(n.) A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.
(n.) The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
(n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]
(n.) The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
(v. t.) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
(v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
Example Sentences:
(1) Perry demonstrates how to chine a rib roast – that is, how to separate the section of spine running along its length, while leaving it partially attached for cooking.
(2) Possible relationships between linguistic features and disease concepts are cited for the Eskimo, the Navaho, and the Chines, and it is suggested that, in European languages, the extensive use of spatial metaphors to express abstract concepts may encourage a more rigid categorization of disease and inhibit the ability to conceive of multiple factors in disease causation.
(3) The quantity singlet oxygen chemiluminescence was decreased in the presence of Japanese Catalin and Chine Baineiting, antirheumatic Voltaren and less strong Finish Catachrome and Carnosine.
(4) • £1.50, children only Blackgang Chine , Isle of Wight Photograph: Alamy This is a surreal, slightly careworn adventure park with resident cowboys, pixies, pirates and a Tyrannosaurus Rex in a smoking jacket.
(5) The farmer gave me a running commentary on all the bits and pieces, especially those which crop up in the poem, such as the knot, the chine and the slot.
(6) MOST UNCROWDED Canford Cliffs Chine, Poole, Dorset A well-kept secret between Branksome Chine and Flaghead Chine, this fine, blue-flag beach is where the locals go to avoid the crush of tourists in summer.
(7) Les panneaux ont été fabriqués en Chine, alors que les onduleurs et transformateurs sont importés d’Allemagne.
Rhine
Definition:
(n.) A water course; a ditch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The impression you get is that on neither side of the Rhine were politicians very happy with the EADS-BAE tie-up.
(2) Should he head for the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, Spurs may offer his dressing-room peg to the Swiss striker Josip Drmic , a right-winger and striker who has scored 15 times for Nürnberg in the Bundesliga, including both goals in the crucial win over Stuttgart last night.
(3) Elections in North Rhine-Westphalia are often a gauge of the future of German national politics.
(4) But within North Rhine-Westphalia – which includes the cities of Cologne, Düsseldorf, Essen, and the industrial Ruhr region – it would appear that the CDU's arguments that the state needed to make sacrifices to slash its €180bn (£144bn) debt backfired.
(5) Most measures are now taken in the international frameworks of the EC (European Community) or IRC (International Rhine Commission), but in the Dutch legislation and sanitation policy additional activities are being carried out to safeguard the quality of drinking water in The Netherlands.
(6) On the basis of our earlier studies on the hygienic, health and social situation of old people living in their own flats, we investigated the conditions in all 12 larger old people's homes of a big city in the Rhine-Main area, as well as 100 selected subjects of a defined socio-economic group within these homes.
(7) Measurements of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb)-content from about 13,000 inhabitants of various sites in western North Rhine-Westphalia are presented.
(8) General theories of stress ecology were applied to aquatic communities in the floodplain of the polluted River Rhine.
(9) North Rhine-Westphalia has bought stolen information several times over the past few years concerning people allegedly trying to evade taxes by not declaring money deposited in Swiss bank accounts, recovering around €2.1bn through these means.
(10) At Roche, one of the pharmaceutical multinationals across the Rhine, 60% of employees are foreigners.
(11) to dairy cattle of four different breeds: the Jersey, the Holstein-Friesian (HF), the Dutch Black-and-White (FH) and the Dutch Red-and-White (Meuse-Rhine-Yssel).
(12) As abominable as the crimes in Cologne and other cities were, one thing remains clear: there is no justification for blanket agitation against foreigners,” justice minister Heiko Maas said, adding that some people “appear just to have been waiting for the events of Cologne.” On Monday, a regional parliamentary commission in North-Rhine Westphalia, where Cologne is the largest city, will question police and others about the events on New Year’s Eve.
(13) This appears to be an appropriate occasion to consider the medical use of radioactive substances in North Rhine-Westphalia in the last ten years.
(14) These big urban areas have the most potential for growth in the region, but are currently underperforming, especially in comparison to cities in more successful areas such as the Rhine-Ruhr and Randstad areas.” The Centre for Cities suggested three ways policymakers could increase the chances of making the northern powerhouse a success: Address the skills gap in northern cities, where fewer people are educated to degree level than in other areas of the UK.
(15) A total of 112 patients at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Rhine-Westphalian Technical University in Aachen were examined.
(16) Borchardt points to the clean up of the river Rhine, which was one of the most heavily polluted rivers in the world, as well as effective waste water strategies by companies such as BASF and Bayer as examples of what can be done.
(17) Probably not because you had too much time on your hands and wanted to work yourself into the ground over internal issues.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protesters hold placards to demonstrate against the AfD during its election campaign launch in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
(18) In May, the coalition lost its slim majority in the Bundesrat after elections in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany's most populous state.
(19) The effects of a quaternary ammonium compound, ditallowdimethylammonium chloride (DTDMAC), on natural populations of bacteria and phytoplankton from the lower River Rhine were examined to estimate their sensitivity to the discharges of cationic surfactants in the river basin.
(20) In 1982, 1983 and 1986 164 water-specimens were collected at 34 sites along the river Rhine and its affluxes in the Rhine-Neckar-Region and tested for the occurrence of Salmonellae.