(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.
Promontories
Definition:
(pl. ) of Promontory
Example Sentences:
(1) Elizabeth McCaul, CEO of Promontory Europe and former New York Superintendent of Banks, had been asked to act as a special adviser, together with the firm's chief operating officer, Raffaele Cosimo.
(2) Electric middle-latency auditory evoked responses (EMLRs) to transtympanic promontory stimulation were obtained from 19 of 22 ears of profoundly hearing-impaired patients evaluated for cochlear implant candidacy.
(3) The standard procedure consisted of an abdominal sacropexy, with use of Marlex mesh to anchor the vaginal vault to the sacral promontory and retroperitonealization of the mesh.
(4) The electrodes can be implanted in bundles through the round window or into the modiolus; they can, however, also be introduced individually through several drill holes in the promontory for placement in the scala tympani and vestibuli.
(5) Your path begins to rise a little here, heading first east then south east around the rock promontories above.
(6) Although no promontory branch of the internal carotid artery appears, there is a well-developed "promontory canal" containing a nerve trunk.
(7) In 2 patients, the radiotherapeutic field extended downwards only as far as the sacral promontory.
(8) Preimplant screening included audiometric testing, electronystagmogram (ENG), promontory stimulation, computed tomography (CT) scanning, and psychological evaluation.
(9) The relative laser light attenuation by the human skin specimens corresponded to that of the human promontory bone.
(10) Sensations induced by electrical stimulation of the cochlea in humans through a promontory or a round window electrode were studied in sixteen subjects.
(11) Lysozyme was demonstrated by an immunocytochemical technique in the biopsied mucosa obtained from the promontory of the fifteen patients who had chronic middle ear effusions.
(12) Promontory testing (PT) and measurement of cochlear microphonics (CM) enabled us to distinguish between neural and sensory deafness.
(13) A single channel stimulation at the round window or promontory is used.
(14) Affected goats had folded pinnas, and the tympanic cavity was decreased due to multiple, polypoid projections of bone covered by middle ear mucosa which obstructed the view of the cochlear promontory.
(15) The Utah-design multichannel cochlear implant consists of six intracochlear monopolar electrodes, one promontory electrode, and an indifferent electrode.
(16) An ultrasound revealed a uterus incarcerated between the sacral promontory and the pubis.
(17) The operator's left hand tenses the abdominal skin while palpating the sacral promontory.
(18) ), and an alternative to promontory rectopexy: sacral fixation of the rectum, associated sigmoidectomy, Delorme's operation?
(19) We have taken two views and two slices: an AP view to study the contents of the uterus and the morphology of the upper strait; a profile view to measure the diameter between the promontory of the sacrum and posterior surface of the symphysis, and we have programmed the two following slices: a perpendicular slice at the level of the upper strait measuring directly the transverse median diameter; another slice at the level of the sciatic spines to measure directly the diameter between these spines.
(20) To investigate the feasibility of a cochlear implant in the labyrinthectomized ear, promontory electrical testing by transtympanic needle was performed in six patients who had undergone a unilateral transmastoid labyrinthectomy 6 weeks to 5 years previously.