of Parliament) appointed to enforce party discipline, and secure the attendance of the members of a Parliament party at any important session, especially when their votes are needed.
(v. t.) A call made upon members of a Parliament party to be in their places at a given time, as when a vote is to be taken.
Example Sentences:
(1) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(2) The then party whip, Norman Lamb, who is now a health minister, expressed his reservations at the time, although Clegg was able to restore his authority by forcing through changes to the original bill.
(3) This House , his witty political drama set in the whips' office of 1970s Westminster, transferred from the National's Cottesloe theatre to the Olivier, following critical acclaim.
(4) Mitchell was forced to quit his cabinet post as chief whip over claims he called officers "plebs" during an altercation in Downing Street, which he denies.
(5) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(6) Lovely play by Gervinho, muscling his way far too easily past Carvalho inside the box and then finding the ball whipped away at the last by Alves.
(7) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.
(8) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
(9) Their only win in that sequence was the less than convincing 3-2 triumph over Viktoria Plzen , the Group D whipping boys, in Saint Petersburg earlier in the month.
(10) They will whip you if you don’t pray.” In Damascus there is a new industry of “facilitators” who offer advice to Syrians who want to get out.
(11) They do not operate as a cohesive gang or a whipped party-within-a-party – not yet, anyway.
(12) Heidi Allen, the Conservative MP for South Cambridgeshire, abstained in last week’s vote but said she and others would defy the party whip if concessions were not offered.
(13) In the article, Hastings wrote: "The sacking of Michael Gove – for assuredly, his demotion from education secretary to chief whip amounts to nothing less – has shocked middle England.
(14) She added: “Jeremy then went on for the next two months refusing my insistence that he speak to Thangam, indeed refusing to speak to either of us, whether directly or through the shadow cabinet, the whips, or his own office.
(15) His free-kick was decent, he whipped the ball around the ball, but it was half-cleared before it could creep inside the far post.
(16) Intracutaneous sterile water injections have been reported to relieve acute labor pain and cervical pain in whip-lash patients.
(17) The strongly pro-EU and vocal Alistair Burt was whipped back into the Foreign Office where he had been before, while Steve Baker of the ultra-hardline anti-EU faction was made a minister in Davis’s department.
(18) The justice minister Dominic Raab said the Labour leader had promised a “kinder politics” but was now “whipping up a mob mentality”.
(19) The former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell was a Jekyll and Hyde character who employed a mixture of charm and menace, his libel trial against the Sun newspaper over the Plebgate affair heard.
(20) And almost on cue, just after a minute, City nearly concede, a ball whipped in from the right by Tiote, Cisse meeting it with a low swivel on the penalty spot, Hart parrying well.