(n.) A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.
(n.) A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Larvae of the hermit crab Clibanarius vittatus were reared on a diet of Artemia nauplii.
(2) Visual pigment absorption spectra were measured in single photoreceptors of a stomatopod, a crayfish, a hermit crab, and five species of brachyuran crab.
(3) It has charted the world's highest peaks, the ocean floor, the Amazon rainforest and even provided a glimpse into the hermit state of North Korea.
(4) The use of Hermite integration to replace the integration in the combined model likelihood provided the parameter estimates closest to those stimulated.
(5) Established by St Kevin in the 6th century, the site has an arched gateway, a 30m-high round tower, a roofless cathedral, and St Kevin's Cell, the ruins of a beehive-shaped stone hut, thought to have been the hermit's home.
(6) It was also suggested that a three-dimensional Hermite transform can be used to code spatiotemporal events.
(7) It would also force the United Nations to rethink its approach to the hermit state.
(8) I disagree with the ban as it has turned me into a hermit.
(9) Shell-living Pagurus longicarpus hermit crabs were grown in one species of shell.
(10) Number of deaths for each year of age were calculated by application of "two dimensional semi-Hermite method" after estimation of number of deaths for age 80, 81,......84, using Sprague interpolation factors.
(11) The present paper reports on a case of mycobacteriosis in a colony of Hermit-Ibises, in which a so far unknown serovar of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare has been isolated.
(12) It is possible that North Korea's hardline sabre-rattling shines a spotlight onto internal power struggles inside the hermit kingdom.
(13) The orientation of fibers within coordinate planes bounded by epicardial and endocardial surfaces is interpolated linearly, with transmural variation given by cubic Hermite basis functions.
(14) We dispute the claim that Hermite functions (similar to derivatives of Gaussians) minimize a joint uncertainty relation in space and spatial frequency.
(15) Instead, the Hermite functions arise as the eigenfunctions of a space-variant differential operator used to model the contrast sensitivity of human observers.
(16) The active stiffness of ventral superficial abdominal muscle (VSM) of the hermit crab, Pagurus pollicarus, was measured with ramp stretches of different amplitudes and velocities.
(17) The effects of penicillin and picrotoxin on the increase in membrane conductance produced by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) at the hermit crab neuromuscular junction were investigated.
(18) He is, they say, a virtual hermit in his seven-bedroom north London home, a fearful wreck persecuted by his own perfectionism.
(19) With reference to the experimental investigations of Lloyd (1975) and following the suggestions of L'Hermite (1977) and Vaidya (1977) this tumour regression is interpreted as being due to the antimitotic effect of Bromocriptin via inhibition of c-AMP and DNA.
(20) It also heaps additional financial pressure on the already sanctioned hermit regime of leader Kim Jong-un by aiming at cutting down on money laundering and narcotics trafficking, two major illicit activities believed to be funneling millions of dollars into Kim’s inner circle.
Hermitage
Definition:
(n.) The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence.
(n.) A celebrated French wine, both white and red, of the Department of Drome.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was coincident with the area of occurrence of ko-kq and ko-no Oxford-Hermitage hybrids.
(2) A corrupt group of officials expropriated his fund, Hermitage Capital, and used it to make a fraudulent tax claim.
(3) Interior ministry officers arrested Magnitsky last November as a suspect in the case against Browder, the co-founder of Hermitage, once Russia's biggest investment fund.
(4) When you reach Inver, it's only a short walk back to the start point at the Hermitage carpark, just off the A9, after Dunkeld.
(5) Alekseyeva and others said Cameron must focus on the prison murder case of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer working on a case for Hermitage Capital, a London-based investment fund run by UK citizen William Browder.
(6) Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet in Kent, whose constituents include Hermitage and Middleton, has lobbied successive Foreign Office ministers for Africa over the years and is incensed that the British government is encouraging British companies to invest in Tanzania despite what happened at Silverdale.
(7) Hermitage, a solicitor, and Middleton, an agronomist with extensive experience in Africa , planned to make the 216 hectares (533 acres) of prime farmland their home and business.
(8) The Hermitage has been attempting to boost its standing in the modern art world, building upon a world-renowned collection of ancient and impressionist art housed in a complex including the tsars' winter palace.
(9) Two congressmen today introduced the Justice for Sergei Magnitsky bill, named after Hermitage Capital's 37-year-old lawyer, who died last year in a Russian jail without access to medical help when he was seriously ill. Magnitsky had been imprisoned two years ago by Russian officials following an alleged $230m (£143m) tax fraud involving Hermitage Capital.
(10) Magnitsky was arrested last November as a suspect in the case against Hermitage's co-founder William Browder.
(11) Within hours of learning of the unexpected decision to send the monumental statue of the river god Ilissos to the State Hermitage museum in St Petersburg, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaris, hit back.
(12) Investigating the charges in 2008, Browder's auditor and lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, discovered that police and tax officials had colluded to steal Hermitage's tax payments for their own enrichment.
(13) Vaughan Thomas Norwich • British Museum lends Elgin marbles to Hermitage; later, Putin forwards it to Athens: two fingers to London.
(14) "Niet, Niet, Niet," intoned curator Kasper König in a speech at the opening reception on Friday night , rehearsing the bureaucratic mantra that met many of the requests he, and the participating artists, made of the Hermitage museum, which is hosting the Manifesta.
(15) The investigation into the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky , who was involved in Hermitage Capital Management's long legal dispute with the Kremlin, should be carried out by independent experts, William Browder, head of the investment fund, said today.
(16) But even though Magnitsky was directly employed by William Browder , who runs a London-based investment fund, Hermitage Capital Management, the UK government has failed to act or even criticise the Russian authorities over the affair.
(17) Last week, prosecutors in St Petersburg opened an investigation into the Hermitage museum after complaints that an exhibit by British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman showed signs of extremism .
(18) 1.57am BST Barry O'Farrell has just resigned over his evidence to Icac, in which he said he did not receive a gift of a 1959 bottle of Penfolds Grange Hermitage from the head of Australian Water Holdings, Nick Di Girolamo.
(19) I did not give evidence in that case and the court made a finding that Hermitage's account of what transpired in the Silverdale affair was unchallenged.
(20) Although the original allegations were lodged against Hermitage, during the investigation Magnitsky discovered what he believed to be a cover-up for Russian state officials to embezzle an estimated $230m from the Russian treasury.