(n.) A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions.
(n.) A set or suite of rooms.
(n.) A compartment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Angiopathic and traumatic influences conditioned by metabolism, apart from local peculiarities are taken into consideration.
(2) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
(3) Apart from their pathogenic significance, these results may have some interest for the clinical investigation of patients with joint diseases.
(4) Each subject received, on 2 separate days 1 week apart, an intravenous injection of either placebo or urapidil (25 or, if necessary, 50 mg).
(5) Many Cornish people believe the far south-west of England is a nation apart from the rest of Britain.
(6) The three-year-old comes into the kitchen for a drink, and as Steve opens the fridge, I can see it contains nothing apart from a half-full bottle of milk.
(7) We continue to work closely with Pacific partner countries and regional organisations to build resilience and manage the impacts of climate change on economic development.” Aluka Rakin, director of Youth to Youth in Health in Majuro, said the organisation’s clinic is falling apart.
(8) At discharge, 58% were living with their families, 23% were living in group homes, 12% were in supervised apartments and 5% were in an alternative rehabilitation centre.
(9) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(10) The residual values were positively correlated in parent-offspring pairs and among sibs, both those presumed to be living together and those presumed to be living apart.
(11) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(12) One may speculate whether clinical conditions exist--apart from hereditary retinal dystrophies--in which the retina becomes more sensitive to light from strong artificial or natural sources, which are otherwise innoxious.
(13) In recent years, apart from these well known risks, the immuno-suppressive effect of blood transfusions has been observed and thereby the possible adverse influence on the prognosis in cases of malignant disease.
(14) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(15) Far from securing the regime change they were seeking, the creditors now find that Syriza is being supported by all Greek political parties apart from the communists and the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.
(16) They were placed less than 5 m apart, and estimation of the pollen amount was made on a day-to-day basis during the pollen seasons, and on a weekly basis outside the seasons.
(17) Apart from the interposition of the colon between the liver and the diaphragm, no other pathological changes were found.
(18) I had to beg to stay in the apartment I was living in at the time for another night.
(19) There were no major differences in blood composition, apart from increases in blood urea N, as a result of N fertilization.
(20) cDNA was prepared by reverse transcription of peripheral blood mRNA and amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers corresponding to sequences 400 bp apart on the cDNA, spanning the last three exons (X, Y, Z) of the beta-Sp gene.
Sliver
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
(n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
(n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
(n.) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once in the mountains, we were immediately careering along slivers of swerving tarmac under a crystal-blue sky.
(2) The slivers of muscle grow between pieces of Velcro and flex and contract as they develop.
(3) Given their ages (Pacquiao is 36), it was not a total surprise that neither of them could sustain the quality of the exchanges or the vigour of their past over the course of 12 rounds, although there were slivers of magic from both.
(4) Slivers of articular cartilage were stored in Ham's medium, plasma, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, and dimethyl sulphoxide at 0, -20, 4, and 38C.
(5) But in just a tiny sliver of its history - the last few thousand years - the patterns of vegetation altered much faster than before.
(6) All the foreign bodies evaluated (lead and plastic pellets, pieces of wire, nails, needles, small fragments of rock and glass, wooden slivers, surgical sponges and surgical threads) were detectable with ultrasound.
(7) • House Republicans passed or planned to pass at least 11 mini spending bills to fund slivers of government.
(8) But visible change has accelerated rapidly in the past few thousand years – a tiny sliver of the Earth’s history.
(9) As I prepared to make tracks, Charlie Meckna pointed up at some slivers of grey cloud that hung in the vast powder-blue sky.
(10) There was little cinching of the waist, and almost no flashing of leg; sex appeal came through the element of surprise, as the designer put it backstage, with unexpected slivers of skin shown at the back of a dress.
(11) For people with busy lives Slivers of Time is a website that allows you to show volunteer-seeking organisations the precise hours you are free and would like to help organisations in your local area.
(12) Huhhhhhhhh,” goes another, when the drowsy, pitched-down vocal of DOEP drops in, a sliver of R&B squashed under a hobnailed boot.
(13) "We believe scale will be an increasing source of competitive advantage in both the confectionery category and the global food business as a whole," said Rosenfeld, who pointed out that the tie-up will allow Kraft to become the world's leading confectionery company with a market share of 14.8%, a sliver higher than its US rival Mars, which recently bought Wrigley's chewing gum to take its share to 14.6%.
(14) Far from being a straight-up sci-fi, it adds a dash of Scandi-noir, a pinch of thriller and the occasional sliver of black humour into the mix.
(15) And, whatever happens to nature, it is our own highly complex interconnected society, built on a lucky period of stable climate during a tiny sliver of planetary time, that looks most at risk.
(16) 12 cords were cut with scissors, and 4 with a sharpened sliver of reed.
(17) An earlier version said that Holyrood controls only a small slither, rather than sliver, of its own spending.
(18) With his teeth caked in slivers of cola nuts, he said he had tried to board earlier convoys but there had not been enough space.
(19) When an attempt was made to remove the screw 12 weeks after its insertion, the screw broke at its neck releasing several small slivers of metal into the joint.
(20) They can even say Obama only beat Romney by 50% to 48% – a sliver that only grows large in the undemocratic electoral college.