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Wark


Definition:

  • (n.) Work; a building.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In its original format the show was was presented by Mark Lawson from 1994 until 2005, when Kearney and Wark took over, and in the early years often featured a regular panel of Tom Paulin, Allison Pearson and Tony Parsons.
  • (2) It was memorable for being the first time that hosts Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark , who always host the show on different nights, have presented a programme together since 1989, when they were working on Breakfast Time, according to the Times.
  • (3) Welby ducked a question on his personal views on gay marriage – which he has opposed in the past, though he told Pink News earlier this year that it was “great” parliament had passed the law – telling interviewer, Kirsty Wark, it would be inappropriate to speak of it while the church was debating the issue.
  • (4) Clements, who is married to Newsnight's Kirsty Wark, will join the company as the director of content for SMG's television business, STV, on September 15.
  • (5) Those who have already appeared in front of Pollard, a former Sky News executive, include Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark, as well as programme editor Peter Rippon, head of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell.
  • (6) How does he cope with being referred to as Mr Kirsty Wark?
  • (7) Jeremy Paxman, Newsnight's best-known presenter, and Kirsty Wark, another programme veteran, and Helen Boaden, the BBC's "recused" director of news, are among those who have given evidence to Pollard, as have the reporter and producer at the centre of the storm about the axed Savile film – Liz MacKean and Meirion Jones.
  • (8) Imagine the leader of a UK political party, a potential prime minister, making these comments about Kirsty Wark or Theresa May.
  • (9) The inquiry has already heard evidence from Newsnight presenters Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark, the programme editor Peter Rippon, director of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell.
  • (10) Strathclyde Police have confirmed that they are investigating a complaint against the independent producer Alan Clements and his wife, the Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark, over an alleged incident of data theft.
  • (11) Ignatieff's fellow presenters included Sarah Dunant, Kirsty Wark, Matthew Collings, Clive James, Waldemar Januszczak, Mark Lawson and Tracey MacLeod.
  • (12) It will be reported about a new bifocal lens, that can be supplied with an additional prism in the near segment for close-range wark with an increased magnification up to +8.0 dpt.
  • (13) When Kirsty Wark tried a rather spluttery Newsnight interrogation of Glenn Greenwald , for instance, was that useful or irritating?
  • (14) According to sources at the Times, Washington correspondent Tim Reid and features writer Penny Wark are also due to leave, as is the head of business news Phil Robinson and reporter Elizabeth Judge.
  • (15) It was alleged in court that Mr Clements had instructed his then personal assistant Janice McKnight - who now works for Wark - to hack into the emails sent between his IWC colleagues, including Hamish Barbour.
  • (16) Those who have already appeared in front of Pollard include Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark, as well as programme editor Peter Rippon, Boaden and her deputy Stephen Mitchell.
  • (17) His views were robustly challenged by both the presenter, Kirsty Wark and the other participants in the discussion – Julie Siddiqi, the executive director of the Islamic Society of Britain and Shams Ad-Duha Muhammad, the director of Ebrahim College."
  • (18) "We are also quite mystified that Kirsty Wark's name has been mentioned because she has not been accused of anything.
  • (19) • nationaltrust.org.uk PatricC Padley Gorge, Derbyshire Starting at Padley Gorge, walk down to Burbage Brook, looking out across beautiful moorland to Carl Wark in the distance, across the rickety bridge and through ancient oak forest to Grindleford Station, where you can stop at the cafe famous for its chip butties and rude notices.
  • (20) Alan Clements, one of Scotland's leading TV executives and the husband of Newsnight's Kirsty Wark, was left with legal bills of £450,000 yesterday after his former employer RDF Media won a legal action stopping him from moving to rivals SMG before December 2008.

Warp


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
  • (v. t.) To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
  • (v. t.) To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
  • (v. t.) To weave; to fabricate.
  • (v. t.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.
  • (v. t.) To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
  • (v. t.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.
  • (v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
  • (v. t.) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
  • (v. i.) To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board warps in seasoning or shrinking.
  • (v. i.) to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.
  • (v. i.) To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.
  • (v. i.) To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
  • (v. i.) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
  • (v.) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
  • (v.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
  • (v.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
  • (v.) A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc.
  • (v.) Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17.
  • (v.) The state of being warped or twisted; as, the warp of a board.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's no coincidence that both novels are about how easily children can be warped or damaged, but of the two it is the shorter, sharper Great Expectations that has aged better.
  • (2) Abdella, now 19, illustrates the constrained choices and warped pragmatism that many here face.
  • (3) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
  • (4) On this logic – warped because Soviet rule hit Jews as hard as anyone else – the "double genocide" in effect says: you hurt us, we hurt you, now we're even.
  • (5) In the second trial 24 grafts without velours trimming (Cooley II, Meadox), 24 grafts manufactured by a new warp-knitting procedure without velours trimming (Protegraft 2000, B. Braun AG) and 24 identical grafts of B. Braun AG but with gelatine impregnation were evaluated.
  • (6) Thus we propose that the internal or "intra-laminar" cross-bridges are the active force-generating ATPases in this system, and that they generate overall bends or changes in the helical pitch of the axostyle by altering the longitudinal and lateral register of microtubules in each lamina individually; e.g., by "warping" each lamina and creating longitudinal shear forces within it.
  • (7) The breathing sounds were recorded with the small transistor warp type microphone inserted through the nasal orifice into the trachea, main bronchi and segmental bronchi, and were analyzed with sound analyzer.
  • (8) Magnetic resonance angiography of the pulmonary vasculature was evaluated in 12 subjects using breath-hold gradient echo scans and surface coils at 1.5 T. Flow-compensated GRASS, spoiled GRASS (SPGR), and WARP-SPGR sequences were utilized.
  • (9) It dismays Kirk that Warp moved to London but he's still in touch with them and their releases, effusing particularly about DJ Mujava and "Township Funk".
  • (10) Warp wanted him to make a feature film in the same style as he had made his early shorts: quickly and spontaneously, with no script.
  • (11) It was Warp that optioned the novel and suggested Ayoade direct it.
  • (12) She said: “We struggle to comprehend the warped and twisted mind that sees a room packed with young children not as a scene to cherish but an opportunity for carnage.
  • (13) Now, the Obama administration has warped the AUMF even further.
  • (14) This method is based on the investigations of GIBSON and DAVIS (1958), who showed the tendency of cartilage to warp when one surface is cut.
  • (15) If there is money to hand out to senior managers who are returning to the health service, but none to help nursing staff who have endured three years of pay restraint, then we are dealing with some seriously warped priorities."
  • (16) Warp's next act of subversion was to wind up Pete Tong by declaring that bleep was dead and that the future of music was "clonk" - the title of Sweet Exorcist's next 12in.
  • (17) He developed a parallel career as a rock video director after mentioning in a meeting with record label and film company Warp that he loved the Arctic Monkeys, and ended up directing a string of videos for them (given the band's legendary reticence, the mind boggles at what the initial meeting was like) as well as Vampire Weekend , Kasabian and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs .
  • (18) When a patient's wave form is compared to a normal template, warping can identify the peaks in the patient's wave form that correspond most closely to the peaks in the normal template.
  • (19) I can’t help but think that that will eventually come back to bite somebody’s ass, although it may well be your grandchildren’s.” Gibson told me that when he visits London, he’s struck by the extent to which overseas money has warped the fabric of the city, but even more so by “the denial of my lifelong Londoner friends.
  • (20) (The NSA’s warped interpretation of Section 215 was also the subject of John Oliver’s entire show on Sunday night .

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