(n.) The inclination or deviation from the vertical of any mineral vein.
(v. i.) To deviate from the vertical; -- said of a vein, fault, or lode.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aside from the US presidency, the big debate of Bilderberg 2012 is likely to be: what in Hades do we do about Greece?
(2) Cerberus, named after the mythical three-headed dog that guards Hades , declined to comment on why a Dutch entity had bought the mortgages or whether it would pay the same amount of UK tax as a UK-registered entity would have done.
(3) In another herd -- numbering 18 sows -- all sows which hade farrowed during the last 4 months before the present investigation, had developed the Mastitis-Metritis-Agalactia syndrome (MMA).
(4) There was no way we were going to put wigs on them, it was already hotter than Hades on the set.
(5) Based on the fantasy novel by Joe Hill , this looks like one of those teen-orientated movies you really wish had been directed by David Cronenberg as a full-on body horror in which Radcliffe slowly metamorphosises into a hideous creature from the seventh layer of Hades.
(6) Timarion, the fictive narrator, falls ill with a fever and is brought to Hades by two conductors of souls.
(7) It was very toddler unfriendly; I must have asked in about 25 bistros if they hade a high chair, and they would look at me as if I’d asked to bring my horse into the restaurant.
(8) In order to estimate the combined effect of ethanol and fatigue on the activity of tendon reflexes, the mechanical threshhold and the latency of the patellar tendon, the radial and the biceps reflexes as well as the time of contraction of the musculus quadriceps femoris was investigated in men, with an ethanol level in blood at 80 mg % during elimination-period, and with tired subjects meaning that they hade done their usual daywork and had been awake for about 20 to 22 hours.
(9) In Scotland, for example, we have found that Cerberus is tougher in enforcing breaches in covenants.” Taking its name from the mythical multi-headed dog that guarded Hades and prevented the dead from leaving, the New York-based group was founded by Stephen Feinberg and other former employees of Drexel Burnham Lambert, a junk bond specialist that collapsed into bankruptcy in 1990.
(10) Patients with a tumor size of less than 5 cm hade a 5-year survival rate of 21%, but 38% of the patients had a tumor size of greater than 10 cm and none of these lived for more than 4 years.
(11) He wrote his first story while still at school: The Hades Business, originally published in the school magazine.
(12) Half a mile across the sea is the legendary island of Keros, once thought to be the doorway to Hades, and now uninhabited except for teams of visiting archeologists from Cambridge University picking through the rich remains of Bronze Age Cycladic history.
(13) In Hades Timarion sues to the court of judges of the dead.
(14) The tumors of different histological types hade close sensitivity to the tested drugs.
(15) This was Operation Hades, later renamed the friendlier Operation Ranch Hand – the source of what Vietnamese doctors call a "cycle of foetal catastrophe".
(16) According to a decree by Asclepios and Hippocrates posted in Hades, any person that has lost one of his four elements may not live longer.
Haze
Definition:
(n.) Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.
(v. i.) To be hazy, or tick with haze.
(v. t.) To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.
(v. t.) To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the colony administration, controlled hazing is a convenient method for forcing prisoners into total submission to their systemic abuse of human rights.
(2) It doesn't always go to plan – a Skype interview was conducted with the bottom half of Angel Haze's face – but y'know, that's live TV and technology for you.
(3) Every day, about 500 trucks cross the border, kicking up a beige haze of dust.
(4) On the frayed, far south-western outskirts of Bogotá, the largest, poorest and most violent barrio in the Colombian capital stretches into the haze up the mountainside as far as the eye can see.
(5) Haze's new album (a follow-up to 2012's reputation-establishing Reservation ) is titled Dirty Gold .
(6) A 16-year-old caucasian female with Type VI Ehlers-Danlos syndrome had five unusual corneal findings, four of which have not been reported in association with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: micro-cornea (previously reported), cornea plana, keratoconus posticus, stromal haze at the level of Bowman's layer and a peripheral ring opacity suggestive of anterior embryotoxon.
(7) Manager Mike Scioscia may have one-time slugger Josh Hamilton back in time for the postseason, should he heal from rib inflammation ( if they even need him ); same goes for starting pitcher Matt Shoemaker, who has carried the team down the stretch and is recovering from a mild left rib-cage strain , not to mention his rookie hazing role as a Saudi oil tycoon.
(8) Slit-lamp biomicroscopy disclosed localized thinning with stromal haze underlying the endothelium in the central cornea.
(9) The concentration of radon-222 in air was measured during a flight from Miami to Barbados to Dakar and return; concentrations ranged from 1 to 55 picocuries per standard cubic meter of air and were highest in areas of dense haze, which were present along most of the flight path across the Atlantic Ocean.
(10) There's a sense of generations passing in a haze of crisp formalities, with decades of unexpressed emotions left to accumulate, like dust on a snoozing duchess.
(11) A dense subepithelial haze was observed in the 5 eyes.
(12) The experimental results were consistent with observations on natural infections and indicate that the direct life cycle of H. haze may involve invertebrates as transport hosts.
(13) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
(14) Haze was progressively reduced over 1 month, but it could be still discerned biomicroscopically.
(15) It was shown experimentally that H. haze develops to the second stage in the egg and does not hatch spontaneously.
(16) He was joined by other Singaporeans who voted in a thick haze, the result of forest fires in nearby Indonesia.
(17) The results indicate that following ablation with an ultraviolet laser in both humans and primates, the ablated tissue shows a normal healing reaction resulting in a mild to moderate stromal interface haze.
(18) In most patients the haze persisted for two years after gel treatment was discontinued; the haze disappeared in two patients.
(19) In April 1997 the haze of uncertainty about Labour had long been dispelled.
(20) Behrooz Mohammadi, a 35-year-old computer engineer, told the Guardian that the haze in Tehran was so bad this week that even the Milad Tower, the sixth tallest in the world, was not visible from close by.