(n.) A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a short prologue, where it's established that a tall man and a young boy survive whatever it is we're about to read (and end up in the far sunnier climes of Mexico), we meet the town itself.
(2) However, filariasis cannot be eliminated from the differential diagnosis of testicular, epididymal, or spermatic cord masses in nontropical climes.
(3) That base covered, or at least shaded, Paul's other positions (pro-life, pro-gun, against NSA surveillance, Obamacare, regulation in general) need little protective coloring in the deep red climes of Tea Party nation.
(4) A similar sheath of fibroblasts to that surrounding the crypts of Lieberkühn in the colon, which it is climed undergoes constant renewal and migration, has now been identified in the rectum and thereby it may become possible to follow the cellular response to irradiation of a mesenchymal tissue.
(5) Down in the warmer climes of Florida, there was another candidate who, despite being the youngest in the race, cast himself this week as a viable alternative: Marco Rubio , Bush’s friend and longtime ally.
(6) Though Henry James deeply admired the psychological intensity of Hawthorne's work, his own writing travelled on from it with the haste of a man fleeing sultry discomforts for cooler climes.
(7) Culex quinquefasciatus also exists in more temperate climes, such as the southern United States, where it is known to carry the West Nile virus, and can survive winters.
(8) This phenomenon may be the common denominator of the survival advantage which has allowed both the successful evolution of species inhabiting warm, arid climes, and the persistence of the diabetic genotype in animal and human populations.
(9) Later this year north Kent's creaking line connects with High Speed 1, and whole swaths of hitherto distant climes become far more accessible.
(10) In his 1983 book More Cunning than Man, writer Robert Hendrickson lists “the obvious ways in which rats so well resemble humans: ferocity, omnivorousness, adaptability to all climes, migration from east to west in the life journey of their species, irresponsible fecundity in all seasons, with a seeming need to make genocidal war on their own kind.” He describes rats and men alike as “utterly destructive, both taking all other living things for their purposes.” Humanity’s long struggle with rats mostly signals the worst traits we share with them: our inability to live responsibly within our environment; our tendencies toward hedonism and greed; and our failures to look after the weakest among us.
(11) Despite the recession, the number of people searching for sunnier climes has increased significantly, while some tourism businesses in the UK are reporting that they are only half as busy as they would be in an average year.
(12) As he prepared to escape the heat of Washington last Friday, Barack Obama would have been forgiven for looking forward to the cooler climes of Camp David, his weekend retreat some 60 miles from the White House, tucked away in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain Park.
(13) While the crime plots may not necessarily be distinct from those faced by fictional British detectives, the sense of unfamiliarity offered up by tales from continental climes adds a sense of freshness.
(14) Close your eyes, enjoy the exotic flavours and be whisked away to warmer climes.
(15) 26 min: Reid swings a long ball from the right into the area, Bertos climing all over the back of Skrtel and conceding the free kick.
(16) Or, indeed, an international school recruiter offering a five-figure relocation package to exotic climes.
(17) It was on one of these writing breaks, in the slightly cooler climes of Blackpool, that he co-created Life on Mars with Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah.
(18) The new job forced Murrells and his family to move "north" to Prestbury, Cheshire, from the sunnier climes of Stratford-upon-Avon.
(19) From the sweltering heat of the Amazon rainforest to the chillier climes of Porto Alegre, fans and players have traversed huge distances and been welcomed with open arms.
(20) Thus, vitamin D deficiency may develop in confined, nonvitamin D fortified patients in Florida just as in more northern climes.
Lime
Definition:
(n.) A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.
(n.) The linden tree. See Linden.
(n.) A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.
(n.) Birdlime.
(n.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.
(v. t.) To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
(v. t.) To entangle; to insnare.
(v. t.) To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them.
(v. t.) To cement.
Example Sentences:
(1) In labelled acidic waters, the 26Al was present predominantly in low molecular weight forms, whereas in labelled limed waters the major fraction of 26Al was present in a high molecular weight form.
(2) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
(3) When treated after exposure to ribonuclease, the colonies fluoresced lime-green.
(4) Adult Persian lime trees grafted on Citrus macrophylla and C. volkameriana were used, planted on a groundwater-affected red ferrilytic soil in the La Habana Province.
(5) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
(6) Alfalfa plants of a resistant, a susceptible and a highly susceptible strains were grown in unlimed soil at pH 5.8 and in limed one at pH 6.9 and inoculated by the pathogens of vascular wilt, Corynebacterium insidiosum and Verticillium albo-atrum.
(7) Most obvious differences can be found for Cd: While the concentrations of soluble Cd in anaerobically digested sludge only increase at pH values lower than pH 4, the solubility of Cd in precipitation sludge and limed sludges already show rapid increases at pH values lower than 7.
(8) While it is still hot, juice the lime into a cup and stir in the granulated sugar (which will not dissolve completely).
(9) A solution – injecting the graves with a lime solution to speed up decomposition – was eventually discovered by a graveyard worker, who charged the Norwegian authorities $670 per plot.
(10) The soda lime capacity is 25 litres (approximately 20 kg).
(11) 3 First squeeze lime juice over the fruit, then dip it into the flavoured salt.
(12) The frequency of micronucleated cells (MNC) derived from exfoliated human oral mucosal cells has been measured to assess genotoxic damage in chewers of betel quid with tobacco (BQT) and tobacco with lime (T).
(13) This fruit possesses a taste-modifying substance that causes sour foods--e.g., lemons, limes, or grapefruit--to taste sweet.
(14) The results obtained in R. tigrina have been discussed in relation to the increased calcium deposits in the paravertebral lime sacs and to the possible enhanced secretion of the parathyroid glands.
(15) "I do a mean ceviche with it – coconut milk, lime juice and chilli.
(16) Lime Street was closed off by police as the demonstrations continued.
(17) He also produced this effect in some of his sculptures, for example Untitled (Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python) (1954), where a pair of solemn-looking palm leaves gives the work a consciously ritualistic tone.
(18) Grab a table if you're arriving late enough for the restaurant section to have emptied, and make the barman get his big grinder out by ordering a mandarinha – Beija-Flor cachaça, mandarin syrup, lime juice and black pepper.
(19) Once it's a deep golden colour all over, transfer to a dish and season with a squeeze of lime or lemon juice, coarse sea salt, plenty of hazelnut butter (the butter will need a good stir, because the solids will settle to the bottom) and a grind of black pepper.
(20) The amount of Ni extracted by ammonium acetate was reduced by 36% in the limed metal soil compared with the unlimed metal soil.