(n.) One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France.
(n.) A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.
Example Sentences:
(1) But knowing that you have to stick to the facts of what the Celts wore, or how the Tudors treated illness, concentrates the mind.
(2) Bronze objects of Western European (Scottish, Irish) origin, found in Viking graves widely distributed in Norway, have been taken as evidence of Vikings returning with loot (including a number of Celts) from Western Viking settlements.
(3) The matter was cleared up with the help of a neck chain that was a precursor to the torques worn by the Celts; thus the skeleton was about 2500 years old.
(4) The cape was a sacred location for Celts, Greeks and Romans.
(5) Waves of immigrants, from the Celts through the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans to the Dutch in the 17th century, Germans in the 18th and 19th, Russian and German Jews fleeing persecution in the 1890s and 1930s, West Indians, Cypriots, Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis and many others coming to Britain during the disintegration of the empire, and many, many more, have all made their contribution to our multicultural identity.
(6) Cranioplasty with bone allografts dates from the Stone Age Celts.
(7) No relationship was noted between the growth potential of megakaryocyte progenitors and platelet count, number of CD4+ celts, platelet response to azidothymidine, and platelet count 7 days after culture.
(8) His major works on the "primitive" Celts and Germans continue these critiques of racism.
(9) "If you do the history, the Celts are the ancient Britons.
(10) Differences in constitution to the southern neighbours, Celts and Romans, were not so marked, that constitutional changes in Germany, especially in southern Germany, in the middle ages can be explained by mixed race.
(11) Celts, Norwegians and Swedes all have higher incidences of melanoma than people of similar skin colour living in the same latitude.
(12) I think I can speak for the vast majority of petty celts, Christopher, when I say that should USA triumph tonight, Landon Donovan, Jozy Altidore, Tim Howard and chums will never have to buy a drink in Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland again.
(13) Scraping away at the green patina on the new-look, Zac Goldsmith-inspired Conservative environmental policies, puncturing Brown's grumpy greenery and unpicking the carbon contortions of the coal-loving Celts.
(14) The mixed Europeans had a somewhat greater increase in the melanocyte population density following exposure to sunlight than the Celts.
(15) But the idea that it makes Celts more inclined to bend the knee to Whitehall is absurd.
(16) The 268 cases and 1577 controls showed odds ratios of 1.9 for red hair, 2.0 for skin that burns in the sun, and no difference between indoor and outdoor workers or between Celts and other Europeans, consistent with the results of more recent studies.
(17) Biochemical assays indicate that a cel structural gene (celT) specifies a single transport protein that is a beta-glucoside specific enzyme of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system.
(18) It is also a fascinating meditation on the complexity of the Scots character, half Celt, half Saxon.
(19) Rudeness about Celts may be a political parlour game in London, sometimes justified.
(20) Objectives of current studies are the determination of relationships between performance on CELTs and performance on traditional cognitive abilities tests and the exploration of predictive value of measures of learning ability for academic performance.
Welt
Definition:
(n.) That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it
(n.) A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down.
(n.) A hem, border, or fringe.
(n.) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.
(n.) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
(n.) In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
(n.) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
(n.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
(v. t.) To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.
(v. t.) To wilt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight patients with dermal exposure had irritation ranging from erythema to welts, which resolved after thorough soap and water decontamination.
(2) Those very arsonists who spread exclusion and intolerance are now projecting an image of themselves as the upright citizens.” The head of the German police trade union Rainer Wendt told Die Welt that he feared the event, which last week drew 18,000 supporters, had itself become a possible magnet for terrorists.
(3) In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy.” 'In the Prussian capital, hippie culture is state policy' Die Welt deputy editor Ulf Poschardt The rhetoric may be overblown, but the remarkable fact is that Berlin will ultimately not further develop a hugely valuable piece of real estate, all because the people decided they didn’t trust big business not to mess up the park they loved.
(4) Die Welt are lucky to be part of Axel Springer, Europe's largest newspaper publisher whose portfolio also contains Bild, still the world's bestselling non-Asian newspaper and the Germany's most successful news website: pressure on Die Welt to make a profit is relatively low, so they have the luxury to experiment with new models that may later be rolled out elsewhere.
(5) After weeks of open criticism, Die Welt also heaped praise on the German coaching team’s tactical flexibility.
(6) A sk Becky Hope if she ever feels shocked by what she sees in her work in child protection – the welts on backs, broken limbs, the maggots in cots – and she seems nonplussed.
(7) Stark , who surprisingly quit the Board almost a year ago , wrote in Die Welt today that the ECB has been pushed to the brink of abandoning its mandate to control inflation: The political pressure on the central bank is massive... Monetary policy must not be conditional.
(8) Major loci affecting the difference between the fast and the slow remating speed map to the right arm of chromosome II to the right of welt (wt).
(9) In Paris, as their counterparts at Die Welt were planning their own pages, journalists at the offices of France Soir, an ailing tabloid based in an industrial estate in the north ofthe city, were also deciding that the cartoons should be published - for somewhat different reasons.
(10) When one German language school in Istanbul was forced to cancel its festivities, the daily Die Welt responded with a caricature of Erdoğan on its front page as the Grinch who stole Christmas.
(11) In his interview with Welt am Sonntag, Hammond also emphasised that restricting immigration would be the British government’s priority during negotiations.
(12) Theresa May says rise in Europeans moving to UK likely before a Brexit Read more Volker Bouffier, premier of the German state of Hesse – home to Germany’s financial capital, Frankfurt – told the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag that “quite a number of Brits” were currently applying for German citizenship.
(13) One principle-ist, the former parliamentary speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, recently told Die Welt, the German newspaper, that Iran needed "more national manufacturing, and a change in people's lifestyle".
(14) Cousin spots Beasley one-on-one with Anderson and welts the ball forward towards him.
(15) In the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Henryk M Broder said of Roche: "She does what she wants without worrying what Simone de Beauvoir or Andrea Dworkin would say about it."
(16) I don’t think its a good idea to dilute the sporting value,” the 2014-World Cup-winning coach told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper in an interview on Sunday.
(17) Martin Schulz told Die Welt: “We must try to avoid this, because the consequences would be dramatic.
(18) But according to Die Welt, some of the leaked documents were part of the communication between the office of the chancellor, Angela Merkel, and that of the president of BND, while others contained an overview of BND locations around the world – which might hint at a more general spying strategy rather than a targeted operation.
(19) According to Die Welt newspaper, the staffer being investigated is a soldier who had caught the attention of the German military counter-intelligence service after establishing regular contact with people thought to be working for a US secret agency.
(20) But she stepped back from the company at the end of last year, telling Die Welt in an interview that “combining politics on a national, state and local level with family and the company is simply not possible.