(a.) Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France; also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican.
Example Sentences:
(1) They may not be Kurds or Kosovans, but they have much in common with Basques, Bretons and Catalans.
(2) He dismisses as "recycling" a pact announced by the prime minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault – a former Breton mayor – last month to defuse the red caps' protests, providing for €2m of investment in the region.
(3) When Claudie Le Bail joined tens of thousands of Breton "red cap" demonstrators protesting in Carhaix at the end of November to oppose regional job losses and a green tax on road freight, she took her 79-year-old mother with her.
(4) The area is part of a chain of uninhabited barrier islands in the Breton national wildlife refuge.
(5) By 6 May oil was reported as reaching the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana and Freemason Island in the Breton national wildlife refuge .
(6) Tips: Hook a mackerel and fry it for dinner just off the Cabot Trail, and learn to make Acadian potato pancakes for $22pp while savouring the cultural lore of Cape Breton.
(7) It has been highly commended in the Michelin guide and serves Breton food with a strong seafood theme.
(8) An epidemic of hepatitis B occurring in 1988 and 1989 in Cape Breton brought to light the existence of a group of "buddies" who engaged in injection drug use.
(9) 187, 227-232; Mäntele, W., Wollenweber, A., Nabedryk, E., & Breton, J.
(10) The pairing of owners Stephen Toman in the kitchen and Breton Alain Kerloc'h out front brings a superb balance of fine dining on the plate, with a fist-pumpingly rocking atmosphere.
(11) Seafood stalls are loaded with locally caught fish and fruits de mer , and look out for the excellent Breton oysters.
(12) At the foot of the hill lies the contemporary tide line of sex-sleaze – the surrealist André Breton once called it "diamantiferous mud", but nowadays it is all mud and any diamonds are paste.
(13) Earlier this year, a radio announcer in Canada set up a website inviting Americans to move to Cape Breton, population 100,000, should Trump win.
(14) She’s a locavore (where possible, she eats locally produced food) and has been recycling since the 80s, a habit learned from her Breton grandmother.
(15) Concentrations of progesterone and oestrogens were determined by radioimmunoassay in the peripheral blood of 22 Percheron and Breton breed mares from the 6th day of oestrus to the 150th day of pregnancy.
(16) This latter result is in agreement with previous photoselection studies on the same bacterial species (Vermeglio, A., Breton, J., Paillotin, G. and Cogdell, R. (1978) Biochim.
(17) The close linkage between the disease locus and several DNA markers allowed a study of the DNA restriction polymorphism pattern in 30 Breton families.
(18) But his main focus now is preparing for the second act of the revolt with a big congress in March which will formally take up Breton grievances.
(19) We have previously described a monoclonal antibody (FA6-152), obtained by immunizing mice with fetal human erythrocytes [Edelman, Vinci, Villeval, Vainchenker, Henri, Miglierina, Rouger, Reviron, Breton-Gorius, Sureau & Edelman (1986) Blood 67, 56-63].
(20) Delicious crepes and galettes , and Breton cider, are found on other stalls.
Dust
Definition:
(n.) Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.
(n.) A single particle of earth or other matter.
(n.) The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
(n.) The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
(n.) Figuratively, a worthless thing.
(n.) Figuratively, a low or mean condition.
(n.) Gold dust
(n.) Coined money; cash.
(v. t.) To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with dust.
(v. t.) To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
(2) At the end of the dusting period those animals treated with normally charged dust had significantly more chrysotile retained in their lungs than animals exposed to discharged dust.
(3) Differences between mean durations of dust exposure of workers with radiographic signs of lung fibrosis and those without such signs were statistically insignificant.
(4) Where the guanine content was more than or equal to 0.25% in the dry dust, mite numbers were higher than 10 mites per 0.1 g dust in 43 of the 44 samples.
(5) The contents of hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), in grinding dust were undetectable.
(6) The results of pathohistologic investigations are objectively demonstrated through a chart of morphological traits, thus facilitating the identification of the diagnostical morphological traits caused by different industrial dusts.
(7) A clinical investigation was made between workers exposed to dried sewage sludge dust and age matched controls not exposed.
(8) The median exposure of total dust was well below the Swedish threshold value, and the exposure of mould and bacteria was also low.
(9) Mattress dusts from the beds of 51 asthmatic children with positive skin tests to house dust mite were assayed for Der p I, Fel d I and certain viable fungi.
(10) According to the quantitative analysis between threshold titers of skin test and RAST titers using house dust and HD mites allergens, specific IgE production shall be decreased in the patients over 40 years old.
(11) Both the observance of occupational limit-values for dusts and other harmful materials at the work place, which have effects on the respiration system, and the medical survey of workers with the use of special methods for examination of respiratory system are necessary.
(12) Further, investigation of electrokinetic properties of these dusts by electrophoretic quasielastic light scattering is described.
(13) We have recently demonstrated in vitro a potential biological mechanism which could occur in vivo upon inhaling airborne graon dust, thereby constituting a potential inflammatory insult to the respiratory tracts of grain workers.
(14) After allowance for the fact that regression analyses suggested that the proportion of tremolite in dust was probably 2.5 times higher in Thetford Mines, Quebec, than in Charleston, the results from both matched pair and stratification analyses of tremolite fibre concentrations in lung were almost the same as for chrysotile.
(15) In vitro exposure of macrophages and neutrophils to inorganic dusts can enhance their oxidative metabolism, however the effects of inorganic dust inhalation on lung-inflammatory cell-oxidative metabolism remain unknown.
(16) Fifty asthmatics, candidates for hyposensitization with the house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Dp), went through a series of allergy tests to evaluate the sensitivity of different organs to Dp.
(17) Specified cytotoxicity and mutagenicity of coal dust extract (mixture of solvent extractions of bituminous coal nitrosated by NaNO2) were investigated because of the association of an excess risk of gastric cancer in coal miners.
(18) History is littered with examples of byelection sensations that soon turned to dust.
(19) Inhalant allergens as mite house dust, animal danders, pollens, molds and food allergens are considered, now, to be the most sensitizing agents.
(20) Water from the reactors that were the source of Sonoda's drink is being used to spray trees to limit the buildup of dust and prevent fires.