(n.) A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the period of 1959-1985 the activity of the foci of anthrax in Voronezh Province was found to be related to the state of some meteorological factors in the previous year and the number of murine [correction of myomorphous] rodents in hayricks and stacks of straw in early spring of the current year, this relationship being stable and statistically significant.
(2) When voles of the former species penetrate stacks of straw and hayricks, conditions appear for the transfer of the infection to the latter species, M. rossiaemeridionalis.
(3) Higher values were found in those animals with silage pits, hayricks and liquid manure pits nearby.
Haystack
Definition:
(n.) A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.
Example Sentences:
(1) The source said that although GCHQ was collecting a "vast haystack of data" what they were looking for was "needles".
(2) Then they created Haystack , a censorship workaround that directed requests from computers in Iran through servers elsewhere in the world, hidden in a stream of innocent-looking traffic.
(3) Vice chief of the defence force Air Marshal Mark Binskin added: We're not searching for a needle in the haystack, we’re searching for where the haystack is.
(4) Snowden doesn’t like the haystack metaphor, used exhaustively by politicians and intelligence chiefs in defence of mass data collections.
(5) Trawling big data for suspicious activity is the 21st-century version of finding needles in a haystack.
(6) While senator Jeff Merkely of Oregon dramatically waved his phone at Alexander during a June hearing – “What authorized investigation gave you the grounds for acquiring my cellphone data,” Merkely asked – the NSA has typically spoken in generic terms about needing the “haystack” of information from Americans it considers necessary to suss out terrorist connections.
(7) Haystack, the software created by Heap under the umbrella of the not-for-profit Censorship Research Center , also demonstrated the increasing awareness of internet censorship during 2009, as it became clear that there were many people and organisations who sought to silence these information streams.
(8) Footage from CCTV around Breitscheidplatz where the incident took place and from traffic cameras on the roads leading to the square was being analysed by investigators, but police told German media they were “searching for a needle in a haystack”.
(9) In this case, Inglis says: "We needed the haystack".
(10) In addition to seeking "the needle in the haystack," the need to monitor a broader phenotypic indicator such as chronobiological interaction is hypothesized.
(11) Heap continues to work with Haystack, and has a list of countries, from Australia to Afghanistan, that he will be tackling next.
(12) Walks into the countryside took us past rivers, forests and farms where dome-shaped haystacks were being built by hand.
(13) That seems to have been the case with the fiasco of Haystack, a project launched amid the 2009 Iranian election protests by a US programmer, Austin Heap, which promised to allow dissidents in Iran to circumvent state censorship.
(14) We are looking for needles in a nationwide haystack, and that’s hard.” As the political storm raged across the country, in Orlando the sombre job of informing families of those who had died continued.
(15) Rifkind said: "In recent months concern has been expressed at the suggested extent of the capabilities available to the intelligence agencies and the impact upon people's privacy as the agencies seek to find the needles in the haystacks that might be crucial to safeguarding national security."
(16) The state department endorsed the project (and Heap won a Guardian innovation award for his efforts) but Haystack was abruptly withdrawn amid allegations that its poor design exposed activists to possibly fatal harm, revealing information about them to Iran's state monitors.
(17) The great difficulty of the agencies appears to be holding on to all the needles they pull out of haystacks, yet the lazy instinct is to demand ever more hay.
(18) "Firstly, locating the tunnel entrances is very difficult; they are needles in a haystack."
(19) The NSA argues that it needs “the haystack” of all domestic phone records in order to spot connections to terrorism, as outgoing deputy NSA director John Inglis said Friday .
(20) I think it’s actually made us less safe because I think the haystack is so large that we’re getting lost in the haystack.” But Paul has made little headway in the crowded Republican primary and the fresh support from Cruz, who recently overtook Donald Trump in polling in Iowa, threatens to catapult the libertarian issue back to the top of the party debate.