MacDiarmid

[ muhk-dur-mid ]

noun

1. Hugh Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892–1978, Scottish poet.

MacDiarmid

/ məkˈdɜːmɪd /

noun

1. MacDiarmidHugh18921978MScottishWRITING: poet Hugh, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve. 1892–1978, Scottish poet; a founder of the Scottish National Party. His poems include A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926)

Example Sentences

Mr Salmond ended by saying the poet Hugh MacDiarmid had once described Robert Burns as "the true radical spirit of Scotland" and said that is "exactly how we should remember Winnie Ewing".

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Prof Macdiarmid isn't calling for everyone to immediately become vegetarian or vegan — "we need to do it in baby steps," she says, but she does suggest that 20 years from now, we may be eating meat only once a week.

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In other words, says Jennie Macdiarmid, a professor in sustainable nutrition and health at Aberdeen University, farming is rapidly gobbling up the world's dwindling carbon budget.

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In high income countries the main source of emissions is livestock, she says, agreeing with activists who want us to reduce meat and dairy consumption although Prof Macdiarmid warns that may lead to another problem.

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A Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images But even many of Sinclair’s less successful inventions were later validated; Sinclair’s Black Watch, which used “integrated circuit technology” according to a 1970s print ad, didn’t really catch on, but looks it could have inspired some of the fitness trackers everyone wears on their wrists now.

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