barney

/bahr-nee/US // ˈbɑr ni //UK // (ˈbɑːnɪ) informal //

巴尼,巴妮,巴尔尼

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural bar·neys.
- : Informal. an argument.a prizefight.a fight or brawl.a blunder or mistake.
- : a small locomotive used in mining and logging.
- : Movie Slang. a heavily padded cover for a camera, used to reduce the camera noise so that it will not be picked up by the sound-recording equipment.

Examples

The commercials began to look more like colorful Barney episodes, with a club house of kids bopping to Lovin Spoonful covers of “Do You Believe in Magic.”
Barney and others have hosted barbecues at Trilogy’s 117 locations throughout several midwestern states.
“They’d come from the hospital, and there was no testing at the time,” Barney recalls.
“For a week period of time I remember being on telephone at office, at home, outside on patio—talking constantly,” Barney says.
This holiday season, Barney will be out at Trilogy facilities.
A motley crew of former sailors led by Commodore Joshua Barney mounted the only real resistance to the British.
Barney is blown into some nearby rapids and the new expendables are taken as prisoners.
This week, text messages were leaked between reality star Tamra Barney and her ex-husband as well as her teen daughter.
The messages have proved embarrassing to Barney as she continues an ongoing custody battle.
Meanwhile, Barney is living in a completely different show than his former co-patriots.
They slept, or appeared to sleep, for some time; nobody stirring but Barney, who rose once or twice to throw coals upon the fire.
Oliver retained his stool by the fire; and Barney, wrapped in a blanket, stretched himself on the floor, close outside the fender.
There was a game of foot-ball just about to begin, and Barney was conceded to be the best kicker for his size in all Hackerton.
Barney did not even wait to ask the name of his prize, but put a crew on board and bade them make all haste to Philadelphia.
Captain Barney at once signaled his merchant ships to make all haste up the bay.

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural bar·neys.
- : Informal. an argument.a prizefight.a fight or brawl.a blunder or mistake.
- : a small locomotive used in mining and logging.
- : Movie Slang. a heavily padded cover for a camera, used to reduce the camera noise so that it will not be picked up by the sound-recording equipment.

Examples

The commercials began to look more like colorful Barney episodes, with a club house of kids bopping to Lovin Spoonful covers of “Do You Believe in Magic.”

Barney and others have hosted barbecues at Trilogy’s 117 locations throughout several midwestern states.

“They’d come from the hospital, and there was no testing at the time,” Barney recalls.

“For a week period of time I remember being on telephone at office, at home, outside on patio—talking constantly,” Barney says.

This holiday season, Barney will be out at Trilogy facilities.

A motley crew of former sailors led by Commodore Joshua Barney mounted the only real resistance to the British.

Barney is blown into some nearby rapids and the new expendables are taken as prisoners.

This week, text messages were leaked between reality star Tamra Barney and her ex-husband as well as her teen daughter.

The messages have proved embarrassing to Barney as she continues an ongoing custody battle.

Meanwhile, Barney is living in a completely different show than his former co-patriots.

They slept, or appeared to sleep, for some time; nobody stirring but Barney, who rose once or twice to throw coals upon the fire.

Oliver retained his stool by the fire; and Barney, wrapped in a blanket, stretched himself on the floor, close outside the fender.

There was a game of foot-ball just about to begin, and Barney was conceded to be the best kicker for his size in all Hackerton.

Barney did not even wait to ask the name of his prize, but put a crew on board and bade them make all haste to Philadelphia.

Captain Barney at once signaled his merchant ships to make all haste up the bay.