(n.) The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.
(n.) The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.
(n.) The floor of a furnace, on which the material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a melting furnace, into which the melted material settles.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a rule the abdominal exstirpation of the uterus with both adnexe is practiced in order to come to a complete removal of the infection hearth.
(2) Photograph: Andy Pietrasik Start with a coffee and croissant at zinc bar Café Tupiña at the bottom end of rue Porte de la Monnaie, and then move on to a hearty lunch at La Tupiña next door, with its huge roaring hearth and spits roasting chickens and racks of lamb.
(3) Although in April Darvill and Wainwright only won permission from English Heritage for a trench the size of a large hearth rug - "a little piece of keyhole surgery" as Darvill described it - it was the first excavation at which the whole armoury of modern scientific archaeology could be fired.
(4) They struggle to navigate the demands of the labour market while still being largely responsible for home, hearth and children.
(5) A flatmate lounges on a sofa and a coal-effect gas fire pretends to burn in the hearth.
(6) The Vatican talked of "this insult to the nobility of the hearth", and Ed Sullivan on his TV show said, "You can only trust that youngsters will not be persuaded that the sanctity of marriage has been invalidated by the appalling example of Mrs Taylor-Fisher and married man Burton."
(7) Despite marked changes in thyroidal economy in experimental rat, iodothyronine 5'-monodeiodinating activity (MA) in the liver, the kidney and the hearth and the hepatic alpha-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase activity were decreased inconsistently and when decreased, the various enzyme activities were not influenced appreciably by treatment with replacement doses of T4 or T3.
(8) A multiple hearth simulation study suggested that most of the organic material present in the sludge matrix is vaporized within the upper hearths that are held at lower temperatures and may consequently escape from such incinerators undestroyed.
(9) Through rampant privatisation, new Labour had “sabotaged the public realm,” says Marquand, a realm that was once the party’s home and hearth.
(10) That tartan rug is a heather-hued heath before my hearth (alliteration too!).
(11) The Shoulder of Mutton (mains from £11.96), the Hearth of the Ram (01706 828681, hearthoftheram.com, mains from £12.95) and the Eagle and Child (01706 55718, eagle-and-child.com, mains from £9.95) are all doing great stuff with local produce.
(12) This report describes two female patients, 69 and 79 years old, with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) developing from erythema ab igne (EAI) due to thermal irradiation from a sunken hearth (irori in Japanese) or an underfloor brazier covered with a quilt (kotatsu in Japanese).
(13) Out of the stadium's sluices flowed hordes of the new classes created by the industrial revolution: workers in overalls, bosses in top hats, arriving to dismantle the rural scene piece by piece, the meadows and the tilled fields making way for an array of vast chimneys emerging from the once fertile earth to reach the height of the stadium rim, their infernal belching smoke replacing the homely cottage hearth and ushering in a world of steam engines and spinning jennys.
(14) In future reports we hope to refine the comparisons by obtaining data which will enable classification of workers more precisely by intensity and duration of exposure within the open hearth.
(15) As he points out, several of the temples at Brodgar have hearths, though this was clearly not a domestic dwelling.
(16) Ironically, now my peers and I who fought so hard to get out of the home are coming to a different crossroads that leads back to the hearth and a different identity.
(17) Other items in the catalogue were equally bad value: take the Accessory Package consisting of a small hearth rug and a small lamp with a matching coffee table.
(18) The usability of five nutrient media - three kinds of spirolate media, thioglycolate medium and brain hearth medium - suitable for the isolation of Vibrio coli and germs similar to borrelia isolated from pigs affected by dysentery, and vibria isolated from cattle, was compared in the study.
(19) After injections of 3H thymidine or 3H proline, the physiological hearth growth in mice of the CBA strain belonging to various age groups was studied by means of autoradiography.
(20) Details are given on examinations of the central nervous system, the abdomen, the hearth and the skeletal system, on the possibilities of immunoscintigraphy, and also on the indications of SPECT studies and the clinical performance.
Wall
Definition:
(n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
(n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
(n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
(n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
(n.) The side of a level or drift.
(n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
(v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
(v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
(v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
Example Sentences:
(1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
(2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(3) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(4) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(5) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
(6) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(7) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(8) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(9) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(10) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(11) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.
(12) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
(13) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.
(14) The resistance of GSA 65 to proteolytic degradation, together with previous immunofluorescence data that indicate the antigen is an integral part of the G. lamblia cyst wall, suggests that this molecule may play a role in maintaining the integrity of the cyst in vivo.
(15) Polypeptide factor isolated from vascular wall of the cattle ("vasonin") was shown to affect the immunogenesis and hemostasis, to stimulate kallikrein-kinin system and to accelerate processes of regeneration.
(16) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
(17) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
(18) Following injections of HRP into the apex of the heart, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal region and the ventral wall of the right ventricle, we observed that HRP-labeled sympathetic neurons were localized predominantly in the right stellate ganglia, and to a lesser extent, in the right superior and middle cervical ganglia, and left stellate ganglia.
(19) A temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was identified which at the restrictive temperature of 37 degrees C is unable to secrete a number of cell wall-associated proteins and thus resembles previously reported sec mutants.
(20) Polypropylene mesh was used to repair the abdominal wall.