(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.
Redtop
Definition:
(n.) A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.
Example Sentences:
(1) The News of the World's redtop rivals all saw their circulation boosted last Sunday, with the Sunday Mirror the biggest benificiary, adding more than 700,000 copies to about 1.9m.
(2) The Mail on Sunday was the only title in the Sunday middle and redtop market to record a month-on-month sales drop last month.
(3) He was furious, not just with the redtops, but with his colleagues.
(4) The working title on last weekend's dummy was "Sunday" and broke with the conventional "redtop" format for popular tabloids with a yellow and white masthead.
(5) But "coincidentally" suggests the culture secretary had at least considered the possibility that redtop phone hacking lay behind the amazing double-conception-and-birth that got Fearless Fred his big break.
(6) But, without his two redtops, the burden is big enough to make Russian oligarchs, let alone the News Corp board, flinch.
(7) From Monday the daily redtop, published by News International, will drop its cover price by 10p from 30p in the London area.
(8) The redtop already costs 20p in the London region and has steadily been cutting its price since August from a high of 35p.
(9) Media buyers have been expecting News International to return to the Sunday redtop market – News of the World shut on 10 July 2011, and a replacement was initially mooted for 7 August to try and capitalise on the start of the Premier League season.
(10) The major grass-pollen allergen, designated group I (GpI), was isolated from five grass pollens (meadow fescue, June grass, sweet vernal grass, redtop grass, and perennial ryegrass).
(11) A spokesman for Vodafone later said this had been a verbal request made in 2006, around the time of the arrests of the former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who worked for the now defunct News International Sunday redtop.
(12) Sales of its Scottish redtop rival the Daily Record grew by about 7,000 month-on-month to 300,483 with 1,963 bulks.