(n.) A human being; a person, either male or female; -- now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language.
(a.) Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active.
Example Sentences:
(1) That was incorrect: for example, the Isle of Wight has never had a female MP.
(2) The owners of a wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight won a repossession order today in their attempt to end an occupation of the plant by workers protesting at planned job losses.
(3) Total maternal wight gain during gestation was lower for smoke-exposed animals than for non-smoke-exposed animals.
(4) Vestas has confirmed the closure of two sites on the Isle of Wight and Southampton with the loss of 425 jobs.
(5) Areas topping the league for quality beaches were the Isle of Wight, with two blue flags and 12 QCAs, Torbay, with five blue flags and nine QCAs, and Thanet, which has seven blue flags and four QCAs.
(6) Linehan is giving bigger roles to the other gangsters, not least the Teddy Boy spiv Harry, originally depicted by Peter Sellers, who will be played on stage by Stephen Wight.
(7) James Armstrong Dorchester • Here on the Isle of Wight, more than 3,000 planning applications have been approved by the council, to reach the island target of 520 houses a year, yet there is little activity on those sites.
(8) Domiciliary nebulizer use is evaluated in a well-defined population on the Isle of Wight covering all ages.
(9) According to tourist authorities on the Isle of Wight, there has been a “very significant leap” in its website traffic, while Visit East Anglia said its enquiries had risen by a quarter.
(10) But in a comparison to a fourth isle of Wight squirrel found dead last year, Simpson and other colleagues report in a letter to the journal that three had the same type of staph A, ST49, which has previously found in human isolates, according to a national database based at Imperial College, London.
(11) Sheridan told the court Wight had been one of the NoW's heaviest users of Whittamore, with Wight's name appearing about 70 times in Whittamore's records.
(12) Mr Quigley, who lives on the Isle of Wight, says: "I interpreted that as saying, 'Look for another bank account'.
(13) It was Wight who later provided a link to Astor, Davie's second and principal mentor.
(14) However, Britain currently has no commercial-scale wind turbine manufacturing plants, following the closure of the Vestas plant on the Isle of Wight last year.
(15) The company said that 40 employees had been found new roles within the Vestas research and development facility on the Isle of Wight.
(16) The setback follows the decision by the leading turbine maker Vestas to shut its Isle of Wight turbine factory this summer, just days after the government promised a clean-tech job revolution.
(17) David Wolfe QC, for the trust, claimed the two culls would involve killing an estimated 3,400 badgers in each area – each approximately the size of the Isle of Wight – and the long-term intention was to issue licences for up to 10 culls each year.
(18) I think she is the oldest person in the world to have a hip operation, and the surgeon, Jason Millington, and the anaesthetist were both courageous to take the decision to operate on someone of that age, but the operation went splendidly.” Hermiston said his mother, from Ryde, Isle of Wight, was recovering well after the operation last Friday.
(19) Since 1982, in the Isle of Wight hospitals, 13 cases of splenic injury following trauma have been treated applying various salvage procedures and are reported here.
(20) Julian Critchley: ‘Michael Gove radicalised me’ A civil servant in the Department for Education before training to be a teacher 12 years ago, Critchley last year left his job as head of history at a south London comprehensive to move to the Isle of Wight.
Wright
Definition:
(n.) One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
(2) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
(3) The publicity surrounding the Rotherham child exploitation scandal, which triggered the resignation of Shaun Wright, the previous PCC, did not translate into a high turnout, with only 14.65% of the electorate casting a vote.
(4) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
(5) The procedure for using the batch stainer with Wright's stain is outlined.
(6) The four members of the committee are all masters of wine, and the chairman is a retired diplomat, Sir David Wright.
(7) Previous experiments have shown that heparin inhibits induction of c-fos and c-myc protooncogene mRNA in rat VSMC stimulated by phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) but not when stimulated by epidermal growth factor (EGF) (Pukac, L. A., Castellot, J. J., Wright, T. C., Caleb, B. L., and Karnovsky, M. J.
(8) ‘It’s hard to understand why we have all had to go through this’ – Angelene Wright, 66, from Lincolnshire I’m a carer for my 64-year-old husband who is in the final stages of multiple sclerosis.
(9) We must open our hearts to one another and listen,” Wright, 31, said after the service.
(10) Wright, two new flavonoids (I, II) and six known flavonoids (III-VIII) were isolated.
(11) This is the scrubber that Comer paid for, Lackner conceived and Wright built.
(12) After spending a good five minutes sketching out the vast scale of the economic and social challenge facing the town, Wright is careful to stress that Hartlepool still has plenty to fuel its inherent optimism.
(13) The sugar tax was greeted with hostility by the industry and Wright argues that the levy, introduced by the chancellor in the budget , will be undermined by flawed analysis of its impact.
(14) We have previously shown that this defect is localized to the expression of terminal N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) glycoproteins in the plasma membrane (Elmer and Wright, '83).
(15) He said Watts was a “pleasant lady” but described Wright as a “cold fish Craig”.
(16) 34 min: England turn the screw, with Wright-Phillips and Ashley Cole combining beautifully down the left flank, before the full-back brings a crucial interception out of Ricardo Clark when he pulls the ball back into the penalty area from the touchline.
(17) Entopolypoides macaci (Babesiidae) was diagnosed on the basis of morphology from peripheral blood smears stained with Wright's stain.
(18) One of Inside Out's presenters, Matthew Wright, last week described the programme's proposed budget cut as "a joke" .
(19) A simple device for measuring ventilatory function, the airflowmeter, was found to be at least as sensitive as the Wright peak-flow meter in detecting histamine-induced bronchoconstriction in asthmatic patients.
(20) In that speech, Wright suggested that Manning was “overwhelmed” that the Sean MacBride award had recognized “her actions as actions for peace.” Yet the former soldier insists that she has never perceived her actions in transmitting more than 700,000 classified US classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010-11 as an act for peace.