(n.) A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The baited drumline criteria in WA targeting all sharks over 3m in length – incidentally the breeding individuals – seem superfluous to the ‘rogue’ shark in this instance.
(2) But the state premier Colin Barnett has suggested it will not be possible to place baited drumlines across the WA coast this summer.
(3) With the suggested targeting of ‘rogue sharks’ there will no doubt be a tender process with private companies bidding for the permits, as was the way of the initial baited drumline programme.
(4) The initial drumline deployment at the start of the year rightly came under extensive fire and opposition from across the world following questions surrounding the great white’s population status and what was deemed unnecessary targeting.
(5) During the initial review of the baited drumlines in WA there was a positive note that provided a comprehensive suite of shark hazard mitigation strategies to be implemented for the future.
Glacial
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.
(a.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.
Example Sentences:
(1) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
(2) The fundamental behavioural adaptations implicit in the 'Upper Palaeolithic Revolution' (possibly including language) are thought to have been responsible for this rapid dispersal of human populations over the ecologically demanding environments of last-glacial Europe.
(3) IXb, diacetate of IX, unpurified, was converted to IXf with chromium trioxide in glacial acetic acid.
(4) The same analogue also manifested a marked analgesic effect with the two tests used: hot plate test and the peritoneal test with glacial acetic acid.
(5) Fix for 4 days in 18 parts 80% ethanol, 1 part 10% formalin, and 1 part glacial acetic acid.
(6) Larvae for morphological study were collected by pepsin digestion, fixed in glacial acetic acid, and cleared in glycerin.
(7) We used a polyclonal antibody (West antibody) to measure ACTH-like immunoactivity in glacial acetic acid extracts of five tissues in adult male rats at increasing times (1, 7, 14, and 28 days) after hypophysectomy or adrenalectomy, and in normal control rats.
(8) This report presents a case of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy developing within 2 h after ingestion of 96% (glacial) acetic acid in an attempted suicide.
(9) It’s because we are right, and however glacially society evolves, it is evolving in the right direction.
(10) Thirty-nine patients with benign prostatic enlargement were treated by transperineal intrasprostatic injections composed of phenol 2%, glacial acetic acid 2%, and glycerine 4%, in distilled water.
(11) Guinness also wielded glacial fierceness and terror with unchallengeable authority.
(12) A variant Golgi technique was developed that consisted of substituting osmium tetroxide with formaldehyde as the initial fixative in intracardiac perfusion, along with the addition of glacial acetic acid to the chromating fluid.
(13) The series of pictures tell a story not only about the dramatic reductions in glacial ice in the Himalayas, but also the effects of climate change on the people who live there .
(14) The mobile phase was used in the form of a solvent system: n-heptan-glacial acetic acid (95:5).
(15) And yet despite the iconography of her glacial portraits and the tales of wicked Sir Oswald, Britain's only significant fascist (and, in case it should be forgotten, previously a leading light in the MacDonald-era Labour party), Lady Mosley's real significance rests on her supporting role in a much grander tableau: the story of the Mitford girls and the 80-year sway that they have exerted over upper-level English society.
(16) The level of all three microbial parameters studied slowly increased as the river flowed from its glacial source out into the prairies.
(17) And there are signs from Europe, too, that attitudes are – albeit glacially – starting to shift: on Monday, Europe's food safety agency ruled against a temporary French ban on a strain of GM maize made by the US company Monsanto , saying there was "no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment" to justify it.
(18) But Big Content and Big Telecom, as we know, move glacially.
(19) The main product of the oxidation of catechol in glacial acid is N-(2-carbomethoxyethyl)-phenoxaz-2,3-dione.
(20) When Fritz Müller and Erwin Schneider battled ice storms, altitude sickness and snow blindness in the 1950s to map, measure and photograph the Imja glacier in the Himalayas, they could never have foreseen that the gigantic tongue of millennia-old glacial ice would be reduced to a lake within 50 years.