(a.) Composed of stones, pebbles, or fragments of rocks, cemented together.
(n.) That which is heaped together in a mass or conpacted from various sources; a mass formed of fragments; collection; accumulation.
(n.) A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argillaceous; pudding stone; -- opposed to agglomerate. See Breccia.
(v. t.) To gather into a ball or round body; to collect into a mass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Silicotuberculous bronchadenitis, conglomerate-cirrhotic lower-lobe silicotuberculosis and their complications (e.g.
(2) The Hashd al-Shaabi, a conglomerate of primarily Shia militias that has played a key role in ousting Isis from cities such as Tikrit, appeared to take a backseat in the liberation of Ramadi, ceding the task primarily to the Iraqi elite counter-terrorism force, local police, the Iraqi army and a small group of Sunni tribesmen, backed by US-led airstrikes.
(3) It is thought Tata, the Indian conglomerate that also owns Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea, is also preparing to cut several hundred roles in operations that serve the Scunthorpe plant, mainly at its Rotherham site.
(4) Physiological functions are a conglomeration of cell functions, and all cells are regulated by information processing and energy distributing systems.
(5) Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong conglomerate that owns Three, agreed in March 2015 to buy O2 from Telefónica of Spain.
(6) In both the experiments there were detected cells in their majority with thinner walls, L-form-like structures, protoplasts and single conglomerates of the cells with thicker walls and anomalous division and the cells at the moment of lysis.
(7) Yet in recent months, Ma has pushed the company far beyond its core domain, placing it among the ranks of highly diversified conglomerates such as Google and GE.
(8) At the beginning of the 2000s, Motsepe began to found a number of companies which would constitute the ARM conglomeration.
(9) His Ukrainian conglomerate reportedly controls nearly half of that country’s coal production, and around a third of its electricity production and distribution.
(10) Apparently the latter represented conglomerates of adherent spheroid elements that resembled somewhat "large bodies" of L-forms.
(11) Among the other detainees was Wu Minglie, the chairman of the New Huangpu group, one of the city's biggest conglomerates.
(12) Its director, Roland Demleitner, said large brewery conglomerates had been increasingly aggressive in their attempts to push small regional breweries out of the shrinking market.
(13) The roentgenological picture of median oat-cell cancer is characterized by the presence of tumor conglomerate in the lung hilus, which consisted of the primary tumor penetrating in lymph nodes adjacent to the bronchus in 66.6% of canses.
(14) Tata Steel has halted plans to sell the Port Talbot steelworks and is instead working on keeping its UK business as part of a joint venture with the German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp.
(15) Electronmicroscopically, the former was a conglomerate of electron-dense materials of various degrees and the latter had a membrane-limited granular structure.
(16) As was found by immunoelectron microscopy, the initial and resistant cells contained WRS in most of their cellular compartments: on free polyribosomes, as large conglomerates in the cytoplasm, on polysomes bound to the rough endoplasmic reticulum membranes and to the outer nuclear membrane, on the cytoskeleton, and in the detergent-insoluble nuclear matrix.
(17) Three banks have been hired to advise on the restructuring with the possibliity of a fourth bank involved, Murdoch's long time adviser Allen & Co. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Centerview Partners have been hired to advise the media conglomerate, a person familiar with the matter told Fox News.
(18) Whole-tissue stress-strain behavior under uniaxial loading is predicted from an analysis of the compression of a conglomerate of cells in a simple arrangement.
(19) • Far from giving you a blueprint for your rise to the top, these routines will probably cause you to reconsider the whole idea of becoming CEO of a major communications conglomerate.
(20) Aristegui’s team not only uncovered the fact that the president’s wife and his finance minister, [Luis] Videgaray, had received a couple of luxurious residences from a big construction conglomerate that was doing business with the federal government; they also exposed a network of corruption, a radiography of how the president is managing the country’s finances as if he was a feudal lord, as if laws, international treaties and transparency did not exist.
Pebble
Definition:
(n.) A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.
(n.) Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians.
(v. t.) To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(2) His neat nails were polished like pebbles and his voice had a soothing, almost balsamic, tone.
(3) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
(4) The approach to the checkpoint was covered in pebbles so we had to drive very slowly.
(5) So while I still like my Pebble (I've set it to show when I get a call; texts are in the past), there's a bitter aftertaste.
(6) No one knows how many people live in the redbrick and pebble dash dwellings along the pitted streets of Ciudad Bolívar; estimates range from 700,000 to more than a million.
(7) A 17-year-old white boy with signs, symptoms, and family history of angiokeratoma corporis diffusum universale, Anderson-Fabry disease (AFD), developed recurrent and then persistent swelling of both lips, erythematous hyperplastic gingivae, and a pebbled tongue.
(8) Two men aged respectively of 65 and 28 years presented a cobblestone appearance of the gingiva and of the tongue ("pebbly tongue"), which suggested Cowden disease.
(9) The old warehouses that edge the small pebble beach and sapphire-blue water are still owned by the same families, but they have now been converted into a rather special hotel.
(10) There is a long history of people coming here to build their makeshift beach bothies along the shoreline, making use of whatever materials the waves deposit among the giant pebbles.
(11) These divisions might therefore rely on maternally contributed pebble function.
(12) If you appeared on one of the three television channels, and she did so an awful lot, be it Pebble Mill at One , TV-am or her own series, 10 million people or more would watch you at a time – huge numbers compared with today.
(13) Natural objects (pebbles or pieces of mica) were also pressed into the wet clay, while in the palaces, pillars were covered with bronze plaques illustrating the victories and deeds of former kings and nobles.
(14) Traeth Yr Eifl, near Caernarfon, Gwynedd Traeth Yr Eifl beach, Wales Photograph: Rob Smith The best walk to this pleasant pebbly beach comes up over the cliffs that frame Morfa, a National Trust owned nature reserve.
(15) But it doesn't work that way: you may have "less gravel", but most writers agree that you can only have "fewer pebbles", not "less pebbles".
(16) Reported is a case representing an unusual form of geophagia, in which ingestion of pebbles by a 27-year-old mentally retarded woman resulted in impaction and complete filling of the colon with pebbles.
(17) Nasa geologists said the rounder shape of some of the pebbles suggested they had travelled long distances from above the crater rim.
(18) With a thick Brooklyn accent so gravelly it sounds like he swallowed a bag of pebbles before coming on stage, he tells the crowd in Burlington later that night that he is less about change and more about revolution.
(19) Dotted around are piles of red and orange rocks of various sizes, from boulders to pebbles.
(20) We can talk about "many pebbles" but not "much pebbles", "much gravel" but not "many gravel".