(n.) A wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many names, as in Hazlehurst.
Example Sentences:
(1) With significant correlation, the experimental data show the statistics of the system not to be casual and Gaussian, but chaotic and persistent, with Hurst exponent <H> approximately 0.77 and fractal dimension <D> 1.23.
(2) Hurst, still reeling, says, "It shouldn't have happened.
(3) Cohen crossed the ball long from the right and Hurst rose magnificently to deflect in another header which Tilkowski could only scramble away from his right hand post, Ball turned the ball back into the goalmouth and the German’s desperation was unmistakable as Overath came hurtling in to scythe the ball away for a corner.
(4) The score should have been tied at 2-2 and the natural German retort that one of Geoff Hurst's goals in the 1966 World Cup was imaginary hardly makes the blunder of officials more palatable in Bloemfontein.
(5) Hurst, timing his run superbly to slip through the defence, much as he had done against Argentina, struck a perfect header low inside Tilkowski’s right-hand post.
(6) Nick Hurst, a Tory councillor for Stroud district council, is quoted in the survey saying: “There are a number of areas where the NHS should not trespass.
(7) "It's too early to tell what the impact of the closure will be on the community," says Hurst.
(8) The report adds that Geoff Hurst’s second goal in the 1966 final did not cross the line.
(9) For the Community Bank, the trouble started in the March of 2010, when the FDIC noticed the bank's performance was below its standards and issued Hurst a set of instructions describing what he had to do to stay in business.
(10) KPMG's Jonathan Hurst somewhat needlessly asks if he's referring to Rev Flowers.
(11) Richard Hurst (@richardhursty) I ate three of Howard's hash cakes and still felt peckish.
(12) The referee was already looking at his watch and three England supporters had prematurely invaded the pitch as Hurst took the ball on his chest.
(13) By analogy with the simple and the hyperacute forms of EAE, the myelinotoxicity may result from sensitized lymphocytes alone in the perivenous encephalomyelitis, from an association of circulating antibodies and lymphocytes in Hurst's disease.
(14) Hurst then asked the hacker who had commissioned him to do this.
(15) Hurst had been the subject of court orders obtained by the Ministry of Defence.
(16) Maloney dilators have superseded Hurst dilators because their tapered, flexible tip allows better guidance of the dilators into the lumen of the stricture.
(17) Hurst said he was not told that it would be used in a Labour party survey.
(18) Following the corner Hurst’s shot from the left was deflected across goal by Schulz, and Peters, strangely neglected by the German defenders, came in swiftly to take the ball on the half volley and drive it into the net from four or five yards.
(19) The cumulative sum procedure introduced by Hurst (1950) involves subtraction of a control reference level from a series of datum points and adding the differences consecutively.
(20) It should be taken out of government interference and run as a business by a commission.” Contacted on Sunday night, Hurst said he had written the words attributed to him, but was under the impression that he was replying to a student completing a piece of academic work.
Thicket
Definition:
(a.) A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the Big Dog waltzed through a thicket of policy points, dropping drawl-inflected catchphrases, the teleprompter stuttered.
(2) Only one terminal per thicket was labeled by injections in the gracile nucleus.
(3) We have just come through an epochal political event that saw the repeated claim by voters that they couldn’t make their way through the thicket of facts, half-facts and rhetoric put before them.
(4) With Estonia one of the most sparsely populated countries in the EU, the border is largely rural and in many places densely thicketed and overgrown.
(5) For 45 minutes, Arjen Robben twisted and turned with the ball only to find himself confronted by an impenetrable thicket of blue-shirted Brazil defenders.
(6) Flies restricted to the riverine gallery forest in the dry season become dispersed into approximately 1 km of the Acacia thickets in the wet season.
(7) Labour's Frank Field, one of the MPs pressing for a crackdown, claimed Eastleigh had produced a change of heart, but ministers argue there is still a thicket of EU regulations on free movement of workers that they have been studying since the autumn.
(8) 9.11pm BST 67 min: Isco has a whack at the Atlético goal through a thicket of legs from the right-hand side of the D, but drags his effort well wide left.
(9) And perhaps the finding and matching of objects mimics tasks our brains are good at, but don't get to do very much any more, like searching for ripe fruit in tangled thickets, or picking stones out of dried lentils.
(10) Places like the Elephant and Castle in south London, which had been replanned so that tall slab blocks formed squares around dense thickets of trees, had made mistakes about how cities "worked".
(11) But one idea has emerged through the thickets of ideological conflict and, as one teacher put it to me, "it is an idea with wings".
(12) In a nearby thicket, an Afghan kickboxer says the constant tension has made him take up smoking.
(13) And immediately you stumble into a thicket of problems that the passage of 25 years in any other branch of the media would automatically raise.
(14) In the rostral dorsal accessory olive they synapsed most frequently on dendrites that directly contacted other dendrites, forming dendritic thickets.
(15) Blood-meal squashes from tsetse collected in the Roo Valley and Obaluanda areas and in the Ruma, Otuok, and Rari thickets showed that the important hosts were bushbuck and bushpig.
(16) The disease is associated with the presence of the tsetse Glossina tachinoides and Glossina palpalis which is plentiful and widespread throughout the division as well as in thickets along the streams in the area.
(17) Visitors who pass through MK as it was intended, by car, see no recognisable town at all: there’s a grid of broad roads and endless roundabouts, with houses and industrial estates hidden behind grassy banks and thickets of willow, pine and dogwood.
(18) But we have over-complicated clinical research with a thicket of approvals and contracts that do little for patients or communities.
(19) Typically the dendritic thickets were composed of two or three dendrites that received input from more than one round vesicle-containing synaptic terminal.
(20) Now the mention of her name makes me think of a delightfully full thicket after seeing hers twice in one week: first in the film Crystal Fair and the Magical Cactus, and then in Girls .