(n.) Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
(n.) One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics. See the note under Tory.
(n.) A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed to Tory, and Royalist.
(n.) One of the political party in the United States from about 1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the Democratic party.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Whigs.
Example Sentences:
(1) As EP Thompson noted in the final chapter of Whigs and Hunters, where he reviewed the history of law in Britain, no complex society can operate without a system of law even if there is a “whole inheritance” of struggle about what that is and how it should be applied.
(2) "The chapter which primes applicants' knowledge about history is permeated with the sort of Whig views of the world-civilising mission of the British realm which have encouraged generations of Etonians and Harrovians to play their role in the great imperial enterprise.
(3) A New York Times article from 1973, "Freedom of Expression Taking Hold in Liberia" , describes Porte's lonely crusade under the True Whig regime as coming to an end.
(4) As 1066 and All That put it: "The Whigs said George I was king."
(5) Seven strains were made with pairwise combinations of whiA and B mutations with whiG, H and I mutations and with each other.
(6) Fillmore – an unmemorable man with a memorable name who often finds himself on lists of America’s worst presidents – was tapped to run by the Whig Party to run for vice president in 1848 because, as a moderate northerner, his presence was supposed to balance war hero Zachary Taylor, a slave-holding southerner, on the top of the ticket.
(7) High copy number of an intact whiG gene caused sporulation in vegetative hyphae that are usually fated to lyse without sporulating.
(8) After The Making came Whigs & Hunters , a book on the Black Acts – the notorious Georgian legislation that criminalised not only the killing of deer, but also any suspicious activity that might hint at the intention to kill deer.
(9) Fillmore’s most notable act as president was throwing his weight behind the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act, which simultaneously angered northern liberal Whigs as well as some southerners in slave-holding states.
(10) However, the introduction of many copies of a sigma 28-dependent promoter from B. subtilis into S. coelicolor reduced sporulation, suggesting partial sequestration of the whiG gene product by the foreign promoter sequences.
(11) There were 60 family members and servants living in the house in the early 17th century, and it was later home to Charles Watson-Wentworth, a British Whig politician who served twice as prime minister.
(12) In the mycelial prokaryote S. coelicolor, whiG is a gene dispensable for growth but needed for the earliest stages of spore formation in aerial hyphae.
(13) We propose that the level of whiG sigma factor is crucial in determining the developmental fate of hyphae.
(14) Transcription from P1 and P2 was observed during surface culture in strains carrying mutations blocking aerial mycelium formation (bldA and bldB) or the formation of spores in aerial mycelium (whiA, whiB, whiG, and whiH).
(15) Nucleotide sequencing indicates that whiG encodes an RNA polymerase sigma factor highly similar to the motility sigma factor (sigma 28) of B. subtilis.
(16) With the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, many Democrats and Whigs grew disgusted with how partisan politics was ruining America and many bolted to the Know Nothings because, while they were anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant, they were also anti-slavery.
(17) Whig leaders began openly negotiating with William of Orange, whose wife, Mary, was second in line to the throne, a Stuart but a Protestant.
(18) The double mutants always closely resembled one of the single mutant parent strains in morphology and a consistent scheme of epistasis was obtained--whiG being epistatic to whiH, A, B and I; whiH to whiA, B and I; and whiA or B to whiI.
(19) The towering historian of the left EP Thompson agreed with him, and conjured a pitiless elite of aristocratic Whigs, unrelenting in the exhibition of authority.
(20) Burke was, of course, a Whig rather than a Tory: Dr Emily Jones’s new monograph, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, adroitly traces the ways in which later Tories rewrote Burke’s wider legacy to foreground the revolutions, claiming him as one of their own.
Whiz
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.
(n.) A hissing and humming sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) In April, Trump told Chris Wallace on Fox News: “It’s not like, gee whiz, nobody has them.
(2) Finally we’d be in the hands of a pro, someone who knows how to tell a whiz-bang action yarn with a big budget.
(3) Updated at 10.57am BST 10.35am BST Here's a graph showing how 10-year Greek bonds have rallied in value in recent months (via fund manager and general financial whiz @pawelmorski ).
(4) Maturity, social skills and being a team player are meaningless, as long as you're a whiz coder or can invent that app people didn't know they needed.
(5) 16 - JJ Abrams Surely the busiest man in Hollywood, and indeed TV, production whiz Abrams returns to directing with a sequel to his massively fun reboot of Star Trek .
(6) Editing a Keynote slide: guide lines show when you have proportions correct (photo downsampled from 4MB screenshot) If you're a Powerpoint whiz (everyone thinks they are; very few are) then this won't satisfy you.
(7) It’s the close of another Broadway season, which means we have another chance to pit jukebox musicals against original compositions, real narratives against invented ones and showbiz whiz-bang against low-key cool.
(8) In black jeans and charcoal grey crewneck, tucking his phone and white earbuds into a pocket, bouncing boyishly on his sneakers, you might at first peg him as, say, a Silicon Valley whiz-kid rather than a top-flight fashion designer.
(9) Beyond archeology there are other Gaza surprises, like surfers hanging ten, documented in the film God Went Surfing With the Devil, and an English language tourism website , designed by internet whiz Mohammed Alafranji.
(10) You could call Goddard a bog-standard head, too, since he couldn't be further removed from one of those Teach First whiz-kids fresh out of Balliol.
(11) The whiz and blur of projectiles flying past us, ricocheting of the street.
(12) A solid device beneath a layer of whiz-bang frippery - New York Times Digging beneath the gimmicky features the New York Times's Farhad Manjoo found a solid, basic smartphone .
(13) It also completes a miserable few weeks for Facebook's 26-year-old founder Mark Zuckerberg , the whiz-kid who lists "openness", "revolutions" and "making things" in the interests section of his own Facebook page.
(14) There’s always been an element out there that valued the ‘gee whiz’ factor rather than the economics,” says Moore.
(15) A front-page interview in the Wall Street Journal in May ("How Wall Street whiz finds niche selling books on the internet") proves a watershed moment.
(16) They know it is irrational but the money, the language, the whiz-bangs, the uniforms turn their heads and dazzle their minds.
(17) However, can the same company then also look over its shoulder at the upcoming digital whiz-kids, often emerging from unexpected places, such as Japanese social media platforms?
(18) His potential candidacy’s momentum began with a speech at the Iowa Freedom Caucus this January that many columnists and pundits described as “fiery” because Walker – a man who, to steal a phrase from Albert Burneko , is essentially wet bread – indicated emotions stronger than gee-whiz optimism for America or performative empathy for the struggling folks whose lives he labored to make more difficult.
(19) Everything about them - that they were the children of mixed-marriage vaudevillians, and performers themselves as genius whiz kids on a radio game show - was absolutely right; of course they were too perfect, with all their sensitivities, their Buddhism, their philosophical despair and their family bondings, but that's why we responded as we did.
(20) The film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel set mostly in Packer's limousine, concerns a financial whiz-kid who is either having sex, having a finger inserted into his bottom (an on-the-move prostate exam), engaging in lengthy overblown monologues, losing vast sums of money, dodging an assassin, seeking a haircut, or all of the above.