(a.) Pertaining to the antipodes, or the opposite side of the world; antipodal.
Example Sentences:
(1) And yet, by spotlighting how very far the brand has travelled under Sarah Burton in the post-Lee years, the Savage Beauty announcement, coming hot on the heels of the Antipodean tour, also flags up the contrasting identities that cohabit the McQueen brand.
(2) His accent is equally indeterminate - part Teeside where he grew up, part Hollywood where he mainly lives, plus a hint of antipodean which he must have caught from Russell Crowe.
(3) Australia and New Zealand have perhaps even stronger emotional and cultural links to Britain, but as the economies of Asia have risen, the antipodean nations have found themselves on the doorstep of the greatest manufacturing region on earth.
(4) Three cases of antipodean squint are reported without known etiology factor.
(5) Parallel features exist among diseases in Antipodean hosts when compared with those in other tropical and temperate regions.
(6) How this charismatic-if-potentially-stinky Antipodean reached rural England is anyone’s guess.
(7) The calamitous British-conceived campaign is seen as the birthplace of the core Antipodean values of endurance, heroism, sacrifice, humour and – above all – “mateship” or camaraderie.
(8) Antipodeans trade matey banter; purposeful Germans with trekking poles overtake on the straights; the French, beautifully turned out, shrug indifferently; fat tattooed Brits huff and puff on the inclines.
(9) The 78-year-old has spent a lifetime building the world's most powerful media group, transforming a single antipodean newspaper into an empire that transcends national boundaries.
(10) As if the regular distance wasn’t enough already, New Zealand’s World Cup qualifying play-off against Mexico on November 13 in Mexico City added an extra element of ‘antipodean traveller’ to the match.
(11) Henning Mankell, Lionel Shriver, Hanif Kureishi and the antipodean writers CK Stead, Thomas Keneally and Anna Funder are other globally renowned signatories.
(12) News Corp, which Murdoch built from a single antipodean newspaper , is home to the biggest-selling stable of newspapers in the English-speaking world, the Fox TV network and Fox News in the US, film studio 20th Century Fox which was responsible for the year's biggest hit Avatar , publishing house Harper Collins and satellite TV companies in Asia, Italy and Australia.
(13) In her 27-year political career, she has gained a reputation for being forthright – an antipodean Margaret Thatcher.
(14) It's the middle of the hot Antipodean summer, but when Stephen Elop comes into the room of journalists he's wearing his suit jacket.
(15) Apparently these cruises are very popular with Aussies – the other three boats were also Antipodean-heavy – who tend to weld them on to larger backpacking odysseys across Europe.
(16) A military debacle of epic proportions and a byword for poor planning and arrogant, incompetent top brass that would blight Churchill’s career for years, Gallipoli has become a cornerstone of Australian and New Zealand national pride, the birthplace of the core Antipodean values of pluck, endurance, heroism, sacrifice, dark humour and – above all – “mateship”.
(17) "The arrival of Flat White and the Antipodeans really was very important," Jeffrey Young of Allegra says.
(18) Foran, who joined Walmart from the antipodean retailer Woolworths in 2011, has been working in retail for 35 years, having started his career as a teenage shelf stacker.
(19) "I like to always ask if someone is from New Zealand if they have a vaguely Antipodean accent, since if they're Australian they won't be offended, but if they actually are a Kiwi they'll be mightily impressed that for once someone hasn't assumed they are Australian.
(20) Using established actors (look out for some of Cave's Harry Potter co-stars) as well as her 14-year-old sister Bebe, these Antipodean antics are dry and poignant – Aunt Jocelyn never got over the death of her cat in 1978, while Mama Pru is a recovering gambling addict.
Earth
Definition:
(n.) The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling place of spirits.
(n.) The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water; the dry land.
(n.) The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like; sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth; rich earth.
(n.) A part of this globe; a region; a country; land.
(n.) Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life.
(n.) The people on the globe.
(n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.
(n.) A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta.
(n.) A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; as, the earth of a fox.
(v. t.) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
(v. t.) To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; -- sometimes with up.
(v. i.) To burrow.
(n.) A plowing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The suits ensures the conditions for the function of the musculoskeletal apparatus and the cardiovascular system which are close to those on the Earth.
(2) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(4) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(5) The EMD was miniaturized by using rare earth magnets in the construction of both external transmitter and internal receiver.
(6) This is especially the case when it is confronted with regimes such as those of Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin that feel no compunction over a scorched-earth response to insurgency and do so with calculation.
(7) These can lead to communications blackouts around the Earth and produce aurorae; indeed, there have been several nice displays over recent weeks.
(8) Its first two features, Earth and Oceans , together took nearly $200m worldwide.
(9) How on earth do you follow a 5-1 victory over Spain ?
(10) The Rio+ 20 Earth summit could collapse after countries failed to agree on acceptable language just two weeks before 120 world leaders arrive at the biggest UN summit ever organised, WWF warned on Wednesday.
(11) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(12) Alternatively, they were provided with a small foveal target, either fixed with respect to earth (earth-fixed target: EFT condition), or moving with them (chair-fixed-target: CFT condition).
(13) For a start, why on earth was Platini being paid in February 2011 for work he did at Fifa, as Blatter’s special advisor, which finished nine years earlier?
(14) Dr Michael P. Taylor is a computer programmer with Index Data and a research associate at the department of earth sciences, University of Bristol
(15) "Astronauts have said that you step off the Earth and look back and you see things differently.
(16) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
(17) Yasuni is among the most biodiverse regions on Earth, with each hectare containing more tree species than the US and Canada combined.
(18) In front of his family, friends and close colleagues stood the man who founded Apple, was fired from Apple and came back to lead Apple to a greatness, reach and influence that no one on earth imagined.
(19) It's not Greenpeace , it's not Friends of the Earth , it's not, for the most part, the Sierra Club .
(20) Two dogs, Dezik and Tsygan, survived a sub-orbital flight after their capsule parachuted them back to earth.