(n.) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
(n.) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
(n.) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
(n.) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(2) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.
(3) Although only a small section of the site has been excavated, there are baths, luxurious houses, an amphitheatre, a forum, shops, gardens with working fountains and city walls to explore, with many wonderful mosaics still in situ.
(4) The proximal tibial metaphyses of ten New Zealand white rabbits were excavated and filled with sheets of polyvinyl alcohol, into which a suspension of B. fragilis cells was injected on the right side, while saline was used on the left side.
(5) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
(6) And it is allowed to deal in gold not excavated from the ground according to the well-known aharia frameworks with immediate effect.
(7) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
(8) The injury begins as a small nodule with a keratotic innermost part that rapidly is excavated, grows centrifugally, appearing as a new lesion, an expansion of the primary one, in the posterior higher region, with the same characteristics.
(9) The purpose of this paper is to present a Mediaeval skeleton of an approximately 16 year old boy, which was excavated at a Danish cemetery containing ca.
(10) Huang Ren Zhong's striped parasol stands out against the muddy cliff of excavated earth.
(11) No matter how "sophisticated" they may seem to have become, contemporary methods for bioplanimetry of the optic disc vary in precision; easily overlooked or neglected optical influences must, indeed, be taken into consideration; and, of greatest detriment to the meaningfulness of any and all such results is the fact that even "experts" have difficulty in uniformly and reproducibly indicating where the boundaries of the optic disc and its excavation actually lie.
(12) The dissident Gleb Yakunin excavated evidence from the KGB archives in the 1990s that fingered high-ranking priests as KGB agents, including the former head of the church, Aleksei II, and the current, Patriarch Kirill I.
(13) Prolonged respiratory assistance by positive pressure ventilation via cuffed tracheostomy or endotracheal tube can be complicated by mucosal erosions, tracheal stenosis, tracheomalacia, excavation of the tracheal wall with loss of tissue and tracheoesophageal fistula.
(14) Eleven human optic nerves from subjects in different decades ranging from the fifth to the ninth were investigated with the silver carbonate method to establish the pattern and frequency of age changes within the optic nerve head and their relationship with the glaucomatous excavation.
(15) Such differential mineralization points on physiological and pathological processes in bone and teeth, and is frequently conserved both in excavated skeletal remains and in cremations.
(16) Israel has said demolishing tunnels is the principal goal of its ground operation and it has released footage showing tunnels being demolished by excavators and air strikes.
(17) All these results provide a good basis for the assumption that, in glaucoma, the main factor producing restriction of the field of vision and excavations of the papilla is defective irrigation of the papillary vessels, originating in the choroid membrane, with chronic ischemia of the papilla.
(18) The excavation method allowed for a complete elimination of the decayed dentinal tissue down to the hypermineralized zone.
(19) Alfred, a student of the “father of American anthropology” Franz Boas , gathered and preserved information about native peoples and traditions in California, excavated archaeological sites in Mexico and Peru, and some years before his daughter’s birth had briefly practised as a psychoanalyst.
(20) Excavations in the Dakotas, prior to the closure of the Missouri River dams, yielded much information on demographics, anomalies, and epidemiological patterns for specific abnormalities in prior inhabitants of the area over several centuries.
Stope
Definition:
(v. i.) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
(v. t.) To excavate in the form of stopes.
(v. t.) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
(p. p.) Alt. of Stopen
Example Sentences:
(1) Marie Stopes estimates that , as a result of the reimposition of the global gag order, the loss of their services alone could result in 6.5m unintended pregnancies during Trump’s first term, 2.1m unsafe abortions, and 21,700 maternal deaths.
(2) But right now none of that is the problem: the problem is that this amendment expressly removes the right of organisations such as Marie Stopes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service to impart information.
(3) Marie Stopes described the rise as small but warned that the figures sent a warning for the government's family planning strategy.
(4) An amendment that Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries and Labour's Frank Field have put forward to the health bill would strip abortion providers such as Marie Stopes of their pregnancy counselling roles, opening them up to tenders from "independent" organisations.
(5) The Dorries amendment would have stripped non-statutory abortion providers such as Marie Stopes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (bpas) from offering counselling to women.
(6) All but 10 are run by the charities Marie Stopes and BPAS which, under the Dorries amendment, could be stripped of their counselling role.
(7) The prime minister, David Cameron, was at first said to be sympathetic to Dorries's view that women should be offered independent advice, but he became persuaded by the view of campaigners that the planned amendment would prevent abortion providers such as Marie Stopes from giving counselling.
(8) Charities including the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Marie Stopes offer the compulsory counselling women must undertake before they make a decision on termination.
(9) Tracey McNeill, the director of Marie Stopes UK and Europe, said: "We work very much within a legal framework; we comply with all the CQC regulations.
(10) The CQC, which sent officials to clinics including those run by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Marie Stopes and the NHS, is expected to publish its findings within weeks.
(11) Dawn Purvis, director of Marie Stopes Northern Ireland, said: "We are hugely disappointed that the women of Northern Ireland, who are citizens of the UK, remain unable to access the same services from the NHS as their mainland counterparts.
(12) The results therefore suggest that an inward calcium ion current may play a role in the development of digitalis-induced increase in the stope of phase 4 depolarization in Purkinje fibers.
(13) Dr Paula Franklin, medical director of Marie Stopes, which like the BPAS has contracts to provide terminations on the NHS , said she was concerned that the heightened scrutiny was having an effect on "existing clinics and on doctors and nurses who come every day to the centres, many of whom have to navigate through sometimes angry – sometimes not – protesters.
(14) "Marie Stopes International and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service have similar interests.
(15) "The idea that BPAS or Marie Stopes are colluding to make a profit is wrong.
(16) Hundreds of young and vulnerable women seeking abortions are to be sent to other clinics after some services run by Marie Stopes International were suspended because of inspectors’ safety concerns.
(17) In a statement, the chief executive, Simon Cooke, said: “As of today Marie Stopes UK has agreed with the Care Quality Commission to voluntarily suspend some of its termination of pregnancy services.
(18) The government has announced a change in the rules to ensure that women are also offered counselling provided independently of the charity-run services, such as the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Marie Stopes.
(19) A statement from Marie Stopes said it fully supported "the desire of the Department of Health and others to ensure that women seeking termination of pregnancy from any provider - including the NHS - receive care which is appropriate and falls with the legal framework.
(20) Marie Stopes said none of its 19 units was found to have breached the rules, while BPAS said that to the best of its knowledge none of its clinics was involved.