(n.) A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
(2) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
(3) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
(4) But in the case of what we were doing in the last few years, with bringing Nicky Butt into the fold, Ryan into the fold, Paul Scholes into the fold, and Gary Neville was offered a position but he decided to go into television.
(5) In one of his lunch breaks with Sleep, he told him that he had been tortured by the army, smashed over the head with the butt of an AK47 and left for dead.
(6) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
(7) Rainwater "harvesting" is the posh version of a water butt.
(8) The trial of the divorce suit brought by Captain O'Shea - Mr Parnell being the co-respondent - was resumed yesterday before Mr Justice Butt.
(9) He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt… And he is slim tall and good skin."
(10) Paris is to fine smokers who throw their cigarette butts onto the street, the latest effort to clean up the French capital.
(11) The tail butt, esutcheon, belly, dewlap and to a lesser degree neck and ear were all very suitable sites on which to find cattle ticks.
(12) We know we’re not far away.” Butt admits his new role is not something he had planned, despite his long-standing association with the club.
(13) 3.48pm: The Pakistan high commissioner has stressed the innocence of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, and spoken of their 'mental torture' 3.50pm: Tea at the Emirates ICG, where Durham are 170 for two, and now have a lead of 199, writes Andy Wilson .
(14) In 3 experiments, the activity of mainstream and sidestream Total Oarticulate Matter (TPM) and of butts and ash was determined.
(15) Three main groups of the sufferers were distinguished: with scalping of the I digit, with crushing of the digits and a skin defect of the butt-end of a hand stump, with totally scalped wounds of the hand and low third of the forearm.
(16) Each margin of the cavities was finished in one of three ways: butt joint and etching; butt joint and no etching, or; bevel joint and etching.
(17) Pigs fed ractopamine had shorter carcasses, less fat depth and fat area, smaller weights of stomach and colon plus rectum, but higher dressing percentages, longissimus muscle areas, weights of trimmed Boston butts, picnics and loins, ham lean and predicted amounts of muscle than pigs not fed ractopamine (P less than .05).
(18) The Liverpool striker leaned his forehead into Chiellini, in what looked, initially, to be a butt before biting down on his opponent’s shoulder.
(19) Rich people glide across it on skis and 4X4s, between resorts at Aspen, Crested Butte and Breckenridge.
(20) My uncle glances at her nicely rounded butt: – Nice fit lady, eh?
Plateau
Definition:
(n.) A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land.
(n.) An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(2) The enzyme activity can be raised to a plateau by Se supplements, but there is no evidence that supplementation leads to better health.
(3) The pump function of the heart (oxygen debt dynamics), the anaerobic threshold (complex of gas analytical indices), and the efficacy of blood flow in lesser circulation (O2 consumption plateau) were appraised.
(4) The height of this plateau depended on the CS concentration.
(5) Testosterone was low until 68 weeks after which concentrations rose slowly to 80 weeks and increased rapidly to a plateau at 92 weeks.
(6) An examination of the history of cytotoxic cancer drugs development suggests that this activity is now on a plateau.
(7) The kidneys with obstructive hydronephrosis demonstrated a plateau of signal enhancement without decrease (-0.7% within 40 minutes).
(8) For ACH reactions the area of inflammation continued to increase at dilutions where blood flux had reached a plateau.
(9) The effects of nine intra- and extracellular proteinases and six proteinase inhibitors on the repair of potentially lethal damage (PLDR) induced by gamma-rays in plateau-phase V79 cells were examined.
(10) At reoxygenation the contraction force increased with a first peak overshooting 50% of the initial aerobic value after 5-10 min, to decline during the following 10-15 min to a plateau slightly below the initial aerobic value.
(11) It is suggested that the measurement of functional residual capacity, closing volume, and the slope of the alveolar plateau (phase III in the single breath nitrogen washout technique) might give more valuable information.
(12) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.
(13) The PFV technique failed in five infants in whom no acceptable plateau of airway pressure during occlusion and no Trs could be obtained from a single breath.
(14) Pretreatment with wortmannin, a specific inhibitor of myosin light chain kinase, suppressed only the plateau phase and had no effect on the initial rapid increase in [Ca2+]i.
(15) After TD onset, ratings decreased for 4 years, then plateaued and rose during the 7th year.
(16) Free and total plasma carnitine levels reached a plateau corresponding to an average rise of 25% for both fractions, 9-10 days after the beginning of the L-carn diet.
(17) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
(18) At constant heart rate, nifedipine considerably depressed contractions, shortened the action potential duration and reduced the height of plateau.
(19) The prevalence increased rapidly with age and reached a plateau at 70-80% in adults.
(20) Further, from the plateau values of the ratios, it follows that the substrates dissociate very infrequently from the ternary complex and that at a low substrate concentration 72% of the reaction follows the pathway in which ATP adds first to the enzyme.