(n.) A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.
(n.) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scott Corfe, of the Centre for Economics and Business Research, notes that almost half the job creation over the past quarter was in one region, London.
(2) Scott Corfe, senior economist at the Centre for Economics and Business Research, said: "UK employers may be behaving in a different way during this economic crisis compared with previous crises.
(3) I want the next mayor of London to wake up each morning thinking about how to increase housebuilding – because only doubling our current levels of housebuilding to 50,000 a year will we solve this crisis.” Scott Corfe of CEBR, which conducted the research, said the housing crisis “risks undermining the capital’s position as a global centre of enterprise, talent and success”.
(4) She and her eldest son were starved to death in the dungeons of Corfe castle.
(5) Scott Corfe at the Centre for Economics and Business Research Growth optimists in the UK appear to be banking on a strong export-led recovery, given that domestic demand for goods and services is likely to remain suppressed in an era of sluggish household income growth and reduced government demand.
(6) Scott Corfe, senior economist at the Centre for Economics and Business Research The UK labour market has defied economic gravity since the start of the year, with unemployment falling despite the UK economy contracting between Q4 2011 and Q2 2012.
(7) It’s hard to see where any significant inflationary pressure will come from in the remainder of 2015 and 2016, and the UK could be on course to see inflation below the Bank of England’s central 2% target until 2017,” said Scott Corfe at the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
Corm
Definition:
(n.) Same as Cormus, 2.
(n.) A solid bulb-shaped root, as of the crocus. See Bulb.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stability of various concentrations of morphine sulfate solution stored in Cormed III (Kalex) i.v.
(2) The TC1 mRNA accumulates during corm development, is more prevalent in corm apical than basal regions, and is either absent, or present at low concentrations, in other vegetative organs such as the leaf and root.
(3) We investigated gene expression patterns that occur during taro corm development.
(4) The methods were shown to be sensitive and specific and can be used as an alternative to the pharmacopoeial methods having been applied to the determination of colchicine in corms of Merendera persica and in three pharmaceutical preparations.
(5) Our results show that corm development is associated with the differentiation of specialized cells and tissues, and that these differentiation events are coupled with the temporal and spatial expression of corm-specific genes.
(6) A curculin-encoding cDNA clone, designated as TC1, was identified that corresponds to a highly prevalent 1-kb corm mRNA.
(7) Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis identified several different prevalent proteins that accumulate during corm development.
(8) The finding, gathering, and preparing of sedge corms and of seeds of tamarind fruit were described in detail.
(9) To this end, two groups of women, hyperandrogenic anovulatory (n = 4) and early follicular phase (n = 4) normally-cycling controls, were subjected to continuous blood withdrawal over 24 hours with a portable Cormed pump (Cormed Inc., Middleport, NY) and to exogenous stimulation with human chorionic gonadotropin.
(10) There was one anesthetic complication, respiratory depression in a patient whose MediPort (Cormed, Inc, Medina, NY) was inserted using local anesthesia and sedation.
(11) 4 periods were established in the development of stem apices: (1) formation of apical meristem (November), (2) slow development coinciding with the intensive plant vegetation (December--February), (3) transition to generative development when the vegetative organs begin to dry off (March) and (4) differentiation of generative organs at the time when the corm is underground and vegetative organs almost fully absent (summer).
(12) In situ hybridization experiments showed that the TC1 mRNA is highly concentrated in corm storage parenchyma cells and is absent, or present in reduced concentrations, in other corm cells and tissues.
(13) The greatest adsorption occurred with walls from leaf blade, followed by petiole and corm walls, although the differences were not major.