(n.) A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.
(n.) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.
(n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
(3) 10.54am GMT Among other things, Heath’s measure would improve the transparency of the investigatory powers tribunal, which investigates complaints from members of the public made against the intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ .
(4) Both Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Tory leader Edward Heath had stayed on in the chamber to listen to him.
(5) He said he would not repeat the mistake of Edward Heath who in 1972, "two years into office, was faced with economic problems and over-powerful unions and buckled and gave up".
(6) Ted Heath remained in office over the weekend after the general election on 28 February 1974, despite winning four seats fewer than Labour, as he tried unsuccessfully to form a coalition with the Liberals.
(7) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
(8) He is a regular panellist on comedy news quizzes, and reaches for Wodehouse in depicting 70s foreign secretary Lord Home "playing Lord Emsworth to Heath's Empress of Blandings".
(9) A demoralised workforce performs less efficiently, and a less-efficient system can be broken up and sold to private firms.” The Department of Heath insists these fears are misplaced.
(10) Osborne expressed the same sort of sentiments on Thursday, although it appears he used a private breakfast with 30 business leaders to deliver a bit of a pep talk rather than a Heath-style tirade at business ingratitude.
(11) The Liberal party rebelled against getting into bed with the Tories, Heath was forced to call for the removal vans and was subsequently sacked as Conservative leader.
(12) With the backing of the Met's then commissioner, Sir (now Lord) Paul Condon, warrants were obtained for the planting of listening devices in Southern's offices in Thornton Heath, south west London.
(13) Over the course of a month between 30 May and 30 June, he visited cash machines at Barclays, the Post Office, Tesco, Morrisons, TSB and Nationwide in Small Heath, Sparkbrook and Yardley Wood.
(14) Of course, after Hitler got into power and Low started, beautifully, to take the piss, Low, along with his cartooning colleagues Illingworth, Vicky and even Heath Robinson, was placed on the Gestapo's deathlist.
(15) "I was obviously, having worked with Ted Heath, committed to Europe.
(16) Burnham, the shadow heath secretary, received 68 nominations from MPs, mainly from the north.
(17) It was provoked by the government in order to take revenge for the 1972 and 1974 miners' strikes, which destroyed the Heath government's incomes policy and brought it down.
(18) Saleem, 82, was killed on 29 April, as he walked from a mosque to his home in Small Heath just after 10pm.
(19) A central issue is to establish why five "conditioning techniques" – hooding, stress positions, sleep deprivation, food and water deprivation, and white noise – inflicted on IRA suspects and banned in 1972 by the then prime minister, Edward Heath, were used on Iraqi detainees.
(20) In this, Dalgliesh investigates a killing in a privately run crime museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, London.
Uncultivated
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of 16S rRNA sequences retrieved as cDNA (16S rcDNA) from the Octopus Spring cyanobacterial mat has permitted phylogenetic characterization of some uncultivated community members, expanding our knowledge or diversity within this microbial community.
(2) • Africa has 60% of the world's total amount of uncultivated arable land.
(3) The socio-economic structure of the village is mainly agropastoral, though, in the last decades, 50% of the ground has been left uncultivated due to emigration and commuting.
(4) Payments to farmers for leaving land uncultivated as a habitat for wildlife are to be brought back under proposals to be announced today by the environment secretary, Hilary Benn.
(5) Although five distinct cell types could be identified with classical stains in the uncultivated glands, the peroxidase-labeled antibody technique (using antibodies against STH, LTH, FSH, LH and TSH) showed that not all of the immune-specific cell types were being identified with the classical stains.
(6) The reasons were as follows: uncultivated green fields, forest herbage and needle-leaves are sufficient sources of game contamination; there exist evident differences between continuous ingestion of contaminated or mixed feed with respect to the cesium contamination of tissues.
(7) Habitats were in abandoned rice fields, uncultivated grazing areas for livestock, roadside ditches and, in one case, an actively worked rice field.
(8) The "set aside" scheme was in effect abandoned two years ago when the European commission announced that the percentage of land that had to be left uncultivated would be zero.
(9) The concentration of 239 + 240Pu in the uncultivated soil was 20 Bq kg-1, which was approximately eight times as high as that in the control districts.
(10) V3 envelope sequences were determined from amplified human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) sequences of uncultivated leukocytes obtained sequentially from four infected adults over the course of infection.
(11) The purpose of this experiment was to isolate the microscopically detectable but uncultivable acid-fast bacilli, using experimental infection system induced in nude mouse.
(12) A wide variety of uncultivated plant foods was eaten in the traditional diet: roots, starchy tubers, seeds, fruits and nuts.
(13) In this study, the distribution of 239 + 240Pu concentration in the uncultivated soil and the transfer factor of 239 + 240Pu to agricultural products in Nishiyama district were examined.
(14) The following tissues from the fetus at risk were investigated by electron microscopy and were found to be free of fingerprint profiles and curvilinear bodies, typical for JNCL: uncultivated amniotic fluid cells, lymphocytes isolated from fetal blood, and fetal skin biopsy specimens.
(15) Mangrove plants on the mudflats perished – the acreage was halved between the 1950s and 2009 – while nearby farming land became uncultivable.
(16) Prenatal diagnosis in those monitored with amniocentesis was carried out with DNA analysis of uncultivated amniocytes (19) or cultivated cells (38).
(17) When I visited last week, a deathly silence reigned, the only noise the chirruping of frogs in uncultivated rice paddies on the edge of town, and the bleeping of my dosimeter.
(18) Direct analysis holds promise for detecting markers of infection due to an uncultivable agent or in clinical specimens that presently require cultures and prolonged incubation to yield an etiologic agent.
(19) The recent awareness and interest in the pharmacology and toxicology of uncultivated mushrooms in North America and Great Britain should encourage continued active research.
(20) In addition to 16S rRNA genes from the marine Synechococcus cluster and the previously identified but uncultivated microbial group, the SAR11 cluster [S. J. Giovannoni, T. B. Britschgi, C. L. Moyer, and K. G. Field.