(n.) Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.
(n.) The brambling or bramble finch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The footpaths I followed became swamped with knapweed, bramble and nettle.
(2) Visit on Friday or Saturday night and you'll find some of Edinburgh's beautiful people occupying Bramble's many cubbyholes.
(3) Open Mon–Sat 5pm–1am; Sun 5pm–midnight Bramble Bramble, Edinburgh You could easily miss Bramble from the street.
(4) Clam enterocystoplasty has proved to be the most effective treatment for severe detrusor instability resistant to conservative treatment (Bramble, 1982; Mundy and Stephenson, 1985).
(5) By all means, adapt it to your taste: I've swapped the usual raspberry jam for a sharper blackcurrant, but cherry or bramble jam, or even marmalade might work nicely, too.
(6) In Chapter 1, for example, Pip recalls watching Magwitch pick his way through the graveyard brambles, "as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in".
(7) Small birds rose up in clouds from the pond’s edge: chaffinches, bramblings, a flock of long-tailed tits that caught in willow branches like animated cotton buds.
(8) Another disused railway line near Kenilworth was now an urban “Greenway”: the companionship of cyclists and dog‑walkers was welcome after my discomfort on the deserted, brambled-choked footpaths of rural England.
(9) A sparrowhawk, light as a toy of balsa-wood and doped tissue-paper, zipped past at knee-level, kiting up over a bank of brambles and away into the trees.
(10) Titus Bramble is training with West Ham as he looks for a new club.
(11) There were brambles along the hedgerow with shrivelled stalks, and berryless hawthorns.
(12) The present work is concerned with the aroma of hybrids between raspberry (Rubus idaeus, L.) and arctic bramble (Rubus arcticus, L.).
(13) There is going to be great competition and I’m really looking forward to it.” Elsewhere, another British gold medal winner on 2012’s Super Saturday, and also the European and Commonwealth champion, Greg Rutherford, hopes to recapture his best long jump form against a field that includes Marquis Dendy, who jumped a wind-assisted 8.68m this year, plus the improving Briton Dan Bramble.
(14) I had to press myself into brambles on a single-track road to avoid lorries destined for a municipal tip.
(15) "It's a milestone, and hopefully there are more to come," says Charles Eddy, a board member of Friends of the LA River, and part of this expedition, as he navigates his kayak through brambles.
(16) Photograph: Queensland Government The Bramble Cay melomys – a small rodent that lives on a tiny island in the eastern Torres Strait, and the only mammal endemic to the Great Barrier Reef – has the dubious honour of being the first mammal to be made extinct primarily due to human-induced climate change.
(17) The view from Fun City The morning after the rally, it has become clear that Iowa may be the bramble in Trump’s path.
(18) Ramsons and Bramble Ramson and Bramble, created by a vegetarian chef, is a step closer to indulgence than some veggie blogs, but all the better for it.
(19) The contents of the corresponding compounds in arctic bramble and in raspberry are also given.
(20) Finally, I was confronted by impenetrable dereliction: great mounds of brambles and nettles.
Rose
Definition:
(imp.) of Rise
() imp. of Rise.
(n.) A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere
(n.) A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe.
(n.) A rose window. See Rose window, below.
(n.) A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump.
(n.) The erysipelas.
(n.) The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.
(n.) The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.
(n.) A diamond. See Rose diamond, below.
(v. t.) To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush.
(v. t.) To perfume, as with roses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(2) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(3) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(4) With glucose and protein as intraduodenal stimulus (no pancreatin added), the plasma amino acids rose significantly less (by approximately 50% of the control experiment) and the increment in insulin (but not C-peptide) concentrations was significantly reduced by loxiglumide.
(5) LH and FSH levels in the group which were given low dose progesterone only, rose consistently after BSO and these patterns were similar to those seen in the control group.
(6) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
(7) The overall incidence in patients over 50 years of age was 8.5%; it was more than twice as high in women (11.5%) as in men (4.5%) and rose sharply with age.
(8) The volume of distribution is about 600 l. In almost every subject the plasma levels rose again after this distribution phase.
(9) Circulating acute phase protein concentrations rose in all subjects during a thirty hour period following injury but none of the subjects showed a detectable rise in circulating concentrations of TNF.
(10) However, coinciding with the height of inflammation and clinical signs at 12 dpi, the GFAP mRNA content dropped to approximately 50% of the level at 11 dpi but rose again at 13 dpi.
(11) In the water-loaded state, MAP rose significantly at the lowest rate of infusion in both pregnant and non-pregnant ewes.
(12) Blood pressure rose and heart rate fell in proportion to the dose of noradrenaline infused.
(13) In normovolemia, the hepatic arterial flow (HAF) increased as the systemic arterial pressure (SAP) rose up to 140 mmHg, and then decreased as SAP rose further.
(14) Testosterone was low until 68 weeks after which concentrations rose slowly to 80 weeks and increased rapidly to a plateau at 92 weeks.
(15) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(16) The percentages of bacteria phagocytized and intracellularly killed by macrophages rose to 60-80% and 85-95% respectively when the doubling time was longer, showing that S. mutans is particularly sensitive to nonspecific immune defence mechanisms when cultured under conditions similar to those of its natural ecosystem.
(17) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(18) After effective treatment the level fell and rose again 10 months prior to the conventional clinical diagnosis of relapse.
(19) The concentration of androstenedione and testosterone rose rapidly; reaching a peak after 10 minutes and returning to near baseline level by 30 minutes.
(20) Last week the labor bureau reported that the US added just 69,000 jobs in May as the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%, the first rise in nine months.