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Fjord


Definition:

  • (n.) See Fiord.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
  • (2) KSmythe Make a splash in the cold: Bergen, Norway Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Getty Images Bergen, even when the fjords are too wet and dreary to visit, is still a relaxing destination for a winter break in Norway.
  • (3) Raw power Standing before a glacier in Greenland as it calves icebergs into the dark waters of a cavernous fjord is to witness the raw power of a natural process we have accelerated but will now struggle to control.
  • (4) The outbreak was limited to the city of Drammen and some densely populated areas on the Drammen fjord.
  • (5) The wall of ice that rises behind Sermilik fjord stretches for 1,500 miles (2,400km) from north to south and smothers 80% of this country.
  • (6) Floor-to-ceiling windows offer sublime views of the vast fjord, with Wi-Fi, spacious hot showers and a black stone bathroom scoring extra luxury points.
  • (7) The problem facing oceanographers and climatologists is the nature of Greenland’s intricately carved coast, which features long fjords that push, like fingers, deep into the island’s interior.
  • (8) He defied his religious father by becoming an artist, won scholarships to study in Paris and spent the 1890s in fevered movement around Europe, coming back, always, to Oslo and its fjord, a long, winding, tree-lined inlet.
  • (9) To study whether this is a unique property of these compounds or a more general characteristic of fjord-region diol-epoxides, we have synthesized the anti- and syn-diastereomers of r-9,t-10-dihydroxy-11,12-oxy-9,10,11,12-tetrahydrobenzo(c)chrysene and r-11-t-12-dihydroxy-13,14-oxy-11,12,13,14-tetrahydrobenzo(g)chrysene.
  • (10) You’ll climb 100 metres in rocky high mountain landscape surrounded by glaciers before descending 1,300 metres (and 33 miles) to sea (or fjord) level, past waterfalls, through forested valleys and fjord farm landscapes to the town of Flåm.
  • (11) Photograph: Alamy While the Westfjords’ main roads (Route 60 and Route 61) provide views along the jagged routes that rise, fall, twist and turn along each fjord, there are also activities to try: kayaking, hiking, cycling.
  • (12) The present use of DDT in forest nurseries does not contaminate the neighbouring fjords to a noticeable degree.
  • (13) Out in the fjord, a white pillar rose up before falling back over the water, like rain.
  • (14) According to a recent report, scientists who studied three particularly important fjords found that existing maps underestimate their depths by several hundred metres.
  • (15) Fiamma Straneo, an Italian-born oceanographer, is laboriously winding recording equipment the size of a fire extinguisher from the deck of a small Greenpeace icebreaker caught in huge swells at the mouth of Sermilik fjord.
  • (16) The fjord-region diol-epoxides of benzo(c)phenanthrene combine high mutagenic and carcinogenic activity with low chemical reactivity.
  • (17) Determining the numbers of salmonellae by mpn-method the canalisation of the west-side of Kiel fjord proved to be dominated by the abbatoir of Kiel-Wellsee.
  • (18) For us, it’s skiing in the mountains of Hemsedal, hiking by the fjords and picking berries in the forests.
  • (19) Relative abundance of various PAH did not change significantly in the mussels collected from the head to the mouth of the fjord.
  • (20) Waking in Oslo fjord is just spectacular, because, although you are on a large ship, the sides of the fjord tower above you and you get a real sense of its scale.

Lough


Definition:

  • (n.) A loch or lake; -- so spelt in Ireland.
  • (obs. strong imp.) of Laugh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The leaders of the world's eight wealthiest countries, including Russian president Vladimir Putin and German chancellor Angela Merkel, are due to meet at the luxury Lough Erne resort in Co Fermanagh for the conference on 17-18 June.
  • (2) Gerald Grosvenor came into the line of succession only because the 3rd Duke was childless and the title passed to a cousin, who became 4th Duke in 1963 and then, when he died four years later, to his younger brother, Gerald’s father, Robert Grosvenor, who farmed in Northern Ireland and lived on an island in Lough Erne.
  • (3) We must work together to keep this hope alive, as we agreed to at the Group of 8 meeting in Lough Erne in Northern Ireland in June, and steer the discussion back toward negotiations.
  • (4) "One of highlights, says Starks, was launching the institute's open data certificate at June's G8 meeting in Lough Erne, where the themes were tax, transparency and trade.
  • (5) He also challenged Robinson to condemn remarks by Pastor James McConnell, the founder of the Metropolitan Tabernacle church on the shores of Belfast Lough.
  • (6) "But if there is no deal with the trade ministers, there will be no party time in Lough Earne."
  • (7) Greening said there was a need for a global solution, and that the subject will be pursued by the prime minister at the next G8 summit, in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, in June.
  • (8) A senior scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Janice Lough, was unequivocal when she spoke at the recent Australian Coral Reef Society conference in Brisbane: “The human influence on global climate is now clear.
  • (9) Pastor James McConnell, who last month sparked controversy with a sermon at his Metropolitan Tabernacle church on Belfast's Lough Shore, said on Monday he told the two injured men, aged 24 and 38, there was "no justification for such an attack on any individual or their home whatever their religion".
  • (10) • Doubles from €130 B&B, +353 96 23500. icehousehotel.ie Donegal: Bruckless House There are grander Georgian country houses to stop off at in splendid Donegal; Rathmullan House , on Lough Swilly, for one.
  • (11) • Will Self wrote the opening lecture delivered at A Wilde Weekend by Lough Ernest festival in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
  • (12) A population of eels Anguilla anguilla from Lough Derg, R. Shannon, Ireland, harbouring infections of both Acanthocephalus lucii and A. anguillae was studied over three years.
  • (13) The rest of the ride was a battle against the wind as we ground through Larne and past Carrickfergus castle, our eyes fixed on the distant Harland and Wolff shipping cranes the other side of Belfast Lough that signalled the end of our road.
  • (14) Though tax campaigners accused the final agreement of lacking new, hard detail, Cameron may even have achieved a legacy, persuading his fellow G8 members to sign the Lough Erne declaration, a commitment to end corporate tax evasion and clear up tax havens.
  • (15) Photograph: Paul McErlane for the Guardian Ireland’s border finally reaches its end near Derry, where it meets the wide inlet of Lough Foyle at the village of Culmore.
  • (16) But Robinson, who sometimes attends McConnell's mega-church on the shores of Belfast Lough, was quoted in the Irish News on Wednesday as describing the pastor as "someone who preaches the gospel".
  • (17) All of the 267 perch sampled from Lough Neagh between 1981 and 1983 were infected with the metacercarial cysts of Cotylurus variegatus.
  • (18) By 2pm, when President Obama's armoured Cadillac – "the Beast" – swept through the centre of Enniskillen in a 20-vehicle motorcade, 50 police officers were lining the sides of the town's old bridge, with armoured Landrovers parked at either end and inflatable police dinghies buzzing slowly in the lough below.
  • (19) The leaders also discussed the forthcoming G8 summit, which Cameron is hosting at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland, and the need to show "global leadership" in tackling tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance.
  • (20) So David Cameron's choice of the remote Lough Erne golf course in Northern Ireland to host the G8 seemed an unfortunate one.

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