(n.) A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is Cruz, a longtime critic of so-called “amnesty” policies, who has spent the greater part of the debate’s aftermath seeking to clarify his position.
(2) One is to shoot them in the head and cry about the bloody aftermath.
(3) Gazans have also been badly affected by Egypt's closure of the Rafah crossing, the main route out of Gaza, in the aftermath of the military takeover.
(4) In the aftermath of the incident, there was considerable confusion over the hecklers’ identities – even within the Cossack community.
(5) The sanctions that could be levied in the aftermath of the Geneva meeting were expected to focus on Putin's close associates, including oligarchs who control much of Russia's wealth, as well as businesses and other entities they control.
(6) In the aftermath of that war, Hasan Zeyada, a psychologist with the GCMHP, told the Guardian : "The majority of children suffer many psychological and social consequences.
(7) All these freedoms have been crushed in the aftermath of the coup.
(8) A former Halliburton manager was sentenced to one year of probation on Tuesday for destroying evidence in the aftermath of BP's fatal 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, which claimed 11 lives.
(9) In the aftermath of the horsemeat scandal, Tesco mounted a huge advertising campaign insisting it was changing – that it would pay farmers a fair price for their produce and honour its responsibilities to the food supply chain.
(10) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
(11) In the aftermath of Snowden's disclosures he was forced to apologise for misleading Congress.
(12) Based on one-to-one interviews with more than 40 people, the inquiry said the immediate aftermath of the stabbing “was well managed by all agencies”.
(13) The same would be true in the aftermath of the crisis of the neoliberal order, as the need to reconstruct a broken economy on a more democratic, egalitarian and rational basis began to dictate the shape of a sustainable alternative.
(14) Naureen Shah, director of Amnesty International USA’s security and human rights programme, acknowledged the need for governments to assess their approach in the aftermath of major attacks but said: “What we don’t want to see is government using the Paris attacks as a pretext for extending surveillance authorities or pushing back against reforms that even the government acknowledged as necessary.” Some of the hawkish responses to events in Paris “raise a question of whether there’s an exploiting of public fear and anger and anxiety to push legislation through”, she added.
(15) But it was funny and interesting also because it really showed that, maybe, I can still bring something to a team.” This will be Drogba’s second departure from Stamford Bridge having initially left for Shanghai Shenhua in 2012 in the immediate aftermath of his winning penalty in the shoot-out against Bayern Munich which saw Chelsea claim the European Cup .
(16) The identity of the four Britons, whose details did not emerge in the immediate aftermath of the crash, became known over the weekend.
(17) Neil Morton has written a dandy little blog explaining how he found the perfect soundtrack for the aftermath of England's tussle with Italy last weekend.
(18) Parts seem as deserted as Chernobyl or as blasted as Stalingrad in the aftermath of battle.
(19) Along with a team of collaborators with curiously close ties throughout a big election and its aftermath.
(20) I understand why biting is seen so badly.” Suárez said that he had “no desire” to speak to anyone in the aftermath of the match against Italy.
Backwash
Definition:
(v. i.) To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data indicate that the selectivity of removal of anti-AChR Ab from albumin is higher at 4 degrees C than that at 37 degrees C. The volume treated at 4 degrees C was significantly lower than that treated at 37 degrees C, and it was less than that required for a clinical treatment; however, it was shown that filter backwashing is possible without loss of solute removal selectivity.
(2) The study says the inability to forecast the double-dip recession from the fourth quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2012 had been due to poor trading performance as the UK felt the backwash from the eurozone crisis.
(3) In a patient with long-staning ulcerative colitis and "backwash" ileitis, multiple carcinomas developed in the colon and ileum.
(4) In cases of inadequate filter backwashing, such aggregates may penetrate into clean water.
(5) The government in Nicosia admitted that it had been caught in the backwash from the crisis in neighbouring Greece as it formally applied to Brussels for assistance.
(6) Backwashing with saline, serum, 6% NaCl, dextran solutions, or phosphate buffers of varying molality and pH removed only a fraction of adherent particles.
(7) Samples included water collected immediately after conventional treatment, during the backwash cycle, at various points in the distribution system, and 1 week after the break and subsequent repair of a distribution main.
(8) Although the frequency of such premalignant and malignant changes in "backwash" ileitis is unknown, their concurrence in this case suggests that ulcerative colitis involving the terminal ileum increases the risk of small bowel carcinoma.
(9) France, a long-term sufferer from the austerity backwash, could already be said to have made its own contribution after a year of private-sector contraction.
(10) A particular advantage of the solvent system is that only a single partitioning step is needed, without backwashes, and the enzyme product appears in the upper phase, making transfer to a counting vial more reliable.
(11) To assess whether the presence of backwash ileitis predisposed to the subsequent development of ileal pouchitis after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis, 131 patients who had the operation were studied.
(12) During membrane plasma fractionation therapy there are reported incidences of membrane plugging requiring the corrective actions of either filter replacement or backwashing (BW) in order to continue the treatment.
(13) Though the exact pathogenesis is uncertain, several possibilities, particularly with regard to antecedent dysplasia and backwash ileitis, are discussed.
(14) Backwashing, by reversing the direction of the permeate, was found necessary to prolong the life of the filter.
(15) Trocar resection is superior to Iglesias' backwash resection.
(16) Results showed statistically significant decreases of TMP from 300 mm Hg to 70 mm Hg between just before and after both backwashing procedures, and that there were no significant changes in the TMP increase during the cryofiltration procedure between pre- and post-BW.
(17) Tim Yeo, the Tory MP who chairs the environmental audit select committee, said the shift had come about because of scientific mistakes, and a "backwash" from Copenhagen.
(18) Use of standard angioplasty balloon inflation prevents "backwash" of distally infused ethanol and more generalized cell death.
(19) Stifling any urge to delight in McKillop's predicament, the chancellor said the government would shortly announce details of a rescue plan for UK banks caught up in the backwash from the collapse of Lehman, little more than three weeks earlier.
(20) Recent research has shown that these aims can be achieved by altering the mode of running and backwashing filters of all process combinations including those using ozone and introducing an additional absorption on powdered activated carbon, and the process combination of flocculation-filtration-chlorination.