(n.) A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap.
(v. t.) To manure with compost.
(v. t.) To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost.
Example Sentences:
(1) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(2) Composting loos should be the answer to the world's toilet crisis Read more The water and sanitation target is simple and unambiguous: by 2030 every man, woman and child – whether at home, school, hospital or their workplace – should have access to a safe water supply and be able to go to the toilet in a clean space with privacy.
(3) To give a plant a good start, sow the seed into fine compost – this is usually called seed compost and is available at garden centres.
(4) There are numerous sustainable options, including packing materials made from corn starch or sorghum , which can be composted .
(5) At most sampling points, coliform bacteria declined to low or undetectable numbers early in the composting period.
(6) Dairy waste solids in each compost pile were heated into the thermophilic temperature range and generally composted well.
(7) It was concluded that the active indigenous flora of compost establishes a homeostatic barrier to colonization by salmonellae, and in the absence of competing flora, reinoculated salmonellae may grow to potentially hazardous densities.
(8) Studies have shown that more natural soil amendments, like compost, manure and charcoal products, like those produced by the Biochar Company , can reduce atmospheric carbon and keep soils highly productive.
(9) Findings of this study suggest that composting offers little benefit toward net reduction in coliform bacterial numbers in dairy waste solids.
(10) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
(11) With a proper storage time of 12 months, the resulting compost can be used to grow trees and food crops.
(12) The high-concentration metals in municipal refuse compost were tested for effects on cellulase production and activity in Thermomonospora curvata.
(13) It was also regularly isolated as a dominant fungus during forced aeration composting and after 30 days in an unaerated stationary curing pile; in both cases, the fungus was found in pile zones with temperatures less than 60 degrees C. Compost stored outdoors in stationary unaerated piles from 1 to 4 months after screening out of woodchips contained easily detectable amounts of A. fumigatus in the exterior pile zones (0- to 25-cm depths).
(14) Over the last five years, we’ve trained more than 20 compost technicians and built over a dozen large compost sites for emergency settings, primary schools, NGO compounds, and housing projects — providing simple, clean composting toilets and on-site waste treatment for thousands of people.
(15) Courgettes like full sun, well composted fertile ground and regular watering in dry weather.
(16) Composting of wastes from swine feeding operations was studied.
(17) But in terms of building the actual toilets and compost site, simple inexpensive materials are all that are needed.
(18) The compost piles consisted of ground corn husks, straw, and race horse manure.
(19) This made it necessary to compost the manure liquid and use it after subsidiary thermal treatment.
(20) It has been proved that the method can be successfully used for the determination of biochemical changes in microbe cultures, the soil, in composts, in farmyard manures etc.
Rot
Definition:
(v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
(v. i.) Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
(v. t.) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
(v. t.) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
(n.) Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
(n.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
(n.) A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
(2) Severe fruit rot of guava due to Phytophthora nicotianae var.
(3) The evidence suggests that this isozyme is not necessary for soft-rot pathogenesis.
(4) The eurozone's 17 finance ministers began crisis talks in Brussels on Monday night "to stop the rot" with Italian bond yields – the country's cost of borrowing – hitting a new peak of 6.69%, threatening to crash the euro system, and political leaders from virtually all countries outside Germany lining up to demand full-scale ECB intervention.
(5) Bundesliga in 1997 when his team Rot-Weiss Essen was relegated," writes Matthias Gläfke.
(6) The antibiotic is effective in control of cucumber root rot under hydroponic cultivation conditions.
(7) Partly ROT arises from aversion of healthy people to very severe decay.
(8) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
(9) Yvonne Roberts: Mea culpa is journalism's dry rot You are right, Lucy, the best confessional writing has a universal truth.
(10) cereanus are also frequently recovered from the rotting tissue being utilized by the Drosophila species, the interactions described here are viewed as a possible adaptation in which the yeast provides benefits to one of its vectors by metabolism of 2-propanol in the habitat.
(11) In preparations stained by congo-rot and covered with arabic gumm amyloid deposits reveal intensive, positive bi refringement, collagen is isotrop, or shows a mild bi refringement.
(12) Extensive metabolism of AT to CO2 by the white rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium (approximately 60% in 30 days) was also demonstrated.
(13) Liverpool still do not look convincing top-four candidates but at least the rot has been stopped.
(14) In 22 mildly deteriorated elderly patients the total score on a reality orientation questionnaire improved after 3 months ROT.
(15) Differences between the pathogen and nonpathogen suggest that regulation of pectate lyase synthesis is related to pathogenicity of soft-rot bacteria.
(16) Fetal hypothalamic-pituitary ROT does not seem to play any part in parturition.
(17) But nothing in the photographs of Gaddafi wounded, dead, dragged through the streets, and finally on display, rotting in public, has been anything like as disgusting as the thoroughly hypocritical and self-deceiving international reaction to these pictures.
(18) When we came the first time we found her trying to cook two slices of rotting apple in a saucepan,” said Valentina.
(19) The difference in washout-efficacy between Pap and Rot on the inhibition of 40-K induced tension was ascribed to a difference in their mitochondrial binding properties.
(20) Two hundred sheep were included in the study, 100 with detectable foot rot lesions and 100 without.