(n.) A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
(n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
(n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow, or fish.
(n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
(n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
(v. t.) To form into flakes.
(v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most common microscopic features included dense marrow fibrosis or "scar" formation, a sprinkling of lymphocytes in a relative absence of other inflammatory cells (especially histiocytes), and smudged, nonresorbing necrotic bone flakes.
(2) In a local television interview last week, Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, said of Trump’s run: “I don’t think it’s a very serious candidacy, frankly.” Trump also came under fire on Monday from Bush, who performed shabbily in the most recent polls.
(3) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
(4) No differences were observed in cocoa powder for drinks and plain chocolate flakes treated with 0.5 dm2 polystyrene of 1 mm thickness.
(5) The first case involved the identification of flakes of a metallic material claimed by a 14-year-old girl to appear periodically between her mandibular molars.
(6) Aggie Wai, a first year business student at Reading University, faced the same scenario when she arrived to try and fly to Hong Kong, and found herself stood outside as flakes of snow drifted to the ground.
(7) Irritation, as manifested by erythema or flaking, occurred in 61.5% of topical masoprocol-treated patients versus 26.7% of those treated with vehicle and did not correlate with clinical response.
(8) John Harvey Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes, also invented the sunbed, patenting his first device in 1896 – by royal appointment no less, as Edward VII apparently kept one at Windsor Castle for his gout.
(9) 3 Add the rice to the salmon flakes along with the spring onion, ginger, soy and mirin.
(10) A method has been developed for estimating crudely the quantity of lead in dusts derived from paint flakes.
(11) Then there were the plastic domes with Mao inside that rained gold flakes when you shook them.
(12) Lower the heat, add the ginger, garlic, chilli flakes and rosemary.
(13) The basal ration fed to the sows consisted of ground barley+oats+flaked potatoes or ground barley+sugar beet chips.
(14) The company, whose brands include Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Special K and Pringles is thought to use about 50,000 tonnes of palm oil a year, said that it planned to impose the changes by December 2015.
(15) On 9 April, it warned against Republicans such as Flake, who voted for the gun debate, and urged members to call these senators and "tell them that when the Bill of Rights reads 'shall not be infringed' with regards to the second amendment, it means exactly that".
(16) And now, in a damp-smelling dressing room at Berlin's Admiralspalast, with its flaking plaster and a carpet that looks like a relic from the communist East, he reveals German is next on his list.
(17) Flaked rye seemed to contain both faster and slower carbohydrates than the corresponding rye bread of similar fibre content.
(18) Mucus flakes and plaques are transported by the tips of the cilia over this interciliary liquid.
(19) It can also be highly saline and contain solids, such as flakes of rock.
(20) Para-tertiary butylphenol [(PTBP); the Union Carbide Corporation trademark for this chemical is UCAR Butylphenol 4-T Flake] has applications as a raw material in the manufacture of resins and also as an industrial intermediate.
Hurdle
Definition:
(n.) A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
(n.) In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
(n.) An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.
(v. t.) To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
(2) The idea was to create a simple set of standards that everyone can relate to, a low hurdle that every humanitarian organisation should be able to leap over.” As organisations grow, they can aspire to use more technical standards that more established NGOs might already be working with.
(3) The physician who cares for adolescents has the responsibility of helping parenting teens to find needed support so that they will be able to overcome this significant hurdle.
(4) When I had that keyhole surgery, I thought: ‘Maybe, if I come back, it won’t be to that top level.’ But with the support I have been getting from my coach, family and friends, I think that really motivated me to come back strong.” Kenya is more famed for its distance runners and steeplechasers than its hurdlers, but the country was left celebrating a surprise gold medal in the 400m hurdles when Nicholas Bett powered home from lane nine to smash his personal best to win in 47.79sec.
(5) Cards pile on the runs, and here comes Hurdle to get Burnett, about three batters too late.
(6) However, despite repeated questions from reporters, Earnest did not rule out Obama approving fast-track without TAA if that combination somehow made it through procedural hurdles in the Senate.
(7) The government is thought to believe that a major hurdle in attracting participants was the fact that it was seen as a service for the lowest socioeconomic groups.
(8) Only a handful of opposition MPs have hurdled the obstacles to win election.
(9) While some predicted their team would once again choke at the final hurdle, the chancellor had faith the “system” would be fully endorsed.
(10) Finding the funds to invest in durable and improved sanitation remains a major hurdle.
(11) Her celebrated experiment with a pseudonym as a demonstration of the hurdles facing unknown writers being just one example.
(12) I just thought it was a little beyond me this year.” On those hazy days in London Ennis-Hill had blown away the opposition with a nerveless and spectacularly quick hurdles on the opening morning of competition that left her cruising to victory.
(13) The great hurdle in all space missions is the cost of launch and the weight of fuel.
(14) However, if what happened with Indiegogo is any indication, the project will likely face more legal hurdles in the future.
(15) Carmarthen ham, an air-dried ham similar to serrano, which has been produced to a recipe by five generations of the same Welsh family, is likely to be the next UK food application to clear the regulatory hurdles.
(16) Some people believe that it just works but the reality is that the online buyer-seller relationship can falter at any one of a number of hurdles.
(17) Medical barriers to family planning (FP) are identified as contraindications, eligibility, process hurdles, the provider of contraception, provider bias, and regulation.
(18) Extinction was conducted in the runway, and subsequently the animals were tested for hurdle-jump escape from the frustrating goal box.
(19) Then they let me go in.” It wasn’t a straightforward process, he explains: his first go was on his own, on videotape; having negotiated that hurdle, he read for casting director Ellen Chenoweth; only then did he get to audition – twice – in front of the Coens themselves.
(20) The pension scheme is regarded as a hurdle to a rescue deal.