(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.
Ingress
Definition:
(n.) The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs.
(n.) Power or liberty of entrance or access; means of entering; as, all ingress was prohibited.
(n.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.
(v. i.) To go in; to enter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, the area with separated HL, which is restricted to the region of the PMC released at the stage of PMC ingression, spreads almost entirely throughout the area of the indenting vegetal plate at gastrulation.
(2) During the development of the PM, all five RNAs exhibited the same schedule of accumulation, appearing de novo, or increasing abruptly just before PM ingression, and remaining at relatively high levels thereafter.
(3) A unique pattern for a carbohydrate antigen is displayed by cells of the primitive streak; antigenicity is lost with de-epithelialisation and ingression, but is regained in a pericellular distribution on the mesoderm cells that emerge from the primitive streak.
(4) Younger grafts were completely filled with the protein, even at 2 days, when the graft vasculature already contained host macrophages, whereas all older grafts showed variability in permeation with protein ingress initiating at the graft-host interface and subsequently diffusing through the extracellular spaces.
(5) Time-lapse video recordings of PMC-deficient embryos indicate that the converting cells are a subpopulation of late-ingressing SMCs.
(6) Using indirect immunofluorescence, the epitope is first detected in nonpigmented cells of the vegetal plate after primary mesenchyme ingression.
(7) It is postulated that the decrease in T-cell "immune surveillance" permits: a) the ingress of viruses whose enzymes modify host glycoproteins and render them immunogenic, and b) the replication of viruses incorporated into the genome of cells during infections in early life.
(8) Sodium thiopental leads to further CBF depression up to critical level in the affected hemisphere with parallel blood flow ingress in the intact brain hemisphere.
(9) (d) The ingress of oxygen through the surface can be reduced by placing a clamp round the proximal tail.
(10) SEM observations have indicated that the pouches were effective in reducing the ingress of bacteria as well as reducing, and in some cases eliminating, cell infiltration through their mesh structure.
(11) Inspection of the pool revealed significant plumbing defects which had allowed ingress of sewage from the main sewer into the circulating pool water.
(12) Dr Burstone's technique of incisor ingression uses an appliance operating only on the superior dental arch with light and constant forces which can be precisely adjusted.
(13) We therefore recommend placement of appropriate monitoring equipment to detect intracardiac air in those major craniofacial procedures in which there is a potential for intravascular air ingress.
(14) This factor may also be involved in the maintenance of the fibroblastic phenotype of the mesoderm cells after their ingression, by effects on the expression of receptors for extracellular matrix and on the deposition of matrix by these cells during their early morphogenesis.
(15) During the operation, we found that the intracerebral pneumatocele in the right frontal lobe communicated with the ipsilateral ethmoidal sinus, through which extracranial air ingressed and CSF egressed.
(16) The sequential topographic development of nerve preceding NSE-taste bud cells in precise morphological locations, suggests that the ingress of precursor NSE-taste bud cells and their subsequent differentiation are contingent upon initial neural derived ontologic signals.
(17) The calcareous larval skeleton of euechinoid sea urchins is synthesized by primary mesenchyme cells which ingress prior to gastrulation.
(18) 41, 227-250) implicated that microtubules are essential components for the normal development, including ingression, of the mesenchymal cells.
(19) It felt like a very natural combination on both sides.” The success of the Pokémon April Fool pranks showed that the underlying mechanics of Ingress could be repurposed, to build something that could bring in millions of players who would never usually look twice at the sci-fi trappings of the original game.
(20) Essential informations for treatment planning are: involved sacral segment, infiltration of sacral foramina and nerve roots, involvement of the sacroiliac joints, ingression of the lumbar spine, infiltration of the pelvic organs and vessels, sciatic nerve and the dorsal soft tissues.