(n.) A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
(n.) A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
(v. i.) To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
(v. t.) To cultivate as a garden.
Example Sentences:
(1) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(2) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(3) Known as the Little House in the Garden, this temporary structure lasted over 50 years.
(4) In consequence of the findings the Netherlands Ministry for Housing, Physical Planning and Environment appropriated money to cleanup contaminated gardens.
(5) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
(6) We stayed at the Secret Garden Tulum Hotel (doubles from £63) which offers a green oasis at reasonable prices.
(7) Of the three main parties, the most promising ideas are housing zones and self-build for the Conservatives, Labour’s new homes corporations, and the strong garden cities offer from the Liberal Democrats .
(8) The Conservatives have held back the development of garden cities on the scale necessary, but if Liberal Democrats are part of the next government, we will ensure at least 10 get under way – with up to five along this new garden cities railway, bringing new homes and jobs to the brainbelt of south-east England.” The Lib Dems insist they are planning to act in the national interest and are not motivated by electoral considerations.
(9) A Tory planning minister has admitted that the coalition's new wave of garden cities would not have to contain a single affordable home, despite Nick Clegg's claims that they would offer low-cost accommodation and help solve the UK's housing crisis.
(10) After a discussion concerning the facets of antifertility drugs linked with male or female fertility regulation, several selected examples are presented, which include yuehchukene (isolated from Murraya paniculata), pseudolarix acids A and B (from Pseudolarix kaempferi), mardekoside A (from Mardenia koi), gardenic acid and gardenodic acid A (from Gardenia jasminoides) as early pregnancy terminating agent, for fertility regulation in females; whereas gossypol (from cottonseed oil) and total glycosides of Tripterygium wilfordii (GTW) as antispermatogenic agent for fertility regulation in males.
(11) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
(12) Private gardens in Belgravia, London, in the middle of a house price bubble.
(13) But the genius of the High Line was to revive and repurpose a decaying piece of legacy infrastructure, and by doing so to revitalise several moribund districts of Manhattan, whereas the garden bridge would be new-build in an already vibrant part of London.
(14) This is where he would infuriate the neighbours by kicking the football over his house into their garden; this is Old Street, where his friends would wait in their car to whisk him off to basketball without his parents knowing; Pragel Street, where physiotherapists spotted him being wheeled in a Tesco shopping trolley by friends and suggested he took up basketball; the Housing Options Centre, where he sent a letter forged in his father's name saying he had thrown 16-year-old Ade out and he needed social housing.
(15) Things like digging in the garden often cause low back pain, and exercises will be good treatment for this.
(16) The effects of gamma-globulins to brain specific nonhistone chromatin proteins (BSNCP-3.5;-3.6) on conditioned food avoidance behaviour (carrot or apple) was studied in the garden snail.
(17) In the very first scenes, inspired by happy childhood memories, she decides to build a pool – despite her garden being much, much too small for one.
(18) Earlier this week, Barack Obama interrupted a Rose Garden appearance with the Japanese prime minister to speak for 15 minutes on the “slow-rolling crisis” of poverty and broken justice.
(19) Khan said the garden bridge could rival New York’s high line, a public park built on a 1.45-mile elevated former railway.
(20) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
Spade
Definition:
(n.) A hart or stag three years old.
(n.) A castrated man or beast.
(n.) An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.
(n.) One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
(n.) A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
(v. t.) To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Time, to use a good Anglo-Saxon expression, to call a spade a spade.
(2) Before you take out your bucket and spade, though, you might like to look at the sand sculpture festival (until 5 September; prices vary from day to day) for inspiration.
(3) The first, the 28A region, gave three recessive lethals and also contains three known visible mutants, spade (spd), Sternopleural (Sp) and wingless (wg); a complex pattern of genetic interaction in the region incorporates both the new and the previously known mutants.
(4) This was greeted by a furious wall of sound from Labour, which only grew when he added: "The last government failed to prioritise compassionate care … they tried to shut down the whistleblowers …" It was pure party-political point-scoring, matched in spades by Labour's Andy Burnham.
(5) The entertainment industry's reliance on the courts for a cheap and dirty fix to all its problems has mutated filesharing into a strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that has no one to sue except for individual filesharers (and the most avid music filesharers are also the most avid music everything – CD buyers, concertgoers, bootleg collectors … When you live your life for music, you do everything musical in spades).
(6) Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is characterized by a spade-like left ventricular cavity and by both giant negative T waves and tall R waves in the electrocardiogram.
(7) After one year, attempted removal of the spade tipped K-wire was unsuccessful.
(8) "Any fool can spend money; Gordon Brown has proved that in spades.
(9) Our two cases of trisomy 12p (ter leads to 12.1) were compared with eight cases of trisomy 12p described earlier, and the following common characteristics were found: severe mental and physical retardation; flat and round, broad face with prominent cheeks; flat and broad nasal bridge with short nose; anteverted nostrils and large philtrum; broad and prominent lower lip; low-set or slanting ears, poorly formed with folded helix, prominent antihelix and deep concha; short neck; short sternum; "spade"-shaped fingers, the fifth being short; bilateral genu valgum; bilateral pes planus and talus valgus; increased space between the first and second toes; generalized hypotonia; and certain dermatoglyphic characteristics.
(10) When will spades be called spades and retreats retreats?
(11) Commuting back and forth across the Atlantic has taken its toll but paid off in spades, first with gold and silver in Daegu and now the 10,000m Olympic title.
(12) Little documented, the scene was caught by Colin MacInnes in his 1957 novel City of Spades, whose hero is a West African hustler called Johnny Fortune.
(13) Republicans stake their claim as Christie stresses credentials at CPAC Read more The 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference was in full swing, and at the end of Thursday afternoon, the crowd got what it had come for, in spades: three searing speeches from the main stage razzing President Barack Obama, damning “radical Islamic terrorism” and celebrating the United States as the best place on Earth in history.
(14) These and other problems identified by the PAC apply in spades to mass contracting by CCGs, which are even less capable of managing contracts than central government departments.
(15) Osborne's first spade in the ground was on work at the station for Manchester airport, the UK's third biggest airport.
(16) Another notable Britpop item was the cassingle version of Elastica's Waking Up, designed by Jon Anonymous: made up like a packet of cards, with a spade cut out of the front, it had a band member trading card inside.
(17) The spade-like configuration was also seen in four cases (7.0%) of the GNT- group.
(18) Every reason people in the UK might have not to vote, Nigerians also have, in spades.
(19) Bagolini and Ioli-Spade in 1968 presented a 30 year follow-up on Bietti's cases and presented six additional cases.
(20) In the 9 patients who had cardiac catheterization the left ventricular end-diastolic pressure was raised, and angiography showed an "ace of spades" diastolic image of the left ventricle with systolic obliteration of its tip.