(n.) A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six chic doubles, all but one with room for an extra bed, are tacked onto an old farmstead.
(2) The dynamics of a small group of people on an isolated farmstead are disrupted by the arrival of a disturbing stranger, who turns out to be uncomfortably familiar."
(3) During recent archaeological excavations in Viking Greenland, specimens of the human flea, Pulex irritans L., and the body louse, Pediculus humanus humanus L., were recovered from several farmsteads.
(4) In southwestern New Jersey during 1986 and 1987, common barn-owls and pigeons were captured on farmsteads and tested for Toxoplasma gondii antibodies by a modified direct agglutination test.
(5) The few hunter-gatherers already living on Orkney were replaced and farmsteads were established across the archipelago.
(6) The distribution range of the tick (percent of infested farmsteads) in this case did not reduce.
(7) They cultivated the land, built farmsteads and rapidly established a vibrant culture, erecting giant stone circles, chambered communal tombs – and a giant complex of buildings at the Ness of Brodgar.
(8) Rattus norvegicus infestations on six farmsteads were poisoned with 0.5% 5-p-chlorophenyl silatrane and those on another six with 2.5% zinc phosphide.
(9) The farm's electrical service was modified so that the farmstead could be connected or disconnected from the primary neutral wire at 2-week intervals for 12 weeks.
(10) In the campo behind Castro Marim, Companhia das Culturas (doubles from €75, Rua do Monte Grande, +351 281 957 062, companhiadas culturas.com ) is a classy, country-chic small hotel in an old farmstead with vintage furniture, a soon-to-be-open hammam and a cork-lined barn for yoga and meditation.
(11) The steep hills on either side and the high mountains beyond are empty of human life, save for the occasional lonely farmstead embedded in the hillside.
(12) High concentrations and variations in Fe and Al in the cheeses indicate a significant possibility of uptake of these elements into the products during farmstead manufacturing processes.
(13) "The sprawling infrastructure of the housing masterplan, with houses, roads, gardens, link paths and car parking, will severely erode a large part of the green farmstead setting which is an integral part of Old Oswestry's appeal."
(14) Here, German émigré Eckhard Kost has built a quirky desert garden around an old farmstead, now a B&B – El Jardín de los Sueños , which means garden of dreams (doubles from €76).
(15) The wildlife service said the lions killed four goats at a small farmstead in the township of Kitengela, about 18 miles south of the capital.
(16) Fifteen experimental treatments with rodenticidal baits containing 0.1, 0.15 or 0.2% flupropadine were conducted on farmsteads against Rattus norvegicus infestations.
(17) Small fields of bright green grass enclosed by hedges, the farmstead and a cottage or two that are typical of counties as distant as Cheshire and Pembroke, Cornwall and Fife, owe their existence to the family dairy farm.
Steading
Definition:
(n.) The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- called also onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government began aggressively purging the heads of cultural and academic institutions (a notable number of them Jewish and liberal intellectuals suspected of a “foreign” mindset) and installing in their stead true believers in the Magyar way.
(2) "It depends on how many pages you print," says Patrick Stead, head of cartridge recycler Environmental Business Products.
(3) The T gamma chain of human fetal hemoglobin has a threonyl in stead of an isoleucyl residue in position 75.
(4) We wish his father in law, the president, had done the same.” Trump has said his three adult children, Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr, will not play a role in government, and that his sons will run his sprawling businesses in his stead.
(5) The less abundant IL 1 alpha mRNA showed a decrease in its stead-state levels prior to the reduction in the levels of IL 1 beta mRNA.
(6) They will make an assessment of Christ in that, and so I’ve been trying to hold the prayer that, whatever I’ve done or said, somehow Christ will be seen in it, or at least I won’t get in the way of that.” Revealing a glass half full attitude that may stand her in good stead in the potentially fraught times ahead, Elizabeth Jane Holden “Libby” Lane, whose husband is the chaplain at Manchester airport, stresses that she would “much rather travel with people than confront them”, but insists that that “doesn’t mean I won’t face up to difficult choices or decisions when they have to be made”.
(7) That stood him in good stead when he lost the ministerial status and limo in 2001, and again in 2012 when he separated from his long-term partner Dorian Jabri, sold their home in Islington, moved to fashionable Clerkenwell and started living alone again for the first time in 25 years.
(8) Multiple linear regression between stead state PDC and dose, age, body weight and serum creatinine concentration revealed 62.1% of the variance of the PDC after intravenous administration of digoxin.
(9) Furthermore we noted that the new collateral channel was able to fill a steadely increasing part of the cerebral circulation and that it was also found to irrigate territories of the brain that were previously well perfused by leptomeningeal anastomosis or retrograd flow through the ophthalmic artery etc.
(10) Biological calibration of the Hewlett-Packard electronic spirometer against a Stead-Wells 13.5-litre spirometer shows a good concordance for forced vital capacity (FVC; systematic error 0% in women, 1% in men, probable error 4% in both sexes).
(11) Co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who is now worth over $2.7bn, congratulated Zuckerberg on his Facebook page: "Congrats to everyone involved in the project from day one till today, and I especially wanted to congratulate Mark Zukerberg (sic) on keeping tremendous stead-fast (sic) focus, however hard that was, on making the world a more open and connected place."
(12) But although his likability, proven persistence and enforced gravitas will hold him in good stead as he embarks upon a road much harder than the one he's already travelled, he has a lot more to prove.
(13) In addition, the open-circuit procedure used for the Jones spirometer required more corrdination in the subject than did the closed-circuit procedure employed in this study for the Stead-Wells spirometer; however, with application of the "conversion factors," both instruments, yield comparable data and prove adequate for spirometric studies.
(14) Peter Vanden Houte, an economist at ING, blamed a lack of consumption by households and businesses for the worse-than-expected figures, but said the figures showed a resilience to disruptive forces inside and outside the currency bloc that should stand it in good stead for the year.
(15) He made contacts with philosophy institutions in France and the US, which stood him in good stead when he finally published his breakthrough book, 1989's The Sublime Object of Ideology .
(16) Mexico do not have a great record against European opposition in World Cups – of 30 encounters they have win just seven – but Herrera insists a tight defence and just the occasional goal will stand them in good stead.
(17) This deal-making, in which she forged alliances with the Nordic countries, signed deals with Tony Blair's Labour government and struck agreements with the Bretton Woods institutions, will stand her in good stead when she moves to the gargantuan, Chinese-built AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
(18) Therefore, some other indices should be, in future, investigated in order to establish the quantitative evaluation of GFR in patients with chronic renal failure in stead of Ccr or serum creatinine.
(19) A more precise classification instead of the diagnosis 'reticulosarcoma' and 'reticulosarcoma cell leukemia' is required, and the use of the term 'hairy cell' leukemia is suggested stead of the misleading term 'leukemic reticuloendotheliosis'.
(20) The former Chelsea youth-team midfielder Billy Knott worked tirelessly in behind the strikers, Stead and James Hanson.