(a.) Of or pertaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal.
(a.) Gross; low; unrefined.
(a.) Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once he gets that power, he starts relishing that side of his personality.” Claflin is an earthy, unassuming sort; even acting hasn’t given him airs and graces.
(2) Despite its rich, earthy, nutty flavour, the taste is very delicate, and thus pairs really well with a sharp citrus reduction.
(3) Mammies are never sexual, poorly educated, and full of earthy common sense.
(4) It was visually stunning, brilliantly performed, moving, funny, political, earthy and broke the fourth wall in the totally Scottish comedia del arte tradition.
(5) Her Sophie Brzeska in Ken Russell's Savage Messiah was violently earthy, sexual: all the things a Meissen porcelain figure shouldn't be able to be."
(6) Joyce clearly left his mark on Brenton – you can sense it in the earthy, demotic language of his early plays – but other influences were less helpful.
(7) And his style is less free-form than Bill Clinton, who could display his earthiness and expertise in the same speech.
(8) Since the late 1970s, the English artist Linder has sculpted – or more accurately, in light of her signature photomontages, scalpelled into being – a persona and a body of work that are discreet as well as scandalous, earthy and visionary.
(9) GB Burlotto Barolo Monvigliero, Piedmont, Italy 2008 (£28, The Wine Society ) This has the classic barolo paradox of power (14.5% alcohol) and ethereal fragrance (rose floral and subtle earthiness), but there's a ripeness and generosity of fruit here that you don't always find in nebbiolo at this age: a treat for wild mushroom risotto or pulse-based stews.
(10) Since then, he has found himself lauded as the more earthy counterweight to his mentor and writing partner Abbas Kiarostami.He plays quiet Georges Braque to his friend's more high-profile Picasso.
(11) This can be seen symbolically in pictures as a contrast between light with an upward trend towards heaven and darkness as an earthy mass with a downward tendency.
(12) And it continues today, the discourse and the amiable discord, by turns legalistic, linguistic, poetic, artistic, metaphysical, practical, transcendental, earthy, comedic.
(13) Bay leaves aren't a usual addition to a dessert, but their gently savoury aromatics really do work well in a dish which might otherwise run the risk of being over sweet – plus they're a great partner for the earthy blackcurrants.
(14) Even the most rickety-looking outfit will be doling out little bites of perfection: El Taco Yucateo , for instance, where we have panuchos as brightly coloured as a Keith Haring painting: yellow taco, chicken, bright pink cebollas curtidas (pickled onion), green avocado, earthy black beans.
(15) At one stage Klopp joked with Martin Ainstein, an Argentinian journalist with the deep, earthy voice of a Hollywood announcer.
(16) Its decor – a lifesize cardboard Sid Vicious, a motorbike in the eves, a skeleton tangled-up in barbed-wire in the cobbled beer garden – should give you a feel for this earthy, hard-drinking joint.
(17) A light red such as beaujolais or generic côtes du Rhône or a richer off-dry white such as a pinot gris from Alsace or New Zealand works better with the deeper, sweeter flavours that come from a tray of caramelised roast vegetables, while the meaty, earthy characters of slow-cooked vegetable stews with pulses are happiest with the same kind of robust reds (Aussie shiraz, Argentine malbec) you'd have with red meat.
(18) There are swirls of purees and jus but at its centre is a hunk of animal; one of the most bloody and intensely earthy of animals.
(19) The concrete building – which was cast on the desert floor in panels and hauled up into place, giving it a gnarled, earthy texture – curves around the theatre’s stepped seating, forming a two-storey crescent (still awaiting its planned third floor).
(20) PBDS from five patients were morphologically fragile and "earthy" with alternating light and dark brown pigment layers with no evidence of a distinct central nucleus that may have been reminiscent of a different structure.
Rim
Definition:
(n.) The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
(n.) The lower part of the abdomen.
(v. t.) To furnish with a rim; to border.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
(2) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
(3) Both adiphenine.HCl and proadifen.HCl form more stable complexes, suggesting that hydrogen bonding to the carbonyl oxygen by the hydroxyl-group on the rim of the CD ring could be an important contributor to the complexation.
(4) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
(5) But officials warned the rains may not reach the heart of the Rim fire.
(6) RIM has always struggled to explain to the authorities that, unlike most other companies, it technically cannot access or read the majority of the messages sent by users over its network.
(7) Early complications included disc entrapment against the ventricular wall in three cases, wedging of chorda between disc and valve rim in two and posterior perforation of the left ventricle in three patients.
(8) On CT scans the tumor thrombus usually appeared as an endoluminal filling defect surrounded by a rim of contrast material.
(9) The usual approach to the inferior orbit has been through a subciliary skin incision and dissection of a skin flap to the orbital rim.
(10) This permitted employment of cast combined crowns with wide perigingival metal rims to support the clasp dentures to make them look better when supplying 73 patients with partial removable dentures.
(11) Two patients had a second arthroscopy, and no evidence of instability of the peripheral rim was found.
(12) Fold the edges of the baking parchment down over the rim of the basin.
(13) Healing of rim widths to 5 mm can be obtained with these methods.
(14) In young people the basic histological pattern of clusters, composed of cores of chief cells with surrounding rims of sustentacular cells, has commonly superimposed on it prominence of the dark variant of chief cells.
(15) A hypointense vascular rim was noted on MR in seven of 13 extracanalicular acoustic tumors and in three of seven meningiomas.
(16) It was suggested that the differences in rim area were already present prior to the manifestation of the VFD.
(17) "I'm interested to see what RIM's new OS has in store, and hope I'll be able to sample some of its features on the 9900.
(18) MRI delineated discrete lesions, typical of cavernous angiomas, with a mixed hyperintense, reticulated, central core surrounded by a hypointense rim.
(19) When pointing to its importance in retention, it applies to the rim margins, its relation to the support and its role in the valve closure of the upper total prosthesis.
(20) Enhanced sonograms were classified into five patterns according to the relative changes of the echo levels between the tumor and the nontumorous parenchyma of the liver as a result of enhancement: hyperechoic change, isoechoic change, hypoechoic change with hyperechoic rim (rim sign), marginal spotty hyperechoic change, and internal spotty hyperechoic change.