(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.
Tectonic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Either this is proof that cooking is the only human activity that has no politics, or it will come to be seen as the first move in a tectonic realignment of social democracy.
(2) Although earthquakes are mainly concentrated in zones close to boundaries of tectonic plates of the Earth's lithosphere, infrequent events away from the main seismic regions can cause major disasters.
(3) "A network of fault lines radiate away from the main fault that separates tectonic plates.
(4) Endemic patterns of distribution within China relate to the well-known tectonic (basinal or platformal) regions.
(5) The second case required surgical intervention to provide tectonic support, but the infection resolved with antibiotic therapy.
(6) These results were interpreted as further support for the hypothesis that most anomalous (terrain-related) luminous phenomena are generated by factors associated with tectonic strain.
(7) Luminous phenomena and anomalous physical forces have been hypothesized to be generated by focal tectonic strain fields that precede earthquakes.
(8) This is a tectonic geopolitical shift in eastern Europe .” As a Black Sea littoral country invaded and partitioned by Russia in 2008, Georgia is closely following events in Crimea, Ukraine’s Russian-majority region and base for the Kremlin’s Mediterranean fleet.
(9) Zakrzewski said the world is in the midst of a "tectonic shift" that will see Asia overtake Europe in terms of total wealth within five years.
(10) As to the specific cause of the earthquake, it was triggered by the India tectonic plate, which is moving northwards at the rate of 5cm a year into central Asia.
(11) We report on 17 eyes of 14 patients with PUK that required tectonic keratoplasty because of progressive ulceration.
(12) In the case reported the tectonic keratoplasty healed up without any complications.
(13) A night when English football’s tectonic plates shifted.
(14) I guarantee that I would carry out any order, will solve any problem for him no matter how hard it is and how much it might cost me!” All of this has led many to see an epic power struggle behind the scenes, but the former Kremlin insider was dismissive of talk of a shift in the tectonic plates under the Kremlin: “I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
(15) Epikeratophakia provides a permanent optical correction for aphakia in children with congenital or traumatic cataracts; suturing the epikeratophakia graft onto the cornea eliminates the problems of contact lens or spectacle non-compliance in these young and generally uncooperative patients and provides tectonic support to scarred and irregular corneas.
(16) They are geochemical profiles, geomagnetic variations, and tectonic stresses.
(17) An unrelenting Russian and Syrian blitz of eastern Aleppo heavily damaged one of the city’s three remaining hospitals on Saturday, as Moscow warned that any American attempts to stop its assault would lead to “frightening tectonic shifts in the Middle East”.
(18) The 72 eyes were placed in five categories according to the surgical procedures performed: (a) 20 eyes with a penetrating keratoplasty as the only intraocular operation; (b) nine eyes with two or more penetrating keratoplasties; (c) 29 eyes with one or more keratoplasties with other procedures performed at the same time or another time; (d) nine eyes with lamellar keratoplasties; (e) five eyes with tectonic keratoplasties.
(19) To our knowledge, this is the first case of tectonic keratoprosthesis using expanded PTFE as a supporting skirt in humans.
(20) Penetrating keratoplasty was performed in three eyes, eccentric keratoplasty in one, a penetrating mini-keratoplasty in four, and a tectonic sclerokeratoplasty in three.