(n.) A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
(n.) A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.
Example Sentences:
(1) So it is only a fool, like me, who would walk nonchalantly around the headland during a high wind.
(2) North of the main jetty and beach, the coast curves out towards a rocky headland, and the further you go, the more likely you are to have it to yourself.
(3) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(4) Paddling along the densely wooded coastline, the view ahead was suddenly broken by asymmetrical shapes rising up from a grassy headland.
(5) Off the windswept headland where the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba meets the Gulf of Suez, a dozen divers trail bubbles during their descent towards the famous Shark Reef, one of the world’s most popular diving sites.
(6) We don’t really have a mandate for the conservation of non-native species.” In his blog, Harper argued that managed shoots could “provide beneficial habitat management for wildlife”, including woodland sky-lighting, planting cover crops and creating conservation headlands.
(7) The row of trees and bushes sticking out of the shallow water continued more or less unbroken until it ended at a pointed headland 100m farther down.
(8) The nearby headland is spectacular, and there's lots to enjoy in this stretch of the Pembrokeshire Coast national park.
(9) First, helpful founder Tor McIntosh suggested Exmoor’s National Trust-owned Foreland Bothy , half a mile from Foreland point, a rocky headland a few miles from Lynmouth.
(10) Minute by minute, you can see rock being carved by the elements, out on that headland that divides the town in two.
(11) The gently undulating headlands are covered in a blanket of long grass, making picnicking and sunbathing agreeable throughout the day.
(12) It stretches from the headland called Pointe du Meinga, to the Ile Besnard in the west.
(13) With what little strength I had left, I took two unsteady steps up on to the headland.
(14) Backed by low headlands and no less than three waterfalls, it is easy to linger at Porthsychan for as long as the sun allows.
(15) Only palm trees stand between the hotel and the beach, with a headland right beside it and blazing sunsets across the bay.
(16) And there are the new agri-environment schemes that encourage landowners to put in new hedges and to leave unploughed "headlands" around the arable fields.
(17) The long sweep of beach ends at a headland where beautiful reef pools are exposed by the receding tide, revealing a huge naturally sheltered pool, offering wonderful snorkelling and tropical fish.
(18) His political candidates – such as Wang – can be his employees, and Wang will now employ on his senatorial staff the two people who ran with him on the WA Senate ticket: Chamonix Terblanche and Des Headland.
(19) Credit: Jonas Dahlberg Studio The headland of the Sørbråten memorial will be engraved with names of all the victims; visitors will be able to read them but not reach to touch them.
(20) These 12 rustic yet thoughtfully designed adobe cabanas are on a palmy beach cradled by rocky headlands two miles east of Puerto Angel and about 50 miles from Puerto Escondido.
Promontory
Definition:
(n.) A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape.
(n.) A projecting part. Especially: (a) The projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra. (b) A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elizabeth McCaul, CEO of Promontory Europe and former New York Superintendent of Banks, had been asked to act as a special adviser, together with the firm's chief operating officer, Raffaele Cosimo.
(2) Electric middle-latency auditory evoked responses (EMLRs) to transtympanic promontory stimulation were obtained from 19 of 22 ears of profoundly hearing-impaired patients evaluated for cochlear implant candidacy.
(3) The standard procedure consisted of an abdominal sacropexy, with use of Marlex mesh to anchor the vaginal vault to the sacral promontory and retroperitonealization of the mesh.
(4) The electrodes can be implanted in bundles through the round window or into the modiolus; they can, however, also be introduced individually through several drill holes in the promontory for placement in the scala tympani and vestibuli.
(5) Your path begins to rise a little here, heading first east then south east around the rock promontories above.
(6) Although no promontory branch of the internal carotid artery appears, there is a well-developed "promontory canal" containing a nerve trunk.
(7) In 2 patients, the radiotherapeutic field extended downwards only as far as the sacral promontory.
(8) Preimplant screening included audiometric testing, electronystagmogram (ENG), promontory stimulation, computed tomography (CT) scanning, and psychological evaluation.
(9) The relative laser light attenuation by the human skin specimens corresponded to that of the human promontory bone.
(10) Sensations induced by electrical stimulation of the cochlea in humans through a promontory or a round window electrode were studied in sixteen subjects.
(11) Lysozyme was demonstrated by an immunocytochemical technique in the biopsied mucosa obtained from the promontory of the fifteen patients who had chronic middle ear effusions.
(12) Promontory testing (PT) and measurement of cochlear microphonics (CM) enabled us to distinguish between neural and sensory deafness.
(13) A single channel stimulation at the round window or promontory is used.
(14) Affected goats had folded pinnas, and the tympanic cavity was decreased due to multiple, polypoid projections of bone covered by middle ear mucosa which obstructed the view of the cochlear promontory.
(15) The Utah-design multichannel cochlear implant consists of six intracochlear monopolar electrodes, one promontory electrode, and an indifferent electrode.
(16) An ultrasound revealed a uterus incarcerated between the sacral promontory and the pubis.
(17) The operator's left hand tenses the abdominal skin while palpating the sacral promontory.
(18) ), and an alternative to promontory rectopexy: sacral fixation of the rectum, associated sigmoidectomy, Delorme's operation?
(19) We have taken two views and two slices: an AP view to study the contents of the uterus and the morphology of the upper strait; a profile view to measure the diameter between the promontory of the sacrum and posterior surface of the symphysis, and we have programmed the two following slices: a perpendicular slice at the level of the upper strait measuring directly the transverse median diameter; another slice at the level of the sciatic spines to measure directly the diameter between these spines.
(20) To investigate the feasibility of a cochlear implant in the labyrinthectomized ear, promontory electrical testing by transtympanic needle was performed in six patients who had undergone a unilateral transmastoid labyrinthectomy 6 weeks to 5 years previously.