(n.) Moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.
(n.) Figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.
(n.) An emblem of morning, or fresh vigor.
(v. t.) To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.
(a. & n.) Same as Due, or Duty.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Geoff Dyer notes in his essay for Dewe Mathews's book, her images may "bear a conceptual resemblance to Sternfeld's, but they are taken within the already charged zone of memory that is the Western Front.
(2) Advantages of DEW over the use of conventional manuals are 1) the extensive volume of text, 2) the large number of high quality illustrations, 3) the immediate access to cross references and 4) the potential for continuous revision.
(3) Physiological measurements included local skin and dew-point temperatures.
(4) Photograph: Chloe Dewe Mathews On another trip, Dewe Mathews visited the local council maintenance office in Mazingarbe, Nord–Pas-de-Calais, which is situated in a former abbatoir where 11 British soldiers were executed for desertion between December 1915 and March 1918.
(5) Photograph: Chloe Dewe Mathews His officer namesake later recorded the proceedings in his memoirs: "There are hooks on the post; we always do things thoroughly in the Rifles.
(6) Dew point, however, failed to predict patient load during the 1990 race.
(7) Five male volunteers performed three 180-min experiments (three repeats of 10 min rest, 50 min walking at 440 watts) in an environment of 38 degrees C dry bulb (Tdb), 12 degrees C dew point (Tdp).
(8) Five subjects performed intermittent exercise on a bicycle ergometer (25 min work, 5 min rest cycles for 2 hours, and 20 min work, 10 min rest cycles for a further hour) in a hot environment (air and wall temperatures = 36 degrees C; dew-point temperature = 10 degrees C; air velocity = 0.6 m.s-1).
(9) We have always followed this conservative procedure, as of course in cases of liver echinococcus, that is: cyst enucleation and marcupialisation (Posadas-Dew method), if there are no cyst complications.
(10) Chloe Dewe Mathews: ‘Druid Chris Parks rows his homemade coracle on the upper Thames.
(11) A homogeneous batch of dew retted hackled flax was divided into two portions.
(12) Skrillex and Chance The Rapper Recess tracklist All is Fair In Love And Brostep with Ragga Twins Recess, with Kill the Noise, Fatman Scoop and Michael Angelakos Stranger, with KillaGraham from Milo and Otis and Sam Dew Try It Out (Neon Mix), with Alvin Risk Coast Is Clear, with Chance the Rapper and the Social Experiment Dirty Vibe, with Diplo, G-Dragon from Big Bang and CL from 2NE1 Ragga Bomb, with Ragga Twins Doompy Poomp Fuck That Ease My Mind, with Niki and the Dove Fire Away, with Kid Harpoon
(13) Five subjects exercised on a cycle ergometer for 30 min at 55% peak oxygen consumption on two occasions in an environmental test chamber (ambient temperature = 29 degrees C; dew point temperature = 10 degrees C).
(14) A subline (FL) of a long-term growth-selected line (F) of turkeys was established by mass selecting solely for increased shank width at the narrowest point (dew claw).
(15) The evaluation experiment was, however, very rigid and negatively biased with respect to the DEW system.
(16) Experiments were carried out on four healthy male subjects in two separate sessions: (a) A baseline period of two consecutive nights, one spent at thermoneutrality [operative temperature (To) = 30 degrees C, dew-point temperature (Tdp) = 7 degrees C, air velocity (Va) = 0.2 m.s-1] and the other in hot condition (To = 35 degrees C, Tdp = 7 degrees C, Va = 0.2 m.s-1).
(17) Vivienne Dews, the OFT chief executive, said of the study into SMEs: "Our work suggests there may be competition concerns in this sector.
(18) Sharp retained his chairmanship of £175m lobbying and public relations group Huntsworth, better known in City circles for its trading brands, Citigate Dewe Rogerson, Grayling and Red.
(19) Direct dew-point recording offers an easy practical dimension to the study of efficacy of latent heat loss and skin wettedness properties through garments.
(20) "Initially, I was wary of taking on a project about the first world war as I have no personal connection with it," says Dewe Mathews, "but, from a documentary photography perspective, I was drawn to the idea of arriving somewhere 100 years afterwards.
Dewdrop
Definition:
(n.) A drop of dew.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are the odd moments – parties, public readings – but that’s just the dewdrop.” Edna O’Brien will be in conversation with critic Alex Clark at a Guardian Live event on 9 November.
(2) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
(3) A closeup of dewdrops on the wing of a beetle, and another of lizard skin, became shards of broken mirror and sequins, reproduced as digital prints.