10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STAND-OFF HALF»
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms
9.8.9 Rugby Union C 3/4 centre three-quarter (xj) F forward FB full back (x2) SH
scrum half-back ( 2) SOH stand-off half-back (x2) W 3/4 wing three-quarter (x4)
9.8.10 Rugby League 2H second-row half (x2) C 3/4 centre three-quarter (x2) FB
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Rodney Dale, Steve Puttick, 1997
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Grand Dictionnaire Hachette-Oxford
... d stone n pierreflevée stand-off /"st&ndQf/ n 1 (stalemate) impasse f; 2 (
counterbalancing of forces) contrepartie f; 3 Sport = stand-off half stand: d-off half
n Sport demi m d'ouverVture; d-offish, adj [person, manner, attitude] distant; d-
offishly, ...
Marie-Hélène Corréard, Valerie Grundy, Jean-Benoit Ormal-Grenon, 2007
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Oxford Dictionary of English
... no closer to being resolved. 2 Rugby short for STAND-OFF HALF. stand-off half
7noun Rugby a half back who forms a link between the scrum half and the three-
quarters. stand-offish 7adjective informal distant and cold in manner; unfriendly: ...
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Paperback Oxford English Dictionary
2 an order placed on a regular basis with a retailer. standing ovation n. a long
period of applause during which the audience rise to their feet. stand-off n. a
deadlock between two equally matched opponents. stand-off half n. Rugby a half
back ...
Oxford Dictionaries,, Maurice Waite, 2012
The ball came out from a heel in a scrum not far from the Kangaroo twenty-five,
and went to the Kangaroo stand-off half. He dropped it, and, before he could
recover, it was gathered by the Scottish stand-off. He sent it to Smail, who passed
...
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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
2 (also stand-off half; rugby a half-back who stands away from the scrum and acts
as a link between the scrum-half and the three-quarters. Also called fly half,
halfback. • Mexican stand-off 1 a set of circumstances where someone has no ...
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Schoolboy to Soldier 1935-1945
Harry Jeans was a very good flank forward, hard and with a wonderful knack of
protecting his outside half when the going got rough. I loved that. I had also been
made Captain because that sort of came with the position of stand-off half, or fly ...
8
Concise English Dictionary
... (also stand-off half). — adj. standoffish inclined to hold aloof, keep others at
arm's- length. — stand'-pipe an open vertical pipe connected to a pipeline, to
ensure that the pressure head at that point cannot exceed the length of the pipe:
one ...
9
Sporting Nationalisms: Identity, Ethnicity, Immigration and ...
An attempt to develop his skills in the playmaking position of stand-off half, the
nearest equivalent then to his reported gridiron position of quarterback, was
unsuccessful and he faded from the scene in 1913. In the same year that Banks'
rugby ...
Mike Cronin, David Mayall, 2005
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Solving Language Problems: From General to Applied Linguistics
The two monosemous lexical items fly-half and stand-off half have the same
denotation, connotation and are used in the same register. They have the same
lexical meaning and can substitute each other in all contexts. Therefore they can
be ...
