(n.) A large fire built in the open air, as an expression of public joy and exultation, or for amusement.
Example Sentences:
(1) We used to have a really good night in here on Bonfire night.” Communities across the UK are facing the same unwillingness by civic bodies to stage Bonfire night celebrations.
(2) But yesterday the Tories said the move was laughable as the number of quangos had risen dramatically since Labour came to power in 1997, despite a promise by Gordon Brown in opposition of a "bonfire of the quangos".
(3) They had a sprawling back garden on two tiers and with a steep bank down to the main road below; this was where the big bonfire used to burn.
(4) Jim Docking, Betchworth, Surrey Any answers Why is it a "bonfire", rather than plain "fire"?
(5) Indeed, UK Sport, now the subject of so much ministerial genuflection, was among the agencies earmarked for Francis Maude's "bonfire of the quangos" less than two years ago.
(6) It was published this week in response to freedom of information requests and immediately caused a stir with its controversial call for a bonfire of traditional employee rights.
(7) The bonfire of red tape is a surprisingly modest conflagration, which the (mainly industry-funded) potato people will survive.
(8) I said to Ben-David: ‘Enough!’ I got into the car and suddenly I saw a huge bonfire and understood the meaning.
(9) Any witness in any proceeding – proper judicial, or quasi judicial – is unlikely to throw any fuel on that particular bonfire.
(10) At least, that’s what I tell myself as I light another cigarette off the bonfire I made from burning all my daughter’s sexist toys.
(11) The " bonfire of the quangos " saw the Food Standards Agency severely cut and stripped of responsibility for food quality.
(12) It would be a bonfire of rights that Labour governments secured within the EU.
(13) Labour made him head of the Homes and Communities Agency; the Tories, evidently impressed by such a bonfire of public assets, made him their permanent secretary for communities and local government.
(14) With Halloweeen and Bonfire night behind us, the countdown to Christmas has truly started.
(15) One issue is the lack of a single voice for cycling issues in government after Cycling England was abolished in April in the "bonfire of the quangos".
(16) Chief among these, according to Labour, was Cameron's threat, if elected, to burn, in a "bonfire of quangos", Ofcom, which is conducting the review of pay television vehemently opposed by the substantially Murdoch-owned BSkyB.
(17) They have been placed on the bonfire of austerity, a necessary sacrifice, and as they burn, we warm our hands.
(18) Tories David Cameron said that the media regulator will be stripped of its policy-making functions, which will be returned to the government, as part of his "bonfire of the quangos".
(19) The leader of the Greens, Christine Milne, said she was concerned the so-called “regulation bonfire” contained some “very bitter pills” including changes to environmental protections.
(20) In fairness to Cameron, he understands this and disowns the "bonfire" phrase as simplistic.
Outdoor
Definition:
(a.) Being, or done, in the open air; being or done outside of certain buildings, as poorhouses, hospitals, etc.; as, outdoor exercise; outdoor relief; outdoor patients.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urban wasteland ecosystem contained in outdoor lysimeters employed as a model gives valuable information and has considerable value in predicting the ecological fate of industrial chemicals.
(2) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
(3) As far as the subjective experience of children is concerned, analysis of the answers of a total of 1200 primary school children (answers classified by sex, age and period of outdoor school) proved the primary correlation with age and thus also with the level of adaptation mechanisms.
(4) Her experience includes roles as strategic marketing director for both Google and ITV, and as CMO of Clear Channel Outdoor.
(5) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
(6) The dogs were housed in gravel-based, outdoor pens with doghouses in a high-altitude, high-sunshine level environment.
(7) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
(8) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
(9) There were 119 quarry drilling and crusher workers (outdoor, physically active), 77 quarry truck and loader drivers (outdoor, physically inactive), 92 postal deliverymen (outdoor, physically active), 75 postal clerks (indoor, physically inactive), and 43 hospital maintenance workers (indoor, physically active).
(10) The survival of infective larvae of Ancylostoma caninum on outdoor grass plots was studied in 40 experiments over 1 year.
(11) Skin tests to seasonal outdoor aeroallergens were negative, as were inhalation challenges with two insecticides used inside the building during the honey pack.
(12) A case of bilateral lesions of this type is reported in a 61-year-old male patient who used to work outdoors, and the clinical diagnosis was followed by bilateral surgical removal of the two lesions.
(13) For subjects exposed to UV lasers in a laboratory setting, the relative risk may increase to a value comparable to that of people with an outdoor profession.
(14) Six outdoor artificial streams were designed to simulate natural stream environments.
(15) From May 1968 to May 1969, 28 462 containers of water-located in approximately equal numbers indoors and outdoors-were investigated.
(16) Near the entrance was a sprawling camp kitchen, with mountains of supplies, indoor and outdoor facilities and open fires on which some of the cooking was done, and all of the gigantic vats of coffee seemed to be boiled.
(17) The hotel itself offers studios with sea views above a breakfast terrace that also hosts a large pool and an outdoor Jacuzzi.
(18) maculatus complex studied prefered to feed on animal rather than on human, and tended to bit human more outdoors than indoors, and thus exhibiting a zoophilic and exophagic behaviour.
(19) Airborne particles from living rooms which were heated by stoves, or by fire places, and from outdoors were collected simultaneously.
(20) Unique hourly activity profiles are specified for each population group; group members are assigned each hour to one of up to 10 different indoor and outdoor microenvironments.