What's the difference between brae and hillside?

Brae


Definition:

  • (n.) A hillside; a slope; a bank; a hill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We identified five cistrons corresponding to these bra genes by complementation analysis with various derivatives of pKTH24, confirming that the braD, braE, braF, and braG genes are required for the LIV-I transport system.
  • (2) The nucleotide sequence of the 4-kilobase DNA fragment was determined and found to contain four open reading frames, designated braD, braE, braF, and braG.
  • (3) Take the left-hand turn for Balmeanach off the Braes road and look out for the parking spot.
  • (4) Analysis with an omega interposon showed that the bra genes are organized as an operon and are cotranscribed in the order braC-braD-braE-braF-braG from a promoter located in the 5'-flanking region of the braC gene.
  • (5) The braD and braE genes specify very hydrophobic proteins of 307 and 417 amino acid residues, respectively.
  • (6) (The walking tours visit the old pier and pontoons, the Brae with its crofts and ancient trees, the Open Air Church and the War Memorial.)
  • (7) While neolithic Skara Brae and Maes Howe on mainland Orkney hoover up the publicity, this astonishingly well-preserved burial chamber is all but unknown.
  • (8) The high affinity branched-chain amino acid transport system (LIV-I) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is composed of five components: BraC, a periplasmic binding protein for branched-chain amino acids; BraD and BraE, integral membrane proteins; BraF and BraG, putative nucleotide-binding proteins.
  • (9) These sites included the 5,000-year-old village of Skara Brae; the giant chambered grave of Maeshowe, a Stone Age mausoleum whose internal walls were later carved with runes by Vikings; and the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar, two huge neighbouring circles of standing stones.
  • (10) Many of the earliest ones, such as the neolithic Scara Brae in Orkney, have single-roomed homes ordered around a central hearth, an arrangement found in traditional societies all over the world.
  • (11) All of the mutants were complemented by plasmid pKTH24, harboring the braC gene, which encodes the branched-chain amino acid-binding protein, and the four open reading frames named braD, braE, braF, and braG (T. Hoshino and K. Kose, J. Bacteriol.
  • (12) Every animal on that brae is likely to have cost taxpayers thousands of pounds a year.
  • (13) Ben Tianavaig, Braes Looking across the Sound of Raasay to Ben Tianavaig.

Hillside


Definition:

  • (n.) The side or declivity of a hill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its few remaining mines involve people digging coal out of hillsides.
  • (2) Roberts was pronounced dead at 5.10pm on the hillside.
  • (3) During a five year period, idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis was diagnosed in nine patients 70 to 79 years of age and in 26 patients 20 to 66 years of age who were referred to the cardiology division of the Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center because of symptomatic heart disease.
  • (4) Hillsides denuded of trees for terraced farming plots are common.
  • (5) Look and listen out for Little owls hunting voles and mice and badgers crossing over the summit from a set on the hillside below.
  • (6) To self-described “militia members” sleeping in wind-whipped tents, drinking camp coffee and patrolling rocky hillsides with military-style weapons, protecting Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his family from an overreaching federal government is a patriotic duty .
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The remote Heydalur hot pot in the Westfjords Eventually the hotel Heydalur (doubles from £59) appears, a hillside of random outbuildings.
  • (8) The ventilatory capacity of the more active children, including those who have lived all their lives in squatter huts on the hillsides, is on average 8 per cent larger than for the inactive children including those who have lived all their lives in tenement flats with lifts.
  • (9) A fter several hours walking along stark cliffs and ridges, I come down a hillside dotted with white asphodels and find myself on an untrodden beach.
  • (10) In June he and his team were looking at the steep hillsides around the village of Glogova, where remains had been tipped out of trucks and allowed to roll down a gorge.
  • (11) Friends and pilgrims visited and took home with them something of the hillside.
  • (12) Now, after decades of remaining quietly out of the national spotlight, the gentle hillsides and country lanes of the Yorkshire Wolds are preparing for a deluge of attention brought on by interest in David Hockney's latest paintings.
  • (13) Ancient towns and wooded hillsides looked gorgeous reflected in the blue water, but we were beguiled just as much by the people.
  • (14) The crew had been shooting all day on a deserted hillside when at 4pm the extras suddenly disappeared.
  • (15) On the night of 7 April 2010, Luciano Machado was doing electrical work on a roof in the hillside favela Morro do Bumba.
  • (16) They own five properties dotted over the Sea Point hillside, and you can’t miss Themba, their friendly manager, who ferries guests around in a bright red tuk-tuk.
  • (17) Hillsides are bereft of trees, leaving communities such as hers increasingly vulnerable to floods and landslides.
  • (18) The hillsides of the West Bank are rustling with industry.
  • (19) Tree cover is restricted to small patches along streams and some hillsides; there are euphorbia hedges and scattered trees in rural communities and along roadsides.
  • (20) Deciduous trees growing in a natural forest on the hillsides downslope from the site were sampled for the presence of tritiated water in sap of maple trees and in leaf water extracted from oak and hickory trees.

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