(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.
Fosse
Definition:
(n.) A ditch or moat.
(n.) See Fossa.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method by Fosse et al, for in vivo microhardness measurements can bring good results in practice according to the investigations.
(2) I asked Jon Fosse how close they were, and he said, 'I don't know, but in the period of time in the play they are very close.'
(3) Property sources said Asda was looking at reducing the size of as many as 10 stores including Pudsey in Leeds, Fosse Park in Leicester, and Watford in Hertfordshire.
(4) OS Map: Explorer OL4: The Lake District: north-western area Janet's Foss & Malham Cove Yorkshire Dales Janet's Foss waterfall at Malham, North Yorkshire.
(5) Changes in the vasomotion waveform were studied in transverse arterioles (TAs) and their first-order side branches (FOSs) in the tenuissimus muscle of 14 young, anesthetized rabbits during stepwise arterial pressure reduction and local application of adenosine using intravital video microscopy.
(6) Because the onsets of dilation always occur synchronously in TAs and FOSs, but the onsets of constriction do not, vasomotion seems to be a series of rhythmic dilations.
(7) Householders in York were warned their homes faced flooding after pumps failed on the river Foss, and train services were disrupted in West Yorkshire.
(8) Females scored significantly higher on the FOSS than did males; the FOSS was positively related to Horner's projective measure of fear of success, and negatively related to Mehrabian's measure of achievement motivation; subjects (both males and females) with high scores on the FOSS (a) performed less well on an anagram test, (b) attributed success more to external factors, and (c) attributed failure more to internal factors than subjects with low scores on the FOSS.
(9) Another new project, I Am the Wind , is every bit as multinational – a translation of a text by Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse , shortly to be staged at the Young Vic by veteran French director Patrice Chéreau.
(10) One such place was a grim-looking slag heap officially called Fosse No 4 in Ferfay, Nord–Pas-de-Calais.
(11) The authors studied by in vivo methods (Fosse et al.
(12) Although air studies remain useful, angiography of vessels of the posterior foss is assuming a dominant role in diagnosis and surgical planning.
(13) According to Stephens: "It imagines the possibility of turning back time, but Fosse creates a rather horrifying loop, whereby no matter how many times you turn back time you find you can't change it.
(14) The Crown Estate is also the fifth largest owner of retail parks outside of London and is the frontrunner to spend £350m buying the Fosse shopping park in Leicester, amid a recovery in consumer spending.
(15) The jewel in the crown is the waterfall at Janet's Foss and its secret cave, which local legend claims is home to the Fairy Queen.
(16) It would be the "lightest" film to win a Palme d'Or, maybe since Bob Fosse's All That Jazz in 1980, but the skill involved and the sheer brio of the execution merit the highest recognition.
(17) The play he is rehearsing is I Am The Wind, a spare, concentrated two-hander written by the Norwegian Jon Fosse and adapted for its English-language premiere by Simon Stephens , who wrote Pornography and Punk Rock.
(18) At greatly reduced pressure levels, the CL increase was more pronounced and in both TAs and FOSs was caused by plateau formation in the dilation phase.
(19) The path off the Pennine Way leading to Janet's Foss is signposted off the Pennine Way, and at Malham Cove a clear path leads back to the village.
(20) We’re certainly not scared,” said Ray Foss, a retired engineer.