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Welch


Definition:

  • (a.) See Welsh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
  • (2) The urine was collected for 24 h and the total acetaminophen excreted was determined according to the method of Welch and Conney.
  • (3) The breeding genetic distance measure of a single locus (Carlson & Welch, 1977) is extended to polygenic traits.
  • (4) The equipment consisted of the standard fiberoptic Welch-Allyn pediatric sigmoidoscope modified by replacing the obturator with a sharp pyrimidal trocar.
  • (5) The Welch warbler does it and I believe that's all the bases covered: Bitta street cred with Dizzee, NME fodder with Kasabian, bitta Brit pop with JLS and prizes for the new wave of British female performers (Lily, Florence).
  • (6) Welch identified Hakea as a prison that was overcrowded despite only being at 85% of its “operating capacity”.
  • (7) With this issue Dr. Bissada, Dr. Finkbeiner, and Dr. Welch introduce a series on uropharmacology, starting with the lower urinary tract.
  • (8) James Welch, legal director for Liberty, said: "All too often the police seem to hand out harassment notices without adequate investigation or consideration of the validity of complaints.
  • (9) I just wanted to do some good and went about it the wrong way,” Edgar Welch, 28, told a reporter from the New York Times , adding: “I regret how I handled the situation.” Welch was arrested on Sunday at the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria, which became the subject of lurid conspiracy theories after it was mentioned in the personal emails of John Podesta , Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief, published by WikiLeaks.
  • (10) Last night's episode, featuring Waterloo Road's Denise Welch teaching at a school in Durham, registered 3.3 million viewers and a 16% share.
  • (11) Sammie Welch, 23, was travelling with her three-year-old son, Rylan on a busy First Great Western train from Birmingham to Plymouth on Thursday evening when a man handed her a note as he got off in Bristol.
  • (12) In between being “a complete smoothie” and handing out Jack Welch management books to new starters, she is prone to “tearing a strip off” subordinates.
  • (13) The 10- and 20-minute postbypass values between the two groups differed significantly (t test, Welch modification: p = 0.0464 and p = 0.0342).
  • (14) The head, thorax, wings, legs and abdomen of 320 wild-caught Anopheles gambiae Giles sensu lato and 115 An.funestus Giles were tested by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for Plasmodium falciparum Welch to determine how anatomical dissemination of circumsporozoite (CS) protein could affect the estimation of malaria sporozoite rates by ELISA.
  • (15) The effect of the malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum Welch, on the daily survival rates and longevity of Anopheles gambiae Giles sensu lato and Anopheles funestus Giles was determined for wild-caught, naturally infected females from western Kenya.
  • (16) Welch at Selfharm.co.uk agrees: "Calling for any type of ban is just missing the point.
  • (17) Paul Welch, a 70-year-old disabled retired civil servant living in a Peverel-managed block outside Bournemouth, told Carlex that Cirrus had just quoted £29,190.04 while Jackson quoted £33,306.04.
  • (18) Since the millennium, wave after wave of privately educated rock and pop acts have come through, Coldplay, Lily Allen, Jamie T, Jack Peñate, Florence Welch, the Maccabees, Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons being just a few prominent examples.
  • (19) Over a period of 27 years, the seemingly impregnable Marxist-Leninist group killed 23 people, including CIA station chief Richard Welch, its first victim, and British defence attache Brigadier Stephen Saunders, assassinated as he drove to work in June 2000.
  • (20) The new series of Celebrity Big Brother also features Loose Women star Denise Welch, former EastEnder Natalie Cassidy and Playboy models and twins Kristina and Karissa Shannon.

Wench


Definition:

  • (n.) A young woman; a girl; a maiden.
  • (n.) A low, vicious young woman; a drab; a strumpet.
  • (n.) A colored woman; a negress.
  • (v. i.) To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
  • (2) And it seems to have a reverse Midas touch – or, according to the version of the myth related by Aristotle, a standard Midas touch (everything the king touched turned to gold, including his food, so he starved to death, apparently lacking the wit to engage a serving wench to spoonfeed him).
  • (3) It’s as if John Falstaff , having been rejected by the newly crowned Hal in Henry IV Part 2, had suddenly started screaming about having photos of Hal’s misbehaviour with the wenches in an Eastcheap tavern.
  • (4) Nor is it a place for sunshine, cheer, labradors bumbling amiably across sweeping lawns, toffs fumbling buffoonishly with fish knives, shots of bonneted wenches that don't involve unwanted pregnancy or crying, or apple-cheeked Windy Miller types snapping their braces and whistling merrily as they inflate the bouncy castle of Social History.
  • (5) Now, call me a heartless wench, but the story of a nerd stealing a vague computer idea from a pair of wealthy twins called Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, as Zuckerberg was accused of doing, doesn't strike me as having the same dramatic hook as, say, saving the planet from imminent destruction, or escaping from the Nazis.

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