(v. i.) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
(v. i.) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.
(v. i.) To come or chance (upon).
(a.) Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alighting upon the final four songs recorded by Drake, he pressed play and began to make notes before setting about mixing them for this putative release.
(2) The promise of exclusive photos and an "official chatroom" doesn't exactly set our world alight – but White is also promising subscribers four 7" records, four 12" records and four new T-shirts a year.
(3) Others wrecked the villa interior, poured fuel on the floor and set it alight.
(4) Villas of government officials were set alight and gunfire erupted in several districts of the city.
(5) (An official report later concluded that one of the men had set the van alight, killed the other and then himself.)
(6) That expectation was realized, with passengers from the oldest age groups having the highest relative frequency of accidents and vehicles with three steps being involved in a disproportionately large share of boarding and alighting accidents.
(7) In the small hours of the previous morning, an attacker had forced open a shutter, broken a window and set the inside alight .
(8) "I could be an MP…" And it suddenly occurs to me that Gardiner might just have alighted on the perfect profession for his skills.
(9) In a running confrontation, both sides threw molotov cocktails, one of which set alight a makeshift barricade in the foyer.
(10) Didcot resident Steve Shadbolt told the Oxford Mail that he looked across at the power station and realised that one of the towers was alight: “It burnt so fiercely that it spread to the next one ... it was quite a blaze.” The energy secretary, Ed Davey, said: “First, I want to thank the emergency services who are at Didcot working to tackle the blaze.
(11) Some of these new converts have alighted upon the basic income as an answer to our fragmenting welfare state.
(12) Cars were set alight and there were unconfirmed reports of petrol bombs being thrown.
(13) Falun Gong groups overseas dispute that - and in 2011 a man set himself alight near the site of the car crash.
(14) Tens of thousands of hectares of forest have been alight for more than two months as a result of slash and burn – the fastest and quickest way to clear land for new plantations.
(15) Photograph: Guim “The men shouted as they walked through the station having alighted from the train a short time earlier.
(16) Brotherhood spokesmen denied responsibility for the fires, but the local people everywhere say that it was groups of Brothers who attacked the buildings and set them alight.
(17) The young Somali woman who set herself alight on Nauru – the second refugee in a week to do so – has been taken to Australia by air ambulance, but her situation remains critical.
(18) On Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel, the conservative commentator Sean Hannity recently alighted upon the case of Gordon Cook, a security manager from Merseyside, who used superglue to stick a loose crown into his gum because he was unable to find an NHS dentist.
(19) (" Setting a children's hospital alight is hitting the all time low.
(20) Bales acknowledged setting the bodies alight with a kerosene lantern.
Carriage
Definition:
(n.) That which is carried; burden; baggage.
(n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
(n.) The price or expense of carrying.
(n.) That which carries of conveys,
(n.) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.
(n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.
(n.) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.
(n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.
(n.) The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.
(n.) The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.
Example Sentences:
(1) Staphylococcal carriage seems largely to depend on individual characteristics rather than environmental factors.
(2) A higher proportion (14 of 40; 35%) had evidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection than had evidence of either hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriage (17.5%) or alcohol abuse (30%).
(3) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
(4) Bronchial carriage may, however, not always be associated with pathological effects.
(5) 2) Chronic HBsAg carriage in the adult household contact was associated with female sex of the index case and with being a sibling; among young subjects, household contacts were more likely to be chronic HBsAg carriers when the index case was the mother, a sibling, or an HBV-DNA-positive subject.
(6) This study further confirms the importance of skin carriage of group A streptococci as a precursor to pyoderma and demonstrates the importance of minor skin trauma as a predisposing factor.
(7) Japanese company Hitachi Rail is planning to invest £82m and create hundreds of jobs at a new train factory in Newton Aycliffe, Darlington, where it will build hundreds of carriages.
(8) The current uses of serotyping of N. gonorrhoeae include epidemiological studies, clinical purposes and surveillance of antibiotic resistance and plasmid carriage.
(9) Think, too, of the savings in road widening and new carriages – money that could be spent mending what we've got, or making travel safer or more comfortable, or spent on other things.
(10) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
(11) The carriage of C. diphtheriae was found to be 19.8%, 65.3% of them were toxin producing by counter-immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP).
(12) Efforts at prevention of non-A, non-B hepatitis associated with blood transfusion have thus far been hampered by the lack of reliable laboratory markers for carriers of this disease, and controversy exists over the implementation of screening tests on blood donors, using such nonspecific indicators of possible viral carriage as serum alanine aminotransferase levels.
(13) The epidemic strain, which was not agglutinated by commerical diagnostic antisera, was isolated from the hands of personnel in five instances directly incriminated hand carriage as the mode of spread.
(14) The city responded with a mixture of fear and defiance, sharing pictures of cuddly animals on hashtags for the attack in place of the usual images of police, and offering homes, mosques and even grounded train carriages as shelter for those stranded by the shutdown.
(15) These patterns are generally consistent with available information concerning the distribution of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriage in New Zealand and suggest that HBsAg carriage is likely to be a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in New Zealand, as it is in other countries.
(16) In renal transplant recipients carriage was positively related to treatment with ranitidine, consumption of more than three types of cheese in the previous 20 months, and consumption of English cheddar cheese more than once per week.
(17) The objectives of this preliminary study were to determine the prevalence of oral candidal carriage and infection in a group of HIV-positive individuals and compare the humoral immune responses in serum and saliva in this group with a control group of HIV-negative subjects.
(18) "My service is not as frequent as it should be and has very old carriages," he said.
(19) An association between fecal carriage of Streptococcus bovis and colorectal carcinoma has been reported.
(20) The carriage rates were 89% in children, 39% in adolescents and 34% in adults.