(v. i.) To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling.
(v. t.) To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Filipinos, occupying two UN encampments, refused and fought the rebels on Saturday.
(2) In subsequent years, armed with his trusty sword, Excalibur (a superannuated prop from John Boorman 's film of the same name), he persistently challenged the law against assembling at Stonehenge, while the site itself grew increasingly to resemble one of the military encampments on nearby Salisbury Plain.
(3) The traditional Bedouin Arab lifestyle (living in tents or huts and in traditional or transitional encampments) contributed strongly to increased duration of breast feeding.
(4) Still, the woman said she never felt threatened by the residents of the homeless encampment.
(5) Fire pits and heat lamps had been set up, and from the tented encampment people handed out food – pizza, spaghetti, and fried chicken – to the crowd.
(6) My defence asked the judge to test whether our encampment outside the stock exchange could claim to be acting in the interests of "democratic society" and constituted a response to a "pressing social need" – in line with the relevant provisions in the European convention on human rights, and the Human Rights Act.
(7) Standing Rock protest: North Dakota governor orders immediate evacuation Read more As the first snows have fallen and more protesters arrive in support, apprehension at the encampments about the coming days is running high.
(8) And yet, as was clear talking to the ministers, current and former, seeking shelter from the Westminster drizzle in the media encampment of satellite trucks and makeshift tents on College Green, those who want Brown gone look weak too.
(9) At least 30,000 made it to Dawson City, which mushroomed from a small encampment to a city of 16,000 in two years.
(10) The cathedral is not taking legal action to remove the encampment from its doorstep, but has always acknowledged the corporation's right to do so.
(11) Reuters reports that anti-government protesters encamped in Kiev’s central Independence Square are deeply sceptical of any announcement from the Russian-backed president.
(12) Since Yanukovych's fall, the encampment in the centre of Kiev, known as Maidan, has dwindled to a fraction of its original size as many activists have either headed back to work or signed up to join government forces battling the rebels in the east.
(13) In the summer of 2012, it was also briefly home to a small protest encampment .
(14) A makeshift encampment of migrants near the Calais ferry port.
(15) The corporation claims the encampment obstructs the public highways around the cathedral, and is seeking to remove tents and other structures from the area.
(16) The RAF has the capacity to fly the entire encampment in a matter of days and the cost might be covered by the Dfid budget, says Tim Cross, a retired major general now working in the voluntary sector.
(17) Funded by an anonymous $3m donation – most likely from a member of the new tech elite – it allows encampments to move in en masse.
(18) Vardy is better suited to counterattacking whereas England were virtually encamped in the opposition half during the late exchanges.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest One of the military encampments in Marib province, where fighters opposed to the Houthis are stationed.
(20) The first group of 35 peacekeepers was then successfully escorted out of a UN encampment in Breiqa by Irish and Filipino forces on board armoured vehicles.
Possess
Definition:
(v. t.) To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.
(v. t.) To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book.
(v. t.) To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.
(v. t.) To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.
(v. t.) To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicate that astrocytes possess bradykinin receptors and that these are predominantly of the B2 subtype.
(2) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(3) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
(4) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
(5) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)
(6) The E. coli used did not possess collagenolytic activity nor did a variety of common aerobic clinical isolates.
(7) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
(8) This suggests that the latter group does not possess the genetic equipment (Ir genes) to recognize the antigenic determinants and to synthesize the corresponding antibodies.
(9) 2-(4'-Isobutylphenyl)propionic acid, ibuprofen, is an antiinflammatory agent which possesses moderate platelet aggregation inhibitory activity.
(10) Thallium-201, a radiopharmaceutical that possesses many of the characteristics of potassium analogues, at present is receiving the greatest attention as a regional blood flow indicator.
(11) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
(12) These findings indicate an association between HLA-B7 and ankylosing spondylitis in American blacks and suggest that these patients who lack B27 but possess B7 represent a subgroup of patients with this disease.
(13) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(14) Rhesus monkey BAT mitochondria (BATM) possess an uncoupling protein that is characteristic of BAT as evidenced by the binding of [3H]GDP, the inhibition by GDP of the high Cl- permeability or rapid alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidation.
(15) These preliminary experiments suggest that oSm is similar to IGF-I in its binding characteristics and that primary cultures of skeletal muscle satellite cells possess type I and type II IGF receptors.
(16) Acetylcholinesterase is a key enzyme in cholinergic neurotransmission for hydrolyzing acetylcholine and has been shown to possess arylacylamidase activity in addition to esterase activity.
(18) Two group G streptococcal cultures (G 10187, G 11122) with surface antigen T4 possess surface receptors for human haptoglobin (Hp).
(19) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(20) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).