(n.) A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
(n.) A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
(n.) A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doing the decent thing has guaranteed them an avalanche of applause when next they play at Goodison - in blue or red."
(2) The paper, which traditionally supports the Tory party and was edited by the former Conservative cabinet minister Bill Deedes during seven years of Thatcher's reign, feared an avalanche of "bile" would "spew" from its pages and decided to keep comments closed, according to insiders.
(3) 21 April 2009: Unicef says it faces a "human avalanche" of civilians fleeing the conflict .
(4) The avalanche also carried off Douglas Alexander , Labour’s shadow foreign secretary who had been in charge of Ed Miliband’s general election campaign.
(5) In 2015, an avalanche triggered by a 7.8-magnitude quake killed 19 mountaineers at Everest base camp, prompting the cancellation of all trips .
(6) Last October, apparently to avenge charges of drift, the Culture Department launched its library services modernisation review in an avalanche of wonk-speak that suggested little understanding of what brilliant places libraries can be.
(7) Despite the avalanche of tempting showbusiness offers, she is reluctant to discuss possible plans for future public appearances or recording contracts.
(8) Sixteen Nepalese guides, including 14 members of the Sherpa community, died last April in an avalanche, in what was the deadliest accident to hit the world’s highest peak.
(9) The former Fifa vice-president said at the beginning of June that he would disclose secrets about the football governing body, adding that “not even death will stop the avalanche that is coming.
(10) Family doctors have warned that the service patients get from their local GP surgery is getting worse because they cannot cope with “an avalanche of workload”.
(11) It is shown that the counter produces spectra at 5 nm which can be compared with theoretical predictions grounded on fundamental avalanche theory for a cylindrical counter.
(12) We should … adopt some precautionary measure – learning from [how] mountains [are managed] in developed countries where they adopt measures to avoid avalanches by putting some kind of wood or some concrete so that it helps make it safe.” All those attempting the classic South Col route – followed by Sir Edmund Hllary’s team, who first conquered Everest in 1953 – have to pass through the icefall to reach the upper slopes of the mountain.
(13) On the road: Paul Rudd (right) with Emile Hirsch in Prince Avalanche.
(14) Namaste.” The first photographs to emerge of the avalanche show the scale of the disaster.
(15) The results also show that punch-through and avalanche ionization are not likely to be important in the breakdown mechanism.
(16) A prototype positron camera has been constructed consisting of two high density avalanche chamber (HIDAC) detectors operated in coincidence with a resolving time (2 tau) of 40 nsec.
(17) There have been some companies making changes, but not an avalanche.
(18) Climbs in 2014 were cancelled after 16 sherpas died in an icefall avalanche.
(19) That was Donald Trump’s advice to the American people on Friday as he sought to fight back against a fresh avalanche of allegations about his ties to Russia .
(20) Jurors were discharged following what the defence said was an "avalanche" of prejudicial media reports after the Milly verdicts, and the charge was ordered to lie on file.
Avale
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff.
(v. t. & i.) To bring low; to abase.
(v. t. & i.) To descend; to fall; to dismount.
Example Sentences:
(1) It also abolishes the Aval site (CTCGGG) in exon VI, which can be directly detected with the enzymatic DNA amplification technique (PCR) and offers the possibility of direct analysis in carrier and prenatal diagnosis in kindreds with this mutation.
(2) DNA methylation was also studied, using the enzyme Avall.
(3) HindIII, Pstl, Aval, and SalI site maps have been determined for the genome of a cattle isolate of capripoxvirus, KC-1.
(4) Either the absence of an initial contact between U2 snRNP and the factor(s) recognizing the end of the intron (Accl RNA) or the unability of this ternary complex to undergo a conformational change (Avall RNA) could render these severely truncated precursors poor substrates.
(5) Avalable descriptive and analytical research suggests that the etiology of prostatic cancer is most probably related to hormonal influences rather than to a horizontally transmitted agent, while the etiology of testicular cancer is most probably related to endogenous or exogenous hormonal influences in utero or in infancy, or to in utero exposure to other exogenous agents.
(6) A spokeswoman for the bank tells us: Various parties with interest in purchasing Raiffeisen Bank Aval have approached RBI already some months ago.
(7) Analysis of RNase T1-resistant fragments immunoprecipitated by an anti-(U2)RNP antibody at early times of the splicing reaction showed that the protection encompasses both the branch point region and the end of the intron in BamHI and Avall, but essentially only the branch point in Accl RNAs.
(8) Later on, this protection becomes less detectable in BamHI, is reinforced in Avall and remains poorly detectable in Accl RNAs.
(9) Later on, all three branch points are used at the same rate in Avall, while the usual one prevails in BamHI RNAs.
(10) The crisis has forced Austria’s third-largest bank, Raiffeisen, has put the sale of its Ukrainian division, Bank Aval,on hold .
(11) Aval, Hpall, Mspl, Ncil and Nsplll were able to tolerate only the T.G containing sequence, while BstNl was able to tolerate only the C.A containing sequence.
(12) FastFT has more details here , explaining that Bank Aval operates 818 branches in Ukraine and has 3.1m customers.
(13) BamHI and Avall RNAs use three functional branch points at early times, the usual A residue at -37 and two U residues at -17 and -22.
(14) The distinctive 390 bp hu alpha-2(I) cDNA and two Aval fragments of 220 and 170 bp are identified by agarose gel electrophoresis.
(15) The foramen avale had patency of the valvular competent type.
(16) We investigated the interaction of U2 snRNP with the branch-3' splice site region of three human beta-globin pre-mRNAs carrying nearly complete (BamHI RNA), 24 nt (Avall RNA) and 14 nt (Accl RNA) of exon 2.
(17) All supported splicing, but mRNAs yields were respectively 2 and 10 times lower for Avall and Accl RNAs than for BamHI.
(18) These results can best be interpreted by a model of the LDL particle in which approximately 30 per cent of apo-LDL is exposed to the solvent, such that it can be reversibly denatured by GuHCl and at the same time is easily avalable to proteolytic enzymes, whereas the rest of apo-LDL is tightly associated with lipids and possibly buried inside the lipid moiety.