(n.) A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth.
(n.) A dam or weir for catching fish.
(n.) A hoop or band.
Example Sentences:
(1) He’s also one of the first players to emerge out of the league to become one of its coaches, and his and general manager Garth Lagerwey’s canny use of the draft may well reflect his own experience as a player.
(2) Garth Gibbs, the Daily Mirror journalist who died a couple of years ago, used to claim cheerfully that he had not found the missing Lord Lucan in more places – from Cape Town to the Bahamas to Macau – than anyone else.
(3) Garth Caswell, HLA chair, says: "We believe that hospice lotteries are under threat from people mistakenly thinking they can achieve the same charitable goals of giving to local health-related charities and at the same time stand a chance of winning larger prizes by playing the health lottery.
(4) But the reality of a Trump rally, or at least this Trump rally, was about as threatening as a Garth Brooks concert.
(5) 01792 851616, bayviewgower.co.uk Y Garth, Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire A bolthole in the village of Dinas Cross, halfway between Fishguard and Newport, with statement walls featuring gold flocked and big bloom wallpaper, chandeliers and rich fabrics.
(6) Garth Greenwell 'Putting lipstick on a pig': experts on why Obama is lending Donald Trump a hand Read more Obama has been criticised for being too much style, too little substance.
(7) After Seattle’s early exit in the playoffs, nobody is batting an eyelid at suggestions he might soon be on his way to reunite with his former sporting director Garth Lagerwey in replacing Sigi Schmid.
(8) This from Brian Lunt Garth Crooks on BBC3 whilst Phelps on the red button!!
(9) Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Frédéric Kanouté Footballer , John Austin Former MP , Rodney Bickerstaffe, Bob Crow, Victoria Brittain, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Caryl Churchill Playwright , Rev Garth Hewitt, Dr Ghada Karmi, Bruce Kent, Roger Lloyd Pack Actor , Ken Loach Film-maker , Michael Mansfield QC, Kika Markham Actor , Luisa Morgantini Former vice-president, European parliament, Prof Hilary Rose, Prof Steven Rose, Alexei Sayle Author and comedian , Jenny Tonge House of Lords , Dr Antoine Zahlan, Geoffrey Lee Red Card Israeli Racism , Tomas Perez Football Beyond Borders , John McHugo Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine • This article was amended on 28 May 2013.
(10) The Tsar of Love and Techno is published 6 October by Knopf Facebook Twitter Pinterest Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire Photograph: Publicity City on Fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg The mere sale of this novel – for a reported $2m, following hard upon news that it had been optioned by the movie producer Scott Rudin – caused a kind of sensation in bookish circles.
(11) The crowd, which ranged from young British Muslims to leftwing activists to students and pensioners, listened to speakers including human rights advocate Bianca Jagger, singer Annie Lennox and the Rev Garth Hewitt, canon at St George's Cathedral in Jerusalem.
(12) Narrated by a dog, Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain was criticised for a sex scene, and Alexie’s award-winning novel for its strong language.
(13) Garth Crooks, the BBC TV presenter who played for Stoke City and Tottenham Hotspur through the hostile racism that enveloped football in the 1980s, called on the FA to charge Terry .
(14) A child star who grew up on the set of idiosyncratic British films including Garth Jennings’ Son of Rambow and Dexter Fletcher’s Wild Bill , Poulter is now 21.
(15) Cyrille Regis and Garth Crooks gave an hour-long address to the under-21 players at Burton as part of the awareness programme, reliving what it was like to be among the first black footballers in England.
(16) Garth Powis reviews the evidence that this approach may eventually lead to new, more selective drugs for treating cancer.
(17) Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was not extensively watched, but had some devoted fans, including Miramax's Harvey Weinstein who wanted to make a movie of it (he would later distribute Submarine in the US).
(18) I ask Ayoade if he's proud of Garth Marenghi, and he practically snorts.
(19) Garth Crooks, the former Tottenham Hotspur footballer who is an anti-racism campaigner, said: "If the FA don't act on the undisputed facts, and find Terry guilty of bringing the game into disrepute, a lot of good people are saying to me that there's no point in getting involved in the game at a senior level.
(20) Flights from London to San Antonio, booked on kayak.co.uk , start at around £460 return More Miles Than Money: Journeys Through American Music , by Garth Cartwright, is published by Serpent's Tail (serpentstail.com, £12.99)
Girth
Definition:
(n.) A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.
(n.) The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything.
(n.) A small horizontal brace or girder.
(v. t.) To bind as with a girth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The treatment of lymphedema with SEP and compression stockings is associated with long-term maintenance of reduced limb girth in 90% of patients.
(2) With attention to detail, prosthesis sizing is straightforward using intraoperative determination of corporeal girth and total corporeal length.
(3) In two groups of postmenopausal women aged 55-69 years in the upper midwestern United States, the authors examined the reliability and accuracy of self-measurement by mail questionnaire of waist, hip, upper arm, wrist and calf girths.
(4) By the third trimester the abdominal girth did not increase coincident with the baby's size, vomiting prevented adequate caloric intake, and pelvic pressure from the baby's head caused increasing discomfort.
(5) The simple ratio of waist girth to hip girth can be used to estimate the location of body fat.
(6) These results preclude girth as a reliable clinical indicator of intraperitoneal haemorrhage.
(7) Fasting serum insulin concentrations were significantly associated with percent body fat (Pearson r = 0.45-0.53), waist-to-hip girth ratio (Pearson r = 0.18-0.27), and most of the physiologic risk factors.
(8) Despite anuria and the absence of peripheral edema, 4 h of HWI significantly raised the central venous pressure, diminished the abdominal girth by 5%, and successfully transfered at least 2.4 liters of ascitic fluid to the intravascular space made available to ultrafiltration.
(9) Regression analysis revealed consanguinity-related declines in birthweight, recumbent length, head circumference and chest girth and in gestational period.
(10) Two patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria had increasing abdominal girth and ascites.
(11) Concerns over size and girth do often dominate men's – especially adolescent and younger men's – body image concerns, and comical though it may seem, it causes real distress to some.
(12) Length changes in the TS were presumed from its girth recorded using a mercury-in-silastic gauge wrapped around the muscle belly.
(13) The use of three girth measurements, height, and age enabled us to develop regression equations to predict body density in women that are comparable in accuracy to those using skinfold calipers and, thus, are a viable alternative.
(14) Repeated measures analysis of variance procedures indicated no significant differences consequent to the BDP for any of the variables assessed, with the exception of a small decrease in shoulder girth in both E and C and a small decrease in left breast volume in E. It was concluded that the use of a commercial exercise device with a specific BDP does not result in changes in breast size, shape, or volume.
(15) Arm girth and circumference often leads to difficulties in Blood Pressure (BP) measurement in obese patients.
(16) The constants are presented for estimating the body weight of these breeds from their heart girth and body length under Nsukka conditions.
(17) This increase correlated with the degree of adiposity but not with waist-to-hip girth ratio (WHR).
(18) A 28-year-old black woman presented with increasing abdominal girth and gross hepatomegaly.
(19) Subjects, 482 women, were hydrostatically weighed and circumference (girths) recorded for thigh, hips (buttocks), iliac, and abdomen (mean of abdomen 1 and abdomen 2).
(20) Definitive trends were not evident for differences between the two groups in percent fat, percent SNF, days open, final type classification score, or heart girth.