(n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
(n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.
(n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
(v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
(v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
(v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
Example Sentences:
(1) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
(2) Eleven virus strains were isolated from ticks Hyalomma asiaticum asiaticum Schulce et Schlottke, 1929, and Hyalomma plumbeum plumbeum Panzer, 1796,collected in 1971-1974 in desert regions of the Uzbee S.S.R.
(3) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
(4) Rising losses among the nearly 350,000-strong Afghan army and police, and a desertion rate of about 50,000 a year, also support Karzai's contention that control of large parts of the country remains tenuous.
(5) An opening sequence described as “spectacular” by Amazon insiders – featuring 6,000 extras in the Californian desert, according to some reports – is estimated to have cost £2.5m alone.
(6) Motion’s inner dialogue with his father’s memory coloured his own mission to Germany, but he was conscious of the incongruity of his presence among the Desert Rats.
(7) Forty soil samples from different desert localities in Kuwait were surveyed for keratinophilic and geophilic dermatophytic fungi.
(8) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
(9) Harman said the reasons that made some voters desert Labour for Ukip were not all about Europe , but broader issues.
(10) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
(11) Natural foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis are located mainly in the deserts of Middle Asia.
(12) Further south is Ghadames, one of the most ancient settlements in north Africa , which Unesco calls “the pearl of the desert”.
(13) The far western deserts of China have been filled with wind farms and solar panels.
(14) "It wasn't a case of a Labour party that had deserted its principles," he said.
(15) Average prevalence for the country as a whole for people above the age of 10 was 4.3%, with distinct geographical differences: 5.7% in urban areas, 4.1% in rural agricultural areas, and 1.5% in rural desert areas.
(16) squeaks Tess, spinning around outside the reception at MediaCityUK, pointing at the deserted metallic acropolis.
(17) There is, however, a converse way of looking at the situation, Which is often neglected but which may be of general biological interest: does the evolution of adaptations to desert environments necessarily involve loss of viability in more mesic habitats?
(18) Although it is the world's biggest CO2 emitter and notorious for building the equivalent of a 400MW coal-fired power station every three days, it is also erecting 36 wind turbines a day and building a robust new electricity grid to send this power thousands of miles across the country from the deserts of the west to the cities of the east.
(19) Back to article (4) Here I asked him about Barry White, a Desert Island Disc choice of his in 1978, which he had no recollection of.
(20) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.
Discard
Definition:
(v. t.) To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
(v. t.) To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away.
(v. t.) To put or thrust away; to reject.
(v. i.) To make a discard.
(n.) The act of discarding; also, the card or cards discarded.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our findings suggest that many traditional biological features used to estimate prognosis in ALL can be discarded in favor of clinical features (leukocyte count, age, and race) and cytogenetics (ploidy) for planning of future clinical trials.
(2) Aedes aegypti and Toxorhynchites splendens were found only in discarded tyres.
(3) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
(4) This modern view of man and his world discards the traditional mechanistic paradigm which has been the focus of Western scientific thought and medicine.
(5) These issues include the desirability of including adolescents and both pregnant and nonpregnant women in the trial, the use of unapproved control regimens, problems with antimicrobial susceptibility testing due to inadequate methodology and the need for prompt treatment, the need to assess agents for treatment of syndromes of unknown microbial etiology, toxicity considerations related to the use of single-dose regimens, management of the sexual partners of the participants in the trial, analysis of data despite the high frequency of minor protocol violations, sexual reexposure to infection during the trial, and the potential for loss, alteration, or falsification of data because of the relative simplicity of the usual protocol design and the diagnostic reliance on specimens that are routinely discarded.
(6) Use of anti-HCV screening to prevent post-transfusion NANBH was compared with measurement of alanine aminotransferase concentrations: a corrected efficacy of 63% and 65%, a specificity of 93% and 64%, and a positive predictive value of 16.2% and 3.6% were found, respectively; 0.7% or 3.8% of blood donations, respectively, would be discarded.
(7) Previous or simultaneous superfusion with atropine does not modify Clx effects, thus a probable cholinergic mechanism of action for Clx is discarded.
(8) And so I would stare at a discarded popcorn box, a spilled drink or simply the darkness that disappeared into the seat ahead of me – listening carefully to quickening breaths – allowing the film’s soundscape to caress me.
(9) Cells are obtained from fresh atrial tissue normally discarded after being removed to cannulate the right atrium during open heart surgery.
(10) Therefore we considered the hypothesis that during the purification of human menopausal gonadotrophin (hMG) some LH subunits or smaller immunoreactive fragments could have been discarded with the waste fractions.
(11) According to Sussex police, explosives experts investigated what was initially deemed a suspicious item discarded by the man and carried out a small controlled explosion.
(12) Worse, the CFL contains mercury, which according to the EU's own regulations cannot be discarded in ordinary waste, lest the mercury leach into the water supply.
(13) Discarding Green now as the team's first choice could have a profound effect on the West Ham goalkeeper's confidence, as well as his future career at this level, yet Capello's decision will be made purely for the benefit of the team.
(14) discarding the inactive fractions, since allergenicity exists in various fragments.
(15) Particular attention is paid to the autonomy-concept of nervous activity, a concept ofter forgotten, neglected or discarded from physiological thinking, although life of any kind, in any type of living system, can only be understood if spontaneous existence and activity are accepted for living matter.
(16) During analyses of alkali digested lung tissue for asbestos bodies, we observed that the number of asbestos bodies in the discarded waste frequently exceeded the number in the filtered residue, the number reported in the standard diagnostic method.
(17) Many are swaddled in grey UNHCR blankets, which are discarded by the side of the road either because they are wet and heavy, or because the refugees are not aware that they will spend many more hours in the open air.
(18) One school of thought, the "eliminative materialistics," see FP as a misdirected and scientifically redundant approach to the mind which should be discarded; the "functionalists," in contrast, consider FP categories, such as belief, to be essential.
(19) They treat women like plates of food that can be consumed and discarded.
(20) Power fluctuations at frontal leads pointed to difficulties in interpreting interhemispheric EEG asymmetries in emotion research, if information on time dynamics is discarded.