(n.) Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of the dearth of epidemiological clues as to causation, studies with experimental animal models assume greater importance.
(2) There are no specific legislative provisions regulating sterilisation in any State or Territory in Australia and there is a dearth of general case law on the subject.
(3) Fisher, who cannot afford to live in town, said the dearth of available land made it hard for developers to find plots where they could achieve the 20% margins they generally wanted, which meant community, non-profit alternatives needed to be considered.
(4) Devolution in our over-centralised state is to be welcomed, but that it is being talked up as the platform for Labour renewal is surely a symptom of a dearth of ideas.
(5) We are reporting this case with review of literature, as there is dearth of published literature on this association of Leprosy and Tetanus.
(6) An Oxford Business School's Centre for Business Taxation survey highlighted concerns about "a particular dearth of people who have the technical expertise to deal with the challenges presented by large business".
(7) Finally, the literature revealed a dearth of controlled studies of psychosocial treatment for well defined subgroups of neurotic depression.
(8) Cost-effectiveness analysis is an economic methodology widely used to inform such decisions, yet there is a dearth of information available on the economic consequences of mass breast cancer screening.
(9) Similar data are already available from North America and surveys have been done in Scotland but there is a dearth of information from England and Wales.
(10) That October, citing the dearth of providers in west Texas, an appeals court gave the clinic permission to operate once again.
(11) Some relatives of people killed by police said they had been unaware of the dearth of publicly available information on police-involved fatalities until their family became affected.
(12) He argued that allowing the sector to be dominated by a handful of players would lead to "excess profits, poor customer service and a dearth of innovation, none of which are likely to create a stable system".
(13) But, having last year decried the dearth of Scottish comedy on the fringe , I’d better give this year’s pre-Edinburgh sketch laurels to Burnistoun (Robert Florence and Iain Connell), the well-loved BBC Scotland sketch show now following up a sell-out Glasgow run with a first appearance at the fringe.
(14) Although olfactory complaints prompt an estimated 200,000 people each year to seek medical consultation in the U.S., there is a dearth of information available in the nursing literature.
(15) News media reports and unclassified government documents showed North Korea imported large amounts of centrifuge parts in the early 2000s, Pollack said, but an apparent dearth of observed imports since then suggests that Pyongyang is making the necessary components at home.
(16) Concerns over quality have also held back growth and a dearth of commercial digital-only stations has also been a factor.
(17) Remarkable, perhaps, that the Greens are doing quite so well given the relative dearth of airtime.
(18) This dearth is especially evident among cases citing injury to the genitourinary system.
(19) Bye then went on to argue that given “the absolute dearth of information Missouri has disclosed to this court, the ‘pharmacy’ on which Missouri relies could be nothing more than a high school chemistry class.” He added: “I once again fear Missouri elevates the ends over the means in its rush to execute Taylor.” Bye’s dissent was backed by two other judges on the appeals court.
(20) California accounted for 136,826, almost a quarter of the total, reflecting high cost of living, a dearth of affordable housing and cuts in state services.
Hearth
Definition:
(n.) The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.
(n.) The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.
(n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a rule the abdominal exstirpation of the uterus with both adnexe is practiced in order to come to a complete removal of the infection hearth.
(2) Photograph: Andy Pietrasik Start with a coffee and croissant at zinc bar Café Tupiña at the bottom end of rue Porte de la Monnaie, and then move on to a hearty lunch at La Tupiña next door, with its huge roaring hearth and spits roasting chickens and racks of lamb.
(3) Although in April Darvill and Wainwright only won permission from English Heritage for a trench the size of a large hearth rug - "a little piece of keyhole surgery" as Darvill described it - it was the first excavation at which the whole armoury of modern scientific archaeology could be fired.
(4) They struggle to navigate the demands of the labour market while still being largely responsible for home, hearth and children.
(5) A flatmate lounges on a sofa and a coal-effect gas fire pretends to burn in the hearth.
(6) The Vatican talked of "this insult to the nobility of the hearth", and Ed Sullivan on his TV show said, "You can only trust that youngsters will not be persuaded that the sanctity of marriage has been invalidated by the appalling example of Mrs Taylor-Fisher and married man Burton."
(7) Despite marked changes in thyroidal economy in experimental rat, iodothyronine 5'-monodeiodinating activity (MA) in the liver, the kidney and the hearth and the hepatic alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase activity were decreased inconsistently and when decreased, the various enzyme activities were not influenced appreciably by treatment with replacement doses of T4 or T3.
(8) A multiple hearth simulation study suggested that most of the organic material present in the sludge matrix is vaporized within the upper hearths that are held at lower temperatures and may consequently escape from such incinerators undestroyed.
(9) Through rampant privatisation, new Labour had “sabotaged the public realm,” says Marquand, a realm that was once the party’s home and hearth.
(10) That tartan rug is a heather-hued heath before my hearth (alliteration too!).
(11) The Shoulder of Mutton (mains from £11.96), the Hearth of the Ram (01706 828681, hearthoftheram.com, mains from £12.95) and the Eagle and Child (01706 55718, eagle-and-child.com, mains from £9.95) are all doing great stuff with local produce.
(12) This report describes two female patients, 69 and 79 years old, with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) developing from erythema ab igne (EAI) due to thermal irradiation from a sunken hearth (irori in Japanese) or an underfloor brazier covered with a quilt (kotatsu in Japanese).
(13) Out of the stadium's sluices flowed hordes of the new classes created by the industrial revolution: workers in overalls, bosses in top hats, arriving to dismantle the rural scene piece by piece, the meadows and the tilled fields making way for an array of vast chimneys emerging from the once fertile earth to reach the height of the stadium rim, their infernal belching smoke replacing the homely cottage hearth and ushering in a world of steam engines and spinning jennys.
(14) In future reports we hope to refine the comparisons by obtaining data which will enable classification of workers more precisely by intensity and duration of exposure within the open hearth.
(15) As he points out, several of the temples at Brodgar have hearths, though this was clearly not a domestic dwelling.
(16) Ironically, now my peers and I who fought so hard to get out of the home are coming to a different crossroads that leads back to the hearth and a different identity.
(17) Other items in the catalogue were equally bad value: take the Accessory Package consisting of a small hearth rug and a small lamp with a matching coffee table.
(18) The usability of five nutrient media - three kinds of spirolate media, thioglycolate medium and brain hearth medium - suitable for the isolation of Vibrio coli and germs similar to borrelia isolated from pigs affected by dysentery, and vibria isolated from cattle, was compared in the study.
(19) After injections of 3H thymidine or 3H proline, the physiological hearth growth in mice of the CBA strain belonging to various age groups was studied by means of autoradiography.
(20) Details are given on examinations of the central nervous system, the abdomen, the hearth and the skeletal system, on the possibilities of immunoscintigraphy, and also on the indications of SPECT studies and the clinical performance.