(n.) A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
(n.) A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
(n.) An allowance in weighing. See Cloff.
Example Sentences:
(1) They say the footage shows Clough being pushed by police officers and struck on the head with a baton before he was pushed backwards to the ground and arrested.
(2) Later in the evening ITV1's documentary Clough pulled in 2.1 million viewers and a 10% share between 10.35pm and 11.50pm.
(3) The heavily-trailed programme was timed to coincide with the forthcoming Peter Morgan feature film The Damned United and featured exclusive interviews with family and friends of the late Brian Clough, which countered the portrayal of the outspoken football manager in the movie.
(4) Bert Clough Newbury, Berkshire • The first strike in recorded history occurred in ancient Egypt in the 12th century BC, when workers did not receive their rations.
(5) Alan Clough said he was relieved with the outcome of the court case, but had mixed feelings as he "would have liked to prove my innocence in court".
(6) After swatting aside Leeds 3-0 in the first round with goals from Franz Carr, Stuart Pearce and Garry Parker, they beat Aston Villa on penalties in the quarter-final after a 0-0 draw, surprise package Tranmere on penalties in the semi-final after a thrilling 2-2 draw with goals from Carr and Neil Webb, and Sheffield Wednesday, yes on penalties with Webb scoring the decisive spot-kick, after a goalless draw in the final - all this despite the absence of their manager, Brian Clough.
(7) And this yearning was exemplified by the men whose success came to tower over their respective cities: Shankly at Liverpool, Clough at Derby, Revie at Leeds.
(8) We have had one or two discussions, we are awaiting a decision and the owners will make that in good time,” Clough said at his pre-match press conference previewing his side’s League One trip to Bradford on Saturday.
(9) "It almost certainly was, though, at least in part a slight against Hodge, with whom Clough had a protracted battle over a new contract throughout the latter part of the season.
(10) The television presenter Charlie Webster has resigned as a patron of Sheffield United, saying: “I don’t believe a convicted rapist should go back to a club that I am patron of and should go back into the community to represent the community.” Nigel Clough said he was consulted over the Evans decision.
(11) The Sheffield United manager Nigel Clough has insisted that allowing the convicted rapist Ched Evans back to train with the club was not a precursor to offering him a deal.
(12) "Perhaps Forest's manager was relaxing his team before the fourth-round visit to Newcastle on February 11," reasoned Russell Thomas in the Guardian's match report but according to Jonathan Wilson's biography of Clough – Nobody Ever Says Thank You – there was more to the decision than that.
(13) Nigel Clough, the club’s manager, said this week it was for the owners – the millionaire businessman Kevin McCabe and Saudi prince Abdullah bin Mosaad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud – to make the call.
(14) Bert Clough The common practice among FTSE 100 companies of paying CEOs around 140 times the amount paid to the average worker in the company has to be a huge hindrance to improving productivity, especially when workers are denied a share of the profits their efforts bring to the firms.
(15) Clough, though, said the club are yet to decide what to do.
(16) The names Matt Busby, Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson and Brian Clough were put to the Italian in the context that he may soon be joining their illustrious company, but there has never been a European Cup-winning interim first-team coach.
(17) During a discussion about the possible transfer of the Nottingham Forest striker Teddy Sheringham, Sugar said in court that Venables had informed him that Forest's legendary manager Brian Clough "likes a bung".
(18) Penny and John Clough, parents of murdered Jane: 'The system is very biased towards the defendant.'
(19) Ferguson apart, one can think of only two – Herbert Chapman and Brian Clough – who have achieved more with separate clubs.
(20) Batons are drawn and Clough is punched by an officer in riot gear who is lashing out at demonstrators.
Tree
Definition:
(n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
(n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
(n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
(n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
(n.) Wood; timber.
(n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
(v. t.) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
(v. t.) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(2) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(3) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
(4) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(5) Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is characterized by an absence of seromucous glands in the oropharynx and tracheobronchial tree, making children with this disease prone to viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
(6) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(7) A new family tree of the tyrannosaurs in the paper considers Lythronax to be very close to Tyrannosaurus and its nearest relatives.
(8) Increasing awareness of disorders such as coronary arterial spasm, functional impairment of subendocardial blood flow and the possible role of variant patterns of anatomic distribution of the coronary arterial tree, will provide a better understanding of their significance as determining or contributing factors in patients with the anginal syndrome.
(9) It's of her and Barack Obama planting an olive tree in Uhuru park in the city centre in October 2006.
(10) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
(11) The trachea and the bronchial tree (first through seventh order branches) both synthesized alpha1(II) chains.
(12) Using a large clinic population with adequate controls, significant correlation between ragweed, grass or tree pollen sensitivity and the dates of birth was not obtained.
(13) The criteria selected by a classification tree method were similar: palpable purpura, age less than or equal to 20 years at disease onset, biopsy showing granulocytes around arterioles or venules, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
(14) The results are consistent with an action of banana tree juice on the molecule responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, resulting in a labilization of intracellular Ca2+.
(15) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
(16) Reconstruction of the intrahepatic biliary tree was carried out in all patients using intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomies between common segmental hepatic stomata and a Roux-en-Y jejunal loop.
(17) Axonal trees display differential growth during development or regeneration; that is, some branches stop growing and often retract while other branches continue to grow and form stable synaptic connections.
(18) When the vascular supply is abnormal, reconstruction of the vascular tree of one or both organs may be needed.
(19) A major outbreak in Kent in 2012 saw 2,000 trees felled.
(20) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.