(n.) An a/rial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
Example Sentences:
(1) To get even closer you’ll need an ice axe, crampons and mountaineering experience.
(2) The one or two exceptions were climbers wearing crampons, which stick to ice like flypaper.
(3) "Just above the ice falls at crampon point you can see cans from 10, 20, 30 years ago or even older," Tshering says.
(4) They put on their crampons and other equipment at the base, then Rob started climbing.
(5) Earlier this year, crews from the pyramid, as it is usually known, strapped on crampons and installed a weather station on the south col of Everest at about 8,000m.
(6) There are people here who have never worn crampons or a harness and think you can just spend thousands of dollars and that's it, but Bonita was not one of these people."
(7) All these things, which amount to a mountain's commercialisation, would have been inconceivable to Tenzing Norgay – in 2003, 17 years after his death, his son said he would been shocked to find adventurers setting out on the climb "who have no idea how to put on crampons".
(8) The New York Times has some ideas about what to wear: We suggest muckboots, headlamp and windbreaker in the morning, crampons and faux-wolverine-lined anorak for evening.
(9) Climbers had reported that they barely needed crampons for the climb, there was so much bare rock, Tenzing said.
(10) Whereas once Everest only attracted the world’s best and most experienced mountaineers, recent years have seen aspiring summiteers who are using basic equipment such as an ice axe and crampons for the first time.
Ivy
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Poison oak, ivy, and sumac dermatitis is a T-cell-mediated reaction against urushiol, the oil found in the leaf of the plants.
(2) The results indicated that the induction phase as well as the maintenance phase did not induce a statistically significant hyposensitivity to urushiol, and we were thus unable to decrease sensitivity to poison ivy and poison oak in humans using orally ingested PDC-HDC diacetate.
(3) Ivy bleeding time showed a significant prolongation, the median increasing from 240 to 270 seconds.
(4) Previous studies in young normal rats have shown that intracerebral administration of the proteinase inhibitor, leupeptin, caused a rapid accumulation of lipofuscin-like pigment in lysosomes of brain cells (Ivy et al., 1984a).
(5) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
(6) Oxbridge and the Ivy League universities remain the educations of choice for the Indian elite, but the political class now reflects a much more Indian reality.
(7) Moreover, compound 9 exhibited tolerogenic properties to sensitization by poison ivy allergens, i.e.
(8) Yet for all the colourful cushions, plants, rustic ivy-lined facade and local artworks, it’s the nouveau prices that most appeal.
(9) The methods developed were applied to the analysis of the urushiol fractions obtained from different plant parts of poison ivy.
(10) After a two-hour show featuring performances from artists including Taylor Swift, Usher and Nicky Minaj, Beyoncé was joined onstage by her beaming husband Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy.
(11) He just wasn’t acting right, he wasn’t being himself and Javier noticed it,” Ivy said.
(12) The incorporation of radioactivity from l-[U-(14)C]tyrosine, dl-[beta-(14)C]tyrosine and dl-[U-(14)C]phenylalanine into bean shoots (Phaseolus vulgaris) and dl-[beta-(14)C]tyrosine and l-[Me-(14)C]methionine into ivy leaves (Hedera helix) was also investigated.
(13) There were no differences in side effects, postoperative blood loss, plasma activated partial thromboplastin time, or Ivy bleeding time between the groups.
(14) The left ventricular function was before evaluated with invasive method and then the IVI% was allowed in every patient.
(15) We are sitting in his office on Dartmouth college campus, an Ivy League private university in rural New Hampshire.
(16) Further evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis (Ivy et al.
(17) The induction of allergic contact dermatitis to urushiols from poison ivy and related plants is generally believed to involve an initial oxidation event by which a protein-reactive quinone is formed.
(18) Eruptions caused by poison ivy and related plants are almost always a form of allergic contact dermatitis.
(19) Two months later, I am woken up by a nurse called Stefan in the recovery room at IVI Valencia.
(20) Bleeding time (modified Ivy's test) and reported side effects did not differ between the two groups.