(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.
Metalloid
Definition:
(n.) Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined.
(n.) Now, one of several elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal; as, boron, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine, etc., are metalloids.
(a.) Having the appearance of a metal.
(a.) Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative.
Example Sentences:
(1) As with other elements, the interest here is the potential effect of environmental acidification on environmental behavior in ways that are relevant to human exposure to these metalloids.
(2) The effects of the well established carcinogenic metals or metalloids (As, Be, Cr, Ni), hypothetically carcinogenic but well-established cocarcinogenic metals (Cd, Pb, Co) and weak co-carcinogenic metals (Al, Cu, Fe, Zn) and the antagonism between Mg and these metals were studied on the ionic transfer through the isolated human amnion.
(3) New information about the toxic effect of some metals and metalloids and about their kinetics of absorption, distribution and excretion in experimental animals, and particularly in man, is necessary for elaborating suitable biological exposure tests.
(4) Selenium (Se) is a metalloid with chemical properties closed to those of sulfur, but they can not substitute for one another in vivo.
(5) In order to invalidate or confirm the affirmation that non antithyroid sulphide molecules alter the measure of the thyroid fixation rate of iodine 131 we undertook on the rat: on one hand a kinetic study of thyroid fixation of sodium thiosulfate labelled with sulphur 35, which showed a very low captation not exceeding 0,01% of injected radioactivity; on the other hand the study of the effects of some sulphide molecules on thyroid fixation of iodine 131 in the rat: sodium thiosulfate, association of sodium thiosulfate + metalloidal sulphur + methionine, carbutamide and dimethylsulfoxyde in various kinds of dose administration and periods.
(6) Main group metals and metalloids were surveyed for the identification of species that can either donate or accept methyl groups.
(7) Diethyl maleate, indocyanine green and sulfobromophthalein (BSP), which decreased biliary excretion of GSH, significantly diminished excretion of antimony and bismuth into bile indicating that hepatobiliary transport of these metalloids is GSH-dependent.
(8) In recent years, however, it has become clear that several metals and metalloids undergo transformations in mammalian tissues and that metabolism may have important implications in clinical pharmacology, toxicology, and environmental health.
(9) Proportionally to their biliary excretion rates, these metalloids generate increased biliary excretion of GSH probably because they are transported from liver to bile as unstable GSH complexes.
(10) The potential impact of acidic deposition on As and Se in soils cannot readily be assessed with respect to human exposure, but it would appear that the behavior of these metalloids in poorly buffered, poorly immobilizing soils, e.g., sandy soils of low metal hydrous oxide content, would be most affected.
(11) Biological monitoring of exposure to metals and metalloids involves not only determination of these elements in selected body fluids and tissues but, in some cases, also determination of a certain biochemical indicator which signalises the presence of the monitored element in the organism.
(12) Methylcobalamin (methyl-B12) has been implicated in the biomethylation of the heavy metals (mercury, tin, platinum, gold, and thallium) as well as the metalloids (arsenic, selenium, tellurium and sulfur).
(13) Details of the kinetics and mechanisms for biomethylation of arsenic are presented, with special emphasis on synergistic reactions between metal and metalloids in different oxidation states.
(14) The exchange rates for metals and metalloids between sediments, soils, water and aquatic biota are discussed in terms of normal and acidified ecosystems.
(15) The occupational history highlighted heavy exposure to inhalation of ash derived from mineral oil combustion and containing several elements, metals and metalloids, including vanadium and nickel.
(16) Available information on acid precipitation and the environmental behavior of these metalloids do, however, permit some preliminary conclusions to be drawn.
(17) Over the past 15 years, these methods have led to the establishment of causal factors in metal- and metalloid-induced toxicity.
(18) The present studies in rats aimed to determine whether antimony and bismuth, other metalloids in group Va of the periodic table, also possess similar properties.
(19) The abnormal life--potentially the death--of the cell can be restored by a metalloid--lithium--which is nearly as common as sodium in the mineral world.
(20) In this report we present details of the mechanisms for biological methylation of certain metals and metalloids with special emphasis on those elements that are widely dispersed in the biosphere.