(n.) The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling place of spirits.
(n.) The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water; the dry land.
(n.) The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like; sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth; rich earth.
(n.) A part of this globe; a region; a country; land.
(n.) Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things; the pursuits, interests, and allurements of this life.
(n.) The people on the globe.
(n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.
(n.) A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta.
(n.) A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself; as, the earth of a fox.
(v. t.) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
(v. t.) To cover with earth or mold; to inter; to bury; -- sometimes with up.
(v. i.) To burrow.
(n.) A plowing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The suits ensures the conditions for the function of the musculoskeletal apparatus and the cardiovascular system which are close to those on the Earth.
(2) One of the most interesting aspects of the shadow cabinet elections, not always readily interpreted because of the bizarre process of alliances of convenience, is whether his colleagues are ready to forgive and forget his long years as Brown's representative on earth.
(4) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(5) The EMD was miniaturized by using rare earth magnets in the construction of both external transmitter and internal receiver.
(6) This is especially the case when it is confronted with regimes such as those of Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin that feel no compunction over a scorched-earth response to insurgency and do so with calculation.
(7) These can lead to communications blackouts around the Earth and produce aurorae; indeed, there have been several nice displays over recent weeks.
(8) Its first two features, Earth and Oceans , together took nearly $200m worldwide.
(9) How on earth do you follow a 5-1 victory over Spain ?
(10) The Rio+ 20 Earth summit could collapse after countries failed to agree on acceptable language just two weeks before 120 world leaders arrive at the biggest UN summit ever organised, WWF warned on Wednesday.
(11) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(12) Alternatively, they were provided with a small foveal target, either fixed with respect to earth (earth-fixed target: EFT condition), or moving with them (chair-fixed-target: CFT condition).
(13) For a start, why on earth was Platini being paid in February 2011 for work he did at Fifa, as Blatter’s special advisor, which finished nine years earlier?
(14) Dr Michael P. Taylor is a computer programmer with Index Data and a research associate at the department of earth sciences, University of Bristol
(15) "Astronauts have said that you step off the Earth and look back and you see things differently.
(16) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
(17) Yasuni is among the most biodiverse regions on Earth, with each hectare containing more tree species than the US and Canada combined.
(18) In front of his family, friends and close colleagues stood the man who founded Apple, was fired from Apple and came back to lead Apple to a greatness, reach and influence that no one on earth imagined.
(19) It's not Greenpeace , it's not Friends of the Earth , it's not, for the most part, the Sierra Club .
(20) Two dogs, Dezik and Tsygan, survived a sub-orbital flight after their capsule parachuted them back to earth.
Gut
Definition:
(n.) A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
(n.) An intenstine; a bowel; the whole alimentary canal; the enteron; (pl.) bowels; entrails.
(n.) One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.
(n.) The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line.
(v. t.) To take out the bowels from; to eviscerate.
(v. t.) To plunder of contents; to destroy or remove the interior or contents of; as, a mob gutted the bouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(2) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
(3) The goals of treatment are the restoration of normal gut peristalsis and the correction of nutritional deficiencies.
(4) Expressed per centimeter of gut length, total DAO activity was also enhanced by +141% in segment B (P less than 0.05 vs controls) and by +87% in segment C (P less than 0.01 vs controls) of resected rats.
(5) Recent studies point to the involvement of regulatory peptides in diseases of the gut and lung.
(6) "Gut closure" is an unlikely explanation for these findings.
(7) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(8) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
(9) The mRNA data of the developing gut correspond with previous protein data, which showed that the shorter Mr 210,000 polypeptide predominates during earlier developmental stages and the larger Mr 260,000 polypeptide appears later in the embryonic gut (Aufderheide, E., and P. Ekblom.
(10) The effects of intra-arterial administration of substance P upon intestinal blood flow, oxygen consumption, intestinal motor activity, and distribution of blood flow to the compartments of the gut wall were measured in anesthetized dogs.
(11) Agents that lower total plasma or LDL cholesterol in hypercholesterolaemic patients by interfering with cholesterol reabsorption from the gut (cholestyramine, cholestipol) or reduction of hepatic VLDL release (fibrates) do not appear to interfere with platelet hyperreactivity and do not change platelet-derived thromboxane formation.
(12) Females had an increased excretion of PCBs and increased accumulation in gut and gonads compared to males.
(13) The aim of the present study was to determine if dexamethasone treatment increased the rate of appearance in plasma of gut-derived glucose.
(14) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
(15) No acute or chronic GVHD was seen in two patients, grade II (skin only) was seen in one patient, and grade IV (skin, liver, and gut) was seen in one patient.
(16) A diversity of serogroups and toxigenicity was a general finding, however, strains found in the proximal gut were also cultured from the rectum, indicating that faecal specimens would be a valid tool in investigating the role of these organisms in SIDS cases compared with healthy controls.
(17) Our results suggest that the increased Copro-IgE levels may be a specific consequence of the local immune response to food allergen stimulation in the gut mucosa.
(18) At the external wall of the host's gut, parasitic cysts of this nematode with immature stages inside were also observed.
(19) The results provide further in vivo evidence that ROI are causative agents in H liberation during reperfusion of the ischemic gut.
(20) Intravenous administration of ADS did not affect the transit, indicating the importance of the presence of ADS in the gut lumen.