(n.) Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
(n.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
(v. t.) To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
(v. t.) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
(v. t.) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
(v. t.) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dogs were housed in gravel-based, outdoor pens with doghouses in a high-altitude, high-sunshine level environment.
(2) Except for the blue guard towers it is drained of colour, a grey sameness coating gravel, fences and buildings.
(3) A former showgirl from the gravel pits of Wraysbury in Berkshire, Keeler was just 19 and was staying on the estate with her friend, patron and (some said) pimp, the society osteopath Stephen Ward.
(4) I found myself skirting the wood’s perimeter, a no-go zone of the past for us, and came next to a gravel-pocked face mined by rabbits with one of the burrows crowned with the skull of an ancestor.
(5) Opening up these magnificent forests for logging is like mining the great pyramids of Egypt for road gravel," said McKim.
(6) A potholed gravel road runs to a campsite at the mouth of the Mattole river and from there you can wander south down the coast for 25 miles before you come to the next road, at Shelter Cove.
(7) On the Sabbath the fleet of earthmovers that ordinarily grind the route to Lombrum – ferrying gravel to the detention centre building site where a crew of 300 labor to finish new staff accommodation – are resting in their compound.
(8) The reactivity of soils varies widely as geological and sedimentological conditions offer typical but different environments: gravels, chalk soil, clay, salt soils, sands, cave earths are examples of this wide variety, including atmospheric and biogenetic implications.
(9) The cellar level is on the average 5.4 times higher if the cellar has partially a gravel or earth floor than if the whole cellar surface is covered with a concrete floor.
(10) But it doesn't work that way: you may have "less gravel", but most writers agree that you can only have "fewer pebbles", not "less pebbles".
(11) This biomass was computed from that of the organisms and associated naphthalene oxidation activity washed from the gravel compared with the original suspension.
(12) We can talk about "many pebbles" but not "much pebbles", "much gravel" but not "many gravel".
(13) Ultrasound detected 59 of 60 foreign bodies, including all cubes of meat embedded with gravel, cactus spine, plastic, metal, and wood.
(14) Tulisa led, and did so with panache and some beautiful gravel.
(15) This means putting a layer of bark, grass cuttings, manure, even gravel on top of the soil to trap moisture in the earth, or at least slow down evaporation.
(16) Aged 102, Bi Kidude, the gravel-voiced singer known her raucous sense of humour and her love of cigarettes, suddenly vanished from her home.
(17) Trying to solve an actual problem of enhancing the spontaneous passage of fragments, "calculous trails" and gravel in the patients who underwent remote lithotripsy the authors used the technique of local vibrotherapy in 54 postoperative patients.
(18) We are on a gravel track and have been driving for a long time.
(19) One of its largest islands is gentle-paced Brønnøya, with its apple orchards, gravel roads and beaches.
(20) Photograph: Water Literacy Foundation In Masagi’s pit-based system, permanent structures of mud, sand, soil, gravel and boulders are built, eight per acre of farmland, and partially filled with a mix of gravel and sand.
Perplex
Definition:
(a.) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
(a.) To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety.
(a.) To plague; to vex; to tormen.
(a.) Intricate; difficult.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perplexed, from being absorbed into some undateable future world governed by an advanced technology whose capacities have to be learned as one reads.
(2) The sergeant, listening in, was perplexed: "We obviously have, because I can hear you on the radio.
(3) Whether FcR-mediated signaling and receptor-mediated signaling involved in NK activity share specific biochemical intermediates is not known, but the involvement of tyrosine kinase function in the latter means of cytotoxicity may provide novel avenues for understanding the biochemical basis of this perplexing cellular function.
(4) The arteriogram correctly localized the precise site of hemorrhage in this perplexing case, and a complex surgical problem was simplified.
(5) The trauma-ready practice must also be cognizant of the some-times perplexing legal and insurance issues with regard to preventing and treating sport-related injuries.
(6) According to Lukyanov, the Kremlin is “perplexed” by Trump because it’s not clear what his priorities are nor whether he can work with Congress to achieve them.
(7) While treatment of a young woman with a dysgerminoma of 1 ovary is a matter of perplexity, we believe that a unilateral operation should be limited to those women who desire above all earthly things to retain their childbearing capacity.
(8) The most perplexing issues in pediatric dentistry today are related to the management of patients.
(9) "It is perplexing and preposterous to hear human rights complaints from the US, where torture and kidnapping are legal in the 21st century."
(10) It was a wretched goal to concede and the unfortunate truth for Mignolet is that moment reminded us why many Liverpool supporters are perplexed he has been awarded a new five-year contract.
(11) Instead, when we meet her at the beginning of the series, Nyborg is more concerned with moving house – presumably supplying viewers with shots of a variety of stylish new light fittings and perplexing floor plans to obsess over – than a political party with which she is increasingly disillusioned.
(12) I was [looks perplexed]: ‘Where’s the fabulous Madonna ?’ But it was still deeply interesting just to shake this tiny little hand, and say ‘You’re real’, because in the 80s, these people lived on plinths, they never came down to Earth.” This encounter made Patterson realise that celebrity per se didn’t exist.
(13) The implementation of library orientation and bibliographic instruction in health sciences centers presents some interesting as well as perplexing problems.
(14) It is now shown that the perplexity may be due to the possibility that the coenzyme (NAD) required for UDPG-D activity, may be acting as a substrate for a second dehydrogenase, namely xanthine dehydrogenase, which may utilize NAD as its substrate.
(15) Management of the patient with tinnitus is an extremely perplexing problem.
(16) Paul Salveson, author of a new book on the future of the railways, Railpolitik , is equally perplexed.
(17) Prematurity is one of the most perplexing problems in perinatal care.
(18) If chemical weapons were used, the timing of the attack is perplexing, the inspector said.
(19) Perplexing findings of cortical somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP's) for determining the central sulcus during a craniotomy are reported in a case of brain tumor.
(20) As cellular and molecular approaches combine with physiologic techniques, new information will be available to address the clinical issues of luteal dysfunction which perplex us all.