(n.) A city of Greece, famed for its luxury and extravagance.
(n.) A small fruit; a currant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Currently up for grabs is St Athanasios island, just 2.5 acres, in the Gulf of Corinth, with an asking price of €1.5m.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Temple of Apollo, Corinth.
(3) Less background interference was observed with Corinth V than with iodine-starch.
(4) The activity of Cathepsin B was estimated by using the substrate N-alpha-benzoyl-DL-arginine-naphthylamide HCl and diazoic dye Fast Corinth V in phosphate buffer pH 6.0 in the presence of EDTA and cysteine.
(5) If the mix of beach life and ancient culture aren't enough for you, try a 50m bungy jump into the Corinth canal.
(6) The country faced a Sisyphean task, said one, namechecking the king of Corinth who was condemned to roll a rock up a hill only to see it bounce down again, then repeat the task for eternity.
(7) Fast Corinth V salt was selected for its relatively high sensitivity.
(8) I gained rare access to the Corinth centre with a former refugee as my guide.
(9) Situated above the sparkling waters of the Gulf of Corinth, it is not far from the ruins of the city where St Paul preached, and beyond that lies the fabled Argolid; home to Agamemnon's palace and the famous theatre at Epidavros.
(10) Many of the men who we spoke with in the Corinth centre had been swept up in Greece’s inhumane Operation Xenios Zeus , launched in 2012, to rid the streets of asylum seekers.
(11) The stomachs of 141 (96.5%) of 146 snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) collected in the area of East Corinth, Maine between the months of February, 1972 and February, 1973 were infected with Obeliscoides cuniculi.
(12) On a searing hot day last weekend I took the train an hour out of Athens to the Greek city of Corinth.
(13) These anabolic compounds were separated by TLC and visualized with Corinth V and the results compared to iodine and starch visualization.
(14) Four skeletal series (Corinth, Greece; Gran Quivira, New Mexico; Semna South, Sudanese Nubia, and a large group from scattered sites in England) were coded for sex, jaw, tooth group, dental attrition, dental caries, site and time period.
(15) Fast Corinth V showed distinct spots with 2 ng of zeranol and 4 ng of zearalenone while faint spots were observed with estradiol and estrone standards.
Pegasus
Definition:
(n.) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.
(n.) A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus.
(n.) A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China.
Example Sentences:
(1) A survey of 788 patients on a specialty support surface, Pegasus Airwave System, in 119 hospitals or hospices in the United Kingdom during February and March 1991 provided the largest database on the current pattern of use of any pressure-relieving mattress.
(2) Heavy rain last Thursday marred the Pegasus Day parade that marks the opening of the annual Kentucky Derby festival.
(3) This study describes the current use and reported effectiveness of the Pegasus Airwave System in pressure sore prevention.
(4) On film, he showed up in The Remains of the Day (1993); Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday (2002), a harrowing documentary reconstruction of the protest and massacre in Derry in 1972; as Pegasus, head of MI7, in Rowan Atkinson’s Johnny English (2003) and the foreign secretary in the Bond movie Quantum of Solace (2008) .
(5) Three-dimensional structures were generated using the torsion angle space program PEGASUS.
(6) Three giant planets were snapped around a star known as HR 8799 in the constellation of Pegasus, 130 light years from Earth.