(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."
Rove
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Reeve
(v. t.) To draw through an eye or aperture.
(v. t.) To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
(v. t.) To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
(n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
(n.) A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
(v. i.) To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
(v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
(v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
(v. t.) To wander over or through.
(v. t.) To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
(n.) The act of wandering; a ramble.
Example Sentences:
(1) During stereotactic surgery, electrical impedance was measured by means of a roving electrode technique with a sine wave current of 10 kc.
(2) Following spontaneous horizontal roving eye movement, both eyes deviated downward slowly from midposition, taking 1 to 2 seconds to reach the nadir.
(3) As his career has progressed, he has homed in ever closer on his immediate landscape, while roving further across history, literature and human consciousness – usually right out to the edges.
(4) Today, the national family is celebrating, and that very much includes those in this house.” Kaufman was an industrious constituency MP, holding roving surgeries around east Manchester every week and writing several forests worth of letters each year on behalf of his largely impoverished constituents.
(5) When roving forward City looked a team coasting in low gear who might punish the visitors at will.
(6) In an early taste of the blood-letting to come, former House speaker Newt Gingrich said he and figures such as Karl Rove – George W Bush's former strategist and co-founder of the Super Pac Crossroads – had been wrong in focusing on the economy.
(7) Rove is one of the most infamous faces of the GOP so having him speculate publicly about possible brain damage left the crowd “stunned”, reported the New York Post , with Clinton’s team immediately dismissing it and a former White House communications director who worked with Rove calling his comments “off the wall”.
(8) Both the prominent conservative strategist Karl Rove and the oil tycoons the Koch brothers have been putting together their own voter databases, but there is understood to be no communication between the lists, thus limiting their potency.
(9) The phenomenon of roving eye movement is discussed with regard to the supranuclear structures regulating binocular eye movements.
(10) You never ask a question and give your opponent a chance to offer an answer," Rove said.
(11) The model is compared to some published data on loudness matching and discrimination and to some new data of our own on the variability of loudness comparisons obtained in a two-interval, roving-level, loudness-discrimination experiment.
(12) This high degree of genetic variability comes from the traditional local population that is in the process of being upgraded to standardized breeds such as Saanen, Rove and, mainly, Chamois Alpine (95 percent of upgraded flocks).
(13) Three hours after onset of diarrhea, roving eye movements occurred.
(14) Like many of the subjects of Louis Theroux's Twilight of the Porn Stars ( Sun, 10pm, BBC2 ), Michaels first met the roving documentarian 15 years ago, when he was shooting the first series of Weird Weekends.
(15) His strategist Steve Bannon, the Riefenstahl -inspired new Karl Rove, has boasted of being the man behind the plan.
(16) Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, has joined a speaker's agency (amusingly, he's advertised just above Karl Rove).
(17) Adelson and his wife provided $10m of that last-minute total as well as $23m to American Crossroads, another pro-Romney Super Pac headed by veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove.
(18) The frequency discrimination threshold was measured at 15-, 35-, and 55-dB sensation level (SL), under conditions of (1) constant intensity, (2) roving intensity (plus and minus 6-dB burst-to-burst variation in intensity), (3) upward frequency change, and (4) downward frequency change.
(19) • Karl Rove's American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS have decided to open the vaults for the biggest ad buy yet of this cycle.
(20) He had been on the receiving end of a four-year assault from the American right – the alternative universe embodied by Fox News, which tore itself apart on air as pundit Karl Rove refused to accept the cold, hard facts set out by Fox's own number-crunchers – which sought to "other" the US president, to paint him as Barack Hussein Obama, the Kenyan Marxist Muslim bent on destroying America.