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Clary


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a loud or shrill noise.
  • (n.) A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cresswell set up his first production company, Wonderdog Productions, with Julian Clary and Paul Merton, and Clary's Channel 4 show Sticky Moments was one of his first big hits.
  • (2) No differences in muscular pattern (IDANCO system: Clarys and Cabri, 1988) or activity between the indoor distances and between the outdoor distances were found.
  • (3) Unfortunately, Hollywood has now reached the stage of late Julian Clary, where everything he says sounds as if it might be double entendre.
  • (4) Expert panel Jonathan Spruce , vice chair of the national transport expert panel at the Institution of Civil Engineers Isabel Dedring , deputy mayor for transport, Greater London Authority Greg Marsden , director of the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds Susan Claris , associate director at Arup , an engineering and design consultancy Jason Torrance , head of policy at Sustrans , a charity which focuses on sustainable transport Stephen Joseph , chief executive of the Campaign for Better Transport Abby Hone , principal transport planner for Brighton & Hove city council Rupert Fausset , principal sustainability adviser at Forum for the Future Hugh Sumner , senior transport adviser for London Gatwick Simon Warburton , head of policy and strategy for Transport for Greater Manchester A representative from Transport Systems Catapult will also be taking part To be updated as panellists confirm.
  • (5) The weekly Julian and Sandy sketches made it easier for camp or gay comics like Julian Clary, Larry Grayson and Graham Norton to be accepted.
  • (6) – Susan Claris , associate director at Arup , an engineering and design consultancy 6.
  • (7) Among the untreated control mice, when the mean CFU per spleen increased to a level greater than 10(8), small numbers of organisms resistant to clarithromycin (CLARI) were isolated from some of the spleens; the frequency of CLARI-resistant mutants was estimated to be between 10(-8) and 10(-9).
  • (8) In mice treated with 200 mg of CLARI per kg of body weight six times weekly, however, CLARI-resistant organisms were isolated from the spleens of all mice examined after treatment for 8 weeks; the mean CFU per spleen and the frequency of resistant mutants were significantly greater than those of control mice and increased further after treatment for 16 weeks.
  • (9) Through the prisms of Louise Cazalet (beautiful, angular, selfish, dramatic), her cousins Polly (beautiful, kind), Clary (unbeautiful, clumsy, a writer and idealist) – all three, in fact, aspects of herself – Howard traces the damage such silences can cause: the shock when ignorance results in unwanted pregnancy; the passivity engendered by always feeling they had to say yes – which is perhaps one of the reasons why Howard found herself embroiled in so many affairs with married men.
  • (10) Or the way in which, as Clary puts it in Marking Time , "when one wanted everything to be good with somebody, one started not telling them everything."
  • (11) Absorption of iron in the intestine of three different species of fishes, namely; Claris batrachus, Channa striatus and Esomus danricus has been described.
  • (12) YA book adaptations can be treacherous This film publicity image released by Screen Gems shows Jamie Campbell Bower as Jace, left, and Lilly Collins as Clary in a scene from "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
  • (13) "I work for the Home Office, and the build-up to this is making me more nervous than George Osborne with a red briefcase," writes Alex Warwick, veering dangerously close to Julian Clary territory.
  • (14) The hardware required for the operation of this system includes a Macintosh PowerBook 170 and FilemakerPro software by Claris.
  • (15) A psychopharmacology testing package was generated by Multiple Choice, a Claris HyperCard 2.1 based software application.
  • (16) You’ll pop up in Cinderella, next to Julian Clary’s Dandini (maybe).
  • (17) Neither is the fact that both Julian Clary and Graham Norton are on BBC1 on the same night (it's a mistake, but PC it ain't).

Clay


Definition:

  • (n.) A soft earth, which is plastic, or may be molded with the hands, consisting of hydrous silicate of aluminium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.
  • (n.) Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.
  • (v. t.) To cover or manure with clay.
  • (v. t.) To clarify by filtering through clay, as sugar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Radioactive gas was released from the medium solution used in the Viking Labeled Release (LR) experiment when interacted with the clays, at rates and quantities similar to those measured by Viking on Mars.
  • (2) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
  • (3) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
  • (4) The extent catalysis of phosphodiester bond formation varied with the particular clay mineral used.
  • (5) An additional 30 cm of clay covered the tailings on one plot and each plot was subdivided into bare soil and vegetated subplots.
  • (6) The supernatant of soil suspension in water mainly contained isolated bacteria, while ultrathin sections of aggregates frequently revealed groups of bacteria surrounded by a sheath of mucilage with adhering clay minerals on the outside.
  • (7) It was a good, fair deal, and three days after signing, on 29 October 1960, Clay made his debut as a pro and defeated in six one-sided rounds Tunney Hunsaker, a former chief police officer, in Louisville’s packed Freedom Hall.
  • (8) Experimentally, vascular clay model was used to estimate its efficacy.
  • (9) If an indictment were returned, Clay would have to go for trial.
  • (10) This requirement is one that Americans comply with every day to engage in mundane activities like cashing a check, opening a bank account or boarding a plane,” said Reed Clay, a special assistant under Abbott.
  • (11) Carbofuran (Curater 5G) behavior was studied in two drained cornfield soils, clay and loamy-clay, for 2 successive years.
  • (12) The businesses that bring clay and laterite for landfill.
  • (13) Results are reported of epidemiological studies in six groups of miners, who work in U mines, Fe mines and shale clay mines.
  • (14) Adsorption and movement of carbofuran (a systemic nematicide) were studied using two Indian soils (clay loam and silt loam) of alluvial origin.
  • (15) Plotting average molecular weights obtained against c-spacings of the clay platelet aggregates which widened as a result of polypeptide addition and adsorption before the polymerization, does not permit an obvious explanation of these observations.
  • (16) Adult, male rats were gavaged with an aqueous suspension of 14C-toluene in the presence or absence of either an Atsion (sandy soil) or a Keyport soil (clay soil).
  • (17) The orderly village of Agulodiek in Ethiopia's western Gambella region stands in stark contrast to Elay, a settlement 5km west of Gambella town, where collapsed straw huts strewn with cracked clay pots lie among a tangle of bushes.
  • (18) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
  • (19) 1.06am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 3rd And Clay faces Lance Lynn to start off the third, and the Superman-character named pitcher works a decent at-bat, working the count to 2-2 and then fouling off the next two pitches and taking ball three to a full count.
  • (20) The Dallas Morning News reported that the Highland Park school district sent a note aiming to reassure parents that their children could not contract Ebola through contact with the daughter of Clay Jenkins, a judge who is in charge of emergency management for Dallas County and who drove Troh and her family from her apartment to a temporary home in an undisclosed location.

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