(n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.
(n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.
(v. t.) To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
(v. t.) To surround with a ditch.
(v. t.) To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.
(v. i.) To dig a ditch or ditches.
Example Sentences:
(1) This year's IPO frenzy has shown further signs of fading, as yet another company ditched plans to list its shares on the London stock exchange.
(2) But the last people you'd rely on are those who dug the ditch and shoved you in – particularly when they're still building and still shoving.
(3) Plans for the pipeline to come onshore in Brindisi were ditched following local opposition.
(4) But in a last-ditch effort, his lawyers lodged an appeal for clemency on Monday morning.
(5) Now he must go | Momodou Musa Touray Read more As midday and 4pm deadlines to go passed on Friday, two regional leaders arrived in the capital, Banjul, in a last-ditch diplomatic effort to persuade him to step down.
(6) In Barcelona, where last-ditch negotiations are taking place, it became clear today the best hope for Copenhagen is a "politically binding" agreement, which rich countries hope will have all the key elements of the final deal, including specific targets and timetables for greenhouse gas emissions cuts and money for poor countries to cope with climate change.
(7) In a last-ditch attempt to overturn the award of the west coast rail franchise to FirstGroup, Virgin Trains co-owner Sir Richard Branson has offered to run the service "for free" to allow time for parliamentary scrutiny of the decision.
(8) Time to scrap all honours everywhere, including UK.” Australians had their chance to ditch the monarchy in 1999.
(9) By removing the safeguards on [the total number of] hours [a trainee medic can be told to work], doctors will be working unsafe hours, leading to poor patient care.” One source involved in helping to formulate Hunt’s new offer said it represented a serious move to break the impasse over the pay and conditions of NHS medics and is his “last-ditch attempt to resolve the junior doctors dispute” before the ballot produces a widely expected mandate for action.
(10) phi PS5, a double-stranded DNA bacteriophage of Pseudomonas stutzeri JM604 that adsorbs specifically to the outer-membrane protein NosA, was isolated from stagnant irrigation ditch water.
(11) We will have another financial shock – it’s inevitable.” Gary Greenwood, analyst at Shore Capital, described the results as “dismal” and noted the bank was ditching targets previously set to measure returns to shareholders.
(12) Geoff Reid Bradford • Is the Jeremy Hunt who stated that “We need to have an honest discussion about the purpose of A&E departments” ( Hunt ditches target as A&E crisis deepens , 10 January) the same Jeremy Hunt who took his own child to A&E with a minor illness because he didn’t want to wait for a GP appointment?
(13) The chancellor stressed that Britain’s relationship with the EU would remain unchanged for the time being – and ditched the idea, launched alongside his predecessor Alistair Darling during the campaign – that an emergency budget would be necessary within weeks, as Brexit slams the brakes on the economy.
(14) 5) Playing dirty helps win the day Three days before the vote, a panicking no campaign organised a last-ditch rally at the Place du Canada in Montreal.
(15) The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) yesterday urged diplomats to stop bickering about a mini package of liberalisation designed to boost global commerce and warned of serious damage to the 20-year-old institution if last-ditch talks failed.
(16) A humiliated Trierweiler was publicly ditched by Hollande in a terse 18-word statement announcing that he was “putting an end” to their “shared life”.
(17) He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to Lakenheath and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red football shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their knickers, Holly's black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match.
(18) On information known publicly, one Tamil man was detained when he came to Australia because he was a lawyer for the LTTE’s civil administration, another because he dug ditches on LTTE orders for civilian Tamils to shelter in during air raids by government aircraft.
(19) The railway staff left to pick up the pieces are being set up as scapegoats with ludicrous claims about Spanish practices and out-of-control pay, but our members have already been paying with their jobs as the privateers ditch frontline staff to maintain profits.
(20) The US secretary of state was due to hold late-night talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a last-ditch attempt to break the deadlock on unresolved issues.
Dump
Definition:
(n.) A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
(v. t.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural.
(v. t.) Absence of mind; revery.
(v. t.) A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
(v. t.) An old kind of dance.
(v. t.) To knock heavily; to stump.
(v. t.) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc.
(n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
(n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
(n.) That which is dumped.
(n.) A pile of ore or rock.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dumping-syndrome is a severe complication of gastric surgery after operations which destroy or weaken the sphincter mechanism of the pylorus.
(2) And when it looked like they could get away with no legislation, they dumped US CAP completely.
(3) Michaelis constants for (+)5,10-methylene-5,6,7,8-tetrahydrofolate [(+)CH2H4folate] were 0.014 mM in the case of methylation of 2'-deoxyuridine-5'-phosphate (dUMP) and 0.55 mM when it served as methyl-group donor for 2'-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine-5'-phosphate (dUflMP); the corresponding Km values for dUMP and dUflMP were 0.01 mM and 0.11 mM, respectively.
(4) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
(5) As part of a concerted effort to avoid the in danger listing, the Queensland government came up with an alternative plan to dump the sediment within an enclosed area of the Caley Valley wetlands, which is considered nationally important habitat for more than 15 species of migratory birds.
(6) Acanthamoeba culbertsoni was isolated from a sewage-spoil dump site near Ambrose Light, New York Bight.
(7) The binding characteristics of the substrate analogue 5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridylate (FdUMP) could be clearly distinguished from that of dUMP by comparing their binding in phphate and Tris-HCl.
(8) It appears from these studies that ;dumping' is due to rapid gastric emptying and mainly due to the drainage procedure.
(9) dUMP binary complex can be isolated and conveniently assayed by nitrocellulose disc filtration using [6-3H]dUMP as the radioactive ligand.
(10) The previous government advanced five major dredge projects involving dumping in the marine park,” he said.
(11) Undergraduates dump each other with lines like: "Going out with you is like dating a Stairmaster."
(12) The incidence of dumping after truncal or selective vagotomy with pyloroplasty and highly selective vagotomy without a drainage procedure was assessed both clinically and experimentally.
(13) Responding to a question from host Karl Stefanovic about Kyrgios’s behaviour at Wimbledon and Tomic’s attack on Tennis Australia , which led to him being dumped from the Davis Cup team, Fraser said: “They should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country, a great country of ours.” “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.
(14) We will receive the full impact of the waste when they start dumping.
(15) Four patients had severe dyspeptic symptoms and four severe dyspepsia plus dumping.
(16) Cytotoxicity resulting from dUMP misincorporation was consistent with the enhanced toxicity of piritrexim which was observed when HL-60 cells or MOLT-4 cells were exposed concurrently to exogenous deoxyuridine.
(17) In the thirties the subdivision into a so-called early and late dumping syndrome follows.
(18) What’s fair about this generation dumping our burdens on our children and grandchildren?
(19) A recent study suggests that coral disease is doubled when dredging occurs near reefs, although supporters of the dredging have repeatedly insisted it can be done safely and that the Abbot Point sediment will be dumped around 40km from the nearest reef.
(20) • As Firefox dumps Google for Yahoo, is the clock ticking for Mozilla?