(n.) A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.
(n.) An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The locality, which is situated at the foot of the Chartreuse massif, receives its water solely from springs but there is a holiday camp for the staff of an international airline situated above the main water catchment.
(2) Another fantastic place is the Vintage Cocktail Club (15 Crown Alley) where High Tea means a concoction involving marmalade vodka and green chartreuse.
Yellow
Definition:
(v. t.) To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.
(superl.) Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.
(n.) A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green.
(n.) A yellow pigment.
(v. i.) To become yellow or yellower.
Example Sentences:
(1) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
(2) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
(3) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(4) This paper analyzes the nucleotide sequences of three viruses: Kunjin, west Nile, and yellow fever.
(5) The bacterial-binding activity and mammalian receptor-binding activities in each of two samples co-chromatographed on a Remazol yellow GGL-Sepharose affinity column strongly indicated that the same immunoglobulin species reacts with both antigens.
(6) Fifty physiologically characterized units were injected with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) or Lucifer yellow CH (LY) and their processes were traced to the crista.
(7) ELISA, cDNA dot blot hybridization and transmission by vector aphids were used to investigate the occurrence and degree of cross-protection produced in oat plants by virus isolates representing five strains or serotypes of barley yellow dwarf virus, namely PAV, MAV, SGV, RPV and RMV.
(8) The potential use of Lucifer Yellow exchange inhibition as a test for the screening of tumor promoters is discussed.
(9) The mechanisms that protect female viable yellow mice from hyperglycemia are not known.
(10) Yellow lupin nodule specific sequences were selected by screening of cDNA library prepared from lupin nodule poly(A)+RNA.
(11) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
(12) Physiologically identified giant fibers were filled intracellularly with Lucifer Yellow.
(13) The spectra were obtained with a variety of excitation wavelengths, spanning the UV, violet, and yellow-green regions of the absorption spectrum, and at temperatures of 30 and 200 K. The RR data indicate that the structures of the bacteriochlorin pigments in RCs from Rb.
(14) 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%.
(15) N-Methylformamide extracts of acid-treated precipitated VFe protein of the V-nitrogenase of Azotobacter chroococcum are yellow-brown in colour and contain vanadium, iron and acid-labile sulphur in the approximate proportions 1:6:5.
(16) A bloody nasogastric aspirate is believed to imply active upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding, while a nonbloody yellow-green nasogastric aspirate that contains duodenal secretions suggests the absence of bleeding proximal to the ligament of Treitz.
(17) The JT one was soft from what I saw and it was a yellow card.
(18) Mutant plants are characterized by reduced height, defective yellow striping on leaves, and aborted kernels on ears.
(19) Yellow signs swing from lampposts urging citizens to “hold high the great banner of national unity”.
(20) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.