(a.) Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like.
(n.) An evergreen plant.
(n.) Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hopefully there can be some really great performances which will try to blow away the shadow that programme has caused.” But Kilty will face a strong field in the men’s 100m that includes five athletes who have gone under the 10 second barrier in 2015, including the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut, the American Mike Rodgers and the evergreen Kim Collins.
(2) C. minuticornis was found in these and in tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen rain forests of S. Thailand and N.W.
(3) A popular theme in Shin's films - not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s - concerns the plight of women chafing under the limits of society's expectations, such as The Evergreen Tree (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write.
(4) riversi was confined to evergreen forest and its adjacent area.
(5) Presently, taxol is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, a small, slow-growing evergreen tree native to the northwestern United States.
(6) The three greatest concerns for Australia in the recent draft include provisions that would further entrench secondary patenting and evergreening, lock in extensions to patent terms, and extend monopoly rights over clinical trial data for certain medicines.” The lead author of the report and a public health lecturer at La Trobe University, Dr Deborah Gleeson, said the consequence was the extra cost of medicines could get passed on to the consumer through increasing the co-payment on government-subsidised drugs, or by restricting access to expensive drugs to those who could afford them.
(7) Her pragmatism is unusual, but then Liu is director of Evergreen, a state-owned old people's home in north Beijing.
(8) But the Evergreen State is not known for its clear days; rain and fog are persistent here year round.
(9) From the sociopathic capitalist machine by way of Mr Burns and the relentless religious optimism of Ned Flanders to the working-class, tense but sometimes faux-sexual interracial relationship between Lenny and Carl, for anyone that wants to look at America under a comedy microscope, you have to start with 742 Evergreen Terrace.
(10) Efforts to prevent sporotrichosis among persons handling evergreen seedlings should include the use of alternate types of packing material (e.g., cedar wood chips or shredded paper) and protective clothing such as gloves and long-sleeved shirts.
(11) It seems impossible – surely she was ageless, like one of those very old, tiny, trees in the Arctic, gnarled and tough as a nut, but nonetheless evergreen.
(12) The evergreen Churchill Arms on Kensington Church Street becomes one enormous conifer each December.
(13) Minnelli has been out of fashion for a while, despite having directed – alongside Meet Me In St Louis – some of the truly evergreen musicals of the middle 20th century, especially at MGM under Arthur Freed.
(14) Stephanie Coontz, a faculty member at the Evergreen State College in Washington state and a frequent contributor to publications including the New York Times, agrees, saying that writing for the public forces researchers to work in unfamiliar ways.
(15) Evergreen striker Paul Ifill, playing his 100th game for the Phoenix, provided an injection of pace and guile when he came on after 65 minutes but, although opportunities were created, the finishing wasn't there.
(16) The antimicrobial activities of seven Epicoccum purpurascens strains isolated either from evergreen oak leaves (Quercus ilex) collected over a period of one year, or from the atmosphere were compared in vitro.
(17) 66,000), central Finland, was carried out in 1990 as part of the EVERGREEN-project.
(18) But even if you can afford Evergreen's fees of up to 5,100 yuan (£510) each month, it has just 600 beds, and a waiting list of 1,300.
(19) Evergreening could delay generic competition for up to 20 years, the report found.
(20) While, for many, work might become redundant, its value and the virtues it can cultivate are evergreen.
Heath
Definition:
(n.) A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.
(n.) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.
(n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
(3) 10.54am GMT Among other things, Heath’s measure would improve the transparency of the investigatory powers tribunal, which investigates complaints from members of the public made against the intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ .
(4) Both Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Tory leader Edward Heath had stayed on in the chamber to listen to him.
(5) He said he would not repeat the mistake of Edward Heath who in 1972, "two years into office, was faced with economic problems and over-powerful unions and buckled and gave up".
(6) Ted Heath remained in office over the weekend after the general election on 28 February 1974, despite winning four seats fewer than Labour, as he tried unsuccessfully to form a coalition with the Liberals.
(7) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
(8) He is a regular panellist on comedy news quizzes, and reaches for Wodehouse in depicting 70s foreign secretary Lord Home "playing Lord Emsworth to Heath's Empress of Blandings".
(9) A demoralised workforce performs less efficiently, and a less-efficient system can be broken up and sold to private firms.” The Department of Heath insists these fears are misplaced.
(10) Osborne expressed the same sort of sentiments on Thursday, although it appears he used a private breakfast with 30 business leaders to deliver a bit of a pep talk rather than a Heath-style tirade at business ingratitude.
(11) The Liberal party rebelled against getting into bed with the Tories, Heath was forced to call for the removal vans and was subsequently sacked as Conservative leader.
(12) With the backing of the Met's then commissioner, Sir (now Lord) Paul Condon, warrants were obtained for the planting of listening devices in Southern's offices in Thornton Heath, south west London.
(13) Over the course of a month between 30 May and 30 June, he visited cash machines at Barclays, the Post Office, Tesco, Morrisons, TSB and Nationwide in Small Heath, Sparkbrook and Yardley Wood.
(14) Of course, after Hitler got into power and Low started, beautifully, to take the piss, Low, along with his cartooning colleagues Illingworth, Vicky and even Heath Robinson, was placed on the Gestapo's deathlist.
(15) "I was obviously, having worked with Ted Heath, committed to Europe.
(16) Burnham, the shadow heath secretary, received 68 nominations from MPs, mainly from the north.
(17) It was provoked by the government in order to take revenge for the 1972 and 1974 miners' strikes, which destroyed the Heath government's incomes policy and brought it down.
(18) Saleem, 82, was killed on 29 April, as he walked from a mosque to his home in Small Heath just after 10pm.
(19) A central issue is to establish why five "conditioning techniques" – hooding, stress positions, sleep deprivation, food and water deprivation, and white noise – inflicted on IRA suspects and banned in 1972 by the then prime minister, Edward Heath, were used on Iraqi detainees.
(20) In this, Dalgliesh investigates a killing in a privately run crime museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, London.