(a.) Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise.
(a.) Of all things on earth; possible; conceivable.
(a.) Made of earth; earthy.
(adv.) In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.
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.
Telluric
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.
(a.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) AS101 [ammonium-trichloro (0,0' dioxyethylene)tellurate] is a new immunomodulator shown previously to stimulate the production of various cytokines in vitro and in vivo, and to have minimal toxicity.
(2) Transferable plasmids in gram-negative bacteria that confer resistance to potassium tellurite or tellurate were found.
(3) The identity of some selenite-resistant isolates and MICs of selenite, selenate, arsenate, tellurite, and tellurate were determined.
(4) A detailed analytical study made on samples of Spirulines algae of various origins showed that these microorganisms may present an important telluric contamination, especially demonstrated by high levels of fluorine and arsenic they contain.
(5) It seems that prevalence differences are less dependent upon the telluric elimate than upon other factors, which remain to find.
(6) The acquisition of pMER610 by AB1157 increased the resistance to both telurite and tellurate by 100-fold.
(7) In a search for compounds active against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), it was found that the novel low-molecular weight immunoenhancer ammonium trichloro(dioxyethylene-O,O'-) tellurate (AS101) suppresses production of HIV-1 in vitro.
(8) Seven preprarations, sodium chromate (Na251CrO4), chromium chloride (51CrCl3), normal ammonium molybdate ((NH4)299MoO7), sodium tungstate (Na2181WO4), sodium selenate (Na275SeO4), sodium selenite (Na275SeO3) and tellurous acid (H2127mTeO3) were injected intravenously to each group of tumor bearing rats.
(9) AS101 [ammonium trichloro (dioxyethylene-o-o') tellurate] has been reported to stimulate normal mouse and human lymphoid cells to proliferate and to produce lymphokines such as interleukin-2 (IL-2) and colony-stimulating factor (CSF), regulators of lymphopoiesis and myelopoiesis.
(10) A numerical analysis was carried out from a set of 165 telluric Gram-negative bacterial strains.
(11) Ammonium trichloro(dioxyethylene-O-O')tellurate (AS101) is a new synthetic compound previously described by us as having immunomodulating properties and minimal toxicity.
(12) It was given as sodium tellurate, sodium tellurite, metallic colloid and intrinsically bound in cress.
(13) Many, but not all, of the plasmids belong to incompatibility group S. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, tellurium resistance is specifically associated with incompatibility group P-2 and involves a 5- to 10-fold increase in tellurite or tellurate resistance.
(14) AS-101 (ammonium trichloro[dioxoethylene-O,O'-]tellurate) is a newly developed synthetic compound with immunomodulating properties and minimal toxicity.
(15) This is a lower saprophytic fungus of decaying vegetable and telluric matter.
(16) It can be expected that broadened serological search for the FI antigen of plague will prove useful in the study of the structure of natural foci of plague, in the reconnaissance or retrospective investigation of poorly explored territories and in the solution of some questions concerning the epizootiology of plague, such as the survival of the infectious agent in the inter-epizootic period, telluric plague, etc.
(17) B), a polyene heptaene, is an antifungal antibiotic substance produced by Streptomyces nodosus, a telluric actinomycetal from Venezuela.
(18) In Zaire, nutritional diet and telluric contact seem to be very important.
(19) Superinfection by atypical Mycobacterium of telluric extraction is considered.
(20) H. capsulatum is a telluric fungus and man is contaminated from soil to his respiratory tract.