Pared

Cada una de las galerías que hay en la planta baja de algunas casas de Granada, a los lados del patio, sin pared que de él las separe y con un techo correspondiente, que suele servir de piso a otra galería alta. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So Martin pared it slenderly, and the peel lay in his hand like a ribbon of rose-red silk shot with gold; and he coiled it lightly three times round his head and dropped it over his left shoulder. ❋ Unknown (1922)

Education reform's prospects aren't good under a GOP Congress, writes Seyward Darby: The administration’s blueprint for NCLB, which is already several years overdue for reauthorization and desperately needs restructuring, probably won’t pass, maybe not even in pared-down form. ❋ Ezra Klein (2010)

With only song titles pared down to their basic elements (represented simply by Roman numerals), every other aspect of ❋ Unknown (2009)

My Career could be described as a pared-down version of what LinkedIn offers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well, that is - when I was a child, before Italian restaurants were, you know - had that kind of pared-down chic, and they had those carts, dessert carts, that you chose from, there was something called aranci a la principesa - you know, oranges for the princess. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We're kind of pared down as the fire went through and the threat to the citizens and the property here has kind of just decreased a little bit. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So we've just kind of pared down spending to things that we really need now. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Meanwhile, the kind of pared-down marriage they want is proving a huge hit with straight couples in France, where 95% of couples taking up the pacte civil de solidarite (Pacs) in 2009 were heterosexual. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The market extended gains in the afternoon as some exporters pared losses or extended gains in the wake of media reports citing speculation that South Korean authorities bought dollars Monday to curb the won's rise. ❋ Shri Navaratnam (2010)

The September contract pared gains to settle 2.85 cents higher on Friday on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange. ❋ Tatyana Shumsky (2010)

Reading the dialogue without any of the conventional pointers given us by less ambitious novelists – it is like a pared-down film script, really, and one that could, moreover, plausibly be made – makes us wonder not only what's going on in the characters 'heads, but what's going on in our heads when we read any work of fiction. ❋ Nicholas Lezard (2010)

But having enlisted Phil Spector's help in 1969 to turn the reverb-laden sound of Elvis Presley's Sun records into the pared-back starkness of "Cold Turkey", "Instant Karma" and the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album, he might have found a way to perform the same trick for a second time at a later stage in his life. ❋ Richard Williams (2010)

But that was pared away into alternate weekends when his ex-wife sent their son to boarding school against Julian's wishes. ❋ Tracy McVeigh (2010)

If owners get their way, the players' current share, worth about $4.8 billion, would be pared to about $4.2 billion. ❋ Matthew Futterman (2011)

Kaiser Health News is reporting, “as Congress continues to try to scale back the costs of health care legislation, some patient advocates, health care policy analysts and lawmakers fear the plan may be pared to the point of leaving millions of Americans with either inadequate benefits or large out-of-pocket costs.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some tales, such as 'The Funeral' (1955) and 'The Doll that Does Everything' (1954) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style. ❋ Z0mbieastronaut (2009)