(n.) A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
(n.) A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
(a.) Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a result, low-lying areas, including Bangladesh, Florida, the Maldives and the Netherlands, will undergo catastrophic flooding, while in Britain large areas of the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary could disappear.
(2) The gradient of increasing copper and zinc concentrations with increasing distance upstream from the mouth of the estuary reported in 1975 could not be statistically validated.
(3) However, other unidentified factors appear to influence its presence in certain areas of the estuary.
(4) The avian blood fluke, Austrobilharzia terrigalensis (Trematoda: Schistosomatidae), is recorded in Western Australia for the first time, and is implicated as the cause of dermatitis among users of the Swan estuary in Perth.
(5) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
(6) These hosts were examined from twelve different salt marshes and estuaries around the coasts of France (seven on the Channel, three on the Atlantic Ocean and two on the Mediterranean sea).
(7) From tackling harmful chemicals that damage the ozone layer to cracking down on the black-market ivory trade, the UK has a strong track record in driving up environmental standards across Europe.” Environmentalists said they feared a developmental free-for-all on sites shielded by the EU’s Natura 2000 scheme, including Snowdonia, the Lake District, the Thames estuary, the North Yorkshire Moors, Scotland’s Flow Country and Dartmoor.
(8) Colloidal organic matter in natural water systems (lakes, rivers, estuaries and the oceans, as well as groundwater) may serve as substrates for the sorption or binding of organic contaminants.
(9) Then last year, Shell pulled out of what would be the world's largest offshore wind farm in the Thames estuary.
(10) Another of the reports said Heathrow airport would have to close if the estuary scheme went ahead and that Heathrow's owners would have to be paid compensation of between £13.5bn and £21.5bn.
(11) The MCS has warned, however, that fragile coastal habitats such as estuaries, saltmarsh and bird sanctuaries are excluded from any proposed new routes.
(12) The relative importance of migrating eels and suspended particulate material (biotic and abiotic) as transporters of mirex from Lake Ontario to the St. Lawrence River Estuary is evaluated in the context of a possible adverse impact on the St. Lawrence beluga population.
(13) In 2010, the government rejected a previous proposal for a barrage across the Severn estuary , reiterating plans at the same time to push ahead with Europe's most ambitious fleet of new nuclear reactors .
(14) The presence of so many seals is good news for the Thames Estuary, which was declared biologically dead in the 1950s as a result of heavy pollution, but has since largely recovered.
(15) The London Array will be built in the outer Thames estuary, 12 miles off the Kent and Essex coasts, and when finished will have 271 turbines across a 90 square mile site.
(16) mare and foal left out in todays high tide on loughour estuary The ponies are left unattended during all weather on the loughour estuary, during high tides the foals quite often die.
(17) At electoral ward level regression analyses were suggestive of links between AML and higher social class and living close to estuaries.
(18) More than a half million pounds of DDT were applied to control mosquitoes in salt marsh estuaries of Cape May County, New Jersey, from 1946 to 1966.
(19) The refinery was working largely as usual, with steam pouring from vents on the complex of pipes, chimneys and girders which towers over the flatlands of the Humber estuary's south shore.
(20) A small risk of flooding remains in the lower reaches of several slow-moving, major rivers where water from upstream will not finish moving down to estuaries until late on Thursday.
Somerset
Definition:
(n.) A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immigration enforcement officers have arrested 139 suspected immigration offenders at locations including London, Durham, Manchester, Wales and Somerset.
(2) Yesterday, Harry Patch died peacefully in his bed at his residential home in Wells, Somerset, a man who spent his last years urging his friends and many admirers never to forget the 9.7 million young men who perished during the 1914-18 war.
(3) Video of flooding in Barcombe Mills, East Sussex 12.07pm GMT Lord Smith of the Environment Agency due to speak from Somerset soon.
(4) Matters worsened when on-the-ground surveys, costing almost £1m, discovered up to twice as many badgers in the first cull areas in Gloucestershire and Somerset.
(5) And asked why he had not apologised to residents, he said: I have said to the people here what we did last year, what we’ve been preparing now, the work we’re currently doing, and I think the important thing now is to work out what we can do for the future of Somerset, what can now happen, and that’s what I’m primarily talking about with the local people here.
(6) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
(7) Somerset were due to resume their first innings on 87 for three in reply to 400 and took six points from the game; Lancashire collected nine.
(8) At this stage nobody can be confident that this has happened.” Among the acute service beds at general hospitals set to be cut are 535 in Derbyshire, 400 each in Devon and West Yorkshire and 30% of all beds in hospitals in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
(9) Led by the Tories since 2009, Somerset county council has struggled with £80m of cuts to its budget.
(10) Musgrove, which is part of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, has revealed that it has finished the inquiry and has shared the findings with patients and would talk to healthcare bodies such as the Care Quality Commission about them.
(11) We're back again in the morning to see what happens at Chester-le-Street, which will bring Notts level with Somerset on games played and clarify the County Championship equation for next week.
(12) I think a lot of people in Taunton and Somerset were greatly looking forward to this fixture and a good day's cricket.
(13) David Lund Winscombe, Somerset • You mention four scenarios, but miss out the most obvious and most European one.
(14) Downing Street summoned business and community leaders to a meeting of the Big Society Network at Somerset House to revive Cameron's flagship initiative, which has faced intense criticism from voluntary and local authority leaders in recent weeks.
(15) ITV News was today banned from a press conference by Avon & Somerset police after broadcasting a critical report on the force's investigation into the murder of Joanna Yeates .
(16) With preferential rates for artists and partnerships with the likes of Somerset House and the Royal Court, you’re likely to end up arguing over Brechtian dramaturgy or post-internet art in the lift.
(17) Avon and Somerset police said the case was a "tragedy".
(18) And, just hours before a signing ceremony was due to take place at the site in Somerset, May put off government approval until early autumn.
(19) Filmed in a marquee in the grounds of Harptree Court in Somerset, and making unlikely TV stars out of judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, Bake Off (as it is known to its fans) is made by the independent production company Love Productions.
(20) The government is to send in the army to help tackle the floods in the Somerset Levels.