(n.) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
(n.) One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.
(n.) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
(v. i.) To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in.
Example Sentences:
(1) At about 10.15pm, he woke and saw Michael hanging from the top rail of the double bunk.
(2) A studio for three (which includes a set of bunk beds) during the same period, in Praia apartments, 9km from the Maracanã, is available for £7,819.
(3) Soldiers also spoke of how positive the experience had been – even if they had lost out on a bunk.
(4) But surely no machinist could bunk off their punishing workload to script these complaints in pristine English, stitch them in and whisk them past a pin-sharp inspector.
(5) The former TV and radio presenter, who suffers from an irregular heartbeat, sleeps on the bottom bunk of the bed he shares with his cellmate because he is unable to tackle the ladders, the court heard.
(6) This was partly compensated for by a higher intake of bunk feedstuffs.
(7) He slept in a bunk bed in his parents’ home until, aged 24, he left to get married to another solicitor, Saadiya Ahmed.
(8) She did not hesitate to treat Hefner's emancipation claims as bunk.
(9) The two groups of cows were housed in adjoining lots and fed identical rations from opposite sides of a feed bunk which provided .9 m linear feeding space per cow.
(10) In the barrack, the bunks were three on top of each other.
(11) Rationing of individual concentrates was according to parity, milk yield, milk yield potential, BW changes, and bunk feed-stuffs.
(12) Injuries occurred during sleep (19 children [29%]), getting in or out of the bunk bed (13 children [20%]), or playing in or near the beds (28 children [43%]).
(13) The Tories’ Corbyn attack video is absurd, paranoid and nasty – and will work | Jonathan Jones Read more Needless to say, both depictions are bunk.
(14) A control group of children who use bunk beds but who came to the emergency department for another reason were also interviewed.
(15) The boys in the top bunks played mouth organs, and I danced to entertain them.
(16) Among women with a duration of pregnancy between 37 and 42 gestational weeks procentual frequency, confidence intervals of O. Bunke, pounts of separability and areas of unsharpners were analysed.
(17) Numerous flights out of Wellington, Auckland and regional North Island centres have also been delayed or diverted due to the conditions, with passengers bunking down in the airport after being unable to find accommodation in the city.
(18) Many of them had to sleep on the floor to give holidaymakers their bunks.
(19) David Cameron shared a military bunk bed with former England player Michael Owen on their flight out to Afghanistan to promote a new football partnership aimed at boosting national spirit in the war-torn country.
(20) She conceded it would, observing that if visitors had the stamina to walk up the cursus or the avenue from the east, there would be nothing stopping them from bunking in without paying.
Rot
Definition:
(v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
(v. i.) Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
(v. t.) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
(v. t.) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
(n.) Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
(n.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
(n.) A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
(2) Severe fruit rot of guava due to Phytophthora nicotianae var.
(3) The evidence suggests that this isozyme is not necessary for soft-rot pathogenesis.
(4) The eurozone's 17 finance ministers began crisis talks in Brussels on Monday night "to stop the rot" with Italian bond yields – the country's cost of borrowing – hitting a new peak of 6.69%, threatening to crash the euro system, and political leaders from virtually all countries outside Germany lining up to demand full-scale ECB intervention.
(5) Bundesliga in 1997 when his team Rot-Weiss Essen was relegated," writes Matthias Gläfke.
(6) The antibiotic is effective in control of cucumber root rot under hydroponic cultivation conditions.
(7) Partly ROT arises from aversion of healthy people to very severe decay.
(8) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
(9) Yvonne Roberts: Mea culpa is journalism's dry rot You are right, Lucy, the best confessional writing has a universal truth.
(10) cereanus are also frequently recovered from the rotting tissue being utilized by the Drosophila species, the interactions described here are viewed as a possible adaptation in which the yeast provides benefits to one of its vectors by metabolism of 2-propanol in the habitat.
(11) In preparations stained by congo-rot and covered with arabic gumm amyloid deposits reveal intensive, positive bi refringement, collagen is isotrop, or shows a mild bi refringement.
(12) Extensive metabolism of AT to CO2 by the white rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium (approximately 60% in 30 days) was also demonstrated.
(13) Liverpool still do not look convincing top-four candidates but at least the rot has been stopped.
(14) In 22 mildly deteriorated elderly patients the total score on a reality orientation questionnaire improved after 3 months ROT.
(15) Differences between the pathogen and nonpathogen suggest that regulation of pectate lyase synthesis is related to pathogenicity of soft-rot bacteria.
(16) Fetal hypothalamic-pituitary ROT does not seem to play any part in parturition.
(17) But nothing in the photographs of Gaddafi wounded, dead, dragged through the streets, and finally on display, rotting in public, has been anything like as disgusting as the thoroughly hypocritical and self-deceiving international reaction to these pictures.
(18) When we came the first time we found her trying to cook two slices of rotting apple in a saucepan,” said Valentina.
(19) The difference in washout-efficacy between Pap and Rot on the inhibition of 40-K induced tension was ascribed to a difference in their mitochondrial binding properties.
(20) Two hundred sheep were included in the study, 100 with detectable foot rot lesions and 100 without.