(n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.
Example Sentences:
(1) The small thin legs dangling in a banyan tree are poignant evidence.
(2) As an Indonesian journalist commented, it was difficult for others to grow under Suharto's "big banyan tree".
(3) The results indicate that in high and medium traffic regions, lead content of banyan leaves is high and is more prominent in winter months than in summer months.
(4) They step deftly over a woman lying across the pavement, her birch brooms laid out for sale, her two children silhouettes in a banyan tree that is their home.
(5) "I would like to be able to carry out genetic analysis of the algae in the coral to find out whether we can transplant heat-tolerant ones to parts of the reef where it is more exposed and so build coverage there," says Robert Tomasetti, a marine biologist also based at Banyan Tree resort in Vabbinfaru.
(6) The accumulation of lead from motor vehicle exhaust on leaves of banyan trees (Ficus benghalensis) growing on roadsides from different traffic density regions of Calcutta has been investigated and the values have been compared with a few samples from remote areas.
(7) We talk under a banyan tree that has watched over six generations of the Patel family.
(8) Built in an old haveli (private mansion), its airy courtyard, centred around a gnarled 160-year-old banyan tree, makes it one of the prettiest settings in town.
(9) Soaring deficit He continued to woo foreign investors and indulge in extravagant urban improvement: in 2010, his campaign to replace mature banyan trees with ginkgos ill-suited to the climate cost the city around $1.5bn .
(10) "The size of the deal is meant to show a real commitment on the part of the eurozone to stabilise the system," said Robert Pavlik, of Banyan Partners.
Cashier
Definition:
(n.) One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.
(v. t.) To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust.
(v. t.) To put away or reject; to disregard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Telemarketers, accountants, sports referees, legal secretaries, and cashiers were found to be among the most likely to lose their jobs, while doctors, preschool teachers, lawyers, artists, and clergy remained relatively safe.
(2) We don’t yet know if they were armed, or whether they took the security officer’s weapon,” he said, adding that the guard and cashier were in shock and were being debriefed by investigators.
(3) Forty-six laser scanner operators were compared with 106 cashiers operating conventional cash registers.
(4) It seems to be better if cashiers have to do different tasks in a supermarket because the study shows that cashiers who work at different workplaces have significantly less pains then those who work only at the cash register.
(5) The weapons were also linked as a contributing factor in more than 60 other deaths, including the death of 17-year-old Darryl Turner, who died in March 2008 after being tasered in the chest for more than 40 seconds at the North Charlotte grocery store where he worked as a cashier.
(6) The response were "very satisfied" or "satisfied" with professional services but not medical expense and cashier attitude.
(7) The supermarket cashier holds out your change and you take it thinking, "This woman squats and spits on the floor while shitting and blowing snot out of her nose."
(8) The Greek government gambled that if it negotiated with us, the ECB would open its cashier windows, relax the rules,” the Dutchman said in a television interview.
(9) He claimed that A Raisin in the Sun, written while Hansberry made a living as a waitress and cashier, "put more of the truth of black people's lives on the stage than any other play in the entire history of theatre".
(10) Outside the confines of the cashier's booth the bookmaking industry might have seemed to many a very male preserve, but Coates was blind to that and the trade appealed to her mathematical mind.
(11) We report a 48-year-old cashier with nickel allergy and hand eczema and discuss the relevance of nickel-induced occupational hand dermatitis in cashiers.
(12) It could be something as banal as buying Belgian chocolate bars at the corner shop and engaging the cashier and staff in the local language.
(13) They then swung across to Louisiana, where they gunned down convenience-store cashier Patsy Byers, paralysing her from the neck down.
(14) A cashier in one downtown grocery angrily said they have several hundred thousand hryvnyas in change in their basement and they can’t get rid of it.
(15) It’s a human-less experience – no waitstaff, no cashier, no one to get your order wrong and no one to tip.
(16) With these investments, we are leaning into the recovering economy and working to bring everyone along instead of just a few.” President Barack Obama greets cashier Sonia Del Gatto at a Gap store in Manhattan during his unannounced shopping visit in March.
(17) At the cashier, a bill: $45 for a one-hour consultation and $20 for the antibiotics.
(18) They are right about people working and paying tax, but when they start going Muslim this and Muslim that ... it does my head in,” a young cashier tells me.
(19) Three men dressed in black entered the Castelvecchio museum in northern Italy at the evening change of guard on Thursday, tying up and gagging the site’s security officer and a cashier before taking the paintings.
(20) And, it is not frequently on the job but rather on the street, or in a store where a cashier will stop me and say "thanks for what you do".