(n.) Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland.
Example Sentences:
(1) In late 1983 the Hagahai sought medical aid at a mission station, an event which accelerated their contact with the common epidemic diseases of the highlands.
(2) As interest and participation in the athletics of Scottish-American Highland games has increased throughout the United States, the aim of this study was to define injury patterns and risk factors.
(3) The increase in movement of people both within the highlands of New Guinea and also to and fro between holo- and hyperendemic lowland areas and the highlands by policemen and semi-skilled personnel in one direction and by labourers in the other, together with a great increase in potential breeding sites, were virtually inevitable consequences of the development process as the intense communalism and geographical isolation of the highland people was broken down.
(4) Sometimes it's because of a personal connection - the Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues my grandfather loved the most, which we listened to together, or the Bruckner symphony I associate with our family home in the highlands of Scotland - but the welling-up can also come completely out of the blue.
(5) In the highlands 90 sera were collected, in the lowlands 140.
(6) Emphysema appeared to be more prevalent in lowland than highland dwellers.
(7) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
(8) But Nick Loening, owner of Ecoyoga in the Scottish Highlands, is evangelical about the benefits of a good soak and gently insistent that his guests make the most of the various bathing options at his retreat – regardless of the weather.
(9) An historical crisis movement from the highlands of Papua New Guinea re-examined from a psychiatric point of view raises the possibility that the two leaders suffered from mental disorder.
(10) Two pilot studies on malaria, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and intestinal parasites were carried out in 104 children 6-15 years old from villages in the lowland and highland areas of South Yemen in November 1988.
(11) The survey of a population including 40-59-old males, dwellers from the rural areas of the Tien Shan and Pamirs low- and highlands, has demonstrated that atherogenic dyslipoproteinemias are significantly more infrequently encountered among high-altitude dwellers than among low-altitude ones.
(12) Very few people in the highland area of Kigezi had antibody to any of the antigens used, whereas more than half of the sera from the Madi area near the Nile had antibody to several antigens.
(13) The results indicate that: (1) The so called adolescent spurt is not well defined among Bod highlanders.
(14) Morphological and structural rearrangement of resistant pulmonary vessels and alveolar capillaries was assessed in lowland animals (rabbits) during high-altitude adaptation, in aboriginal high-altitude species (yaks, mountain goats) and on native highlanders.
(15) Starting from the northernmost point of the island, it follows a varied course along high sea-cliffs and mountain ridges, taking in low lying crofts, villages deserted many years ago by the Highland Clearances, and modern day settlements, and gives a real taste of the island, its landscape, culture and heritage.
(16) The Dallas Morning News reported that the Highland Park school district sent a note aiming to reassure parents that their children could not contract Ebola through contact with the daughter of Clay Jenkins, a judge who is in charge of emergency management for Dallas County and who drove Troh and her family from her apartment to a temporary home in an undisclosed location.
(17) An ultrastructural study of lung biopsy specimens from an adult mestizo highlander from La Paz (3800 m) and three lowlanders from London showed no significant difference in the thickness of the alveolar capillary wall, the thickness in the highlander being 0.65 micron and the range in the lowlanders being 0.57-0.69 micron.
(18) The predominantly Maya town of Santiago Atitlan is in the Guatemalan highlands in the Department of Solola.
(19) In lowland (760 m above sea level) and highland (3200 m above sea level) of Tien Shan, the measurements of blood pressure and blood flow in the large vessels as well as the mass of heart ventricles of 75 rabbits have been made.
(20) The highland migrants at sea-level share none of the 'altitude' characteristics of the highland residents and, after size-adjustment, correspond with the lowlanders.
Upland
Definition:
(n.) High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.
(n.) The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.
(a.) Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.
(a.) Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.
Example Sentences:
(1) In sombre tones he did indeed acknowledge that there are no sunny uplands as we "now face a crisis that is the economic equivalent of war" .
(2) One way TransCanada might get around what Clinton called the Keystone “distraction” and pump more tar sands crude into the US might be the Upland pipeline, which the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has termed a “mini Keystone” .
(3) I grit my teeth as the trees hunker down smaller and smaller, then finally give up entirely, leaving us alone in a barren upland area where there is one large grey house partially obscured by torn curtains of freezing rain.
(4) Investigations were carried out over three grazing seasons with parasitized and treated (control) steers on irrigated and non-irrigated upland and dikeland pastures.
(5) Bait trapping at upland sites in England and Wales, mainly at 400-700 m altitude, showed that Calliphora vomitoria L. usually outnumbered all other blowflies.
(6) In upland regions such as Harange, it is the backbone of the economy, employing thousands of farmers, packers, harvesters and traders.
(7) The 12 different soils studied represented four general soil groups: I, leached acid upland soils; II, saline alkaline soils; III, nonsaline neutral soils; and IV, high organic soils.
(8) This unexpected result was followed by the more surprising finding that the incidence of resistance was even higher in the bacterial populations of two remote upland tarns.
(9) The flight ranges of these species overlap the EEE epizoötic zone, and the results of these studies support the hypothesis that these species are involved in the transfer of EEE virus from swamp to upland habitats.
(10) ; Upland, Calif.; Magna, Utah; and Grand Canyon, Ariz.
(11) The cut-and-carry goat production system based on feeding leaves from plantation shade trees, mainly Leucaena leucocephala, shows the potential of goat production as an integral part of upland farming systems in East Java.
(12) A similar strategy has informed my translation; although my own part of England is separated from Lud's Church by the swollen uplands of the Peak District, coaxing Gawain and his poem back into the Pennines was always part of the plan.
(13) For the writers of the software, the upgrade path takes us all towards the sunlit uplands.
(14) He was hauled out unconscious somewhere downstream, but was back at work three days later.” We are in Fljótsdalur, an upland valley made famous in the 1930s by novelist Gunnar Gunnarsson, who lived up here.
(15) In contrast, the southern and lower altitudinal limits of upland and northern vegetation are likely to be controlled by temperature-sensitive competition with southern or lowland species.
(16) The funding crisis isn’t just something that’s going to happen in 2020 – it’s happening right now.” Schools face years of funding cuts if Tories win election, say thinktanks Read more Liam Collins, headteacher of Uplands community college in East Sussex, said his school was hundreds of thousands of pounds worse off.
(17) The sources of water, from upland surfaces, artesian wells and rivers, were classified in eight groups, and significant associations were found for cancers of the stomach, oesophagus, prostate, male bladder and female breast, and for hypertensive and chronic rheumatic heart disease.
(18) Where most of the UK sees a decline in manufacturing, lay-offs in the steel industry and widespread insecurity about the global economy, George Osborne sees only sunlit uplands, smiling faces and Hovis adverts.
(19) The new system needs to support nature in the lowlands as well as the uplands.
(20) Upland areas including Salisbury Plain, the South Downs and North Downs are set to be the worst affected by the downpours, and the Met Office has issued an amber warning for the area, urging locals to "be prepared".