(v. t.) To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.
(v. t.) To destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) This combined process decreased by 63% the decimal reduction times for the heat treatment when the organism was suspended in buffer and by 43% when suspended in milk.
(2) An isolated colony of red squirrels at Formby , Merseyside, were decimated by an outbreak of squirrelpox in 2008 , which saw the population crash by 85% to less than 200 squirrels.
(3) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
(4) Fish stocks have been decimated by methods that include cyanide poisoning.
(5) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(6) On average, aided Snellen VA's were better (decimal acuity = 0.98) than the unaided interferometric VA's (decimal acuity = 0.67).
(7) The observation led the authors to put forth the hypothesis of acquired provisional immunity or a temporary decimation of disease vectors.
(8) Google enlisted members of the US congress, whose election campaigns it had funded, to pressure the European Union to drop a €6bn antitrust case which threatens to decimate the US tech firm’s business in Europe.
(9) His Third Man studio complex and shop in Nashville is introducing a new generation to the joys of vinyl at a time when the music industry has been decimated by a drop in physical-format sales.
(10) Multiplication of the legionellae was found to occur in a temperature range between 20 and 43 degrees C and inactivation was observed above 50 degrees C. Decimal reduction times decreased with increasing temperatures.
(11) The phenotype cosegregates with a DNA haplotype of the apo B gene in an Idaho pedigree, with a maximum decimal logarithm of the ratio (LOD) score of 7.56 at a recombination rate of zero.
(12) Oxfam has already had to scale back life-saving work in Indonesia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and sub-Saharan Africa – the poorest region in the world – due to unprecedented aid cuts.” Childfund Australia’s chief executive, Nigel Spence, said the budget had made “even deeper cuts to an already decimated aid budget”.
(13) Many GPs are already working 12-hour days, with much of our time (both clinical and administrative) spent dealing with the consequences of failed political initiatives, failure of appropriate regulation, decimation of local voluntary sector support agencies and NHS bureaucracy.
(14) To counter claims that the policy is decimating social housing stock, the government introduced its one-for-one replacement principle that each social home sold should be replaced with a similar one.
(15) With tourism decimated since the ousting of Mohamed Morsi as president in July, Egyptian authorities hope the new tomb will help bring visitors back to Luxor.
(16) Decimal serial dilutions of eight common bacterial species were prepared, and the detection times were determined by measuring the (14)CO(2) metabolized from the (14)C-labeled glucose substrate.
(17) Being from Yorkshire in the late 90s and early 2000s: we were decimated, I saw how hard it was to keep the show on the road, and it was that voluntary party that kept that show on the road."
(18) Read more Still, though polls will not perfectly predict the US election, state by state and down to the decimal point, they are likely to accurately guess who will win nationally, especially if Clinton has a large enough lead.
(19) Disinfectant activities were compared by statistical analysis of log reduction factors and log count time gradients (decimal reduction times).
(20) As we speak, further education is being silently decimated in the name of "vocational training".
Tromp
Definition:
(n.) A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.
(n.) Alt. of Trompe
Example Sentences:
(1) Tromp made investigations of a weather effect on erythrocyte sedimentation rates (ESR) of human blood by routine checks of the blood of donor groups in Leiden from 1955 to 1985.
(2) This week, Victoria was chatting backstage about the "huge juggling act" of working motherhood, and singing the praises of her trompe l'oeil skirt-and-shirt dresses: "It's great to have something that you can just stand in, zip up and go."
(3) With co-founder Kim Deal having left the band last year, the new album was created by Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering, with help from long-time producer Gil Norton, who worked on Doolittle, Bossanova and Trompe le Monde.
(4) In contrast, no aggregation of TROMP was present in treponemes incubated in normal rabbit serum for 16 h or in treponemes incubated in IRS for 2 h. These findings suggest that the rate of C activation leading to in vitro treponemicidal activity is limited by the time required for aggregation of antibody-bound TROMP molecules.
(5) An influence of the weather on ESR was also found, but this seems to be more complicated than Tromp supposed.
(6) Playing the stricken Ron Woodruff, in Dallas Buyers Club , McConaughey is reptilian, feverish and emaciated, containing just the element of trompe l’oeil the Academy has learned to consider “acting”.
(7) The Pixies have confirmed details of their first studio album since 1991's Trompe le Monde.
(8) My favourites are a trompe l'oeil elephant on a rock and a giant spindly woman holding a waterfall.
(9) Field and laboratory studies established the development time of all the phases of Oedemagena tarandi and Cephenemyia trompe in different climatic zones of their habitat.
(10) Fruchtman got round this by half-unbricking the walls of the court and hiding the cameras inside, then employing an ingenious trompe-l’oeil system involving reflective white paint and chicken wire.
(11) T. pallidum rare outer membrane protein (TROMP) molecules were shown in freeze-fracture electron micrographs to be consistently aggregated following a 16-h incubation of treponemes in IRS.
(12) The first giant trick is Andrea Pozzo 's trompe l'oeil ceiling fresco which uses foreshortening to create an astoundingly realistic vision of the founder of the Society of Jesus soaring towards paradise to be welcomed by Christ (no, the Jesuits never were modest).
(13) The marines were surrounded by armed men and captured on Sunday after landing near Sirte in a Lynx helicopter that was on board a navy ship, HMS Tromp, which is anchored off the Libyan coast to help evacuations, Dutch defence ministry spokesman Otte Beeksma said.
(14) Photograph: Aitken Jolly for the Observer "Katrantzou can do 'concept'," said Vogue 's Sarah Mower, reviewing her latest collection admiringly, one that veered away from the trompe l'oeil that she's become quietly famous for, and towards prints inspired by fields of tulips and crushed-car sculptures.
(15) Chem., in press] and T. brucei 427 [Hensgens, L.A.M., Brackenhoff, J., De Vries, B.F., Sloof, P., Tromp, M.C., Van Boom, J.H.
(16) On one artists created a witty trompe l'oeil of a suburban street apparently beyond the wall , an optimistic reminder of what the roads used to be like.
(17) "This smacks of over-zealous policemen with little cultural understanding, tromping about the Tate in their hobnail boots, to the cultural deficit of society and this exhibition," Stephens told the Art Newspaper.
(18) The phenological and ecological features of O. tarandi and C. trompe in the aforesaid zones were identified which are the basis for scientifically grounded prophylactic measures.