(n.) A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Martin McAdam, chief executive of Aquamarine Power, one of a number of Edinburgh-based marine energy firms, said that choosing the city was "tremendous news" for his industry, which has been boosted by a series of green energy investment decisions by major global firms including Mitsubishi, Gamesa and Samsung Heavy Industries.
(2) "The GIB will build on this lead and enable businesses such as Aquamarine Power to leverage the significant private sector capital which will allow the UK's green energy sector to flourish," he said.
(3) Examples of this approach include Alstom who have invested in Brightsource (utility scale solar thermal) and Tidal Generation (tidal power); ABB is working with Aquamarine (wave power) and Trilliant (smart grid); Siemens with Tendril and a number of other smart grid companies; Monsanto with biofuels company Sapphire Energy .
(4) Martin McAdam, chief executive of Aquamarine, said publicising marine energy was crucial, as was accelerating investment in the industry.
(5) The bright sun and aquamarine water looked vaguely tropical, but the grimaces and boiled lobster colour of the competitors were a more accurate guide to temperature.
(6) Imagine a bald Jimmy Savile painted aquamarine, contorting his mouth into a gaping downturned maw.
(7) Her Majesty came in civvies, sporting a smart white silk brocade coat and flower trimmed hat, finished off with an enormous Brazilian aquamarine.
(8) Martin McAdam, chief executive officer of wave energy company Aquamarine Power, said there had been no consultation.
(9) "As a business, Aquamarine Power has been firmly neutral on the matter of independence," he said.
(10) The competition will be open to existing designs and established marine energy firms, including the Edinburgh-based firms behind the "sea snake" wave machine, Pelamis, and the "oyster" wave machine, Aquamarine power.
(11) It's a stretch that has at least 243 beaches of unparalleled beauty , and the kind of limpid aquamarine saltwater that has sent poets into raptures.
(12) After a series of commercial failures in Scotland’s nascent marine power industry, including the collapse of two wave power firms, Pelarmis and Aquamarine, Nova Innovation’s announcement was applauded by environmental groups.
(13) We ain’t been winning anything,” said Henry L Irvin Sr, an air force veteran in an aquamarine T-shirt bearing the slogan “Katrina – I am a survivor”.
(14) zumbido Slovenia The Soca valley, Kobarid From the small town of Kobarid you can follow the amazingly aquamarine Soca river upstream to the Kozjak waterfall.
(15) He is turned out nattily: an aquamarine shirt is co-ordinated with leather Oxford shoes; his hair spills out of a black newsboy cap and he wears dazzling white socks, as he always does.
(16) Rooms are small but striking – with a don’t-try-this-at-home colour scheme of dark chocolate, aquamarine and off-whites.
(17) Also to use wave power is a more powerful version of Aquamarine's existing Oyster machine , in which a lever hinged at the ocean floor is pushed back and forth.
(18) Aquamarine, which is behind a yellow near-shore device known as Oyster, is making about 30 staff redundant .
(19) The job losses were “a consequence of the considerable financial, regulatory and technical challenges faced by the ocean energy sector as a whole,” according to Aquamarine’s chief executive, John Malcolm.
(20) The study was carried out on samples of cotton textiles for children, two were dyed beige and aquamarine , one was white.
Variety
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.
(n.) That which is various.
(n.) A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks.
(n.) Something varying or differing from others of the same general kind; one of a number of things that are akin; a sort; as, varieties of wood, land, rocks, etc.
(n.) An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species.
(n.) In inorganic nature, one of those forms in which a species may occur, which differ in minor characteristics of structure, color, purity of composition, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(2) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
(3) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(4) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(5) The E. coli used did not possess collagenolytic activity nor did a variety of common aerobic clinical isolates.
(6) The effects of H1 and H2 antihistamines on a variety of physiological vasodilator responses were examined.
(7) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(8) We have examined the in vitro membrane assembly characteristics of a variety of leader peptidase mutants and found that domains required for insertion in vivo are also necessary for insertion in vitro.
(9) A variety of nonspecific inhibitors produce approximately the same inhibition of both activities.
(10) A variety of homobifunctional crosslinking agents have been used to gain insight into the nature of the murine interleukin 3 (mIL-3) receptor.
(11) It was possible to classify the bacteriophages broadly, according to the variety of mutants that were resistant to them.
(12) Although a variety of new teaching strategies and materials are available in education today, medical education has been slow to move away from the traditional lecture format.
(13) A variety of weak acids at and below their pK(a) are potent inhibitors of transport in Penicillium chrysogenum.
(14) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
(15) Production of glucose was a linear function of time for up to 120 min of incubation at 37 degrees C under a variety of conditions.
(16) Cytochrome P-450 is known to catalyze the following oxygen transfer reaction: RH + PhIO----ROH + PhI where RH represents a variety of hydroxylatable substrates and PhIO a variety of iodosobenzene derivatives that serve as oxygen donors, and neither molecular oxygen nor an external electron donor is required.
(17) Using this technique, genes were transferred into a variety of developing mouse tissues with high efficiency.
(18) Prior exposure and subsequent reactions can, however, take a wide variety of forms, and blanket avoidance may prevent many deserving patients from being transplanted.
(19) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
(20) A prospective, double-blind study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of oral dexamethasone premedication in reducing a variety of side effects associated with metrizamide myelography.