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Goss


Definition:

  • (n.) Gorse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patients were divided into high and low depression groups using the Zung self-rating depression scale and compared using measures obtained from the Goss-Gerke Inventory on Dental and Psychological Factors.
  • (2) Jamie Jackson Manchester United’s Ashley Young out for ‘long time’ with serious groin injury Read more Kick-off Saturday 3pm Venue Old Trafford Last season Manchester United 0 Southampton 1 Referee Mike Jones This season G 15, Y 49, R 1, 3.40 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 7-2 D 5-2 Manchester United Subs from Romero, Pereira, Powell, Rashford, Tuanzebem, Goss, McNair, Varela, Depay, Januzaj, Mata Doubtful None Injured Shaw (broken leg, May), Valencia (ankle, Mar), Rojo (shoulder, unknown), Carrick (unknown), Young (groin, unknown), Schweinsteiger (knee), Jones (match fitness) Suspended None Form LLDWDW Discipline Y37 R0 Leading scorer Rooney 6 Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend Read more Southampton Subs from Stekelenburg, K Davis, Martina, Yoshida, Clasie, Romeu, Tadic, Austin, Pelle, Juanmi Doubtful Stekelenburg (knock) Injured Rodriguez (knee, Mar), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form LWLLWW Discipline Y38 R3 Leading scorer Pellè 6
  • (3) The singer Elaine Paige, the former Bros star Matt Goss and the DJ Sara Cox will be among the contestants on a festive edition of Strictly Come Dancing.
  • (4) After the verdict, Ken Goss,a Crown Prosecution Service spokesman, said the defence was baseless.
  • (5) That way the animals, who have names such as Madde, after Goss’s wife, Fred, Hugo and Polaris, can be followed to see if they’ve strayed into areas at risk of poaching or human conflict.
  • (6) This sequence, starting at position 4, is completely homologous to the previously published sequence of the tryptic dodecapeptide harboring the catalytically essential (phospho)histidyl residue in the active-site domain of the dikinase from the nonphotosynthetic bacterium, Bacteroides symbiosus (Goss, N.H., Evans, C.T., and Wood, H.G.
  • (7) CIA talking points prepared for the agency’s then director, Porter Goss, ahead of a 2005 meeting with national security adviser Stephen Hadley said the CIA “urgently” needed George Bush to come up with “a long-term disposition policy for the 12 high-value detainees (HVDs) we hold in overseas detention sites.” In April James Connell, one of al-Baluchi’s attorneys, filed a motion to compel release of the Senate’s full, unredacted, 6,000-page report.
  • (8) Its three directors when torture took place – George Tenet, Porter Goss and Mike Hayden – blasted it as “marred by errors of fact and interpretation”, in the Wall Street Journal .
  • (9) Employing a modified Goss-Harris irradiation fusion protocol, we have generated a panel of somatic cell hybrids containing various overlapping fragments of the Xcen-Xp11.4 interval.
  • (10) The hawks came from Sweden, Germany and Finland: most were huge, pale, taiga forest gosses.
  • (11) "There has been quite a lot of boasting that unemployment is at less than half the national numbers in Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota – a lot of that is traced to farming," Goss said.
  • (12) Louis-André Gosse (1791-1873), a liberal-minded Geneva physician, went to Greece in 1827 in order to work, for a couple of years, for the Greek State, which had won its independence just a few years ago.
  • (13) Therefore I don't agree with Roger Goss of Patient Concern that GPs should "mind their own business".
  • (14) Other former George W Bush cabinet members or advisers who are working on the Jeb Bush presidential project, according to the Washington Post list, include former homeland security secretaries Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, former CIA directors Porter Goss and Michael Hayden, and former attorney general Michael Mukasey.
  • (15) Even 1989’s edition featured what we are duty-bound to call the “powerhouse stylings” of Bros’s Luke Goss.
  • (16) Statistical analysis similar to that of Goss and Harris (1975, 1977a, b) has been performed on the segregation data in the hybrid clones.
  • (17) In this paper we demonstrate a modification of the method first developed by Goss and Harris for generation of irradiation hybrids.
  • (18) Roger Goss of Patient Concern told the Daily Mail: “This is ludicrous.
  • (19) 'Drones are a future of conservation' “It’s pretty grim,” Goss, a 28-year-old Kenyan who manages the Mara Elephant Project, said as he stood 50 metres (55 yards) from the carcass.
  • (20) "You are talking about a real bite out of family budgets," said Ernie Goss, an agricultural economist at Omaha's Creighton University, who was speaking before the release of the government projections.

