(n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
(n.) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.
Example Sentences:
(1) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
(2) There are allegations of very, very serious dereliction of duty and of wrongdoing by people in the police at the time who were investigating – it is alleged – some of the most grotesque crimes imaginable.” According to Newsnight, the officers involved said they did not know the senior figure who threatened them.
(3) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
(4) "It will be a dereliction of duty by those considering the bids if they choose to write off half a billion pounds of public investment and go with a football-only solution rather than the multiuse facility that was promised."
(5) In between, the small downtown area is a shell of empty, crumbling shop fronts and derelict, boarded-up houses interspersed with the odd bar, ramshackle residential street and tracts of wasteland.
(6) She added that the superstore would have pulled business from the local high street and brought big lorries and heavy traffic to the site which sits next to Dreamland, Margate’s derelict amusement park which is being revived.
(7) A scramble is on to find suitable empty properties, from rooms in private homes, to sports halls and disused school buildings to derelict soldiers’ barracks, even inflatable circus tents.
(8) If we don't take these long-term decisions now we will be committing a serious dereliction of our duty to the future of this country."
(9) This 49-storey building has sat derelict in the city’s downtown for 17 years, after an economic crisis halted its costly development.
(10) It’s about why this government chose to not upgrade Don Dale and to throw children in a derelict male prison.” Lawrence said the problems of juveniles in NT prisons had to be addressed “by a system that’s properly resourced, providing nothing less than best practice which is acquitted by fully qualified and professionally trained staff, creating appropriate behavioural programs and education for adolescent offenders of various types and backgrounds”.
(11) In November, AUC confirmed that they planned to demolish at least 40% of the wall in order to tear down the derelict building behind it.
(12) During a recession in the 70s, London boroughs started buying up derelict, and even non-derelict, housing for the purposes of doing them up and letting them to council tenants; this, typically, is the outsourced version.
(13) The warehouses have no running water or sanitation, and the refugees and migrants live in derelict conditions, burning everything they can get their hands on to keep warm.
(14) In Poland , where temperatures have dropped to -22C, officials have been trying to direct homeless people away from derelict unheated buildings and into crammed shelters.
(15) In explaining the alcoholic process to the public, this fiction contributed to the general belief that the typical alcoholic was a Skid Row-like derelict.
(16) Mr Blair warned that failing to replace the current ageing plants would fuel global warming, endanger Britain's energy security and represent a dereliction of duty to the country.
(17) Thanks to the beneficence of its owner he and his allies have recently moved into a derelict 19th-century sea fort on the tiny island of Stack Rock, taking with them camping supplies and generators.
(18) The Senate and the House have been passive up until now and derelict in their responsibilities.
(19) Robert Morris, 34, is one of eight people of varying ages and backgrounds about to move into a derelict former children's care home in east London.
(20) He and the other new arrivals were put up in a derelict shack, with plywood walls, a tin roof and no fan to ease the humid air.
Lagan
Definition:
(n. & v.) See Ligan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Southern blot analysis indicated that both lagans appeared twice within the cow haploid genome, with the second copies lying outside the cow beta-globin locus.
(2) The Lagan Valley MP said: “We really do not want to see the institutions placed under threat, but I think that if Sinn Féin block the welfare reform bill that has massive consequences for the politics of Northern Ireland.
(3) One lagan was found 3' to the fetal globin gene, while the second lay between the adult globin gene and a globin pseudogene.
(4) The DUP MP for Lagan Valley, Jeffrey Donaldson, said on Thursday his party was preparing a motion to suspend Sinn Féin in government over claims republicans had broken promises that the PIRA had disbanded as a paramilitary force.
(5) Stage one: Belfast, 21.7km team time trial The place that launched one of the world's biggest ships is the starting point for the world's second biggest bike race next Friday at 5.45pm, with a team time trial starting in the Titanic Quarter before heading out along the Newtownards Road, climbing the one-mile hill to Stormont, before coming back along the Stranmillis Embankment by the River Lagan and ending at City Hall in Donegall Place.
(6) But the DUP negotiator and Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson said he hoped a deal could be secured by Monday night.
(7) The lagan 3' to the cow fetal globin gene contains the recognition site for a sequence specific DNA binding factor.
(8) Coire Lagan Photograph: Alamy Distance 5 ½ miles Start Glenbrittle, grid ref: NG408206 Further information and maps Coire Lagan is the perfect introduction to the Cuillin – Skye's alpine-like mountain range of jagged peaks.
(9) On the serum of 3790 patients (2131 women and 1659 male), aged from 3 days to 84 years, the RAC has been performed at the same time with the Mc Lagan's Kunkel's and Takata's reactions.
(10) It is a far cry from even a decade ago, when the eastern bank of the Lagan was an industrial graveyard with rusting cranes, empty warehouses and acres of desolate open spaces.
(11) The Lagan Valley MP said: "We have made it clear all along that these letters were unacceptable and called on the secretary of state to rescind them.
(12) The DUP MP for Lagan Valley, Jeffrey Donaldson, confirmed on Sunday that Bell has been suspended from the party over his allegations.
(13) One of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other is paedophilia.” The largest gay rights group in the region, the Rainbow Project, confirmed on Wednesday that they will be demonstrating outside the awards ceremony, which this year is being staged at Belfast’s SSE Arena on the banks of the river Lagan.
(14) The MP for Lagan Valley told parliament that if extra money was only directed to legacy inquests into killings carried out by the security forces during the Troubles, and none was allocated to the police’s Historical Enquiries Team (HET), then the DUP would oppose it.
(15) Like the Basque country museum, the tourist centre on the Lagan represents a society moving on from ethnic conflict and terrorism.
(16) Questions were raised over the policing of Saturday's march, particularly regarding the decision to route the loyalists back into east Belfast via the Albert bridge over the river Lagan.
(17) Kenneth Tynan was not the first person to use the F-word on television : that was either Brendan Behan on Panorama in 1956 (although no one could understand him because he was drunk) or the man who painted the railings on Stranmillis Embankment alongside the river Lagan in Belfast, who in 1959 told Ulster TV's teatime magazine programme, Roundabout , that his job was "fucking boring".
(18) Step by step 1 From the car park, follow the Lagan riverbank path upstream.
(19) Across the river Lagan, PSNI riot police backed by up English, Welsh and Scottish colleagues also had to quell rioting in east Belfast after trouble broke out when loyalists there returned from the main Orange demonstration.
(20) Each was a composite, consisting of closely linked Alu-type repeats with a short stretch of genomic non-repetitive sequence, called a lagan, sandwiched between.