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Hilltop


Definition:

  • (n.) The top of a hill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the road that curves around the green hilltop of Bernal Heights Park there is an unofficial memorial to Nieto.
  • (2) A stark figure strode across its windswept hilltop, his black frock coat flapping in the breeze as he descended a winding cliff-side staircase, incongruous against the bleak backdrop.
  • (3) On the bare floor of an open-backed military truck, Ariel Sharon's flag-draped coffin jolted along a rough track to a hilltop spot overlooking his ranch on the edge of the Negev desert, where he was laid to rest next to his beloved wife.
  • (4) This hotel dominates the quiet and attractive hilltop village of Panayia.
  • (5) The Syrian military confirmed that it began a “broad operation” in the south that had led to advances in the rural areas south-west of Damascus , to the cities of Quneitra and Daraa, regaining control of a number of towns and strategic hilltops from what it described as the “terrorists of the Nusra front”.
  • (6) Raymond Bravo, 36, from San Pablo, California, who earned $10.25 an hour as a janitor for a Walmart's Richmond Hilltop Mall store in California, working 30 hours a week, said he was fired from his job after taking part in the strikes and demonstrations in June.
  • (7) But those crows also gather on the blackened rafters of British-era bungalows, while tanks and artillery pieces on which the wealth of a poor nation was squandered for decades sit rusting on hilltops.
  • (8) After 14 days of hypobaric hypoxia, in Hilltop rats, more of the intraacinar arteries became muscular, and the medial thickness of intraacinar and preacinar arteries was greater.
  • (9) At the hilltop cemetery of Modiin on Tuesday it was the blue and white of Israel's flag that served as a shroud on the coffins of Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gil-ad Sha'er, 16, and Naftali Frankel, 16.
  • (10) Buzet , a hilltop village near the Slovenia border, celebrates its truffles in November.
  • (11) They not only crowded the road leading to the cemetery's sprawling hilltop grounds but filed in long lines along the paths through the trees of the adjoining Ben Shemen forest, pausing from time to time to pray in groups in the little valleys.
  • (12) Two new and vast mansions sit on distant hilltops, and a neighbourhood of spacious, colonial-style homes is spreading in all directions, all apparently reserved for the military elite.
  • (13) Countering that complaint Israel’s UN ambassador, Ron Prosor, sent what the Israeli mission called a “sarcastic letter” to the security council listing acts of incitement by the Palestinian leadership, including last month’s drive-by shooting of a Jewish activist who had pushed for greater Jewish access to the sacred hilltop compound.
  • (14) Professional photographer Chloe Read finds something new to inspire every day, from still life to moving waves, and there’s a trip to a hilltop town and wild swimming in a quiet cove.
  • (15) There are a few things about his death that everyone agrees on: he was in a hilltop park eating a burrito and tortilla chips, wearing the Taser he carried for his job as a bouncer at a nightclub, when someone called 911 on him a little after 7pm on the evening of 21 March 2014.
  • (16) Every hilltop is crowned by a golden example, but I stopped at one of the most dramatic.
  • (17) The 40 or so families who live in the rough-and-ready hilltop outpost of Amona, built illegally on private Palestinian land, have been at the centre of a years-long court battle.
  • (18) Photograph: Patrick Barkham for the Guardian On a hilltop beyond the Northamptonshire village of Culworth, I stopped to admire the valley formed by a nameless tributary of the River Cherwell.
  • (19) The village in which he had been born was graced with a palace, and it was ordained that he should be buried in the nearby family mausoleum, echoing the royal custom of hilltop interment.
  • (20) The bars and pubs of Clifton were busy with party-goers by 8pm , as was Park Street, which climbs up from central Bristol through the university quarter and into the smart hilltop district.

Peak


Definition:

  • (n.) A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
  • (n.) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe.
  • (n.) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.
  • (n.) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
  • (n.) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
  • (v. i.) To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
  • (v. i.) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky.
  • (v. i.) To pry; to peep slyly.
  • (v. t.) To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
  • (2) Here we show that this induction of AP-2 mRNA is at the level of transcription and is transient, reaching a peak 48-72 hr after the addition of RA and declining thereafter, even in the continuous presence of RA.
  • (3) Amino acid sequence analysis showed that both peaks had identical N-terminal sequences through the first 28 residues.
  • (4) These observations were confirmed by the killing curves in pooled serum obtained at peak and trough levels.
  • (5) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
  • (6) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
  • (7) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (8) No significant correlations of peak VO2 were observed between the 3 tests.
  • (9) Peaks in the sperm index were preceded by 6 days with peaks in the serum testosterone concentration.
  • (10) Peak incidence is found among 40 to 49-year-old and 60 to 64-year-old women.
  • (11) The remainder of the radioactivity appeared chromatographically just prior to the bisantrene peak, indicating that compounds more polar than the parent were present as transformation products.
  • (12) The curve of mitoses peaked at the same time as that of TK activity but was only 68% as extensive.
  • (13) We conclude that the rat somatosympathetic reflex consists of an early excitatory component due to the early activation of RVL-spinal sympathoexcitatory neurons with rapidly conducting axons and a later peak that may arise from the late activation of these same neurons as well as the early activation of RVL vasomotor neurons with more slowly conducting spinal axons.
  • (14) The ACTH deficiency recovered spontaneously, with normal cortisol responses to depot Synacthen (greater than 1380 at 6 h) and hypoglycemia (peak, 590) 14 and 18 months postpartum, respectively.
  • (15) No relationship was found with the absolute value of either peak or area GH.
  • (16) GnRH infusion produced an immediate increase in plasma LH concentrations in the mares that ovulated during the infusion period and LH levels peaked at the time of ovulation.
  • (17) In guinea pig ventricular myocytes, the positive contractile staircase was associated with ascending staircases of both peak systolic and end diastolic [Ca2+]i because of a cumulative increase in diastolic [Ca2+]i.
  • (18) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
  • (19) The incidence was 0.31 per 1000 gynaecological admissions and the peak age incidence was in the age group 26 to 35 years.
  • (20) A relative net reduction of 47% in lactose malabsorption was produced by adding food, and the peak-rise in breath H2 was delayed by 2 hours.

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