Moss


Definition:

  • (n.) A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
  • (n.) A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
  • (v. t.) To cover or overgrow with moss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Results obtained from a such study are here compared with levels obtained from a comparative determination of the metals in the mosses by three other techniques: Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV), Direct current plasma (atomic emission) spectroscopy (DCPS) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy.
  • (2) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
  • (3) Water was being trapped by capillary action between the minute overlapping moss leaves long enough for it to deposit its load of calcium salts, enclosing the plants in a stone straitjacket.
  • (4) The comedy extravaganza featured an array of TV, music and sports stars, including David Beckham, Kate Moss and Robbie Williams.
  • (5) The West Ham striker Andy Carroll has lambasted the referee Jon Moss for an unacceptable performance, even accusing the official of trying to even things up by awarding Leicester a stoppage-time penalty.
  • (6) It was lined with moss and three trunks had grown out of its sides.
  • (7) Two of the epitopes (I and III) are widely conserved in 34 kDa proteins (presumably B-36 homologues) from the various species tested (Chlamydomonas, moss, fern, oat, onion, carrot, and bean).
  • (8) Prof Gus John, who led the Moss Side Defence Committee that criticised the Hytner report into the 1981 Moss Side riots, says "key lessons will be missed" if the government fails to set up a proper inquiry.
  • (9) Three bacterial isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., a Bacillus sp., and an Arthrobacter sp., commonly isolated from a hummocky sedge-moss meadow at Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, were selected for further taxonomic characterization and for a study of the effects of temperature and limiting carbon source on growth.
  • (10) A naturalised British subject, he spent most of his working life in London and was frequently seen at the most salubrious bars and restaurants, often in the company of beautiful young women such as Kate Moss, who he once painted.
  • (11) The dark-green Audi in which he journeyed to his last escapades had moss growing in its foot-wells ("three different sorts", he pointed out, proudly), and a variety of useful knives in the glove-box.
  • (12) I was flicking through a copy of this month's Vogue and there's Kate Moss topless.
  • (13) While environmental samples of moss from the Wisconsin supplier were negative, Sporothrix schenckii was cultured from multiple samples of the sphagnum moss obtained from one of six Pennsylvania tree nurseries, representing the nursery that was identified as the source for 79 (94%) of the moss-associated cases.
  • (14) The staff member reiterated concerns outlined by former integrity commissioner Philip Moss in his review into allegations at the centre, and said that asylum seekers feared giving information to staff “and would not complain because they might be targeted”.
  • (15) Green, who has enlisted his friend Kate Moss to design a range for Topshop, is the closest thing business has to a rock star.
  • (16) Top tip: The Hall of Mosses trail in Hoh is a short, one-mile loop through old growth rainforest.
  • (17) The Tower’s steps are covered in golden slime, and on its walls crawls a “rich greenlike moss” that inscribes letters and words on the masonry – before entering and authoring the bodies of the explorers themselves.
  • (18) "If necessary the police should be properly equipped and even armed, before such a step was taken," said the Downing Street note of a conversation between the home secretary, Willie Whitelaw, and Thatcher on 11 July when riots erupted in Moss Side, Manchester.
  • (19) If you use that locally you're supporting decarbonising, you're displacing coal and you're supporting renewables," said Andrew Austin, chief executive of IGas, the operator at Barton Moss.
  • (20) Gathers no Moss Inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, director Mike Figgis filmed his latest digital work, Suspension of Disbelief , in Highgate, London.

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