(n.) A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana).
(n.) The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
(n.) sing. of Ashes.
(v. t.) To strew or sprinkle with ashes.
Example Sentences:
(1) It reduced serum AP levels, increased serum Ca levels, increased bone ash weight, epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone volume, with a concomitant reduction in epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone marrow volume.
(2) DES implantation increased the body weight of the ram by 10.4% and caused no significant change in total body water, body ash, or total muscle mass.
(3) Implants and femurs from both Cl2MBP groups had a higher ash content than controls, but uptake of the two isotopes was not affected.
(4) I told a police officer and a support worker that as a last resort I was thinking of getting on contact with Ash again.
(5) Results indicate that the rachitogenic factor in rye is not present in the ash portion of the grain, that it can be largely overcome by water extraction and penicillin supplementation, and that an organic solvent extraction has no effect.
(6) Minimal frequency for tonic firing and the slope of the linear portion of the frequency-current relation were indirectly related to the duration of the ASH.
(7) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.
(8) The dependence of the enzyme on Mg++ and Co++ for activity in the presence of high ash concentration was demonstrated.
(9) Tibial breaking strength and tibial percentage ash of the progeny at hatching was markedly improved in proportion to maternal phosphorus and food intake.
(10) Analyses of body composition indicated DHEA-treated animals had proportionately less body fat and therefore more body water, protein and ash than controls.
(11) Forage contents of CP and ash showed a cubic (P less than .05) response to advancing stage of regrowth, with highest (23.6 and 11.0%, respectively) and lowest (14.7 and 9.1%, respectively) values for both fractions occurring at wk 1 and 5, respectively.
(12) Mount Sakurajima in the south of the Kyushu Island of Japan erupts hundreds of times a year and continuously emits large amounts of ash.
(13) The caption blamed "the dogs of the Interior [ministry]", and claimed that incendiary bombs had been fired at the building by police, "causing a very big fire" that "burned everything to ashes".
(14) But we will need the nurseries as they are going to be very important in restocking woods" if varieties that are resistant to ash dieback become available.
(15) The government banned imports of ash trees last Monday after a programme in which 100,000 specimens have been destroyed since the disease was discovered in March.
(16) Thyroxine complementation in TX or TPTX mothers induced a normalization of the fetal percentage of ash in both cases; a trend towards an increased value was observed in the percentage of ash of fetal femurs.
(17) These phantoms are made of bone ash suspended in white petrolatum in varying concentrations.
(18) Out of them 84 cases of advanced left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) [37 cases of symmetric hypertrophy (HT-SH group) and 47 cases of ASH (HT-ASH group)] were compared in their clinical and echocardiographic findings with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
(19) The IFS’s preference is to use ASHE as its measure of earnings with the Consumer Prices Index including housing costs as its benchmark for inflation.
(20) Material effects included lower %ash (approximately 2%) in the femora and tibiae as well as in the humeri of suspended mice compared to controls.
Ember
Definition:
(n.) A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.
(a.) Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The board was also asked to make recommendations for the government and council to work to minimise the risk of embers from external fires getting into the open-cut mines.
(2) And driving around Baltimore on Monday night, when the riots of 2015 came to town, it was difficult to tell whether this building here had burned in the wake of rising police tensions, or if that house over there had been empty since the embers of another series of riots and near-riots – in April 1968 – that left Baltimore unrepaired, in more ways than one, for nearly half a century.
(3) GDF Suez did not adequately recognise a fire caused by ember attack on the worked-out areas of the Hazelwood mine as a mining hazard.
(4) I don’t think but we have to wait.” While Stones was stretchered away in the dying embers with ankle ligament damage that should rule him out of England duty, this was a satisfying occasion all-round for United.
(5) "embers tell me they have seen their energy costs increase considerably in the last year, typically by 30% or more, and in one case doubling.
(6) England, advancing on Ireland, glows like the embers left after a bonfire , or a black dress scattered with shreds of gold leaf; Milan announces itself with starbursts of gold on dark velvet , while Cairo, fed by the glittering ribbon of the Nile (Egypt being the natural equivalent to California's graphic illiustration of our dependence on water), favours white light; central Paris declares its exclusivity , the périphérique hugging the centre tight, keeping it safe from the banlieues .
(7) After the boss’s intervention, she emailed him in August requesting a shot which used “no face melting, less fire in the hair, fewer embers on the face” to replace the current version of Kim’s death, which culminates in his head exploding.
(8) We cannot stand by until the last embers of the war have died down,” he says.
(9) Jim, from Tanjil South, was seeking refuge in his swimming pool as embers dropped in the water around him.
(10) It is difficult, as you navigate the embers and haze, to imagine anything ever growing in this desolation.
(11) Wait about an hour after the embers start glowing to keep pain to a minimum.
(12) When Muhammad Ali rumbled in the jungle with George Foreman exactly 40 years ago on Thursday, they were safely distant from the dying embers of a conflict that still engaged the more perilous commitment of 1.5 million of their compatriots in Vietnam.
(13) It was the embers of the Labour government and the then culture secretary Andy Burnham thought: "Why not do it ourselves?"
(14) Cooked on embers in boats on the sand, the must-try is espeto de sardinas (just-caught grilled sardines on a stick, €4.50).
(15) When the embers had cooled, Kenyans took once again to Twitter to question how well the security services had responded in the crisis.
(16) Insurance broker Neil Cook, of Ember JD Insurance , told Cash he is being approached by increasing numbers of leaseholders who are being charged significantly above the going rate.
(17) The mine is surrounded by the national park and a change in wind after the burn had ended reignited embers and carried them across containment lines, ERA said on Wednesday.
(18) Speaking to the Guardian, he said: “You can see the embers of unrest starting to smoulder.
(19) Judy said the wind pushed the fire up and down steep slopes, creating embers that sparked spot fires in different directions.
(20) We'll have to reignite the embers of empathy and fellow feeling, the coalition of conscience that found expression in this place 50 years ago.