(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.
Skylight
Definition:
(n.) A window placed in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.
Example Sentences:
(1) Steps wind down a rugged rock face to a bedroom, while light floods in from round skylights in the domed ceiling above.
(2) Now the fabric of the school is visibly crumbling: roofs leak and skylights are broken; the estimated cost of repairs is £1m.
(3) Skylight review – Nighy and Mulligan in moving mixture of politics and love | Michael Billington Read more Commentators write glibly about the public’s increasing contempt for politicians, and yet what goes unremarked, and is equally damaging, is politicians’ growing contempt for us.
(4) Skylight gives voice to private enterprise’s self-righteous hostility towards those who work in the public services.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest If the indoor park is built, the Astrodome’s thousands of Lucite skylight panels will be swapped for a clear-glass roof.
(6) By virtue of these structural features the eyes should enable this moth not only discrimination of the plane of polarized light but also skylight-orientation via the polarization pattern, depending on moon position.
(7) In the penthouses, alarm clocks can be set to slowly open the skylights to the sound of soothing music, and artworks rotate to reveal TV screens.
(8) There's only 10 of each, so those who covet them need to move quickly ( madebynode.com )… Greenspeak: Daylighting {dey-lie-t'ing} present participle Trend in architecture (possibly because we're not that keen on eco bulbs) to illuminate with natural daylight, making particular use of skylights.
(9) Needless to say, the entire project has also been verified by structural engineers, who reinforced the area around the skylight with "secondary steelwork".
(10) The skylights in the high-ceilinged Victorian central hall were boarded up in the 1960s.
(11) Young Savannah Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis) learn to perform compass orientation at sunset based on polarized skylight.
(12) The Lodge is walking distance to Los Feliz Village, where you can sip a milkshake in Fred 62 , an iconic 1950s diner, or scour LA's favourite independent bookstore, Skylight Books .
(13) Shattered skylights allow rain to fall inside and douse the musty hallways.
(14) The heart of the school is now its glorious hall, flooded with natural light once the skylights were scoured of decades of pigeon droppings and London grime, fitted with expensive sound and stage lighting equipment, in use for assemblies, gym, plays, concerts, reading and recitals all day, every day.
(15) Reaching the summit of the building, where a series of roof terraces spill around the twisting protrusions of the gallery skylights, you are greeted with an eyeful of this stuff, a crazed indulgence of over-engineering – which required the development of 30 technical patents to achieve.
(16) Three alerts are now available about the serious hazards posed by skylights and roof openings, manure pits, and the organic solvent dimethylformamide (DMF).
(17) I tried to reproduce the effect by climbing out a window and draping a yellow duvet cover over the kitchen skylight, but this wasn't terribly successful.
(18) Some houses have bulbous bulls’ heads, accessorised by grapes, jutting out above their front door; others have busts of Greek gods peering over the skylight, moustaches lovingly carved; others complex cornices, ideal for storing 120 years of grime.
(19) When I visited, boards pinned with scraps of embroidery, squares of woven tweed and wisps of lace were stacked against Perspex boxes, containing archived clothes and accessories, towering towards the skylights.
(20) Above, the dome slopes up close to 200 feet high, its thousands of Lucite skylight panels bulbing out geometrically, like the eyeball of a fly.