(a.) Abounding with hills; uneven in surface; as, a hilly country.
(a.) Lofty; as, hilly empire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
(2) This kind of hilly stage early in the race is the trademark of Prudhomme, who likes to test the race favourites as soon as possible, rather than giving them a more structured few days' run-in to the first key time trial or mountain stage.
(3) The main loser in Orissa would have been the Dongria-Kondh tribe which inhabits the upper reaches of the hilly forest.
(4) A cross-sectional study on malaria was undertaken in May 1989 in the settlements of Kalta and Barsuan iron ore mines situated in a hilly area of Sundargarh district.
(5) Stored and cooked samples of pearl millet (Pennesetum typhoides), which is regularly consumed as food by the Paharia tribe in the hilly regions of Santhal Pargana, Bihar State, India, that were harvested in January 1989 were analyzed for mold flora, natural occurrence of Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus, and incidence and levels of aflatoxin B1.
(6) Five to look out for Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky, Age 34 Last year’s winner and the favourite for the short last-day time trial in London, so rivals need an advantage before then Leopold Konig, NetApp-Endura, 26 Seventh on debut in the Tour de France, the Czech won Caerphilly’s hilly stage in 2012 and may be the strongest climber Sylvain Chavanel, IAM Cycling, 35 The near-veteran Frenchman is in top form, winner in recent weeks of the GP Plouay one-day race and the Tour du Poitou Charentes Mark Cavendish, Omega Pharma-QS 29 On the comeback trail after separating a shoulder in his catastrophic crash in the opening stage of the Tour de France Marcel Kittel, Giant-Shimano, 26 Dominant on the flat at the Tour de France this year and last, the German is the strongest fastman in the race on paper with Cavendish recovering
(7) Intestinal type carcinomas tend to be represented more in the older age groups, in males and in subjects born in the Forlì province and resident in hilly and mountainous areas.
(8) On Sundays, some churchgoers practice an adapted version – Chrizonto – while enthusiasts can be spied in music-filled funeral processions winding their way down Jamestown's hilly roads.
(9) Making your way through forests, rivers and hilly terrain in those conditions is no easy task.
(10) The prevalence of chronic undernutrition was significantly higher in the hilly areas.
(11) Two orientation devices are described which are currently in use at the J. Hillis Miller Health Center Library.
(12) Bishrampur in Jharkhand is located in hilly terrain.
(13) With fewer farmers travelling, the cost of farm produce doubled in a matter of weeks, said Umaru Barry, a sharply dressed trader selling smartphones in the capital's hilly streets.
(14) Danish ones are dressed more fashionably, for example, with black cladding and steel balconies, and they have found it easier to build straight blocks rather than L-shaped ones on Norway's hilly terrain.
(15) Highlights: the Crow's Nest, up in the faraway hilly corner of the Park stage where they were serving only tea and cake and the most indie line-up of all time; stupidly wandering the entire site for several hours of Saturday morning hunting Aphex Twin; dancing until my toe went numb.
(16) The young doctor visited Matthews Barnes in London, famous for his theory on the mechanism of placental expulsion, Hegar and his sign of early pregnancy and his dilators, Olshansen and his theory of rotation of the fetal head, Peter Müller in Bern and his maneuver for evaluating the cephalopelvic relationship (known also in the U.S. as Müller-Hillis maneuver), Theodor Langhans, also in Bern, who described three years ago his famous placental cells, Frankenhaüser in Zurich, the man of the plexiform ganglion of the parametrium, discovered before in 1842 by Robert Lee of Scotland.
(17) It began with British detectives on all fours scouring a hilly stretch of scrubland on the Algarve coast.
(18) The transformation of cytoplasmic excrescences, manifested in their diminution, twisting and fusion resulted in the formation of fold-hilly LAM surface.
(19) His friend Hillis Miller moved from Yale to the University of Irvine, California, in 1986, and Derrida switched allegiance at the same time, beginning an annual spring visitthat continued until 2003.
(20) The route skirted the hilly interior, passing close to walled towns like Silves.
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".