(a.) Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.
Example Sentences:
(1) My biggest sin is that I have an elephantine memory – I remembered far back, and I didn't forget his talents."
(2) In case his writers are wondering what word to use instead, he offers a "handy list of synonyms" that includes "huge", "prodigious", "elephantine" and the very adult Swiftian term "Brobdingnagian".
(3) Support for shale gas Plans for a new nuclear power station at Hinkley in Somerset have also come under fire recently, with the Conservative peer Lord Howell of Guildford warning of rising costs of the “elephantine” project and HSBC criticising the £25bn cost for Hinkley’s new reactors .
(4) Modern Aswan sits on the bank of the Nile, but Yebu, site of the area's first settlement, is on the adjacent Elephantine Island.
(5) Club Med moved out, the French Sofitel chain manages the Old Cataract Hotel – or will do when it reopens next January – and the Swiss-run Mövenpick does its best with a concrete block on Elephantine Island.
(6) Bet el Kerem ( betelkerem.com ; doubles from £26) is one of the guesthouses on Elephantine Island.
(7) He depicted a legal aid budget grown out of control, one whose elephantine annual spend of £914m could no longer be defended.
(8) They suck money from consumer spending and redirect it to oil-exporting countries, which typically hoard it in elephantine foreign exchange reserves or unspent bank deposits.
(9) For in all this no one mentions the elephantine figure in the room – America's debt, last estimated to be $16,699tn .
(10) The image of Aunt Jemima, the elephantine mammy figure whose image was emblazoned on a pancake mix, seems to be the most frequently reproduced icon.
Nile
Definition:
(n.) The great river of Egypt.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper analyzes the nucleotide sequences of three viruses: Kunjin, west Nile, and yellow fever.
(2) 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.
(3) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
(4) As he has for the past 35 years, that is where Dr Seski intends to focus his energy and attention.” Also on Tuesday, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh said it was reviewing Seski’s donation of two Nile crocodiles and an American alligator to see if he followed international standards published since the donations were made.
(5) As Brooklyn-based Sudanese vocalist Alsarah put it: "We came in as separate musicians, but we're now creating a little orchestra with a new sound – a Nile sound."
(6) Cell monolayers persistently infected with JE-Bei or monolayers treated with UV-inactivated JE-Bei, were resistant to superinfection with JE, West Nile and dengue 2 viruses but were susceptible to infection with the alphavirus Sindbis.
(7) The present paper analyzes the influence of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II (Ir) genes on MHC class II-restricted T-cell responses to West Nile virus (WNV) and recombinant vaccinia virus-derived Kunjin virus antigens and identifies the immunodominant Kunjin virus antigens.
(8) While P. papatasi is a known vector of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, P. langeroni is an incriminated vector for infantile visceral leishmaniasis, P. papatasi is the predominant species in the Nile Delta, but P. langeroni is found in West Alexandria and as a very rare species at the Libyan Egyptian borders.
(9) When Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Midan Giza, a traffic-snarled interchange on the west bank of the Nile, for Friday prayers, he saw a graphic illustration of Egypt under President Hosni Mubarak: neat rows of police and plainclothes security officers lining the streets to maintain calm.
(10) Daft Punk will make their first televised performance since 2008 , playing with artists including Stevie Wonder and Get Lucky collaborators Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers.
(11) Very few people in the highland area of Kigezi had antibody to any of the antigens used, whereas more than half of the sera from the Madi area near the Nile had antibody to several antigens.
(12) By 5pm, as the sun began to set, the army of police that had once occupied the city centre in their battalions and stood on the Nile bridges, had been diminished.
(13) Several lines from the 1984 song were heavily criticised here and in Africa for being clumsy and patronising, including the one about no rivers flowing in Africa – the continent of the Nile, Congo and Niger.
(14) Histochemically, it was suggested that these vacuoles contained neutral fat based on staining with Sudan III and Nile blue sulfate.
(15) In the absence of astroglia, cerebellar neurons, identified by staining with antisera raised against the nerve growth factor-inducible large external (NILE) glycoprotein and by electron microscopy, formed cellular reaggregates, had markedly impaired neurite outgrowth, and survived poorly.
(16) Dengue virus failed to replicate in these cells, but West Nile virus, another Flavivirus, replicated in all three, and we were able to demonstrate reproducibly 50--100-fold enhancement of virus yields in the presence of Flavivirus antisera, the effect also being directly demonstrable in P388D1 cells by increased numbers of virus-induced plaques.
(17) Nile says: “The robots had an amazing vision!” Nile Rodgers accepts Daft Punk's International Group Award.
(18) Water and sediment samples were collected from eight different locations along the River Nile and its branches.
(19) Of the 20 isolates recovered in the vertebrate systems 17 were identified as Sindbis, and three as West Nile viruses.
(20) The solvents, absolute ethanol and hexane, form a single-phase titration mixture containing Nile blue indicator.