(v.) A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of an orange grove on the left bank of the river.
(2) Where to stay: Beachside bungalows at Coco Grove Beach Resort cost £19 per person.
(3) In Gove's groves of academe, high achievers will be more clearly set apart, laurels for the winners in his regime of fact and rote, 1950s grammar schools reprised, rewarding those who already thrive under any system.
(4) In the (dpTpA)2:NQO and (dpApT)2NQO complexes, the NO2 seems to project into the minor grove and the NQO benzenoid ring is over the purine imidazole ring.
(5) The applicability to these data of the Groves and Thompson (1970) Dual-Process Model of Habituation is discussed.
(6) In the palm grove, transmission was ensured by 2 effective vectors during the rainy season (October to May).
(7) Schad was sentenced to death for killing Lorimer "Leroy" Grove, whose body was found 9 August 1978, in underbrush off the shoulder of US 89 south of Prescott.
(8) Perched in a grove of poplars and with prayer flags stretching away on all sides, Muktinath is Nepal's second-most sacred site for Hindus after Pashupatinath , which in comparison lies rather forlornly at the end of Kathmandu's international airport runway.
(9) The spark for the longest-running protest in modern Tunisian history was lit on 17 December in the town of Sidi Bouzid, in the rural interior of Tunisia, a region of olive groves and agriculture which is racked by vast unemployment, repression and poverty a world away from the riches of the Tunisian tourist coast and the propaganda of Tunisia's "economic miracle".
(10) James Clapper , the director of national intelligence, is said to talk nearly every day with the head of US Central Command’s intelligence wing, Army Major General Steven Grove – “which is highly, highly unusual”, according to a former intelligence official.
(11) So I say to them: ‘Your challenge, guys, is actually to play it straight.’” At Highbury Grove the experiment is in its early stages.
(12) The principal catching site was a palm grove surrounded by forest 3 km from the village.
(13) Previous studies from this laboratory have demonstrated that the electrical excitability of nigro-striatal dopaminergic terminals is reduced by the dopaminomimetics apomorphine and amphetamine and is increased by the dopamine antagonists haloperidol, fluphenazine and sulpiride (Groves, Fenster, Tepper, Nakamura, and Young 1981; Tepper, Nakamura, Young and Groves 1984).
(14) Biological monitoring was performed for one year at the site of a sugar cane grove on the left bank of the river.
(15) The widespread use of herbicides in Florida citrus groves raises the possibility of residue accumulation following repeated applications.
(16) At Ladbroke Grove, shortly after the flame had passed from the bus to relay runners, it was almost wrestled from the hands of TV presenter Konnie Huq.
(17) Two men in balaclavas stood in an olive grove, firing shot after earsplitting shot into the air, their M16s angled a bit too low for comfort.
(18) According to his agent Jonathan Groves, he conducted there "every year since he made his debut in 1952 until his final appearances with Rigoletto in 2005".
(19) However, the political debate fails to reflect that contemporary reality in any meaningful way.” The report , by Ford and Ruth Grove-White from the Migrants’ Rights Network, is published on Thursday and based on an analysis of data from the census in 2001 and 2011 and the national statistics agency.
(20) Rotblat overheard the military director of the Manhattan Project, Lieutenant General Richard Groves, say at a wartime dinner party: "You realise of course that the main purpose of this project is to subdue the Russkies."
Grovel
Definition:
(adv.) To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate on the earth; to lie fiat on one's belly, expressive of abjectness; to crawl.
(adv.) To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lord Young , the prime minister's enterprise adviser, was forced to issue a grovelling apology last night after he claimed most Britons "had never had it so good during this so called recession".
(2) And instead of celebrating bumper peak viewing figures of more than 20m for the England match, ITV was instead having to issue a grovelling apology.
(3) If they want me to get down and grovel on the floor; no, never.
(4) I was showing a person groveling to take back a statement made long ago!
(5) This week his previous grovelling before communist China over steel tariffs has returned to haunt him.
(6) From 1969 to 1985 he also wrote the Grovel gossip column in Private Eye, whose then editor, Richard Ingrams, dubbed him the Greatest Living Englishman despite, or because of, more writs.
(7) It didn't happen and, as Simon Jenkins put it , "Cameron could hardly have grovelled lower.
(8) "With her blonde hair and her ability to ask the most grovelling questions, she is rapidly becoming the female Fabricant – or at least Fabricant Mark I, before he stopped crawling and became an elder statesman."
(9) There's even a slot called Friday Boss, in which the programme's usual rules of engagement are set aside and its reporters grovel before the corporate idol.
(10) Bashir immediately erupted in a ball of fiery rage, cutting Hardin off, refusing to let him speak, repeatedly demanding an apology for this grievous assault on the integrity of a military man, and then – when Hardin failed sufficiently to grovel for the crime of speaking ill of Gen Dempsey – Bashir kicked Hardin off the show by abruptly ending the interview.
(11) The Countess of Wessex, 2001 Sophie Wessex reportedly had to write grovelling apologies to Prince Charles, Tony Blair and William Hague after Mahmood lured her into making highly embarrassing comments about them.
(12) Some MPs are saying the better solution would be to fine them, rather than to require them to grovel in front of the highest court in the land.
(13) Organisers of a conference celebrating the best and brightest businesspeople in the north of England have issued a grovelling apology over lack of female representation.
(14) HSBC has made mistakes in the past, and for them I am very sorry,” his successor Douglas Flint, the former long-serving finance director, told shareholders in July 2012: “Candidly, in particular areas we fell short of the standards that I, my colleagues, our regulators, customers, and investors expect.” A grovel was the only position Flint could adopt.
(15) The response from architects grovelling for the fame of a tower in their CVs is that they are "only obeying orders" from clients, and that tall buildings are "the future".
(16) For the 100th time, I never “mocked” a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him “groveling” when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad.
(17) There, in all its hilarious glory, is the joke by Jimmy Carr that was transmitted on Loose Ends at the weekend, for the broadcast of which the BBC has issued a grovelling apology.
(18) It sees him mock his own grovelling appearance on BBC Newsnight in November, when he admitted that Dapper Laughs was “a type of comedy that I should not have been doing”.
(19) Michael Richards Made a grovelling apology over his 2006 rant in which he used the N-word, paradoxically on David Letterman's show.
(20) It said the intent was to demonstrate a resolute stand with places that share America's values – a hint at the Republican contender's claim that Obama has let down Washington's friends abroad while offering grovelling apologies to its enemies.