(v. t.) To cover with asphalt; as, to asphalt a roof; asphalted streets.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hydrogen sulfide poisoning from inhalation of roofing asphalt fumes is a rare but devastating injury.
(2) When it is not clogged with weekend traffic, Container – the English word is used in Arabic – is a desolate spot: a lonely stretch of asphalt, four dingy tollbooth-like structures painted white and green, a few bored Israeli soldiers with automatic rifles.
(3) It was established that the corneal sensitivity--especially in its central region--was distinctly lowered in persons employed in the department of asphalt oxidation and cleaning of sewages.
(4) Significantly increased risks emerged for employment in the chemical, petrochemical and plastics industries (RR = 4.0; 95% CI: 1.6-9.8), and for exposure to coal and coke (RR = 4.0; 95% CI: 1.2-13.6), asphalt and tar (RR = 5.5; 95% CI: 1.6-19.6).
(5) When tested on tracks laid by bicycling on grass or asphalt, the choice of direction was not significantly different from random, even though the dogs were always rewarded when making correct choices.
(6) From above, the New York of South America resembles an endless asphalt forest of apartment buildings and freeways, with precious little green.
(7) The region’s politicians are talking about a new airport, asphalt roads, international hotels.
(8) At the Asphalt Paving Services warehouse, down the road from St Paul’s, the lawn is immaculately, precisely cut.
(9) Moreover, A, B, C heavy oils, asphalt, soy sauce and sauce, which apparently resembled lubricants when they adhered to victims, were analysed with this method.
(10) Two cases of toxic inhalation involving exposure to several gases, including hydrogen sulfide, evolved from cooling asphalt, are presented.
(11) From there it was on to Kentucky, which had a 14% poor roads rating and many well-tended arcs of asphalt swooping through lush, wooded hill country.
(12) Boris Nemtsov’s dead body was still lying on the icy asphalt when Vladimir Putin’s spokesman announced that the president believed the murder to be a “provocation”.
(13) Comparison of these data with analyses of the three asphalts indicates that the organisms probably attack the resin components of the asphalts.
(14) Epidemiological data for man accumulated since the IARC report do not fulfil the criteria for showing a causal association between exposure to asphalt and development of cancer.
(15) Samples were obtained during removal of an old coal-tar pitch roof and application of a new asphalt roof.
(16) Automobile exhaust, asphalt, gasoline fuel, diesel fuel, tyre particles, automobile crankcase oils, and atmospheric fallout were also analysed.
(17) The stones were composed of granular calcium bilirubinate and of asphalt-like products derived from abnormal bilirubin degradation.
(18) A similar susceptibility pattern for M. ranae was obtained on the same asphalts, but apparently this organism exerted even a greater effect on asphalt 6A since the viscosity of this residue was too hard to be determined satisfactorily.
(19) Three days later, a judge said she would be charged with mass unrest and harming a representative of the state, arguing that she had hurled rocks, bottles and pieces of asphalt at riot police.
(20) Components of asphalt fumes may have been important to the observed association between risk of cancer and employment in the asphalt industry.
Sticky
Definition:
(superl.) Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The texture of a food item can be distinguished in hardness, toughness, stickiness, juiciness and chewability.
(2) The outstanding advantages in microsurgery are as follows: (1) After moderate hemodilution had been performed, blood stickiness was so reduced that the resistance of blood stream was decreased.
(3) Most of the drugs tested were designed to target the accumulation of sticky plaques, called beta-amyloids.
(4) Among junior high school students the results suggested that consciousness about and interest in such factors as gingival bleeding, bad breath and sticky feeling in the mouth caused better dental health behavior.
(5) In addition, the co-aligned configuration of the ends of the sex-chromosome axes of this species and the lack of silver-stainable threads or filaments connecting them suggest the existence of two mechanisms for association of the sex chromosomes during prophase I and metaphase I: attachment of the ends of both sex chromosome axes to the nuclear envelope and heterochromatin "stickiness."
(6) The most relevant factors causing these differences were: saltiness, fluor flavor, stickiness, dryness, and uniformity of color.
(7) The onions are easy to store and to handle, and the root tip cells constitute a convenient system for macroscopic (growth, EC50 values) as well as for microscopic parameters (c-mitosis, stickiness, chromosome breaks).
(8) For primary explorers, build habitats out of cardboard with sticky tape and get them to decorate their designs.
(9) I like your advice about having a sticky note on the phone, saying: "Lunches are better for me."
(10) Remnants of the highly viscous and sticky contrast medium that remain attached to the vascular wall complicate the technical procedure of anastomosing.
(11) Illustration: Virtual Design Agency As the original sketches were made from sticky tape, the corners of the letters in the final design are missing.
(12) Kazimierz Karasinski has been honorary consul of the UK in Krakow for 16 years, helping British citizens in sticky situations.
(13) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
(14) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
(15) Now he has tipped the prime minister and the chancellor into the sticky stuff.
(16) She says it began as a "defence mechanism" – "it gets you out of so many sticky situations" – but it has now become the means by which Delevingne communicates her sense of fun, in a world where most models seem to adopt a bored, peevish expression of someone queuing to return a faulty toaster in Argos.
(17) This "sticky" interpersonal style may be particularly common in TLE patients with a left sided temporal lobe seizure focus.
(18) But in and among the general approval, there was the odd titter that such a well-established prize should find itself being backed by a purveyor of sticky drinks.
(19) Macroscopic examination of the 97 explanted prostheses provided information on their integrity (38.1% of prostheses ruptured), gel differentiation (24.7%), sticky surfaces (26.8%), surface deposits (33%), memory folds (54.6%), and Dacron fixation patches (20.6%).
(20) It has been shown that sulfinpyrazone is able to interfere with the dynamic interaction between sticky Walker-256-carcinosarcoma cells and the vascular endothelium.