(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.
Pole
Definition:
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.
(n.) A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.
(n.) A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch.
(v. t.) To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.
(v. t.) To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.
(v. t.) To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.
(v. t.) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
(n.) Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.
(n.) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.
(n.) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.
(n.) The firmament; the sky.
(n.) See Polarity, and Polar, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
(2) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(3) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(4) David Blunkett, not Straw, was the home secretary at the time the decision was taken to allow Poles and others immediate access to the British labour market.
(5) PYY-containing secretory granules were primarily found in the basal pole of open-type endocrine cells.
(6) Were he from Iceland, or from the north pole, then I would say he still had his ski boots on.
(7) A 40 year old female presented with secondary glaucoma and loss of vision due to anterior pole metastasis of breast carcinoma.
(8) A modification of a previously described curved ruler, the current model has a hinge for greater ease of maneuverability and a "T" piece on one end to facilitate measurement and marking of both poles of the muscle without repositioning the ruler.
(9) Two of them, the radiocapitate and deep radioscapholunate, insert on the scaphoid, whereas the collateral ligament courses to the distal pole of the scaphoid.
(10) Thus, the present observations provide histochemical evidence indicating an exclusive localization of calcium in mitochondria and tubulovesicular structures of the secretory ameloblast, and support their contributions to the translocation of calcium from the proximal to the distal pole of the cytoplasm.
(11) His balancing pole swayed uncontrollably, nearly tapping the sides of his feet.
(12) The retinal findings are quite similar to those found in diabetic retinopathy, except for unilaterality corresponding to the more obstructed artery and early onset in the retinal midzone rather than the posterior pole.
(13) Less marked lesions were however observed in distal tubules, particularly large vacuoles were present at the apical poles of the tubule cells, the sites of kallikrein secretion.
(14) The testicular vein--midway between the internal inguinal ring and the lower pole of the kidney--divides into the medial and lateral branch to form a delta.
(15) Probably there is a continuity of this system throughout the entire vascular pole including (1) all granulated cells, (2) all lacis cells, (3) the mesangium cells and (4) the adjacent smooth muscle cells of the vas afferens and vas efferens.
(16) In all of the old rats, but not in any of the young ones, symmetric high voltage activity was observed in the frontal pole of the cortex.
(17) Later, these vacuoles were divided into numerous vesicular spiral formation-centers, producing micronemes at the apical pole of young merozoites.
(18) Therefore, this nonrandom segregation to opposite poles can occur by mechanisms that do not involve DNA sequence homology.
(19) The intranuclear spindle of yeast has an electron-opaque body at each pole.
(20) All of these AChE positive fibers appeared to be related to the medial portions of the dorsal hippocampus from its septal pole to the dorsal psalterium.