(n.) The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave.
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.
Styx
Definition:
(n.) The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Colbeck said the listed area will still retain “high value tall forests and giant trees in the Weld-Snowy Range, Huon Picton, the Great Western Tiers and the Styx-Tyenna regions".
(2) Houston Rockets (16) The Rockets are trying to recruit Kevin Durant, which is just a depressing idea all around, like if Styx tried to recruit Jimi Hendrix.
(3) From the far side of the Styx I'll look back on it with awe.
(4) Three apparent chemotypes of the marine sponge Myrmekioderma styx exist.
(5) Both resident and introduced dogs may have contributed to the infective patterns in the Styx Valley.Treatment with nitroscanate was continued monthly in the Styx Valley and niclosamide was used in the remainder of the County for a further 3 years.
(6) Macronuclear DNA synthesis occupies a substantial part of the interdivision interval, and micronuclear DNA synthesis in Styx sp.
(7) Greek mythology relates that the legendary warrior Achilles was made invincible by his mother Thetis, who dipped him in the River Styx while holding him by his heel.
(8) Four new oxygenated diterpenes 1-4 were isolated from the Caribbean sponge Myrmekioderma styx.
(9) The synthesis of DNA in two hypotrichous ciliates, Styx sp.
(10) The museum is built on sloping ground that runs down to the river Nervión, a vile-looking creek that must be the most gloomy stretch of water after the Styx.
(11) However, one "breakdown" occurred and this was almost certainly autochthonous.Comparisons with an earlier period when arecoline surveillance was used in the Styx Valley, indicate that the present evidence favours a drug-orientated treatment programme of the definitive host for the control of cysticercosis.
(12) The modification included tall eucalypt forests in the Styx, Florentine and Weld valleys.
(13) The extension to Tasmania’s world heritage region, which includes areas such as the Styx and Florentine, was approved by then environment minister Tony Burke earlier this year.
(14) Surrounded by glass panels and comfortable limestone walls, they are missing the best view of the museum, which is from the far side of the river, a Styx with a matchless prospect and the promise of a return trip.