(n.) A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.
(v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.
(n.) A small stick of wood, as for firewood.
(n.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.
(n.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
(n.) A strap which enters a buckle.
(n.) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
(n.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the St George Hotel in Darlington, where they were billeted for the group stage, there was endless confusion at orders of rice and soy sauce for breakfast.
(2) Were she honoured in Stockholm, it would also be a generous and welcome boost to the morale of all those struggling manfully to honour Frau Merkel’s confident ‘Yes, we can’ by coping practically with the asylum seekers billeted daily on their towns and villages.
(3) The misogynist masterpiss billets half the population to the whorehouse.
(4) The measured (3)JHNHalpha coupling constants and the intensity of the intraresidue HN-Halpha NOEs agree well with the solution structures of three of the proteins, using the existing parametrization of the Karplus curve (Pardi, A., Billeter, M. and Wuthrich, K. (1984) J. Mol.
(5) The nucleotide sequences (13 to 26 nucleotides) and map positions of these oligonucleotides were known from previous work (Billeter, M. A.
(6) Supplier relations Since Adelca’s demand for scrap metals is greater than the supply – and recycled scrap costs less than imported billets – the company has invested in building up its network of recyclers, including donating metal cutting equipment, offering loans, providing and paying for training and promising the best price for the scrap metals provided.
(7) According to Isabel Meza, head of integrated management at Adelca, by importing fewer billets, they are saving $12m (£7.6m) on the 20,000 tonnes of steel they produce every month.
(8) Untreated beech waste -- forest billets -- showed a low digestibility (5.6%) and that of zero fibre was somewhat higher (12.6%).
(9) Occasionally it is alleged that the billet began to totter during the stroke and that the left hand responded to this stimulus by an unwilled movement to the billet.
(10) Objects were beech-billets with relatively big cross-section areas.
(11) A map of the large T1 oligonucleotides of the RNA of Prague Rous sarcoma virus, strain B (Pr RSVb) has recently been established (Coffin and Billeter, submitted for publication).
(12) Rozanne used to bicycle from what she describes in wartime slang as her "billet" with a working-class couple, the Dickenses, in Fenny Stratford.
(13) Those billeted on the other side of the building will look out at the intriguing, if bizarre, sight of a huge deserted, cylindrical former hotel in a typically bold Oscar Niemeyer design.
(14) Clearly running Centrica – or SSE or npower, both of which have also changed their chief executives in the past year or so – is not the easiest billet in the commercial universe.
(15) 246, 5003-5024) and the cognate nucleotide sequence recently determined in our laboratory (C. Escarmis and M. A. Billeter, unpublished results).
(16) Seven young soldiers, billeted in their house, made a mascot of young Alfred, who was profoundly impressed by the encounter.
(17) Complete sequence-specific assignments of the 1H NMR spectrum of bungarotoxin were reported in the previous paper [Basus, V.J., Billeter, M., Love, R.A., Stroud, R.M., & Kuntz, I.D.
(18) The working assumption is all billets are going to be open by the end of the year,” he said.
(19) She has always hunted out old letters from antique markets, little scraps of billets-doux and deeds of sale, faint tracings of forgotten human hope in copperplate, the ink faded to brown and grey.
(20) If Clegg returns to the Cabinet Offices, where the deputy prime minister is billeted, and insists that the terrorism laws are indeed changed in line with the wishes of his party conference, I will take all this back.
Firewood
Definition:
(n.) Wood for fuel.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the past, he explains, 'encroachers' failed to respect the park's boundaries, sneaking into the forest to gather firewood and fell trees for timber.
(2) In 1977 the Green Belt Movement began with Maathai organizing women to plant trees for firewood.
(3) The animals were hunted and trapped for their meat and fur and the trees provided the firewood that littered the forest floor.
(4) Adolescent girls are then asked to fulfill the adult woman's functions in gathering firewood and fetching water.
(5) A programme that aims to supply firewood in a sustainable manner, which started in 1998, has been undermined by unauthorised exploitation of its plantations by traders from the camps, found the impact study.
(6) When the Roman empire collapsed, he said, large parts of Europe had been deforested for farmland and to provide firewood.
(7) "I try to boil it but if I don't have firewood we drink it as it is," she says.
(8) It is estimated to be worth £72- £124m annually in social and environmental benefits and is famously good for burning, known in poems as a firewood fit for a queen.
(9) Now, if they wish to gather firewood, medicinal plants or building materials they must approach their parish council for a permit and pay a small fee - anywhere from 200 to 500UGS (60p-£1.50).
(10) Sompasauna shacks are free to use and maintained by volunteers; visitors may have to chop their own firewood with the saw from blocks of wood provided.
(11) He also realised that the commercialisation of the baobab could provide rural communities with a financial incentive to protect their woodlands and act as a bulwark against deforestation in a country that is losing its trees at a rate of around 3% a year as people clear land for firewood and farming.
(12) "I'm not used to chopping firewood and my body aches but then doing it this way we only spend €300 on heating our home."
(13) There were "small incidents" with Roma accused of pilfering firewood or vegetables and other petty crime, but only 12 "petty larcenies" were reported to police during the first four months of 2011.
(14) "Seventy years of growth and now good for firewood only," sighs Olrik.
(15) Socioeconomic factors contributing to the injuries included the use of firewood for cooking at ground-level and for warming the house and body during the cold season; loose indigenous garments; thatch-roofed huts and the post-partum rituals of mud-bed heating and hot baths.
(16) A trip through Dalsland’s Lake District in Sweden can be adapted according to paddlers’ lust for adventure, with camping spots and firewood provided, as they navigate their way through scenic waterways surrounded by rich woodland.
(17) "I really want to go to school, I like school," he says, now balancing a basket full of firewood.
(18) Now when we see each other we ask, ‘Were you raped today?’ ” The report says: “Armed assailants, including members of state security forces, operating with complete impunity, sexually assault, rape, beat, shoot, and stab women and girls inside camps for the displaced and as they walk to market, tend to their fields, or forage for firewood.” It suggests five areas in which measures to protect women and children from sexual violence should be taken: physical protection, emergency health services, access to justice, legal and policy reform, and promotion of women’s equality.
(19) It is hard to convince them to listen to us.” Mir Fatteh Khan, a burly man of 40, worries about his 10 children, many of whom have taken to wandering the foothills in search of firewood.
(20) The fund is intended to provide African governments and people living in the rainforest with a viable alternative to logging, mining, and felling trees for firewood and subsistence farming.