(a.) Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.
(a.) Like the Alps; lofty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such is the secrecy around the plot – centred on an Alpine town where the dead come back to life – that not even the cast have been told about the new series, which is due to begin filming early next year.
(2) Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Store said action on black carbon was even more urgent than that on CO2: "Even if we turn the rising curve of greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years, the reduction will not occur quickly enough to preserve the polar and alpine environments.
(3) Total litter weight at 150 days was significantly lower for SEA (14.5 kg) than for Alpine (18.8 kg), the Anglo-Nubian (16.9 kg) not differing significantly from either.
(4) In the adjacent alpine and subalpine areas isolates were obtained from wild rodents.
(5) ACTH-induced stress (AIS) makes the appearance of amnesia cases more frequent and prolongs LP of realized CRAA, unlike DIS, over all the periods of Alpine adaptation.
(6) The final few hundred metres are lined with cheering people, some wildly ringing Alpine cow bells.
(7) In a prospective follow-up study conducted in 52 French alpine villages, one weekly water sample was taken in each village provided with untreated ground water and analyzed as to the presence of four indicator bacteria: total plate count, total coliforms, thermotolerant (fecal) coliforms, and fecal streptococci.
(8) Born in Brig, a Swiss-German speaking Alpine town close to the border with Italy, he studied law at Fribourg university, then worked as the secretary general of the International Centre for Sports Studies at the University of Neuchâtel.
(9) Except for somatometric values, there is no other significant difference between alpin and urban children from the physiological point of view.
(10) In Experiment 1, 40 multiparous Alpine does were used in a completely randomized block design.
(11) This is roughly equivalent to injury rates in alpine skiing.
(12) The features of specific adaptation to Alpine, steppe and taiga zones are found against a background of expressed continental adaptive type.
(13) The canton of Berne is a heterogeneous region, geographically speaking, extending from the foot of the Jura mountains to high Alpine regions.
(14) From the years 1982 to 1989, 377 patients with alpine skiing-related injuries were admitted to St. Anthony's Hospital (a level one regional trauma center).
(15) Samples of isoelectrically precipitated goat casein from the milks of French-Alpine and Anglo-Nubian breeds were separated into four components in a single run by reversed-phase HPLC.
(16) It was found that the mean values of arterial pressure in cattle-breeders living in alpine regions, both according to age groups and both sexes, were higher than those in cattle-breeders living in mountain regions of middle and low height.
(17) The purpose of this study was to evaluate the predictive power of physiological tests in categorizing competitive alpine skiers.
(18) Adipose deposits and their lipogenic enzymes were studied on 27 young Alpine male kids.
(19) 5 French Alpine Goats were studied after normal or premature parturition.
(20) The injuries were sustained during soccer in 28% and during alpine skiing in 26% of the cases, of which the former was responsible for most of the injuries reported in males and the latter for those in females.
Downhill
Definition:
(adv.) Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.
(a.) Declivous; descending; sloping.
(n.) Declivity; descent; slope.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
(2) The Downhills headteacher has said the school has worked hard to improve the quality of teaching.
(3) Like the parental strain, all three types of triple mutant showed moderate rates of downhill lactose transport and were defective in the uphill accumulation of sugars.
(5) Eighty-nine percent of the soleus m. lesions in the downhill runner group and 97% of those in the level runner group were A-band disruptions.
(6) Downhills' latest Ofsted assessment, in September, found that while pupils attained standards that are "well below national expectations … there is a clear trend of improvement".
(7) Physiological strain was greater in uphill than in level or downhill walking (P less than .001).
(8) Net sodium flux across the mucosa was also inhibited under 'downhill' sodium gradient conditions.
(9) The medical profession has gone downhill since the days when abortionists were anathema.
(10) It is proposed here that these amines function by catalyzing the isomerization of 11-cis-retinal thermodynamically downhill to form its all-trans congener.
(11) Despite the innocent verdict, it was essentially downhill from there.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Even those who’ve never seen a downhill ski race couldn’t help but sympathise with Bode Miller’s agony at missing out on a medal in what will surely be the last Olympic event of his career.
(13) This could be a NaCl pump, a downhill KCl transport mechanism, or a Cl-HCO3 exchange mechanism.
(14) Examination of each case individually suggests that for the majority, brief therapy was useful in stemming a downhill course.
(15) Heart rate and skiing velocities were analyzed over a flat, an uphill, and a downhill section, as well as for the total loop.
(16) Intrathoracic masses as a possible cause of "downhill" varices could not be diagnosed in any of these patients.
(17) In one man, hypomanic symptoms were caused by early HIV encephalopathy; he rapidly developed typical HIV dementia with a marked downhill course.
(18) The subsequent clinical course was progressively downhill.
(19) Lakoff and Johnson wrote out the most pervasive metaphors like this: GOOD IS UP; BAD IS DOWN (“We hit a peak last year, but it’s been downhill ever since”) ARGUMENT IS WAR (“Your claims are indefensible”) IDEAS ARE FOOD (“We shouldn’t spoonfeed our students”) UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING (“Let me point something out to you.
(20) As evidence that energy supplies for this "downhill" process did not become rate limiting after irradiation, we found that carbonylcyanide-m-chlorophenyl-hydrazone did not stimulate ONPG transport of irradiated cells.