(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.
Ravel
Definition:
(v. t.) To separate or undo the texture of; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking.
(v. t.) To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle.
(v. t.) To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve.
(v. i.) To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
(v. i.) To fall into perplexity and confusion.
(v. i.) To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
(2) Maurice Ravel had been subject to psychiatric disorder for many years when signs of organic brain disease appeared at the age of 52.
(3) The team's response to the goal was to look for the pair with every attack but the closest they came was through Ravel Morrison's 20-yard free-kick in the 23rd minute, which would have crept under the crossbar had Karl Darlow not made a fine save.
(4) What makes Ravel's history interesting to the public as well as to physicians is not only the tragic toll exacted in this composer's personal and creative life but also the resultant loss of the output of one of the 20th century's towering musical geniuses.
(5) Having offloaded Jonjo Shelvey amid rumours that he was a disruptive, brooding influence, Swansea City have decided to enquire about bringing disruptive, brooding influence Ravel Morrison to the Liberty Stadium from Lazio.
(6) The last time I saw Ravel Morrison he was in the dock at Salford magistrates' court, fiddling with his tie and waiting to hear whether he was going to be locked up.
(7) FC Astana FC Shakhter Karagandy FC Aktobe Ravel Morrison moved to Lazio in 2015.
(8) West Ham's Matt Jarvis cut in from the left wing and slipped the ball to Ravel Morrison, whose strike was deflected into the net off the chest of Phil Jagielka.
(9) Ravel Morrison starts, though, which is good news for fans of football.
(10) But Big Sam's tactic of endless high crosses appears to have been rumbled and there's no sign of Plan B. Allardyce has to convince the board he can play more expansive football to fill the Olympic Stadium, settle his differences with Ravel Morrison and learn some PR skills.
(11) (Lax, S.R., Lauer, S.J., Browning, K. S., and Ravel, J.M.
(12) It consists of a basal knitted scrim with strongly entangled ultrafine polyester fibers, lined with a fine velour of entangled ultrafine fibers that provide high ravel and tear resistance, a perfect matrix for preclotting, and an anchor for cell adhesion.
(13) (Browning, K. S., Lax, S. R., Humphreys, J., Ravel, J. M., Jobling, S. A., and Gehrke, L. (1988) J. Biol.
(14) We showed previously that wheat germ extracts contain two forms of protein synthesis initiation factor 4F that have very similar functional properties (Browning, K. S., Lax, S. R., and Ravel, J. M. (1987) J. Biol.
(15) This observation is in agreement with our previous finding (Lax, S., Fritz, W., Browning, K., and Ravel, J.
(16) Ravel left no completed composition after an accident to the head in 1932.
(17) At 58, Ravel was struck with aphasia, which quelled any further artistic output.
(18) Previous work has shown that eukaryotic initiation factor (eIF)-4B from wheat germ is a complex containing two subunits, 80 and 28 kDa, and eIF-4F from wheat germ is a complex containing two subunits, 220 and 26 kDa (Lax, S., Fritz, W., Browning, K., and Ravel, J.
(19) Hmmm ... On the subject of Ravel Morrison , who has been linked with a move to Fulham, McDonald said "I would imagine Ravel will be staying until I'm told otherwise."
(20) They will remember the second half for many years and, if any gloss were required,, which is highly debatable, it was provided by Ravel Morrison, the mercurially gifted midfielder, who scored a goal that had the wow factor stamped all over it.