(n.) A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.
(n.) A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.
Example Sentences:
(1) And if you don’t believe what I say, look to the World Economic Forum, hardly a hotbed of feminist thought.” That got a laugh, too – but it was still Clinton’s first big f-bomb of the campaign.
(2) Those borders remain hotbeds of corruption and abuse: traders are regularly harassed, sexually abused, or forced to pay bribes.
(3) Mir Ali is a hotbed of al-Qaida and Taliban militancy that has borne the brunt of a sharp escalation in US attacks this year.
(4) Take universal credit which, according to that notorious socialist hotbed the Economist , will not cover all 5.3 million working-age welfare recipients until 2614 if it keeps going at the current rate.
(5) Revenge porn does not only try to shame women – it tries to silence them too Read more The internet has become a hotbed for revenge porn websites, but Australian law has been slow to catch up with the technology.
(6) Kandahar is a hotbed of long-running personal vendettas.
(7) Conservative commentators have long taken aim at the BBC as a hotbed of leftwingers and Thompson has said it had been guilty of a "massive bias to the left" in the past.
(8) The House intelligence committee, a hotbed of support for the NSA, will hold its first public hearing of the fall legislative calendar on proposed surveillance legislation.
(9) Refugees urge Kenyan leaders to rethink closure of Dadaab camp Read more Kenya says the camps have become hotbeds for Islamist extremism, and claims several recent terrorist attacks were planned from Dadaab , the world’s largest refugee camp.
(10) Several members of the Isis cell of gunmen and suicide bombers who attacked the Stade de France, the Bataclan and a string of cafes and restaurants on 13 November – at least one of whom is still on the run – lived in Molenbeek , an area with a longstanding reputation as a hotbed of extremism.
(11) Nasher photograph: Alamy Deep Ellum , east of downtown, is a hotbed for art, music, and graffiti, and one of the more historic areas of the city: it played a big part in the development of American blues music.
(12) The government has insinuated that the camp is a recruitment hotbed for terror group Al-Shabaab .
(13) Livejournal, Russia's main blogging platform and a hotbed of opposition thought, came under DDoS [distributed denial of service] attack , an action many bloggers linked to Sunday's vote.
(14) The fighting accompanies a surge in militancy in Sinai – long considered a hotbed of extremism – and a rise in sectarian attacks on Christians in southern Egypt.
(15) Thinktank Civitas, not known as a hotbed of lefties, is arguing for long-term rolling tenancies, under which rents would only rise in line with inflation , so that families living in rented accommodation could plan their finances and avoid the constant risk of eviction.
(16) "The studios are very old and rickety," said Johannah Dyer, the chief executive of independent production company Hotbed Media, which filmed Channel 4 gameshow Win My Wage in ITV's Leeds studios.
(17) Meanwhile Dearborn, due to its large Muslim population, has become the bête noire of Christian and conservatives radicals, caricatured as a city living under Sharia law or a hotbed of terrorist activity .
(18) It’s true: as soon as you disembark from the plane at JFK airport, even before you go through that hotbed of warmth and friendliness that is Homeland Security, you are obligated to bow down to a giant bedbug and tip it 20%.
(19) The area is seen – wrongly according to some – as a hotbed of extremism.
(20) When he was in south-east Asia that was one of the things he talked to them about.” Asked whether there was concern about Britain being a hotbed of radicalisation that is influencing other countries, she said: “I don’t think I have seen particular evidence pointing to that.
Seed
Definition:
(pl. ) of Seed
(n.) A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
(n.) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
(n.) The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.
(n.) That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.
(n.) The principle of production.
(n.) Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.
(n.) Race; generation; birth.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.
(v. t.) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, a dietary 'no observable effect level' for subchronic ingestion of C. obtusifolia seed in rats was less than 0.15%.
(2) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
(3) Cissus quadrangularis was mutagenic, while 'decoctions' of cumin seeds, aniseeds and ginger were not.
(4) The major protein component in seeds is storage protein.
(5) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
(6) Furthermore, the animals did not increase their intake of sunflower seeds, a preferred diet for hamsters.
(7) Although not yet characterized, glycinin-related genes could encode other glycinin subunit families whose members accumulate in minor amounts in seeds.
(8) A procedure for cultivation of the seed material for biosynthesis of eremomycin providing an increase in the antibiotic yield by 24 per cent was developed.
(9) At 10 weeks only the seeded grafts could be assessed because all of the control grafts had occluded.
(10) Cells dissociated from 6-day rat cerebellum were seeded on glass coverslips coated with polylysine on one half and hyaluronectin on the other.
(11) The observed signals from germinating seeds of Phaseolus aures and decaying leaves of Eucalyptus are presented to show that the signals have characteristic kinetics and intensity.
(12) The accumulation of the mRNA corresponding to a rice high pI alpha-amylase gene, OSamy-c, was stimulated 20-fold by exogenous GA3 in half-seeds lacking embryos.
(13) Previous work from this laboratory had shown that Leguminosa seed extracts contain lectin-bound proteins.
(14) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
(15) Y-79 cells, seeded into a Matrigel matrix, form round colonies over a 3-week period similar to those of control, weakly metastatic murine melanoma cells.
(16) During the procedure of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG), the release of free oxygen radicals as a result of ischemia and reperfusion which plants the seeds of post-operative low cardiac output and arrhythmias has grave consequence on the reestablishment of cardiac function.
(17) Production of the vaccine basically consists in the multiplication of the working seed under standardized, well-defined conditions guaranteeing consistency of the vaccine lots.
(18) In cereals and legume seeds the activity of chymotrypsin inhibitors is generally lower than that of the trypsin inhibitors.
(19) The amino acid sequence of the smaller subunit of conglutin gamma, the simplest of the three globulins from the seeds of Lupinus angustifolius cv.
(20) Virus in the seed lot was not identified correctly, and the titer of homologous antiserum was mistakenly considered to be low as a result of neutralization tests conducted with the aggregated virus.