(n.) Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.
(n.) An endogenous plant having simple leaves, a stem generally jointed and tubular, the husks or glumes in pairs, and the seed single.
(n.) The season of fresh grass; spring.
(n.) Metaphorically used for what is transitory.
(v. t.) To cover with grass or with turf.
(v. t.) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
(v. t.) To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
(v. i.) To produce grass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(2) Using a large clinic population with adequate controls, significant correlation between ragweed, grass or tree pollen sensitivity and the dates of birth was not obtained.
(3) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(4) Key to this has been the employment of Erin McCallum, a highly-respected political strategist and grass roots organiser, as our new national campaign director.
(5) The clinical findings in six natural and two experimental cases of Kikuyu grass poisoning in Natal, South Africa, are described and compared with findings in cases of toxicity reported elsewhere.
(6) Six of the WAD goats carried natural infections of H. contortus and T. colubriformis and eight other (tracer) goats acquired their infections from a grass paddock artificially contaminated with H. placei, C. pectinata and C. punctata, during May to October.
(7) Six atopic subjects with grass pollen allergy and six nonallergic healthy volunteers were enrolled into this study.
(8) The survival of infective larvae of Ancylostoma caninum on outdoor grass plots was studied in 40 experiments over 1 year.
(9) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(10) Most patients showed several positive skin tests to common allergens particular to grass pollen, house dust and mites (Dermatophagoides pteronyssimus).
(11) For all its posing and grooming, there are no nightclubs - the only flashing lights along this coast are the glowworms strobing across the grass at dusk.
(12) Highest concentrations of haptoglobin and orosomucoid were recorded in subacute grass sickness.
(13) The principle’s not so different now.” Fifteen years ago, when he was 27, Baker found himself with an ailing father and 250 cows, farmed traditionally – grass in summer, silage and concentrates in winter – around the village.
(14) Consumption of alfalfa hay resulted in the highest total viable counts of rumen bacteria but a lower proportion of fibrolytic counts than seen on the grass diets.
(15) The year 2000 process, a national grass-roots initiative, may be a useful model for individual states to adopt.
(16) But he quickly carved out a niche, introducing to an English-speaking audience the works of German-language writers, notably Friedrich Hölderlin, but also Brecht, Rilke, Grass and others.
(17) Cattle are excellent converters of grass but terrible converters of concentrated feed.
(18) passing through a 1.18 mm sieve during wet sieving) from the reticulo-rumen were negatively related to dimensions of particles, with greater ease of outflow for legume than for grass particles of the same length or diameter.
(19) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
(20) When the couple looked over their own balcony on the 15th floor of 63 Petershill Drive in Glasgow's Red Road estate, they saw three bodies on the small square of grass below.
Juba
Definition:
(n.) The mane of an animal.
(n.) A loose panicle, the axis of which falls to pieces, as in certain grasses.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
(2) The death toll was expected to rise sharply and 20,000 civilians were sheltering in two UN bases in Juba.
(3) Mohamed is also suspected of helping to plan attacks in Somalia and overseas, including an attack intended for the Juba hotel in Mogadishu in August 2010.
(4) We are redeploying 25km [outside Juba] but even if it is one battalion remaining and again they clash, is it really difficult to come back to Juba?” While the cantonment of troops may be a first step to end fighting, fundamental reforms of the security sector are needed to professionalise an army notorious for lack of discipline, human rights abuses and tribalism.
(5) There is no need to cry when you have the potential to dig,” sing the Juba-based dance hall reggae group, the Jay Family, on their latest single Stakal Shedit, which means work hard in Arabic.
(6) On the outskirts of Juba, along a dirt road just past the UN camp, opposition forces clad in new uniforms and boots lined up for a military parade.
(7) Khartoum accuses Juba, the capital of South Sudan, of backing a rebellion in its Darfur region and a separate but linked insurgency in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan.
(8) Juba resident Gatluak Kual, who has bullet wounds in both arms and a prosthetic foot from the 20-year battle that split Sudan and created an independent south two years ago under President Salva Kiir, says the country is once more at war.
(9) Gambella, one of the poorest regions in one of the most food-insecure countries, was home to more than 76,000 asylum seekers from South Sudan when fighting erupted in Juba in December .
(10) Almost every refugee we speak with has incredibly traumatic tales of what they’ve left behind, [of] these armed groups who are burning down people’s entire homes, sexually assaulting young women and girls, and forcibly recruiting young men.” Fighting has subsided in the capital, Juba, where Human Rights Watch reported women being assaulted outside UN compounds, and the Associated Press said aid workers were raped in their lodgings by government soldiers.
(11) With its troops heavily involved in southern Somalia, suggestions abound that Nairobi may seek to create a permanent buffer zone in the three Somali regions – Gedo, Lower Juba and Middle Juba – abutting Kenya's North Eastern province.
(12) This study investigates antibiotic resistance in gut commensals obtained from children presenting with diarrhoea in Khartoum and Juba, Sudan.
(13) I took immediate sick leave, but left to my own devices in my room and in the hospital in Juba I just wanted to get out of the whole situation.
(14) On 2 May, the UN security council endorsed a plan demanding that Khartoum and Juba cease hostilities, withdraw troops from disputed areas and resume talks within two weeks on all outstanding disputes.
(15) Medical humanitarian organisations have been a constant presence in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, for 30 years,” he says, “and the hospital doesn’t function at all, and the health structure of this new country is quasi non-existent.” The need for radical change seems clear.
(16) The mission’s main base in Juba – the UN House compound – came under fire during the July fighting and three UN personnel have been killed.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Government soldiers line up at a cantonment site at Jebel Makor, about 30km outside Juba.
(18) United Nations Mission in Sudan personnel guard South Sudanese people displaced by fighting in Jabel, on the outskirts of Juba, the South Sudan capital.
(19) Another contributor to the BBC debate in Juba summed up: "We fought as other nations for liberty, freedom, equality and justice.
(20) He also warned that the violence was "turning tribal and they are killing people in Juba".