(n.) The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(2) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(3) The first site we explored was a big burial cairn in the shadow of Carn Menyn, where the Stonehenge bluestones come from."
(4) Getting them to end traditional burials [in which washing the body was a route of transmission of the virus] and accept that treatment was for their benefit was very difficult.
(5) His body was flown to Melbourne for burial the following week.
(6) It offers details for preparing the baby for viewing and holding, describes burial arrangements, and provides information on hospital policies for the disposal of a fetal demise or stillbirth.
(7) The first bluestones, the smaller standing stones, were brought from Wales and placed as grave markers around 3,000BC, and it remained a giant circular graveyard for at least 200 years, with sporadic burials after that, he claims.
(8) How society uses human and monetary resources will be markedly affected by AIDS, considering the high social costs of education, condoms, treatment, death and burial.
(9) The Wellcome Trust announced it was funding the first human trials of a third vaccine , to start imminently, so that it can be tested in health workers and burial teams in west Africa in December, alongside two others.
(10) Inman-Cook says there are a lot of urban myths about home burial and that, strictly speaking, you don’t need permission from anyone.
(11) The method is based on the potential of mean force, with a reaction coordinate expressed by residue burial.
(12) During the period of burial, data were collected daily on the air, soil, and cadaver temperature at each burial site.
(13) (2) Secondary structure formation is driven by local hydrophobic surface burial and precedes the formation of most tertiary interactions.
(14) Force field energies, solvation free energies, exposure of charged residues and burial of hydrophobic residues, and packing of hydrophobic residues at the base of the loop were used as selection criteria.
(15) The burial of these residues in subunit contacts is consistent with their spectroscopic and electrostatic properties.
(16) A spokesman for the Danish Islamic Burial Fund objected to Hussein being buried at a cemetery run by his group.
(17) The unresolved problem, as King complained a year ago at Mansion House, was that the Bank had become like a vicar whose congregation attends weddings and burials but ignores the sermons in between.
(18) We transcribe here (with modern spelling) the cédula and burial certificates, and we then comment on their significance.
(19) I watched a team of young Sierra Leonean burial volunteers in anti-contamination suits descend in this environment of straw-topped huts, towering forests and mud-lined streams.
(n.) The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
(v. i.) To be or to continue awake; to watch; not to sleep.
(v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
(v. i.) To be excited or roused from sleep; to awake; to be awakened; to cease to sleep; -- often with up.
(v. i.) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
(v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awake.
(v. t.) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
(v. t.) To bring to life again, as if from the sleep of death; to reanimate; to revive.
(v. t.) To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
(n.) The act of waking, or being awaked; also, the state of being awake.
(n.) The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
(n.) An annual parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking, often to excess.
(n.) The sitting up of persons with a dead body, often attended with a degree of festivity, chiefly among the Irish.
Example Sentences:
(1) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(2) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(3) We have evaluated the action of hypnotics on the sleep-wakefulness cycle in freely implanted rats during their maximally active period because it is easier to estimate the duration of the sedative effect.
(4) Asked whether the 2022 bid should be reopened in the wake of the allegations in the Sunday Times, Cameron said: "There is an inquiry under way, quite rightly, into what happened in terms of the World Cup bid for 2022.
(5) In this study, at first, the states of sleep and wakefulness in newborn infants (measured simultaneously by EEG, EOG, respiration and body movement) were compared with their heart rate patterns in rest, active, awake and unclassified phases.
(6) Polygraphic and videotape recordings, carried out for several nights, showed that after nearly each REM period, he would wake up briefly, presenting eye blinking followed by a burst of generalized hypersynchronous theta to start his seizures.
(7) Compared to the waking state, sleep was found to be associated with significantly lower levels of acid secretion.
(8) The authors write: “In the wake of the financial crisis, central banks accumulated large numbers of new responsibilities, often in an ad hoc way.
(9) You're more likely to awake refreshed, because inside your mattress there's a special sensor that monitors your sleeping rhythms, determining precisely when to wake you so as not to interrupt an REM cycle.
(10) The trust was a compromise hammered out in the wake of the Hutton report, when the corporation hoped to maintain the status quo by preserving the old BBC governors.
(11) The aim of this study was determine if functional adaptation of NHP and HB position to these detrimental conditions could be observed, using Bonferonni probabilities, in a cephalometric comparison of 38 SAS adults in the wakeful state and a control group of 38 healthy adults.
(12) The pound was also down more than 1% against the US dollar to $1.2835, not far off a 31-year low hit in the wake of June’s shock referendum result.
(13) Mild amelioration of sleep-wakefulness cycles and impulse and drive functions could be observed clinically in both groups.
(14) In a large proportion of these (29 out of 76), blood was noted to be present on waking, menstruation thus having begun at some time during the hours of sleep.
(15) In ANA rats, sleep recordings showed that prenatal alcohol exposure increased the percentage of waking but decreased the percentage of active sleep.
(16) Jamat-ud Dawa, the social welfare wing of LeT, has been blacklisted in the wake of the Mumbai attacks although it continues to function.
(17) The austerity programmes administered by western governments in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis were, of course, intended as a remedy, a tough but necessary course of treatment to relieve the symptoms of debts and deficits and to cure recession.
(18) In the wake of her win, Aung San Suu Kyi has written to Min Aung Hlaing, the president, Thein Sein, and the parliamentary Speaker, Shwe Mann, requesting a meeting to discuss the election and “national reconciliation”, according to the National League for Democracy Facebook page.
(19) Our results indicated that sleep architecture differed from controls in that wakefulness, slow-wave sleep [SWS-stage 3 and 4 nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep] and stage rapid eye movement (REM) sleep were more evenly dispersed throughout the night.
(20) In order to quantitate the reequency characteristics of the EEG obtained from these subcortical sites (nucleus raphé dorsalis, area postrema, as well as anatomical controls adjacent to these regions) during the different vigilance states (waking, slow-wave sleep, REM sleep) in the cat, power spectral analyses techniques were employed.