(n.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.
(n.) A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something.
Example Sentences:
(1) This early hyperphagy had later consequences for the feeding behaviour of adult males, which looked for food and consumed it more intensively in a new environment and also hoarded it.
(2) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(3) The consequences of 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of the mesolimbic dopamine system on hoarding behavior were investigated in the rat.
(4) That would mean reform of a property tax system that manages to stimulate demand, encourage land hoarding and be regressive all at the same time.
(5) Worse still for Modi are indications the policy has not unearthed the hoards of “black money” he promised.
(6) Then the intersect of regression line of food hoarded during meal time vs. body weight with the X-axis was measured.
(7) The results fail to support the object value hypothesis of hoarding.
(8) A ten-day baseline indicated consistently elevated urine sugar levels and that the patient frequently violated his prescribed low sugar diet by stealing, trading and hoarding high sugar foods.
(9) Its hoarding proclaims: "An unashamedly ultra-modern masterpiece emerges alongside the most celebrated of cathedrals."
(10) UK householders are estimated to be hoarding at least £1bn worth of electrical and electronic equipment in their homes which are no longer used but which still hold significant value, with the UK market value for trading pre-owned equipment potentially worth up to £3bn.
(11) The Gurlitt hoard is a survival of the Nazis' strange and ambivalent attitude to art, from Hitler's aesthetic New Order to the simple philistine greed that probably motivated most of their art theft.
(12) For now, just let me say that while old progressives instinctively hoard power to the nation state, the new progressive approach is intrinsically internationalist on issues such as Europe, migration, trade and foreign aid.
(13) It is concluded that 1) the main response of the rat to starvation is food hoarding rather than ingestion and 2) the estimation of the body weight set point from hoarding is not affected by the costs of food procurement.
(14) One of those to question the haste with which the hoard is being put on public display is Gurlitt’s cousin, Ute Werner, who legally challenged the will in which he left his collection to the Bern museum.
(15) The most recent figures released by the Reserve Bank of India show that about 12.6tn rupees have been deposited since the rupee recall was announced, far more than the Modi government had predicted, indicating that it may have underestimated the amount of untaxed wealth being hoarded by citizens.
(16) Looking up we saw a large tabby on top of a wooden hoarding which was covering a building site in Vauxhall.
(17) Ronald Lewis finds it hard to believe it is 10 years since the water came, even though the newspaper clippings he hoarded in a scrapbook and pinned to a wall are yellowed now by age.
(18) The "object value" hypothesis suggests rats hoard objects that they perceive as valuable as related to some state or need.
(19) The results indicated that the regression of hoarding behavior on body weight was virtually identical at estrus and diestrus (same slope), but the critical level of body weight for the onset of hoarding behavior was 31.2 g lower at estrus than at diestrus.
(20) Unlike the banks, consumers, especially the hardest pressed ones, would spend rather than hoard.
Signboard
Definition:
(n.) A board, placed on or before a shop, office, etc., on which ssome notice is given, as the name of a firm, of a business, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why did every experience have to be had from behind a low rail with a helpful signboard?
(2) Urban spaces are already filled with multitudes of signs including directories and signboards, calling for organization of signage as a system and not merely as a collection of individual signs.
(3) The signboards are also small, if not absent, so outsiders would have few clues of the luxury inside.
(4) The only evidence of their presence is a signboard outside the derelict courthouse and the enormous shattered water tower that, military officials say, the retreating rebels tried to destroy with dynamite when they evacuated the town.
(5) He has also invested in digital signboards to warn about roadworks or accidents.
(6) There are no coach parties or signboards, just me and an osprey who sits in the trees watching.
(7) Most had huge signboards on them, announcing the place as a future site for a church.
(8) Instead, several floats were interposed between the pair, including Bronnie Takes a Ride, depicting Bronwyn Bishop in a helicopter, and DIY Rainbow, featuring the Sydney signboard activist Danny Lim.
(9) Redeemed Christian Mission, Winners Chapel, Christ Embassy, the signboards went on and on.
(10) Travelling north, a train that had hurtled across the Pas de Calais now rolled so slowly through Kent and the London suburbs that you could read the names on the station signboards – Paddock Wood, Sevenoaks, Penge – as though somewhere in the darkness under the Channel we had fallen asleep with Cary Grant on the 20th Century Limited and woken up with Will Hay in Oh Mr Porter!
(11) Currently we are used as a deterrent signboard for the refugees of the world used by the Australian government which tells them this is what is going to happen to you if you come to Australia.” Neither letter has received a reply yet.