(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.
Nash
Definition:
(a.) Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modified version of the National Adolescent Student Health Survey (NASHS) was administered to 3,803 eighth- and tenth-grade public school students during the fall of 1988.
(2) Chester’s proposal for Hartsuyker to be the next deputy leader excludes other senior Nationals figures who are in the current Turnbull ministry, including assistant infrastructure minister Michael McCormack and rural health minister Fiona Nash.
(3) Born Gladys Nash on 18 January 1903, she was brought up in Rottingdean, Brighton, East Sussex, and went on to study at college.
(4) Nash also conceded that Furnival had not declared any conflict of interest at the meeting of federal, state and New Zealand ministers on 13 December, which Nash chaired and Furnival attended.
(5) In an ideal world, Nash said, the average OB-GYN might perform abortions, and the procedure would be just one of many ways doctors cover their business expenses.
(6) Bovine estrogen sulphotransferase c-DNA has recently been cloned; the encoded protein having a maximum Mr of 35,000 (Nash, A.R.
(7) After hours of grilling in senate estimates, assistant health minister Fiona Nash insists there was no conflict of interest or breach of standards in her office because her former chief of staff, Alister Furnival, did not act like a man who had a conflict of interest, did everything required of him to avoid conflicts, and he can’t help it if his accountant forgot to tidy up his paperwork.
(8) In his recent autobiography, Wild Tales , Graham Nash – of the Hollies and Crosby Stills & Nash – recalled the effect the song had on him when he heard it at a school dance in Salford: "It was like the opening of a giant door in my soul, the striking of a chord... from which I've never recovered … From the time when I first heard the Everly Brothers, I knew I wanted to make music that affected people the way the Everlys affected me."
(9) In the document, dated October 2013 and circulated to senior officials, Cummings said he and schools minister Lord Nash had “serious concerns” about Ofsted’s operation.
(10) That the Nash-reactive material was formaldehyde was validated by a glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase positive reaction.
(11) John Nash is one of the founders of Sovereign Capital, a private equity firm with interests in the healthcare sector.
(12) Guardian Australia understands that at the last meeting of the state, federal and New Zealand ministers responsible for the new system, at which Nash has conceded Furnival did not declare a conflict of interest, Nash argued that the scheme should be subject to a full regulatory impact statement (RIS).
(13) The Lakers know all about injury absences: Bryant hasn't played since tearing his Achilles tendon during Golden State's last visit to Staples Center in April, while Nash is out for at least another week with nerve root irritation.
(14) On 31 March, the assistant health minister, Fiona Nash, announced drug and alcohol treatment programs costing the commonwealth $87m would continue for one year.
(15) One was designed by a famous architect, John Nash, the other by anonymous builders, though both were from an era (and in Nash's case, an architect) notorious for jerry-building.
(16) The patients were divided into bronchitics, emphysematous and broncho-emphysematous, according to the clinical and radiological Nash's score, and to another personal score derived from the former.
(17) 10.49pm GMT Nash says this was essentially an administrative error.
(18) They added to a growing list of big names already sidelined this season by one ailment or another, a scroll that includes Deron Williams, Stephen Curry, Steve Nash and Tyson Chandler.
(19) There was then a second call from another, more junior adviser in Fiona Nash’s office asking that the website be taken down.
(20) In most cases, NASH results in a progressive hepatic distortion with can end in cirrhosis, although the change is slow and silent.