(a.) Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority.
(a.) The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
Example Sentences:
(1) Slager’s next court appearance is not until 21 August.
(2) A world conference in Edinburgh during August 1988 will have the theme.
(3) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
(4) The sensitivity of ejaculated spermatozoa to ouabain (in inhibitor of Na+-K+ ATPase) was determined on 4 consecutive weeks in November, March-April, and July-August.
(5) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(6) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
(7) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
(8) 139 cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection (serological diagnosis) were treated at Aurora Hospital, Helsinki, between January 1975 and August 1977.
(9) At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured by a car bomb at a funeral in Jaramana at the end of August.
(10) The number of deaths was significantly higher during the months of July, August and October.
(11) From August 1986 to July 1987, 62 patients with clinical signs of acute appendicitis received US examinations after initial clinical evaluations.
(12) The Nelson Monument and other sites (0131-226 6558), 2 August–2 September.
(13) An immunization program was implemented in August 1988 using a recombinant vaccine (GenHevac BTM).
(14) Arcadia’s pension deficit was measured at £190m in the company’s accounts for the year to August 2015, but is understood to have grown substantially since then.
(15) TUC, CPE and ART viruses were obtained from pools of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) sp captured in Tucuruí, Pará State, in February, August and October of 1984, respectively.
(16) The seasonal rhythm in hypothalamo-hypophyseal-adrenal function was studied in 3-week-old, meat-hybrid chickens, bred under standard conditions, CRF content in the median eminence and ACTH content in the adenohypophysis showed the maximum in February, the minimum in August, to return practically to the February level by November.
(17) "When people don't feel they have a reason to stay out of trouble, the consequences for communities can be devastating – as we saw last August," said Darra Singh, chair of the panel.
(18) The US-led air campaign against Isis began on 8 August in Iraq and was extended into Syria in September.
(19) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
(20) On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring.
Winter
Definition:
(n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
(n.) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like.
(v. i.) To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.
(v. i.) To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
Example Sentences:
(1) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(2) Since 1887, winter green is claimed to have caused dermatitis and to have been responsible for "idiosyncrasy".
(3) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
(4) Isolated renal tubules and renal clearance techniques were used to characterize the renal handling of 2-deoxy-D-galactose (2-d-Gal) by the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus).
(5) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(6) The growth of the subantarctic King penguin chick is distinguished from that of other penguins by its long winter fasting period (from 2 weeks to 3 months).
(7) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
(8) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(9) The sea ice usually then begins to freeze again over the winter.
(10) Altogether 60% of the readmissions occurred during the two winter months (June and July).
(11) They were divided into three groups and fed the following forages during the winter of 1972-1973.
(12) Seasonal fluctuations in IOP were observed (P = 0.0007), with higher IOP occurring in the winter.
(13) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
(14) It may be winter but all of you together are generating some serious street heat," he said.
(15) It's not going to be all right, winter is upon us and people need to take action now."
(16) His next target, apart from the straightforward matter of retaining his champion's title this winter, is 4,182, being the number of winners trained by Martin Pipe, with whom he had seven highly productive years at the start of his career.
(17) However, in late fall, winter and early spring AC is not really necessary.
(18) Mr Bae stars in a popular drama, Winter Sonata, a tale of rekindled puppy love that has left many Japanese women hankering for an age when their own men were as sensitive and attentive as the Korean actor.
(19) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
(20) Bright artificial light has been found effective in reducing winter depressive symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder, although conclusions about the true magnitude of treatment effect and importance of time of day of light exposure have been limited by methodologic problems.