(n.) A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.
(n.) The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t.
(v. t.) A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes.
(v. t.) To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(2) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(3) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
(4) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
(5) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
(6) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
(7) While ITV1's Harry Hill and the final series of BBC1's Gavin and Stacey will stay put, Sky1 did manage to secure US drama House, starring Hugh Laurie, from Channel Five, paying an estimated £500,000 an episode.
(8) For this purpose the molecular models of Monod-Wyman-Changeux (MWC) and of Koshland-Nemethy-Filmer (KNF) are tested by showing how the different plots, direct, reciprocal, Scatchard and Hill, vary as do the parameters considered in these models.
(9) Hill coefficients for these agents were 1.1, 0.9, and 1.1, suggesting binding to a single receptor.
(10) This activation has a Hill coefficient of 3 with respect to F-, and its rate is linear with respect to Mg2+ concentrations above 2 mM.
(11) In primary culture, CSM cells attached to the culture vessels by 48 to 72 h, proliferated by 3 to 7 d, and reached confluency by 14 to 17 d with a "hill-and-valley" pattern.
(12) To determine whether perioperative blood transfusion affected the recurrence rate of squamous cell cancer of the head and neck, we performed a retrospective study of all patients with stage III and IV disease treated surgically at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, between 1983 and 1986.
(13) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(14) The town's Castle Hill is the perfect climb for travellers with energy to burn off: at the top is a picnic spot with far-reaching views, and there is a small children's play area at its foot.
(15) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
(16) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(17) Cleeve Hill was once the site of a 'bawdy' racecourse, before it was moved down the hill into genteel Cheltenham.
(18) The typical balance of power on Capitol Hill over surveillance is such that opponents of renewing Section 702 face strong political headwinds.
(19) With its steep hills and cobblestones, the neighbourhood of São Cristóvão in Ouro Preto isn’t an easy place to play football.
(20) Half-maximal inhibition of [3H]PN200-110 binding occurred at 19 nM with a Hill coefficient of 0.96.
Hillside
Definition:
(n.) The side or declivity of a hill.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its few remaining mines involve people digging coal out of hillsides.
(2) Roberts was pronounced dead at 5.10pm on the hillside.
(3) During a five year period, idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis was diagnosed in nine patients 70 to 79 years of age and in 26 patients 20 to 66 years of age who were referred to the cardiology division of the Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center because of symptomatic heart disease.
(4) Hillsides denuded of trees for terraced farming plots are common.
(5) Look and listen out for Little owls hunting voles and mice and badgers crossing over the summit from a set on the hillside below.
(6) To self-described “militia members” sleeping in wind-whipped tents, drinking camp coffee and patrolling rocky hillsides with military-style weapons, protecting Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his family from an overreaching federal government is a patriotic duty .
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The remote Heydalur hot pot in the Westfjords Eventually the hotel Heydalur (doubles from £59) appears, a hillside of random outbuildings.
(8) The ventilatory capacity of the more active children, including those who have lived all their lives in squatter huts on the hillsides, is on average 8 per cent larger than for the inactive children including those who have lived all their lives in tenement flats with lifts.
(9) A fter several hours walking along stark cliffs and ridges, I come down a hillside dotted with white asphodels and find myself on an untrodden beach.
(10) In June he and his team were looking at the steep hillsides around the village of Glogova, where remains had been tipped out of trucks and allowed to roll down a gorge.
(11) Friends and pilgrims visited and took home with them something of the hillside.
(12) Now, after decades of remaining quietly out of the national spotlight, the gentle hillsides and country lanes of the Yorkshire Wolds are preparing for a deluge of attention brought on by interest in David Hockney's latest paintings.
(13) Ancient towns and wooded hillsides looked gorgeous reflected in the blue water, but we were beguiled just as much by the people.
(14) The crew had been shooting all day on a deserted hillside when at 4pm the extras suddenly disappeared.
(15) On the night of 7 April 2010, Luciano Machado was doing electrical work on a roof in the hillside favela Morro do Bumba.
(16) They own five properties dotted over the Sea Point hillside, and you can’t miss Themba, their friendly manager, who ferries guests around in a bright red tuk-tuk.
(17) Hillsides are bereft of trees, leaving communities such as hers increasingly vulnerable to floods and landslides.
(18) The hillsides of the West Bank are rustling with industry.
(19) Tree cover is restricted to small patches along streams and some hillsides; there are euphorbia hedges and scattered trees in rural communities and along roadsides.
(20) Deciduous trees growing in a natural forest on the hillsides downslope from the site were sampled for the presence of tritiated water in sap of maple trees and in leaf water extracted from oak and hickory trees.