(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.
Hight
Definition:
(n.) A variant of Height.
(imp.) of Hight
(p. p.) of Hight
(v. t. & i.) To be called or named.
(v. t. & i.) To command; to direct; to impel.
(v. t. & i.) To commit; to intrust.
(v. t. & i.) To promise.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of these and previous results it is concluded that the availability of NE in the MPO is an important factor in determining the hight of the preovulatory LH surge.
(2) Theophylline (5 mM)and dbcAMP (2mM) induced a 2=fold increase in glucagon release at low or hight glucose concentrations .
(3) There was, however, no correlation between the time of appearance of protection and that of appearance of antibodies nor between the hight of antibody titres and degree of protection.
(4) Seven of the 28 patients complained of difficulty with hight vision; six of these seven had morphologic lesions on ophthalmoscopic examination, confirmed by fluorescein angiography.
(5) However, the apples that were kepat at supracryoscopic temperature retained a hight phytoalexin activity.
(6) After 3 years the alveolar process had developed to almost normal vertical hight.
(7) In experiments on 105 white rats using histological, histochemical, and morphometric methods the state of the lungs following daily "rises" in a pressure chamber to the "hight" of 5000--9000 m at verious time intervals--from 1 day to 9 weeks was studied.
(8) In the control animals when compared to the normotensive rats of both sexes, the genetically hypertensive rats of both sexes show elevated aversion towards open space and hight (when the number of visits of centre and open arms is considered), and elevated total time of locomotor-exploratory activity; the hypertensive males show decrease and female increase in time spent and in number of head-dipping.
(9) One case of chronic hypocalcemia and hyperphosphatemia, with an adult coeliac disease, hight P.T.H.
(10) In the control animals, when compared to the normotensive rats of Wistar strain, the genetically hypertensive rats of both sexes show elevated aversion towards open space and hight in the elevated plus-maze, reduced time spent head dipping in holeboard.
(11) Because of the hight sensitivity of this method, the assay of duodenal samples can be made with minimal volumes (0.1 ml) allowing a direct extraction by organic solvents.
(12) Administration of hight doses of retinyl acetate into rats caused an increase in content of retinol in liver tissue and kidney and retinyl palmitate in liver tissue, kidney and blood.
(13) The incidence of anastomotic leak is hight as a post operative complication.
(14) It may also be applicable to cases of imperforate anus with a hight pouch.
(15) Now each of these calculated function terms is valid for the whole time intervals in which the body hight growth process performs.
(16) The lower limit of the hight of the inter-body spurs in case with myelopathy and spinal subarachnoid block was 3 mm.
(17) These anatomical and spatial advantage of the maxillary artery seemed to be favorable donor artery to the middle cerebral artery and have brought hight patency rate in our series of anastomosis than that of the other previous experimental extracranial-intracranial shunts.
(18) Compared with the Ca45-filter technique the electrometrically measuring device built up was beside the obvious advantages of a directly indicating method more fast, simple and hightly sensitive.
(19) In the second session statistically significant alleviation of aversion towards open space and hight was attained in both strains of rats, in both sexes and under the both doses of diazepam.
(20) Applied to 135 Acanthodactylus, from eight clusters of collecting sites, a multidimensional analysis of 11 characters, mainly of colouring and scale patterns, providing 35 mathematical variables, reveals a hight intrapopulational variability.