(n.) A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.
(n.) A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.
(n.) A hog, esp. a male hog castrated.
(n.) A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
(n.) A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) By a comparison with the published infrared spectra of the water in model systems [Mohr, S.C., Wilk, W.D., & Barrow, G.M.
(2) Halifa Sallah, the spokesman for Barrow’s coalition, said he expected Jammeh to change his defiant position when he saw that the military were no longer with him, which he thought would happen imminently.
(3) The other was David York, branch secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and an organiser of the anti-academy protest in Barrow-in-Furness.
(4) Barrows were fed two sources of phosphorus with increasing levels of sodium.
(5) 3, barrows fitted with an ileal T-cannula were used in a 4 X 4 Latin square design.
(6) Swansea, for whom Jefferson Montero was outstanding, levelled when Gylfi Sigurdsson curled a sublime 25-yard free-kick into the top corner, after Kieran Gibbs had cynically brought down Modou Barrow, the Swansea substitute.
(7) New Gambian leader Adama Barrow sworn in at ceremony in Senegal Read more But Jammeh, like most dictators, gives greater weight to his ego and grandeur over national peace and harmony.
(8) Between 1972 and 1990, 159 pediatric patients were admitted to the Barrow Neurological Institute with acute traumatic spinal cord or vertebral column injuries.
(9) In conclusion, reciprocal cross differences detected for BF and LMA in barrows were established before or at fertilization and seemed to be Y-linked.
(10) The response to rpST in lean tissue growth rate from 60 to 100 kg was highest in fatter animals (Duroc, barrows), whereas from 100 to 140 kg, response in lean tissue growth rate to rpST was highest in leaner animals (Pietrain, F1, gilts).
(11) Sixteen barrows and 16 gilts of average liveweight 40 kg were fed on diets containing 0, 10, 20 or 30% copra cake.
(12) Barrows sired by D boars reared in a D postfertilization environment (ET) had 6.2 cm2 greater LMA and 4.1 mm less BF (P less than .05) than barrows sired by L boars gestated and reared by D dams (non-ET).
(13) Holding a Qur’an and looking solemn, Barrow was sworn in at the Gambian embassy in Dakar, where he has spent the past few days, and delivered his inaugural speech as president.
(14) The administration of pST resulted in an increase in muscle fiber size for all three fiber types in all three sexes, but these changes were of greater magnitude in barrows (31.8%) and gilts (27.8%) than in boars (9.3%).
(15) If fabrics break down then [microfibers] are another pathway for those [chemicals into the environment].” Those fighting the use of microbeads in beauty products are finding more traction, Barrows says, because phasing them out is straightforward.
(16) The metabolism of 19-nortestosterone was investigated in a miniature non-castrated male pig (boar), in a castrated pig (barrow) and in a female pig (sow).
(17) Since then, several of you have tipped us a wink in the direction of one such man in black who actually did find the net - in a third division game between Barrow AFC and Plymouth Argyle back on November 9 1968.
(18) Boars at 105 kg had 1.3 and 1.7% more moisture in the BR and ST, respectively, than barrows.
(19) Twelve blood serum components were determined on 78 barrows and 66 gilts, serially slaughtered at six age groups, starting at 69 d, at 2-wk intervals.
(20) When the new energy secretary, Ed Davey , went to Barrow to formally open Walney, he was told by some local residents that there was a strong feeling the people of Barrow had missed out on jobs, opportunities and social funding.
Raise
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
(v. t.) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.
(v. t.) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
(v. t.) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
(v. t.) To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff.
(v. t.) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
(v. t.) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.
(v. t.) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.
(v. t.) To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like.
(v. t.) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
(v. t.) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like.
(v. t.) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle.
(v. t.) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
(v. t.) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
(v. t.) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
(v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.
(v. t.) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.
(v. t.) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
(v. t.) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.
Example Sentences:
(1) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
(2) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
(3) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(4) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(5) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(6) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(7) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(8) Theoretical objections have been raised to the use of He-O2 as treatment regimen.
(9) The study revealed that hypophysectomy and ventricular injection of AVP dose dependently raised pain threshold and these effects were inhibited by naloxone.
(10) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(11) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(12) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
(13) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
(14) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
(15) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
(16) The independent but combined use of both antigens, appreciably raises the diagnostic success percentage with regard to that obtained when only one tumour marker was used.
(17) In a newspaper interview last month, Shapps said the BBC needed to tackle what he said was a culture of secrecy, waste and unbalanced reporting if it hoped to retain the full £3.6bn raised by the licence fee after the current Royal Charter expires in 2016.
(18) 5) Raise the adult learning grant from £30 to £45 a week.
(19) Using polyclonal antibodies raised against yeast p34cdc2, we have detected a 36 kd immunoactive polypeptide in macronuclei which binds to Suc1 (p13)-coated beads and closely follows H1 kinase activity.
(20) The enzyme activity can be raised to a plateau by Se supplements, but there is no evidence that supplementation leads to better health.