(n.) A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Latest official figures seen by the Guardian, however, throw into sharp relief the colossal scale of the business, a back-office beehive of activity.
(2) At least two persons died from accidents directly related to the care of beehives.
(3) From the beehive barriers to the corridors to the electric fences, all of the strategies described above are being used widely across the world, with varying degrees of success and failure.
(4) It was also, crucially, the first step in the shift away from the Winehouse of common caricature, the Olive Oyl figure with the beehive, and the drug abuse, the saucy mouth and the baleful talk of "Blake Incarcerated"; the artist people had sadly come to expect – who had once offered to lamp a member of the audience at Glastonbury, and who had last graced a stage at a festival in Serbia, where she stood swaying and mumbling before a baying audience of 20,000.
(5) I'm a beekeeper and take beehives into schools, along with juices and organic vegetables.
(6) For a hotel with rooftop beehives and free bicycle rental, it seems a missed opportunity, especially as GreenLeaders is designed to assist conscious consumers in choosing a hotel and raise awareness about sustainability in the tourism industry.
(7) Established by St Kevin in the 6th century, the site has an arched gateway, a 30m-high round tower, a roofless cathedral, and St Kevin's Cell, the ruins of a beehive-shaped stone hut, thought to have been the hermit's home.
(8) US policy, he said, was akin to “throwing rocks into a beehive”.
(9) The Argentinian pope began his day with a Mass in Rio's beehive-like modern cathedral where he exhorted 1,000 bishops from around the world to go out and find the faithful, a more diplomatic expression of the direct, off-the-cuff instructions he delivered to young Argentinian pilgrims on Thursday.
(10) Sewill, 83, was at the opening of the Beehive, Gatwick's original terminal, as a seven-year-old in 1936.
(11) Almost overnight it seemed that the 5ft 3in singer with the cheeky eye make-up, bouffant beehive and the ever-present cigarette was on a destructive path.
(12) Deputed to load a pig into a van, young Harry saw the animal escape, and knock into a beehive, whose occupants seared its hide.
(13) "You know, this area began as farmland and we are just going back to that," says Rich Wieske, who runs more than 60 beehives in inner-city Detroit and sells the resulting honey commercially.
(14) And there are lighter moments, such as when he is mobbed by the children of Charlton Manor primary school – transformed since it featured in School Dinners – who all want to pull up beetroot from the school garden (and they all like it) and tow him by the hand to show him where the beehive for the honey is.
(15) Tanja's terrace overlooks her little vineyard, beehives and orchard, and we feasted on hot peppers, air-dried ham, filo pastry with spinach and crepe-type rolls filled with cheese.
(16) Crouch is developing a "model plot" that consists of rows of vegetables, some beehives and a compost heap.
(17) Test materials and naturally infected materials from beehives were used to check the resistance of the European foulbrood causative agents to the disinfection agents vofasteril, performic acid, and iosan and iosan-CCT.
(18) The message of that image – you can bring me down to earth, but you will never humble me – was repeated in 2010, when she gave her infamous "blood diamonds" testimony at the trial of former African warlord Charles Taylor, dressed in the queenly beehive and sharp lemon pastels of a southern belle, and described her time in the witness box as "a big inconvenience".
(19) These extensions were of 2 shapes: horseshoe and beehive.
(20) How could they not have known about the beehive of offending around them, the crown asked.
Lacquer
Definition:
(n.) A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-mache, and wood. The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made.
(v. t.) To cover with lacquer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eye-to-eye, the bumbling bonhomie appeared to be a lacquer of likability over a living obelisk of corporate power.
(2) The performed tests provided evidence of a rise of the binding firmness due to the absorption by the resin, and confirmed the stabilized behaviour of the lacquer Conalor.
(3) Data collected on various types of filters (dust and mist; dust, fume, and mist; paint, lacquer, and enamel mist; and high efficiency) challenged with a worst case-type sodium chloride (NaCl) and dioctyl phthalate (DOP) aerosol are presented.
