(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.
Vill
Definition:
(n.) A small collection of houses; a village.
Example Sentences:
(1) The direct Fourier transform method, autoregressive modelling, the maximum likelihood method and the Wigner-Ville distribution were applied to the Doppler signal obtained from a fully insonated laminar model flow.
(2) The tombs of the Dukes of Brabant were not concentrated in one dynastic necropolis, but located as well in abbeys (Affligem and Villers-la-Ville) as in churches belonging to cloisters or chapters, in Louvain and Brussels, the two towns successively used as the ducal residence.
(3) These differences in the distribution of the chorionic ville in some classes of size between placentas of diabetic and such of normal pregnancies are significantly too.
(4) Mantes-la-Ville, 30 miles west of Paris, is the first town to be run by the Front National in the Île-de-France region that surrounds the capital.
(5) The tomb of Henry II (1248) in the abbeychurch of Villers-la-Ville, nowadays disappeared.
(6) Ten flavonoid C-glycosyl derivatives: orientin (1), isoorientin (2), vitexin (3), isovitexin (4), isovitexin 7,2"-di-O-glucoside (5), isovitexin 7-O-galactoside-2"-O-glucoside (6), two different 6,8-di-C-hexosylapigenins (7, 8), and two different 6-C-hexosyl-8-C-pentosylapigenins (9, 10) have been either produced from flavonoid fractions from Adonis vernalis L. (1, 2) and Crataegus species (3, 4), or isolated from Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
(7) From timeless mountain villages such as Ville-di-Paraso and Speloncato there are stunning views across the Regino valley towards the distant coast, and as the light changes in the afternoon, the jutting ridges of granite glow pink.
(8) It has been determined that the thromboplastic agents from the inflorescence of the birch Betula pendula Roth, blossoms of the willow Salix daphnoides Vill., seeds of the pea Pisum sativum L. provoke protective reaction of the animal's anticoagulation system, though weaker expressed than the reaction of thromboplastin from brain.
(9) In the rabbit, this occurs before the time of appearance or ville or of an enzyme marker (lactase) for microville.
(10) The program, Ville plus sûre, quartiers sans accidents, was launched in 1984, with goals of integrating motorized traffic into urban environments with due regard to local participation and awareness.
(11) Over the course of 17 years I disturbed their daily routines by turning Paris upside down; and they had to look at the same face of the prefect in the Hôtel de Ville.
(12) Mantes-la-Ville echoes the concerns of many in English towns who voted to leave.
(13) If the polls are accurate, the Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo will get the keys to the city and the 150 sq metre mayoral office at the French capital's imposing Hôtel de Ville on the banks of the Seine.
(14) Focus formation following DNA transfection of mouse 3T3-Vill cells was used to search for the presence of activated oncogenes in human thyroid tumors.
(15) I identified them all first time - which clearly pleased Ville Makinen, co-founder and chief technology officer.
(16) This is Smart Lane, New England Ville, although those who live here don’t exactly have all the comforts the address implies.
(17) Which, appearing opposite Jim Carrey as the bumptious Mayor of Who-ville, is precisely his role in Ron Howard's imminent, baroquely sentimental Grinch.
(18) "I've had bikes stolen so many times, I'd rather just use these," says an advertising executive at a bike point at the Hôtel de Ville.
(19) Washington and the Bills are also both in the red zone – it’s been a fast start to the second-half just about everywhere… 7.39pm GMT Around the league So here’s the full half-time roundup: Chiefs 3-10 Vills Vikings 10-6 Cowboys Titans 7-7 Rams Chargers 14-7 Washington Saints 14-20 Jets Falcons 10-14 Panthers 7.38pm GMT End of first half: Saints 14-20 Jets Drew Brees takes a knee, and that’s the half.
(20) Her solo exhibition Linder Sterling is at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from 7 October to 31 December 2011.