(n.) The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.
(n.) A narrow passage or entrance
(n.) A defile between mountains.
(n.) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.
(n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.
(n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.
(n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.
(n.) The groove of a pulley.
(n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
(n.) To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.
(v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
(2) Media organisations gorge themselves, then spew out vast quantities of video, sound and copy.
(3) The northern part of the gorge is the only area of Abkhazia that has remained under Georgian government control.
(4) Psychiatric patients have an increased risk for choking compared with the general population because of risk factors such as medication side effects and food gorging.
(5) My plan had read: "Transfer by car from Salta to Purmamarca via the famous tourist attraction of Humahuaca Gorge, then take the bus across the Andes to San Pedro de Atacama in Chile."
(6) No indigenous community will be moved out of their land," he said, adding: "This is a very different project from other major projects, such as the Three Gorges Dam project, which was estimated to have relocated one million people."
(7) You can also enjoy the gorge from the Pine Creek Rail Trail : a 62-mile biking and horseback riding path that runs from the town of Jersey Shore in the south to Stokesdale in the north, passing through the heart of the gorge in the middle.
(8) Let’s begin just after the second world war, when Liverpool took a pre-season trip to the good ol’ US of A to gorge on meat, veg, malted milks and ice creams, working on the theory that by fattening themselves up, they’d have a season’s worth of energy stored when they got back to ration-book Britain.
(9) Each prominent character has been given meaty storylines to gorge on, and while some haven’t panned out quite as well as others (Jimmy’s sideline as a sex worker was introduced and wisely dropped, as was an ill-advised plot-strand about drug-induced rape), the web of intrigue that’s been constructed so far doesn’t have any major weaknesses in it at all.
(10) We propose that binding of acetylcholine, on the surface of AChE, may trigger sequence of conformational changes extending from the peripheral anionic site through W286 to D74, at the entrance of the 'gorge', and down to the catalytic center (through Y341 to F338 and Y337).
(11) In June he and his team were looking at the steep hillsides around the village of Glogova, where remains had been tipped out of trucks and allowed to roll down a gorge.
(12) These data indicate a species difference exists between rats and mice during adaptation to a gorging food-intake pattern.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Aerial view of the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze river, the biggest such project on earth.
(14) TonyRidge Strid Wood, Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire Exploring the woodland at either side of the River Wharfe, where it flows through this spectacular, narrow gorge, is a splendid experience at any time of the year.
(15) In the knowledge that some of the biggest countries in world football – and some of the richest – were queueing up to host the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, football administrators around the world who had long gorged on the flow of Fifa cash were gearing up for a major payday.
(16) If he had been able to cross gorges and rivers without the need for ancient Egyptian conceits or even unadorned iron trusses, I think he would have leaped at the chance.
(17) As the trucks arrived at the edge of the gorge and tilted their beds back, Abu Abdullah watched in horror as the corpses of women and children began tumbling out.
(18) We want Squeaky Bum Time all the time - and if we don't get it we're going to sit howling in front of our flat-screen televisions, gorging ourselves on scratch cards, KFC popcorn chicken, superficial friendships, crack, two-minute microwave porridge and Ronseal super-quick-drying wood stain.
(19) A new partial skeleton of an adult hominid from lower Bed I (about 1.8 Myr ago), Olduvai Gorge, is described.
(20) Most of them scale Dome Rock, a big exfoliated granite monolith that offers 360-degree views of the mountain range, from the aforementioned Mount Whitney to the north to the Kern gorge (famous for its whitewater rafting) to the south.
Hollow
Definition:
(a.) Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
(a.) Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
(a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
(a.) Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
(n.) A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.
(n.) A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
(v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
(adv.) Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.
(interj.) Hollo.
(v. i.) To shout; to hollo.
(v. t.) To urge or call by shouting.
Example Sentences:
(1) No evidence for consumptive coagulopathy was noted in the absence of heparin during hemodialysis with cuprophane hollow fiber dialyzers.
(2) The buccal glands of adults of the Southern Hemisphere lamprey Geotria australis consist of a pair of small, bean-shaped, hollow sacs, embedded within the basilaris muscle in the region below the eyes and to either side of the piston cartilage.
(3) The whole thing has made me feel hollow inside,” says one Tory MP.
(4) "The hollow words of praise from the home secretary are meaningless today.
(5) In order to clarify the role of dialyzer geometry, the effect of hollow-fiber versus flat-sheet dialyzers and of different surface areas on C3a generation and leukocyte degranulation was investigated.
(6) A significant improvement in the precision of the hollow cathode as an emission source is reported.
(7) These include a redistribution of the neurons that originally were in barrel sides; a reduction in the neuropil between the neurons that originally were within hollows; and differential growth of layer IV dendrites.
(8) In layer IV high NMDA receptor densities were specifically confined to the barrel hollows.
(9) This study presents results from in vitro and in vivo experiments in rodents by the use of a PEEK-hollow fiber.
(10) Pathogenetic and etiologic points of view of the perforation of dermoid cysts of the small pelvis into adjacent hollow organs are discussed in short.
(11) This article describes the presurgical evaluation and surgical procedures for the treatment of partially edentulous patients with ITI hollow-screw implants.
(12) B43 MoAb was produced in vitro by hollow fiber technology and purified to homogeneity by affinity chromatography.
(13) Despite a 30% rate of luminal blockage in stents retrieved after indwelling times up to 3 months, the incidence of clinical obstruction in stented tracts up to 3 months was 4%, confirming other reports that significant urine flow occurs around rather than through hollow, vented stents.
(14) attack of pain, retroperitoneal hematoma, hemoperitoneum, rupture into a hollow viscus, infective aneurysm.
(15) Produced by Morrissey and Johnny Marr with Stephen Street, MIM sounds more full-blooded than anything they had previously recorded – notably Hatful of Hollow , the compilation that preceded it.
(16) Hollowing out legacy media’s revenues while using its content, “ digital colonialism ” and issues of censorship have plagued the company in 2016.
(17) In one clothes shop, with racks of discounted Calvin Klein and DKNY, the manager, Sav, explains what's happened: "In this crisis, the middle classes have been hollowed out."
(18) We also show that the laminin-derived synthetic peptide YIGSR contains sufficient information to induce single endothelial cells to form ring-like structures surrounding a hollow lumen, the basic putative unit in the formation of capillaries.
(19) The story of the past 30 years has been the relentless hollowing-out of industrial Britain, the single biggest change to the British economy in the postwar era.
(20) At the basis of each pilus, a cell wall differentiation was observed appearing, in face-on-view, as a ring-like structure made up of subunits, and in side-on view as a hollow cylinder penetrating through the cell wall.