(n.) A corporate town; in the United States, a town or collective body of inhabitants, incorporated and governed by a mayor and aldermen or a city council consisting of a board of aldermen and a common council; in Great Britain, a town corporate, which is or has been the seat of a bishop, or the capital of his see.
(n.) The collective body of citizens, or inhabitants of a city.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a city.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
(2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(3) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(4) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(5) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(6) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(7) Such a need has occurred in New York City, where schistosomiasis, with its protean manifestations has been seen with increasing frequency.
(8) A more substantial decrease was found in Aberdeen and the larger towns near to Aberdeen than in the smaller towns further from the city.
(9) Totò was a legend in the Vesuvian city – a comedian of genius; poignant, mysterious.
(10) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
(11) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
(12) Age-specific MRs for the over-75-year age group were also not related to the winter air temperatures in the eight cities.
(13) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(14) The analysis of blood lead concentration revealed an evident biological response to this environmental change: there was a decrease in blood lead level between 1977 and 1987, in both the countryside (control group) and, to a lesser extent, in the city.
(15) A case-control study of breast cancer among Black American women was conducted in seven hospitals in New York City from 1969 to 1975.
(16) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
(17) The district’s $110bn of economic activity went up by 22% since 2007, outpacing city growth by 9% during the same period.
(18) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
(19) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(20) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
Delft
Definition:
(n.) Same as Delftware.
Example Sentences:
(1) Path of the spill "The mud will react with organic substances in the Danube and will lose its force and turn unharmful," said Professor Huub Savenije, a hydrologist from Delft University in the Netherlands.
(2) This article is motivated by the current hypothesis [Kim et al., Psychological, Physiological and Behavioural Studies in Hearing (Delft U. P., The Netherlands, 1980); Neely, Doctoral dissertation, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1981); de Boer, J. Acoust.
(3) EdytaRice Islands of the north Facebook Twitter Pinterest Delft Island.
(4) It certainly helped to keep people on their bikes, but in the end it turned out that one single bicycle route did not lead to an overall increase in cycling.” Subsequently, the city of Delft constructed a whole network of cycle paths and it turned out that this did encourage more people to get on their bikes.
(5) In the research field of plant cell biotechnology there is a close co-operation with Delft.
(6) Students at the Delft University of Technology, meanwhile, have invented a highly innovative “skin” that can be attached to existing houses with similar results.
(7) It appears that the hydrocarbon composition measured in Delft (The Netherlands) is entirely different for northern and southern wind directions.
(8) The three apparatus have been tested : Ohio 842 spirograph, Oude Delft expirometer and Chemetron Corporation P.F.I., in 165 patients.
(9) On the occasion of the first international symposium on pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) and quinoproteins (Delft, September 1988), a review of this novel field in enzymology is presented.
(10) His proposal, developed in partnership with scientists at the Technological University of Delft in the Netherlands, uses buried coils of copper to create an electrostatic field that attracts smog particles, creating a kind of halo of clean air above it.
(11) The nitrate strip and Delft plate methods gave correct results in 94 and 86% of tests, respectively.
(12) It is easily missed, but rewards close looking, with intelligent curation by Iranian architect and researcher Azadeh Mashayekhi, based at TU Delft in the Netherlands.
(13) In theory, humans could be used for all types of recycling, says David Peck, professor in critical materials and circular cities at Delft University of Technology, but they are not necessarily jobs to wish on people.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vietnam’s FPT University will feature a campus bursting with greenery Photograph: PR Plans for Vietnam’s FPT University in Ho Chi Minh City feature an entire campus of environmentally innovative buildings designed by Vo Trong Nghia architects, a direction pioneered by Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University and Delft Technical University.
(15) His most recent find is an exquisite haul of hand-painted Delft tiles dating from the 1650s, which could be straight out of a still life.
(16) From here, we took the free ferry, run by the Navy, to Delft (named after the Dutch town), on the northern tip of Sri Lanka.
(17) This prompted Rivington’s Dutch owner Van Delft to appoint FRP Advisory as administrators on Tuesday night.
(18) A large-field scintilation camera for nuclear medicine application has recently been developed by Old Delft.
(19) Simultaneous measurements of arterial pressure, iliac and renal blood flows (electromagnetic flowmeter probes, Skalar, Delft) allowed iliac and renal vascular resistance (IVR, RVR) to be calculated.
(20) The Department of Microbiology and Enzymology of the Delft University of Technology keeps the memory of Beijerinck, its first professor, alive by maintaining a 'Beijerinck-room' in the attic of the building.