(4) This has been confirmed by clinical work showing that amorolfine is effective in treating dermatomycoses and onychomycoses when administered as cream or nail lacquer.
(5) Histopathologic findings and percentage of eyes affected, in decreasing order of frequency, were myopic configuration of the optic nerve head, 37.7%; posterior staphyloma, 35.4%; degenerative changes of the vitreous, 35.1%; cobblestone degeneration, 14.3%; myopic degeneration of the retina, 11.4%; retinal detachment, 11.4%; retinal pits, holes, or tears, 8.1%; subretinal neovascularization, 5.2%; lattice degeneration, 4.9%; Fuchs spot, 3.2%; and lacquer cracks, 0.6%.
(6) A gas-liquid chromatographic (GLC) method has been developed for the determination of 5 solvents (butanol, butyl acetate, ethyl acetate, 2-propanol, and toluene) and camphor in commerical nail lacquer preparations.
(7) Barium chloride, which is an important industrial chemical used in pigments, lacquers, dyes, glass and pesticide production, leather tanning and cloth dying, was tested on Salmonella typhimurium (TA 1535, TA 1537, TA 1538, TA 97, TA 98, TA 100) with the reverse mutation test, with and without metabolic activation, to assess its possible genotoxic effects and any possible action with respect to standard mutagens (sodium azide, 9-aminoacridine, 2-nitrofluorene, mitomycine-C, 2 aminoacridine).
(8) The problem of visco-elasticity of the cartilage was overcome by using a brittle lacquer coating as a memory device.
(9) These consisted of microgranules of mesalazine coated with Eudragit S in a concentration of either 20 or 25% dry lacquer substance; these in turn were enclosed in capsules coated with Eudragit L. In-vitro dissolution studies of coated microgranules showed that drug release was pH dependent.
(10) From data available on the penetration of amorolfine and on the persistence of mycologically relevant tissue concentrations, it appeared likely that once- or twice-weekly application of nail lacquer should suffice to produce a satisfactory therapeutic effect in onychomycosis.
(11) Like, ‘Don’t send us a CD master of the loudest techno music and expect that to be cuttable on a lacquer.’ (The high and low frequencies associated with this type of music can overheat the cutting lathe and cause the mastering machinery to shut down; pushing the process to its limits is the origin of some records being called “hot cuts”.)
(12) The count efficiency for high efficiency filters was greater than 99.97% at worst case testing conditions, but the worst case count efficiencies for dust and mist; dust, fume and mist; and paint, lacquer and enamel mist filters were not nearly as efficient as existing test methods indicate.
(13) A car painter experienced three episodes of a hypersensitivity pneumonitis-like disease after exposure to two-component acrylic lacquers with hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) as the curing agent.
(14) Seven men aged 17 to 22 years developed severe distal symmetrical predominately motor polyneuropathy after repeated inhalation of a commercially available brand of lacquer thinner.
(15) In evaluating the anatomic and functional status of 22 eyes of 14 patients demonstrating lacquer cracks, these lesions occurred in the eyes of young adults with posterior staphylomas and markedly increased axial lengths.
(16) Altogether 157 patients with onychomycosis affecting not more than 80% of the surface area of nail with intact lunula and matrix were treated once weekly for up to 6 months with amorolfine nail lacquer (2 or 5%) in a double-blind randomized design.
(17) Dental caries reduction was studied in 414 children 1 year following F-year primary caries prevention with the use of sodium fluoride solution, fluorine lacquer, and Ca phosphate-containing gels.
(18) In the combination metal-resin the differences of values are significant, when the top lacquer Conalor is used, the changes of values are not so maded to be statistically significant.
(19) Foods in unlacquered welded cans contain much more lead, chromium and tin than foods in lacquered welded cans.
(20) For a variety of baby foods there was no significant difference in ESBO levels between foods packaged in glass jars with PVC gaskets and foods in cans containing ESBO in the can lacquer.