(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.
Mound
Definition:
(n.) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
(n.) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
(v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(2) For miles, only the strip of land for the track is dug up, but in places the footprint is much wider: access routes for work vehicles; holding areas for excavated earth; new electricity substations; mounds of ballast prepared for the day when quarries cannot keep pace with the demands of the construction; extra lines for the trains that will lay the track.
(3) In reduction mammaplasty by the inferior pedicle technique, the dermal-breast pedicle can be manipulated to form a central breast mound and enhance breast projection.
(4) We’re sacrificing our gold medal to help people in need,” said Thomas Glückselig, lugging a mound of bedding.
(5) A tongue-shaped flap of the fat and the anterior sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle, approximately 7 cm in length, is pulled up, gathered, and inserted to reconstruct the breast mound.
(6) With the exception of poor Jose Valverde, the Tigers pitching recovered in Game Two once that Verlander guy was out of the way, and so at least that side of the game seems to be in a better place for Detroit, especially with the Animal, Anibal Sanchez on the mound tonight.
(7) Next to the pupil there was often a perceptible mound, presumably representing the iris sphincter.
(8) Sperm were not transported into the cloacae of artificially inseminated, anesthetized females without prior administration of norepinephrine to their cloacal mounds.
(9) Treated areas become covered with irregular mounds of RPE cells within seven days.
(10) Conservatively, I’d estimate that 90% of my time was spent making my students do colouring in while I sat in an impossibly tiny chair, with my knees around my ears, silently dreading the inedible mound of uncategorised meat that would invariably pass for that day’s lunch.
(11) The tying run is coming to the plate and a new pitcher is coming to the mound... Jon Smalldon (@jonsmalldon) Brandon Crawford!
(12) Reconstruction of the breast after super-radical mastectomy is difficult because not only a breast mound but also the subclavicular and anterior axillary regions must be reconstructed simultaneously.
(13) Individual cysts were found to be lined by a single layer of epithelial cells in most areas, with focal polyps and mounds of cells principally in collecting duct cysts.
(14) Each mound with its own tableau of what once were laughing, dreaming, busy human beings.
(15) Sox on the Beach (@SoxontheBeach) Also, why are the A's fans behind home plate waving towels when THEIR pitcher is in the mound?
(16) In contrast, the flat-mound and translucent-mound mutants, which aggregate normally, produced very few spores.
(17) Scanning electron microscopy revealed small mound-like lesions protruding from an intact endothelium in birds treated with an initiating dose of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene (Me2BA) followed by twice weekly injections of the alpha 1-selective adrenergic agonist methoxamine for 20 weeks.
(18) Breast reconstruction has become such a commonplace procedure over the last ten years that we as plastic surgeons are no longer content to simply create a mound.
(19) Ferguson's selection of the "chosen one" now looks less like John the Baptist heralding Christ and more like what I would do if invited to select my ex's next partner; the mendacious dispatch of a castrated chump to grimly jiggle with futile pumps upon Man United's bone-dry, trophy-bare mound.
(20) The argon laser caused a gradual mounding up of iris pigment epithelium with each successive energy application before final penetration.