(n.) Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.
(n.) The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc.
(n.) An embankment or construction made of earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is an enormous earthwork henge, roughly 180m across, with a stone passage tomb at its centre.
(2) Earthworks were started in late 2011, while the route was still being finessed, and continued despite the difficulties caused by torrential rain that has fallen in the region over the last year.
(3) Risk factors have been shown to be stays in hotels and hospitals, especially if the rooms were subject to faulty air conditioning, water containers or to earthworks.
(4) Earthworks is a US-based non-profit organisation which aims to protect communities and the environment from the impacts of irresponsible mineral and energy development.
(5) When excavations started here for the 1988 Olympics, vast third-century earthworks were discovered.
(6) "I'm out of here," said Simon Vose (video) as an inflatable HS2 white elephant was deployed in front of his home in the Cheshire hamlet of Hoo Green which either faces demolition or massive earthworks from the supertrain's link between Manchester and Birmingham.
(7) Earthworks' crops of vegetables and fruits are even certified organic.
(8) he calls out as he pushes a hand plough through the soil of the Earthworks Urban Farm.
(9) The project will be staged over a number of years, and any impacts on groundwater are expected to occur after work commences on the bulk earthworks (box cut) required for underground or open-cut mining.” The spokesman added that Adani will be expected to “actively manage” the mining site for endangered species while replacement habitat is found.
(10) Crouch has tested the soil that Earthworks farms, and though frequently poor in nutrients, it's usually not polluted.
(11) Estimates from Earthworks suggest that Freeport dumps as much as 200,000 tonnes of mine waste , known as tailings, directly into the Aikwa delta system every day .
(12) Follow limestone cliffs and skirt sheltered bays, past ancient earthworks.
(13) If we stay in Texas, we just decide to stay and fight it’.” She talked to Sharon Wilson, a local organizer for Earthworks, and the two women began to speak to neighbours.
(14) In the past he has described the NHS in Wales as a national scandal and even claimed Offa’s Dyke – the ancient earthwork that separates England and Wales – as the “line between life and death ”.
(15) The risk factors for this group are as follows: work in the atmosphere of high dust content with air supply by means of air conditioners, contact with soil in the process of earthwork.
(16) Council records also show TIGCS has meanwhile been building without first getting planning approval facilities including the overhaul and alterations of Menie House to create the hotel; new entrance walls and distinctive Trump-branded black and gold entrance signs on the A90 main road; two 25-metre-high flagpoles; a stone golf bag store; a “soakaway” for sewage runoff; lighting and earthworks for building the clubhouse carpark.
(17) It should send a signal to industry that if the people in Texas – where fracking was invented – can’t live with it, nobody can,” said Sharon Wilson, the Texas organiser for EarthWorks, who lives in Denton.
(18) He thought it was likely the earthworks had been destroyed since the photograph was taken, since Google Earth just showed a confusing jumble of tracks.
(19) A 2012 report from Earthworks and MiningWatch Canada asserts that mine waste from Grasberg has “buried over 166 square kilometres of formerly productive forest and wetlands, and fish have largely disappeared”.
(20) The practice has devastated the environment, according to Earthworks and locals, turning thousands of hectares of verdant forest and mangroves into wasteland and rendering turgid the once-crystal waters of the highlands.
Earthworm
Definition:
(n.) Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.
(n.) A mean, sordid person; a niggard.
Example Sentences:
(1) It also strongly inhibited non-plasmic fibrinolysis with human leukocyte proteinase and earthworm proteinase.
(2) Monitoring of DDT and HCH residues in abiotic and biotic components of the environment of Delhi during 1988 to 1989 revealed low to moderate levels of these insecticides in soil, earthworms, birds, buffalo milk, water, freshwater clams, fish, human fat, human blood and breast milk samples.
(3) It was concluded that it is possible to substitute 30% of the protein in the diet of growing rabbits, with earthworm meal, without any adverse physiological effects.
(4) The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for chain c of hemoglobin of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris has been determined.
(5) For copper and dichloroaniline earthworms did recover cocoon production to a level as high as the control level or even higher; in case of pentachlorophenol, cocoon production was still reduced after 3 weeks in clean soil.
(6) The present results indicate that the toxicity and bioaccumulation and therefore the bioavailability of chlorophenols in soil to earthworms are dependent on the concentration in soil solution and can be predicted on the basis of adsorption data.
(7) In the cerebral ( = supraesophageal, suprapharyngeal) ganglion of the earthworm, a number of neurosecretory Gomori-positive perikarya are bipolar; others are unipolar, or multipolar.
(8) Such an activity is not inhibited by zymosan, inulin or lipopolysaccharide (LPS), nor by hydrazine or methylamine, suggesting that earthworm hemolysins are not related to C3 or C3b complement components.
(9) Proteinase-inhibiting components of the coelomic fluid of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris were examined.
(10) Nerve fibres and cell bodies displaying vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) or pancreatic polypeptide (PP) immunoreactivity were demonstrated in ganglia of the earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris).
(11) The dorsal openings in the myelin sheath of the median giant fiber (MGF) of the earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris L.) have been studied with electronmicroscopical and electrophysiological methods.
(12) These results suggest that earthworm powder represents a possible oral thrombolytic agent.
(13) Chloragocytes and intestinal tissue showed significantly higher lead levels in contaminated earthworms than in control material.
(14) High concentration of lead in the soil does not favour increased accumulation of lead in the earthworms' organisms.
(15) The snakes were fed diets consisting of earthworms, Lumbricus terrestris, and mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis.
(16) Traditional formulations of the roles of supra- and subpharyngeal ganglia in the earthworm's behavior were reinvestigated with the use of saline rather than light as the aversive stimulus.
(17) This information on lymphocytic, granulocytic and inclusion-containing coelomocytes is crucial to understanding more about cellular immunity in the earthworm.
(18) Toxicity values were obtained for pentachlorophenol (PCP) and other compounds in the standard OECD and EEC earthworm test.
(19) A gavage technique has been developed that permits the administration of water-soluble and lipid-soluble test chemicals in spite of the extremely low level of triglyceride lipase activity in the earthworm gut.
(20) Conjugation with glutathione catalysed by glutathione S-transferases may consequently be an important detoxification mechanism in earthworms.