(n.) That part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.
(n.) An outwork.
(a.) Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.
(a.) Of or relating to a frontier.
(v. i.) To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on.
Example Sentences:
(1) ), nosological frontiers are still unclear and accordingly justify a comparative serological study of M.M., W.M., and B.M.G.
(2) That's right, centuries of political columnists owe their careers to the pioneering efforts of Davy, Davy Crockett, the king of the wild frontier.
(3) The commission is also proposing a new system of European borders and coastguards, beefing up the Warsaw-based Frontex agency to police the external frontiers.
(4) Other kinds of intelligence, particularly that on the effect of drone attacks on the leadership of al-Qaida and its allies in Pakistan , also suggest that the frontier zone is not the sanctuary it once was.
(5) He knew that the find presented the country with perhaps its last chance to develop in the traditional way, but he also knew it would push the oil frontier deeper into the Amazon, release 400m tonnes of climate-changing gases and make the destruction of a vast and pristine area inevitable.
(6) As Margaret Thatcher declared in Bruges in 1988: “We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels.” It was never about sovereignty.
(7) Other measures to promote justice and co-operation against criminals who pay no attention to European frontiers are also being thrown out of the window as May enters the cabinet "EU exit competition" – apparently to see which minister can parade his or her dislike of the EU the most.
(8) People have lived along the Rogue river for at least 8,500 years but its most famous denizen is probably the author Zane Grey , who wrote more than 90 books about the western frontier.
(9) Google's executive chairman is preparing to travel to one of the last frontiers of cyberspace: North Korea .
(10) There are definitely elements of Clash of Clans in this Wild West-themed game, but it’s got a spark of originality too as you build your posse, explore the wild frontier and protect your town.
(11) As the Electronic Frontier Foundation has noted , “this is a recipe for disaster,” and it is being done by circumventing the normal democratic process.
(12) But will we continue to push forward the frontiers, enlarging the range of our consensual understanding?
(13) A convoy of Ukrainian APCs marked the new frontier of the rebel-controlled territory.
(14) Piketty shows that in rich countries at the frontier of technology and skills, the growth of incomes is between 1% and 2% a year.
(15) The commission sent a team to investigate after a row broke out in the summer when Spanish authorities tightened frontier controls, allegedly to crack down on tobacco smuggling, forcing people trying to enter Gibraltar to suffer lengthy queues.
(16) At the cortex-medulla frontier, most arterioles showed narrowings of their lumen that suggested the existence of sphincters at this level.
(17) A puppet Government set up at Vichy which may at any moment be forced to become our foe; the whole western seaboard of Europe, from the North Cape to the Spanish frontier, in German hands; all the ports, all the airfields upon this immense front employed against us as potential springboards of invasion.
(18) It sought the installation of missile defences along its frontier some weeks ago.
(19) In 1995, the Electronic Frontier Foundation won a landmark case establishing that code was a form of protected expression under the First Amendment to the US constitution, and since then, the whole world has enjoyed relatively unfettered access to strong crypto.
(20) Israel's newest frontier fence is being erected at high speed along the 150-mile boundary between the Sinai and Negev deserts.
Glyph
Definition:
(n.) A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two related peptides, carbobenzoxy-L-PheGly and carbobenzoxy-L-GlyPhe, are less potent in raising the bilayer to hexagonal phase transition temperature, with the latter peptide being the least effective of the three.
(2) A liquid chromatographic method for determining glyphosate (GLYPH) and its major metabolite aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA) in various environmental substrates is described.
(3) I like you,” shouted one fan to Prince, in between tracks.“You’re not too bad yourself,” replied the singer, clad in a black fur gilet and cradling a guitar behind a microphone stand bearing his signature male-female glyph symbol.
(4) The mean recoveries for GLYPH in barley, canola, dry pea, flax, soybean, wheat, and white bean ranged from 90.0 to 98.1%, with coefficients of variation (CV) from 2.9 to 10.0% and limits of detection (LOD) from 0.07 to 0.14 ppm.
(5) He glances around the room, with its indecipherable glyph-strewn whiteboards.
(6) Precision for GLYPH determination was good with less than 14% coefficient of variation on mean recovery for all substrates.
(7) Mean recovery efficiencies for GLYPH as determined from fortified blank field samples were as follows: bottom sediment 84%, suspended sediment 66%, organic soils 79%, mineral soils 73%, alder leaf litter 81%, salmonberry leaf litter 84%, and artificial deposit collectors 87%.
(8) Carlson traces its roots back to the romanticism of lost cities in the jungle, the beautiful and enigmatic glyphs, and what some considered the mysterious fate of the Mayan people.
(9) A postcolumn liquid chromatographic method to determine the extractable residues of glyphosate (GLYPH) and its principal metabolite, (aminomethyl)phosphonic acid (AMPA), in various cereals and beans is described.
(10) The stone carvings show traditional Baktun glyphs - a 'baktun' representing a cycle of the Mayan calendar.
(11) The method was successfully used to quantitate GLYPH and AMPA in organic and mineral soils, stream sediments, and foliage of 2 hardwood brush species.
(12) It helps you draw levels for platform games using symbols (“glyphs”) for common elements: ladders, moving blocks, coins and so on.
(13) For fans of Richard D James, there was no mistaking the weird glyph that appeared above London’s Oval Space on Saturday .