(a.) Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis.
(a.) Descended from Atlas.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
(2) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
(3) But for the mid Atlantic, the models showed that only human-driven global warming could explain the increase in saltiness – the first time such an explicit link has been made between climate change and salinity.
(4) On the other side of the Atlantic, a more modest, quieter challenger plans to take on the US electric car giant.
(5) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.
(6) "In the UK our long-term competition will likely be Sky Go offering Sky Movies and Sky Atlantic on demand," he said.
(7) Familial occipitalization of the atlas with atlantalization of the axis was defined as a single congenital disease in Arabian horses following a clinical, radiologic, and morphologic study of 16 horses with congenital malformations of the occiput, atlas, and axis, and from a study of three reported cases.
(8) The promotion would come as News Corp continues to face legal investigations into the phone-hacking scandal on both sides of the Atlantic.
(9) "We are going to be working this record for the next 18 months," says the boss of Atlantic, standing on a small podium surrounded by Astroturf.
(10) The Atlantic rollers aren't huge here but they are consistent.
(11) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
(12) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
(13) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
(14) People want to talk to me – on city streets, in theatre queues, on aeroplanes over the Atlantic, even on country walks.
(15) During 1982 and 1983, the Centers for Disease Control and cooperating Middle Atlantic States and local health departments collected data on 1,610 raccoons that were submitted for rabies testing and on 133 persons who received rabies postexposure prophylaxis as a result of exposure to wild animals.
(16) In a speech to Atlantic Bridge members in New York in November 2002, Fox warned "the natural desire to avoid conflict has been reinforced by an innate pacificism in many sections of western society, especially in continental Europe".
(17) The intramembrane organization of the occluding junctions in the gill epithelium of the Atlantic hagfish, Myxine glutinosa, was studied by means of freeze-fracture electron microscopy.
(18) The spotted seatrout GTH beta-subunit was used as radioligand in a radioimmunoassay (RIA) with Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) GTH antiserum.
(19) British Airways says it will have a "limited supply" of chargers at the gate area to flights and Virgin Atlantic says that it has charger facilities available at airports for all the most popular devices.
(20) Operated by the North Atlantic Fishing Company (NAFC), based in Caterham, Surrey, it is one of 34 giant freezer vessels that regularly work the west African coast as part of the Pelagic Freezer Association (PFA) , which represents nine European trawler owners.
Pond
Definition:
(n.) A body of water, naturally or artificially confined, and usually of less extent than a lake.
(v. t.) To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.
(v. t.) To ponder.
Example Sentences:
(1) But in 2017, to borrow another phrase from across the pond, there simply is no alternative.
(2) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(3) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
(4) Mosquito infection occurred primarily around dusk, the same period during which A. robustus and E. serrulatus were most abundant near the surface of the pond.
(5) Images of dead ducks in oil sands tailings pond have been plastered on billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis.
(6) In both juvenile and adult pond snails, LS1+ (LS1 positive) hemocytes have the morphology of immature cells.
(7) We have argued for our positive plans and, three years after the Liberals came to power in a landslide, they have lost their mandate,” Shorten told the party faithful assembled at the Moonee Ponds racecourse.
(8) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(9) A net increase in the pH of the lower pond water was observed when compared to the upper pond water.
(10) Another group of six males in a separate pond were used as a control group.
(11) Male eastern red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) under controlled laboratory conditions exhibit unimodal magnetic compass orientation either in a trained compass direction or in the direction of their home pond.
(12) Cruden Farm, Victoria The 54-hectare Murdoch family estate in Langwarrin south of Melbourne, Australia, features magnificent gardens complete with ponds, lemon-scented gum trees and two walled gardens and perennial borders.
(13) The authors report on the results of a 2-year study on the ecology and resistance to drought of B. umbilicatus and B. senegalensis on 3 temporary ponds in the North-Sudan area (region of Tambacounda, Senegal).
(14) Fifty-eight households were studied in the Red Pond community, the site of the established smelter and several backyard smelters, and 21 households were studied in the adjacent, upwind Ebony Vale community in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica.
(15) Under these conditions, the pH of the bond becomes a factor that limits the operational efficiency of the oxidation pond.
(16) It doesn't just describe ecologists looking for newts in a pond, as it did a few years ago."
(17) The use of self-topping aqua privies, discharging through sewers to oxidation ponds, has made possible the economic installation of water-carriage systems of waste disposal in low-cost high-density housing areas.In the oxidation ponds, typhoid bacteria appear to be more resistant than indicator organisms; helminths, cysts and ova settle out; there are no snails and, if peripheral vegetation is removed, mosquitos will not breed.
(18) In effect, B29 is simply a huge covered cooling pond that once stretched between the heat stacks of Piles 1 and 2.
(19) The tissues of many of the test animals, especially from the Saudi Arabian and Nigerian oil-treated ponds, were clear, watery, and emaciated in appearance, which was not the normal condition of oysters from the Gulf during the period of the samplings.
(20) 75 strains of free living amoebae were isolated from public drinking water supplies, swimming pools and official swimming ponds in Strasbourg.