(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.
Rainforest
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
(2) The village is situated inside a nature reserve in the Ituri rainforest, an area covering 5,000 square miles that is supposed to be off limits to hunters and gold prospectors.
(3) Indonesia has greatly under-reported how much primary rainforest it is cutting down, according to the government's former head of forestry data gathering.
(4) The draw left England facing a trip to Manaus in the humid rainforest where they will play Italy in Manaus on 14 June in their opening Group D match.
(5) A Greenpeace spokesperson : "Asia Pulp and Paper has been responsible for the destruction of vast swaths of Indonesia's rainforests, including areas of habitat for the critically endangered Sumatran tiger.
(6) Counsell says: “If that is done, there is the possibility to increase palm oil production without causing the environmental damage that we’ve seen in Borneo, while bringing much needed developmental improvements to the communities in those regions.” Watch the palm oil debate interactive: From rainforest to your cupboard: the real story of palm oil - interactive The palm oil debate is funded by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil.
(7) To put it less cryptically, it may well be that a confidential deposition of a relevant witness may short cut months of argument about appropriate processes and save (at least) part of one small rainforest.
(8) The project is also working with the World Bank on an emergency package to stimulate private sector finance for rainforest nations.
(9) Last Thursday, at an event hosted by the Prince of Wales, I set out plans for working with the private sector and rainforest countries so that the timber and foodstuffs we buy do not cause deforestation.
(10) It’s after that notice something missing in the rainforest-like landscape: undergrowth.
(11) Top tip: The Hall of Mosses trail in Hoh is a short, one-mile loop through old growth rainforest.
(12) Some plantation companies, prompted by their customers, have promised to stop destroying the rainforest.
(13) Most of it lives in the Amazon rainforest, home to one in 10 of all the plant and animal species in the world.
(14) Like the strikingly similar landscapes of low wiry vegetation that you can now see in some former rainforest areas in the tropics, these habitats have been created through repeated cycles of cutting and burning.
(15) The prince, who has long campaigned for the survival of rainforests , said that forest protection would be key to a successful deal.
(16) "The longer we all argue about minutiae and statistics, the more rainforest disappears.
(17) Drilling for oil in a part of the Amazon rainforest considered one of the most biodiverse hotspots on the planet is to go ahead less than a year after Ecuador's president lifted a moratorium on oil drilling there.
(18) That is why I established a Rainforests Project to try to promote a consensus on how tropical deforestation might be significantly reduced.
(19) Many Gabonese also pointed out that five days to count 600,000 votes – Gabon is a country with vast rainforests but a tiny population – was excessive.
(20) It was a crucial moment: between 2001 and 2002, 26,000sq km (10,000 sq miles) of rainforest had been lost.