(v.) A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
(v.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.
(v.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acanthamoeba culbertsoni was isolated from a sewage-spoil dump site near Ambrose Light, New York Bight.
(2) Peter Owen, the Wilderness Society’s South Australia director, said: “An oil spill in the Great Australian Bight from a deep-sea well blowout would be a disaster for fisheries, tourism and marine life.
(3) The British oil giant initially planned to drill four exploratory wells by 2017, with a further six wells by 2020, in an attempt to find what could be vast oil reserves in the Ceduna basin system that lies beneath the waters of the Great Australian Bight.
(4) BP, which plans to drill a series of exploratory wells in the Great Australian Bight marine park from next year, says it would take 35 days to cap a leaking well in a “worst credible case scenario”.
(5) Measurement of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios (delta 13C and delta 15N) in samples of human bone collagen (n = 93) from a temporal series of four prehistoric (early preagricultural, late preagricultural, early agricultural, late agricultural) and two historic (early contact, late contact) periods from the Georgia Bight, a continental embayment on the southeastern U.S. Atlantic coast, reveals a general temporal trend for less negative delta 13C values and less positive delta 15N values.
(6) The New York Bight extends seaward some 80 to 100 miles (ca.
(7) The Wilderness Society’s Owen said: “The oil industry always says it has learned its lessons and then ‘bang’.” “The Great Australian Bight is one of the roughest, most remote places on the planet.
(8) Qualitative salmonella investigations and E. coli titre determinations were carried out in about 4,000 water samples taken from the coastal region of Kiel Bight (Western Baltic) in 1972 and 1973, and evaluated in connection with epidemiological data.
(9) resistant to 20 mug of mercury per ml were observed in Bight sediments contaminated by these wastes.
(10) The Great Australian Bight is quite remote; the industry isn’t as well established as the Gulf of Mexico.
(11) The histopathology of acute fin rot disease in summer flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, from the New York Bight is described.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mangroves losses (red) and surviving mangroves (green) around the shoreline and mouth of the Limmen Bight river.
(13) In the Great Australian Bight, BP plans to drill at depths of 2,200 metres, about 300km from its closest port.
(14) Meanwhile, defeated Britain would have seen its navy sunk in the Heligoland Bight, have been forced to cede its oil interests in the Middle East and the Gulf to Germany, and have been unable to contain Indian nationalism.
(15) A Senate inquiry will investigate BP’s plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight and examine how a spill could be dealt with.
(16) Of all the places to be turning into an oil field, the Great Australian Bight is not it.
(17) An oil spill from BP’s planned drilling in the Great Australian Bight could affect most of Australia’s southern coastline, shutting down fisheries and threatening wildlife including whales, seabirds and sea lions, new modelling has shown.
(18) BP oil spill in Great Australian Bight would be catastrophic, modelling shows Read more The Wilderness Society South Australia director, Peter Owen, said BP should wait until after the inquiry had reported in May before it submitted its new application.
(19) The Great Australian Bight is a breeding and feeding ground for a large array of species, including blue whales, southern right whales, great white sharks, sea lions and various seabirds.
(20) In water samples taken immediately above sandy sediments at beaches of the Kiel Fjord and the Kiel Bight (Baltic Sea, FRG), between 2.3 and 56.2% (average, 31.3%) of the total number of bacteria were actually metabolizing cells.
Boarder
Definition:
(n.) One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
(n.) One who boards a ship; one selected to board an enemy's ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the same, it's hard to approach the school, which charges nearly £28,000 for boarders and nearly £19,000 for day girls and is sometimes called "the girls' Eton", without a few prejudices.
(2) A boarder line of 12 mm inhibition zone on the slide could be used to select strains resistant to sulphisadimidine, ampicillin, nitrofurantoin or nalidixic acid.
(3) The findings show that the mothers whose newborns remained in the hospital as boarders were usually drug users, had other children in out-of-home placement, and over half are periodically homeless.
(4) The primary predictors of length of stay were maternal intravenous drug use and boarder baby status, regardless of medical need.
(5) For about an hour, the boarder Jamie Nicholls stood on the verge of winning Britain's first medal on snow at a Winter Olympics.
(6) Quite how a man who was educated at Dulwich College (current fees: £5,801 per term for day students, £12,108 per term for boarders) and then worked in the City can claim to be the voice of the disaffected working class in this country is just one of those little ironies that the modern world of politics occasionally throws our way.
(7) This paper presents the Rugby football injuries sustained by the boarders of Rugby School in the four seasons 1980-1983.
(8) Until people start empathising rather than pitying people across country and continental boarders, these intractable problems will remain.
(9) Ex-boarder leaders cannot conceive of communal solutions, because they haven't had enough belonging at home to understand what it means.
(10) Abbott said the priority was for an independent investigation into the crash and for experts to gain access to the site where MH17 came down in a rebel-held area near the Russian boarder in eastern Ukraine.
(11) At eight his "aspirational" parents took the curious decision to send him to prep school as a boarder.
(12) Taking pictures of boarders on their way to and from school was, she says now, "a hardy annual.
(13) So they dissociate from all these qualities, project them out on to others, and develop duplicitous personalities that are on the run, which is why ex-boarders make the best spies.
(14) Ex-boarders' partners often report that it ends up ruining home life, many years later.
(15) Price based on five sharing a two-bedroom, self-catering apartment, including Eurotunnel with FlexiPlus upgrades, peakretreats.co.uk Advanced skiers and boarders Saalbach, Austria, 1,003-2,100m, 70 lifts, 270km of piste Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lift from Leogang to Saalbach.
(16) In order to find methods for the prevention and control of streptococcal infections of 711 day schoolchildren and boarders, aged 7 to 14 years, were followed up during the 1969-1973 period.
(17) The early plan was for 600 weekly boarders, including a sixth form.
(18) A double-blind trial in two randomly structured groups of boarders (44 girls and 66 boys) aged 7 to 13 years was undertaken in two Bristrol schools.
(19) However, boarders smoked a lot more than the other pupils.
(20) In specialized institutions, they are day-pupils or boarders depending on family possibilities.