(n.) A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.
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(1) The Chinese dredger barges can reach up to 30 metres below the surface, cutting out and scooping up huge quantities of sand and coral for land reclamation projects.
(2) Reefs are ideal locations for land reclamation because they rise far above the surrounding seabed, making them accessible to dredger barges.
(3) This explains Timah's current strategy, "Go offshore, go deeper", as well as the newest addition to its offshore fleet: a massive bucketwheel dredger with a long, chainsaw-like arm that can churn up tin ore from 70 metres below the seabed, nearly twice as deep as the current dredgers manage.
(4) Most of the work will be carried out from the banks because it is safer, but workers also hope to use an amphibious dredger and could operate from pontoons in the river.
(5) Swansea crown court heard that Powell's boat was a state-of the art dredger.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sand dredgers in Poyang Lake by Hamashu village.
(7) We used to make more money, but now there is too much competition,” complains a crew member aboard one of the dredgers.
(8) The dredgers, he explains, descend a wooden ladder into the depths of the lagoon, armed with only a bucket and the will to live.
(9) As silent part-owners of the scallop dredger, Powell's father, Clinton, his mother, Andrea, and wife Lisa, were fined £1,000 each.
(10) They operated 12 dredgers and at least 40 support craft.
(11) For the Millennium Dome, for instance, he sliced an old Thames-going sand dredger in two from top to bottom.
(12) Huge industrial dredgers moved into the bay to discharge their loads and start creating the first four islands in 2013, but that work was brought to a jarring halt last April .
(13) The authors have measured the power and endurable grip strength by five times repetition at five second intervals on post-office clerks (indoor service and outdoor service) and the personnel of harbor construction office (office workers and crew of dredger).
(14) He has scrunched up an entire stone corner of the London School of Economics into a rocky tumble, hanging precipitously above the street in Aldwych, and sliced a Thames dredger in half and anchored it outside the Millennium Dome.
(15) Everyone who was flooded says the same; the people here have been just extraordinary.” And the dredgers, brought in by the Environment Agency under sustained local pressure, have now almost finished, clearing 8km of riverbed, removing 130,000 cubic metres of silt, returning the river Parrett to its 1960s profile.
(16) Encircling the island are the dredgers and the suction ships and the thousands of illegal pontoons sucking up ore from the seabed like mechanised mosquitoes.
(17) River dredgers, environmental planners and field officers did not meet that definition.
(18) In the past few years, China has used more cement than the US used in the entire 20th century Hundreds of dredgers may be on the lake on any given day, some the size of tipped-over apartment buildings.
(19) 2) Endurable grip strength (endurance: subtract lower value either at the fourth or fifth grip from the grip strength) of the indoor mail clerks and office workers has no correlation with age, but that of the others (the outdoor service and crew of dredger) has negative correlation with age.
(20) Fiery Cross Reef is one of several small islands in the South China Sea that China has been reclaiming, using dredger barges which scoop up sand and coral and pile it on to the reef.
Perforated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Perforate
(a.) Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.
Example Sentences:
(1) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
(2) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
(3) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
(4) The perforant pathway and fimbria fornix were transected to label afferent fibers to NPY-positive cells.
(5) As to complications they recorded in one case mucosal bleeding after gastrofiberoptic polypectomy and in one case a covered perforation of the sigmoid at the site of colonoscopic polypectomy.
(6) By way of major complications, merely one perforation occurred.
(7) Autopsy data of all patients who received EVS and who died (32 patients, 100%) during this period were available to confirm the diagnosis of perforation.
(8) The results of a prospective inquiry into the aspirin taking habits of a consecutive series of 118 patients admitted to a large general hospital with acute perforation of peptic ulcer are presented.
(9) No perforations, stenoses or thermic lesions after wound healing were observed.
(10) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
(11) Major reported complications include hemorrhage, perforation, biliary and pancreatic obstruction, and inflammation with intestinal obstruction.
(12) A retrospective study was conducted into 136 patients who had received surgical treatment for perforated gastroduodenal ulcers, with the view to establishing postoperative lethality and morbidity (comparing simple suturing with definitive ulcer surgery).
(13) Three cases of gastroduodenal perforation and one case of ulceration and extreme thinning of the gastric wall occurred in preterm babies treated with dexamethasone for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
(14) The energy required for perforation from the external surface to the anterior chamber was the same as the energy required for ab interno perforation.
(15) Cholecystokinin (CCK) as the sulfated (CCK-8S) and unsulfated (CCK-8U) octapeptide sequences, and CR 1409 were administered intraventricularly while the action potential (EAP) in the granular cell layer of the hippocampal dentate gyrus evoked by perforant path stimulation was recorded.
(16) At first the prognosis of perforating keratoplasty improved because of better surgical techniques, so that the number of indications increased.
(17) a) To determine the frequency of perforations in latex surgical gloves before, during, and after surgical and dental procedures; b) to evaluate the topographical distribution of perforations in latex surgical gloves after surgical and dental procedures; and c) to validate methods of testing for latex surgical glove patency.
(18) Perforations of the left atrial or ventricular wall and extravasations of contrast medium during transseptal left heart catheterisation or angiocardiography can be eliminated by replacing the normally used transseptal catheters by Pigtail-catheters.
(19) In the cis-trans axis of the Golgi apparatus the following compartments were observed: (a) On the cis face there was a continuous osmiophilic tubular network referred to as the cis element; (b) a cis compartment composed of 3 or 4 NADPase-positive saccules perforated with pores in register forming wells that contained small vesicles; (c) a trans compartment composed of 1 or 2 TPPAse-positive elements underlying the NADPase ones, followed by 1 or 2 CMPase-positive elements that showed a flattened saccular part continuous with a network of anastomotic tubules.
(20) Dairy pipeline cleaners were the single most common causative substance, injuring ten toddlers (mean age 1.6 years), perforating the esophagus in two.