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Hawthorn


Definition:

  • (n.) A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Odemwingie had made no secret of his desire to leave the Hawthorns and link up with Redknapp in London, giving regular bulletins from his Twitter account as QPR had offers for him rejected.
  • (2) The next game, at West Bromwich Albion [on Monday week], he plays,” said Mourinho, who intends to pick the likes of Nathan Aké and Isaiah Brown at the Hawthorns.
  • (3) The Melbourne suburb of Braybrook, for example, has an average spend of $3,000 per person per year, compared with $145 in the nearby, richer district of Hawthorn.
  • (4) Goodes, who has been in the headlines all week after being the target of much jeering from Hawthorn fans during a rematch of the 2014 grand final, was again targeted vocally and loudly at the SCG.
  • (5) In other news at The Hawthorns, Albion have signed Scott Sinclair from Manchester City on a season-long loan with a view to a permanent deal.
  • (6) The medications were given mixture of Hawthorn and Motherworn.
  • (7) * * * On a fine spring day, I left the M1 at junction 14 and followed the broad dual-carriageway of the H5 grid-road into MK between banks of primroses and bright-green hawthorn.
  • (8) The Hawthorne, California-based company was founded in 2002 by Musk, who also serves as chief executive of Tesla , the electric car maker.
  • (9) Nigel Hawthorn, from cloud security company Skyhigh Networks, said: “Organisations need to investigate technologies such as encryption or risk being dragged through the courts by privacy advocates, customers or employees.
  • (10) The fancy is so outlandish, yet the unsettling instinct hidden in the luxuriance of the poison garden so resolutely explored, it is no wonder that, on reading this and other of his tales after his father had died in 1864, Julian Hawthorne wrote that he was "unable to comprehend how a man such as I knew my father to have been could have written such books".
  • (11) Hawthorn’s Shaun Burgoyne believes it to be a combination of all three factors, but whatever the motivation, he called for an end to it.
  • (12) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.
  • (13) And in Hawthorne's case it seems to bear little fruit.
  • (14) Thus, the initiation of a new therapeutic program, even using an inert agent, has a temporary benefit--a manifestation both of placebo effect and the Hawthorne effect.
  • (15) This article describes the selection of a control group, the Hawthorne effect and 'blindness' in information experiments.
  • (16) Wilshaw had never heard of the Hawthorne effect, but agrees "sustainability" will be the true test of his achievement at Mossbourne.
  • (17) The most improbable compliment to Nathaniel Hawthorne was paid by Ian Fleming when he recreated the motif of a poisoned garden from "Rappaccini's Daughter" in what is probably the best, and certainly the weirdest, of his Bond novels, You Only Live Twice.
  • (18) He was spotted and taken on by the West Brom Academy and, years later, it was Hodgson, when he was in charge at The Hawthorns, who promoted Berahino from the reserves to the first-team squad.
  • (19) Field experiments on integrated control of pests injuring Chinese hawthorn by some nonpollution techniques including agricultural biological and physical methods, were carried out in Xinglong County, Hebei Province during 1989-1991.
  • (20) In the green and pleasant English village of Warnham, the elderflower and hawthorn are in full, scented, creamy bloom and the sun umbrellas are up in the pub’s well-tended garden.

Tree


Definition:

  • (n.) Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
  • (n.) Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
  • (n.) A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
  • (n.) A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
  • (n.) Wood; timber.
  • (n.) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
  • (v. t.) To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
  • (v. t.) To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
  • (2) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
  • (3) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
  • (4) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (5) Anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is characterized by an absence of seromucous glands in the oropharynx and tracheobronchial tree, making children with this disease prone to viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
  • (6) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
  • (7) A new family tree of the tyrannosaurs in the paper considers Lythronax to be very close to Tyrannosaurus and its nearest relatives.
  • (8) Increasing awareness of disorders such as coronary arterial spasm, functional impairment of subendocardial blood flow and the possible role of variant patterns of anatomic distribution of the coronary arterial tree, will provide a better understanding of their significance as determining or contributing factors in patients with the anginal syndrome.
  • (9) It's of her and Barack Obama planting an olive tree in Uhuru park in the city centre in October 2006.
  • (10) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
  • (11) The trachea and the bronchial tree (first through seventh order branches) both synthesized alpha1(II) chains.
  • (12) Using a large clinic population with adequate controls, significant correlation between ragweed, grass or tree pollen sensitivity and the dates of birth was not obtained.
  • (13) The criteria selected by a classification tree method were similar: palpable purpura, age less than or equal to 20 years at disease onset, biopsy showing granulocytes around arterioles or venules, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
  • (14) The results are consistent with an action of banana tree juice on the molecule responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, resulting in a labilization of intracellular Ca2+.
  • (15) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
  • (16) Reconstruction of the intrahepatic biliary tree was carried out in all patients using intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomies between common segmental hepatic stomata and a Roux-en-Y jejunal loop.
  • (17) Axonal trees display differential growth during development or regeneration; that is, some branches stop growing and often retract while other branches continue to grow and form stable synaptic connections.
  • (18) When the vascular supply is abnormal, reconstruction of the vascular tree of one or both organs may be needed.
  • (19) A major outbreak in Kent in 2012 saw 2,000 trees felled.
  • (20) "We are alarmed to see the government is even wavering about continuing its programme of tracing, testing and destroying infected young ash trees.

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