(n.) The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.
(n.) An aperture, with a wooden shutter, in the wall of a house, for giving, occasionally, air or light; also, a small closet.
(n.) A measure. See Boll, n., 2.
(n.) Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.
(n.) A bolus; a dose.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The associated underground extraction takes place very deep below the Earth's surface, over a wide geographical area," Boles said.
(2) Under Right to Build, announced by the former housing minister Nick Boles in July, individuals will have the right to register their interest in building their own home and the local authority will have a duty to ensure that suitable affordable plots are made available by granting planning consents and working with local registered providers such as housing associations.
(3) I said to Nick Boles, who at the time was the planning minister, ‘Have you been down to Eastleigh yet?’ and he said, ‘I’m told I’m not allowed to go down in case it inflames the whole housebuilding issue’.
(4) To stop a beam in the target computer-assisted three-dimensional design and heterogeneity calculations were performed; computed compensatory boles were produced.
(5) A series of Tory figures have canvassed the possibility of a formal or informal pact, including leading backbencher Nicholas Boles, former prime minister John Major and leader of the Lords, Lord Strathclyde.
(6) I said to Nick Boles, who at the time was the planning minister, ‘Have you been down to Eastleigh yet?’ and he said, ‘I’m told I’m not allowed to go down in case it inflames the whole housebuilding issue.’” Browne added: “The public, whether it’s the NHS or housebuilding, detect that gap, and you will see it now at constituency level with quite debased leaflet-based campaigning about what the parties are going to stop at local level, which is almost completely at odds with the macro-level speeches that the leaders are making up in Westminster.
(7) As planning minister Nick Boles discovered last week, when he talked about building 100,000 new homes on two million acres of countryside, building more houses can be controversial.
(8) The idea that he'd have been better off spending the day trooping around a shopping centre is nonsense," says Nicholas Boles, chair of the Cameronite Policy Exchange thinktank.
(9) Benn said he agreed with the planning minister, Nick Boles, that "we can't carry on moaning about the difficulty our children are facing in finding somewhere to live while opposing all planning applications for new housing".
(10) It is the same, incidentally, whenever the planning minister, Nick Boles, says fields are overrated and the green belt should be built on.
(11) Mathematical models of bole and branch form are presented, based on the proposition that either wind or gravity are the primary limiting factors for tree size and shape.
(12) At the time that the same sex marriage act was passed the equalities minister, Nick Boles, said: “I know how important it is for couples to have the option of marriage available to them.
(13) Nick Boles, planning minister, called last year for 2-3% of the UK's open land to be built on to create enough homes for people, while last week the environment secretary Owen Paterson told the Times he supported "newt credits", by which developers could offset any environmental damage in one area by funding environmental improvements elsewhere.
(14) The business minister Nick Boles said: “These changes will also simplify the law for businesses so they can spend less time worrying about unclear and unwieldy regulations.” Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?, said: “Consumer law was crying out to be brought up to date to cope with the requirements and demands of today’s shoppers.
(15) Green-belt land in England should be freed up for new housing developments, according to a centre-right thinktank established by the new planning minister, Nick Boles.
(16) It would mean a "disproportionately large number of individuals and businesses" would have to be personally informed, Boles told MPs in a written statement.
(17) Last week, the Tory MP Nick Boles gave a speech in which he lauded Johnson's popularity in a climate where "there is a substantial group of people who will literally not even contemplate voting Conservative".
(18) Instead, Francis Maude , the Cabinet Office minister and one of the thinktank's founders, will make a speech recalling how, back in 2002, Policy Exchange, under the aegis of its first director, Nick Boles, was conceived to fill an intellectual void on the centre right.
(19) Many proposals by Policy Exchange, founded by a group including ministers Michael Gove, Francis Maude and Nick Boles, have found their way into Conservative manifestos in the past.
(20) At 27, he has worked in hotels, for the Aldi supermarket and for the Tory MPs Mark Spencer and Nick Boles.
Boule
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Boulework
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Facebook.com The best spot in town for lunch is Boule de Bleu on rue de la Coupe.
(2) Urethral calibration with bougie à boule, uroflowmetry and urethral pressure profile were performed before urethral dilatation and 1 week after the last dilatation.
(3) The depiction of the Neandertals as incompletely erect was based primarily on Boule's (1911, 1912a, 1913) analysis of the La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 partial skeleton.
(4) Dyck shakes her head happily; they didn't have boules in Friedrichshain.
(5) Instead, teams of workers are there, planning playgrounds, wooden terraces, waterside gardens restaurants and rectangular terrains for playing boules.
(6) Linger over brunch, join in a game of bocce (boules) or just laze by the fire pit.
(7) For younger guests there are high chairs, travel cots, books, games and boules sets.
(8) Best place in town for lunch – the Boule de Bleu restaurant.
(9) • From €1,200 a week, +33 2 98 55 29 26, frenchberry.com Le Gohic, near Pontivy Pick one of five pretty cottages at this little hamlet, or book the whole place for a family gathering – either way you get to use the solar-heated (and fenced) pool, trampoline, boules pitch and mini cinema.
(10) However, it has come to be believed, following Straus and Cave (1957), that Boule's errors of reconstruction were due to the diseased condition of the La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 remains, rather than to Boule's misinterpretation of morphology.
(11) None of these abnormalities significantly affected Boule's Neandertal postural reconstruction, and a review of his analysis indicates that early twentieth century interpretations of skeletal morphology (primarily of the cranium, cervical vertebrae, lumbar and sacral vertebrae, proximal femora and tibiae, posterior tarsals, and hallucial tarsometatarsal joint), combined with Boule's evolutionary preconceptions, were responsible for his mistaken view of Neandertal posture.
(12) Le Banquet, Les Eyzies, Aquitaine The owners of this group of three Périgordine cottages set in beautiful riverside grounds have thought of everything to make life easier for parents: a large swimming pool and paddling pool for tots, a play area with swings and slide, a boules court and a games barn with table football, table tennis, pool, board games, books, toys and DVDs.
(13) All of the pubs in Otley have translated their names into French, from Le Lion Rouge to Le Terrain de Boules.
(14) The mean urethral caliber of 250 women undergoing cystoscopy to stage cancer of the cervix was 22F, as measured by the bougie à boule.
(15) She draws up a set of sports, which include welly-throwing, egg-and-spoon race, boules, sprints, long-distance running, and paper-dart making and throwing.
(16) There are neuro-fibrillary tangles "en boules" in the NbM of the two types of dementia, but more frequently in Alzheimer's disease.
(17) It is a route favoured by coachloads of old-timers from Marseille and Aix who stop for picnics and a game of boules.
(18) Although he raps mostly in French, Awadi seamlessly drops into Wolof and repeatedly uses the term "Boul Falé".
(19) Meatal stenosis or distal urethral stenosis was found in 14% measured by bougie à boule calibration.
(20) The inaccurate aspects of Boule's postural reconstruction were corrected during the 1950s.