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Greenwood


Definition:

  • (n.) A forest as it appears is spring and summer.
  • (a.) Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Betfair says Dixon is one of a new set of "ambassadors" including rugby's Will Greenwood, racing's Paul Nicholls and cricket's Michael Vaughan.
  • (2) We will have another financial shock – it’s inevitable.” Gary Greenwood, analyst at Shore Capital, described the results as “dismal” and noted the bank was ditching targets previously set to measure returns to shareholders.
  • (3) We conducted a large-scale field replication study of classwide peer tutoring applied to spelling instruction (Greenwood, Delquadri, & Hall, 1984).
  • (4) But in recent years, directors have sought out the likes of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood ( There Will Be Blood ), the Chemical Brothers ( Hanna ) and Nick Cave ( The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford ).
  • (5) It is a classic, thoroughly researched South Bank Show, made by one of the series' stalwarts, Gillian Greenwood.
  • (6) But one might have imagined Corbyn would have used the opportunity to send one of the really big power players of the new shadow cabinet – his transport spokeswoman Lilian Greenwood, say, or Nia Griffith, who has the Wales portfolio – rather than his lowly shadow chancellor.
  • (7) The electromyographic (EMG) response of soleus to a sudden fall has previously been shown to consist of two peaks of activity, the first a response to release, and the second in relation to landing (Greenwood and Hopkins, 1976).
  • (8) Greenwood, the youngest member of Radiohead, is a musical obsessive.
  • (9) In this decade, as a lucky graduate of the National Hospital, I have been fortunate to discuss the mystery of the cerebral cortex with the cream of British neurology, Ray Dolan, Neil Kitchen, Andrew Lees and Richard Greenwood.
  • (10) Under Ed Miliband, Greenwood held junior transport briefs from 2011, firstly for local transport and then for rail.
  • (11) With leading goal kickers Travis Cloke and Jamie Elliott out injured, Collingwood needed to find new avenues to goal and Moore, switched from defence to attack, and Levi Greenwood stepped up with their first goals in black-and-white.
  • (12) Computation of the asymptotic covariance of the life-table estimates of the response rates involves Greenwood's formula and a conditioning argument.
  • (13) Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present is published by Virago Kate Moses Photograph: PR When I think of The Bell Jar , I do not think first of the story of Esther Greenwood's harrowing entrapment in the suffocating air of her own madness.
  • (14) A searing examination of the ravages of mental illness and the limitations of 1950s American society, The Bell Jar tells the story of college student Esther Greenwood, and the enclosing bell jar of her depression.
  • (15) The statistical method here employed, which permitted the analysis of the effects of birth order on the prevalence of schizophrenia, was that of Greenwood-Yule.
  • (16) Greenwood added: "As is par for the course in these situations the spotlight will now fall on management, with the inevitable calls for heads to roll by politicians and the media alike.
  • (17) The major histocompatibility antigens of the pigs (SLA 1 and SLA 15) were solubilized by papain and then iodinated according to Greenwood's chloramine T method.
  • (18) Hang on a minute – Jonny Greenwood, programmer extraordinaire, guitar-obsessive , new-sound junkie, wants to give up electricity and electronics?
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Phoebe Greenwood returns to Gaza to meet the Palestinian journalists who covered the 2014 war and are now reporting on – and living through – its aftermath Citing the reliance of Gaza’s 1.8 million inhabitants on coastal aquifers as their main source of freshwater, it adds that 95% of this water is not safe to drink.
  • (20) Nadya and Masha are speaking at a Guardian Live event, Pussy Riot – Art, Sex and Disobedience, tomorrow at 7pm, Greenwood theatre, London SE1

Leaf


Definition:

  • (n.) A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
  • (n.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.
  • (n.) Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
  • (v. i.) To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
  • (2) Subsequently the plant protein was partially purified from leaf extract.
  • (3) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
  • (4) Isolated nuclei from green leaf tissue of tomato plants infected with potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) were bound to microscope slides, fixed with formaldehyde and hybridized with biotinylated transcripts of cloned PSTVd cDNA.
  • (5) The nuclear membrane was highly deformed with a leaf-like profile in cross-section, possibly due to an interaction with the rod-like, condensed chromosomes.
  • (6) The mass of glycolic acid recovered from sunflower leaf tissue was proportional to the amount of tissue extracted.
  • (7) cDNA clones of potato virus X (PVXcp strain), potato virus Y (PVYo strain), potato leaf roll virus (PLRV) and potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTV) were used separately or combined for the detection of the corresponding RNAs in extracts of infected plants.
  • (8) Positive cDNA clones isolated from both a pea leaf and embryo lambda gt11 expression library using an antibody raised against the purified lipoamide dehydrogenase proved to be the product of a single gene.
  • (9) Betel leaf extract at the dose levels used in the present study did not affect the body weight gain among rats.
  • (10) Poison oak, ivy, and sumac dermatitis is a T-cell-mediated reaction against urushiol, the oil found in the leaf of the plants.
  • (11) Leaf TBC was usually third while fiber had the least TBC.
  • (12) Using this estimate, the pure Photosystem I emission spectrum was subtracted from the measured emission spectrum of a flashed leaf to give an emission spectrum representative of pure Photosystem II fluorescence at -196 degrees C. Emission spectra were also measured on flashed leaves which had been illuminated for several hours in continuous light.
  • (13) The effect of 50% methanolic extract (U-ext) from Bearberry leaf on immuno-inflammation was studied by contact dermatitis caused by picryl chloride (PC-CD) in mice.
  • (14) Several antisera from rabbits immunized with tobacco smoke components reacted by immunoprecipitation with tobacco smoke or leaf antigens.
  • (15) DNP treatment reduced ion absorption by leaf tissue.
  • (16) Instead, cell divisions are gradually restricted to the base of the leaf with localized sites of increased division at the preligule region.
  • (17) In the leaf-nosed bat, Macrotus californicus, a 4.5-month period of delayed early embryogenesis (October-March) precedes a 3.5-month period of normal embryogenesis (March-June).
  • (18) Plastic responses in leaf form resulting from ontogenetic or external influences are initiated very early in primordial development and are brought about by effects on the rate and direction of cell division and expansion in different regions of the primordium.
  • (19) Northern blot analysis of infected leaf tissue extracts revealed the presence of an oligomeric series of plus RNAs (of monomer size and greater) but minus RNAs were present only as high molecular weight species of heterogeneous size.
  • (20) And, hey, until Friday morning, most surveillance reform advocates were worried about the Senate ramming through the currently neutered version of the USA Freedom Act as its fig leaf of reform, before going back to business as usual and proposing bills that will give the NSA more power – not less.

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