(n.) A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fungus soiling of burlap was not clearly diminished by prescribed applications of Impregon solution 3 mo previously.
(2) Observing this is like watching a cat try to escape a burlap sack.
(3) They were Italian-Americans who collected our trash in large burlap sacks that they’d throw over their shoulders before going back down the 30 or so stairs to their truck.
(4) It's just an hour, and even my fashion-snob self could cope with wearing a burlap sack for an hour.
(5) You will find a pack of coppers backed by the staff of GQ on your front stoop with a giant burlap sack, ready to confiscate all your denim items.
(6) To assess its effects, this agent was used as a laundry and paint additive and as a treatment for burlap rug backing; after recommended applications of Impregon, coded replicate materials were inoculated with mixed suspensions of fungus particles.
(7) One self-styled prophet wore burlap cloth and clutched an enormous book he had labelled in homemade block letters: HOLY BIBLE.
Hessian
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Hesse.
(n.) A mercenary or venal person.
(n.) See Hessian boots and cloth, under Hessian, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 677 unrelated persons from the Central Hessian region, the following distribution of amylase 2 phenotypes was found: type 1 in 89.22%, type 2-1 in 8.57%, type 2 in 0.30%.
(2) The Hessian RPK model (RPK = rehabilitation facility for persons with mental illness) is characterized by a number of social-integrative features that might provide impulses for further rehabilitative models.
(3) The conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) was on the defensive on Monday over a draft motion drawn up by senior officials for a party conference this week, stating that people wanting permanent residency “should be urged to speak German in public and in the family.” Peter Tauber, general secretary of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, said on Twitter it’s “none of politicians’ business whether I speak Latin, Klingon or Hessian at home,” referring to his home region’s dialect.
(4) A few days later, she was returning across the border after a trip into Germany to buy supplies, when she noticed that large hessian screens had been erected on either side of the road.
(5) For this the measurements of the air measuring stations of the network for emissions of the German Umweltbundesamt (Federal Environmental Protection Agency) at Berlin and Frankfurt were used and well as those of the Hessische Landesanstalt für Umwelt, Wiesbaden (Hessian Office for Environmental Protection); Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe (Regional Office for Environmental Protection of Baden-Württemberg); Bayerische Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz (Bavarian Office for Environmental Protection, Munich), were used.
(6) I confess to having no idea what "carrot sacks" are: probably not the kind of coarse hessian sack in which one might transport 20 kilos of carrots, but then what?
(7) In summer 2013, Andreas Temme, the Hessian LfV agen t who was inside Halit Yozgat’s internet cafe in Kassel when Yozgat was murdered, testified that he did not hear the silenced shots, nor did he notice the sprinkles of blood on the counter where he placed his payment in coins when he left.
(8) Superovulation responses from 299 Hessian donors were used to analyse the influence of selected traits and ovulation-parameters.
(9) In a small town and its adjacent villages of the Hessian Neckar Valley, Federal Republic of Germany, 155 of the officially registered domestic dogs were examined for intestinal helminths.
(10) One hundred seventeen samples of DDT 50% WP received from field where supplies were effected, were tested during 1988-89 for suspensibility without accelerated storage treatment (ATS) as per ISI specifications and compared with their suspensibilities after ATS obtained during the initial testing to know the stability status of the insecticide during transit and tropical storage in the field when packed in hessian bags.
(11) For our purposes a design was considered optimal when it maximized the sensitivity of the model output to changes in parameter values as indicated by the determinant of the Hessian matrix of the objective function.
(12) The Hessian of the potential energy is thereby reduced to a series of blocks of order n or 2n.
(13) The parameter covariance matrix obtained by inverting the Hessian matrix of the objective function is shown to be a good approximation to the estimate obtained by Monte Carlo sampling for low order models (n less than 3).
(14) From 1982 to 1986, data of 446 pregnancies in diabetic women were compared to equivalent information on 111,390 unselected non-diabetic pregnancies with the help of the Hessische Perinatalstudie (Hessian Perinatal Study, HEPS), a computerized system of collecting information on obstetrical care in the state of Hesse, F.R.G.
(15) GGOPT uses an adjustable mesh together with linear least squares to find smoothed values of the function, gradient and Hessian at the center of the mesh.
(16) "They were repeatedly beaten when handcuffed and hooded with hessian sacks, deprived of sleep, continually shouted at and generally abused."
(17) The Hessian ministry of education has said that, from this autumn, teachers must have conversations about sexual and gender diversity with children – not only in sex education classes, which are mandatory in Germany, but in subjects like English and maths too.
(18) They camped in a field with no flushing toilets available; instead latrines were dug – a trench (which was filled in gradually as it was used) surrounded by hessian cubicles.
(19) The amount of caesium 134 and 137 in Hessian game hunted for food (556 animals) after the reactor accident at Chernobyl was investigated.
(20) Beside Ruqayah huddled another teenage girl and a young man, pressed as close as they could get to the rough hessian of the sandbags.