(p. p. & a.) Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.
(n.) Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
(n.) Money.
Example Sentences:
(1) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
(2) The litter size of vaccinated gilts was larger than that of the control gilts.
(3) Gilts that had already reached sexual maturity at the time of insemination showed a higher rate of oestrus and better litter size than immature animals.
(4) On Days 12-14 each gilt received twice daily infusions of Day 15 pCSP in one uterine horn and SP in the other uterine horn.
(5) Muscle glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase activity was reduced 75% in vitamin B-6-deficient gilts.
(6) However, antiviral activity was undetectable in medium conditioned by endometrium from one of the Day-12 gilts.
(7) However, financial markets seem unconcerned: 10-year gilts have rallied since the statement.
(8) The influence of embryos on growth of the uterus was determined by comparing uterine length, weight and diameter between gravid and nongravid horns within unilaterally pregnant gilts.
(9) The effects of exogenous oestradiol-17 beta on blood leukocytes were studied in four ovariectomized gilts.
(10) Control gilts given saline had ovaries containing antral follicles (4 to 6 mm in diameter).
(11) Relaxin stored in luteal cells of hysterectomized gilts was consistently greater (P less than 0.01) than that during the same days of late pregnancy; however, progesterone was greater (P less than 0.01) in hysterectomized compared with pregnant gilts only on day 116.
(12) Three gilts that were given zearalenone on PMD 7 to 10 were not pregnant and had regressing corpora lutea on the ovaries at euthanasia.
(13) Each uterine horn in treated gilts (N = 5) was infused with 150 micrograms PGE2 in 3 ml of saline at 0900 h on day 12, 15 and 18 of the estrous cycle.
(14) It was concluded that puberty may have been attained when a certain BF or fatness was achieved, because growth rate of restricted-fed gilts and quickly growing gilts with ad libitum access to feed may have been associated with reduced fat deposition.
(15) The effect of ovarian steroids on the uterine secretion of ir-MENK was examined by measuring ir-MENK in uterine fluids from cyclic and pregnant gilts as well as ovariectomized, ovarian steroid-treated gilts.
(16) A corn-soybean meal diet fed to all gilts was formulated to meet or exceed nutrient requirements except for energy.
(17) At slaughter, uterine length (P less than 0.05), uterine weight, width of uterine horns, endometrial surface area, endometrial weight and percentage of uterine weight represented by endometrium was greater (P less than 0.01) for Large White gilts.
(18) This study provides strong evidence that purified pPRL maintains both relaxin and progesterone secretion as well as the morphology of aging corpora lutea for at least 10 days after hypophysectomy in hysterectomized gilts.
(19) Receptor number was greater for M than for P gilts on d 14 (P less than .07) and d 18 (P less than .01).
(20) Thirty-four gilts in two experiments were fed altrenogest for 18 d to block spontaneous growth of ovulatory follicles after luteolysis.
Silt
Definition:
(n.) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
(v. t.) To choke, fill, or obstruct with silt or mud.
(v. i.) To flow through crevices; to percolate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Corthine said he had told Cameron 3m tonnes of silt needed to be removed from the Parrett to get it flowing properly again.
(2) Adsorption and movement of carbofuran (a systemic nematicide) were studied using two Indian soils (clay loam and silt loam) of alluvial origin.
(3) Residue content of water samples is normally one-tenth to one-hundredth that of silt, but is much higher during periods of heavy runoff.
(4) Dredging creates turbidity in the water that reduces the amount of light reaching the coral, affecting photosynthesis, while silt that settles on the coral interferes with its ability to feed itself.
(5) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
(6) Dam reservoirs trap silt, which decreases their storage capacity and reduces power generation.
(7) Treated seeds were also planted in pots containing Nile silt for testing the efficiency of rhizobia as affected by the fungicide and the pelleting treatments.
(8) The larval lamprey is a filter-feeder who dwells in the silt of freshwater streams and the adult is an active predator found in large lakes or the sea.
(9) At Pelican Island, a 2.5 mile strip in the Barataria Bay, crews used 2.5m cubic yards of sand and silt mined from the Gulf of Mexico to build dunes and marshes, and rolled out protective fences around newly planted grasses.
(10) Their dams slow rivers down, reducing scouring and erosion, and improve water quality by holding back silt.
(11) Before the dam the closure was enforced for about 40 days, during which the canals were closed and dried up, and the silt deposited on their beds during the Nile flood dredged out together with the snails and aquatic weeds.
(12) The Davis family benefited when a group of locals shifted 15 tons of sand and silt from their garden.
(13) Equilibrium adsorption coefficient (K) values measured using a batch-slurry technique follows the order clay loam greater than silt loam soil.
(14) Only 2% of what is flowing through the sewers is sewage; the rest is water and accumulated debris – the vast amount of water you flush down the toilet and all the water and silt that seeps into the sewers when it rains.
(15) The soil is so called "Terra Roxa" (red soil) and in its physicochemical composition there is a great amount of iron oxides, silica (silt, agril laceous material), aluminium, manganese, organic compounds.
(16) The use of the selective media with gentamicin for plating out silt substrates containing mainly Micromonospora had practically no effect on the increase in the number of the Micromonospora cultures grown.
(17) The flood cycles passed on the salts that accumulated from evaporation and passed new layers of silt onto the farmlands around the marshes.
(18) Once you have started dredging, "it must be repeated after every extreme flood, as the river silts up again".
(19) "A silt fence ensures that mud down deep doesn't seep through," said Hidehiko Nishiyama, Japan's spokesman on nuclear safety.
(20) It was shown that Micromonospora predominated in moist soils and especially in such substrates as silts where their content with respect to the all actinomycetous isolates amounted to 88.9 per cent.