(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.
Living
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Live
(n.) The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.
(n.) Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.
(n.) The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(3) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
(4) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
(5) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(6) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(7) This time is approximately six months for the neuroleptics given orally, one month for antidepressants, and five and a half half-lives for benzodiazepines.
(8) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(9) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(10) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(11) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
(12) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(13) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(14) Perelman is currently unemployed and lives a frugal life with his mother in St Petersburg.
(15) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
(16) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(17) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
(18) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(19) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
(20) The Coalition promises to add more misery to their lives.