(a.) Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders.
(n.) The language of the Icelanders. It is one of the Scandinavian group, and is more nearly allied to the Old Norse than any other language now spoken.
Example Sentences:
(1) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(2) Were he from Iceland, or from the north pole, then I would say he still had his ski boots on.
(3) Cole said there were a number of reasons why the rate cut may not be passed on, including the need for building societies to fund the cost of the bail-out of the Bradford & Bingley and Icelandic banks, the need to maintain profits, the need to keep savings rates high and competition in the martgage market.
(4) (1988) reported linkage between markers located on the 5q11-q13 region of chromosome 5 and schizophrenia in five Icelandic and two British families.
(5) It could join the European Free Trade Association, which is made up of Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, all of which have access to the single market.
(6) The gene frequency estimates are compared with estimates available for Soay, Corsican, Shetland, Orkney, and Icelandic sheep.
(7) The club has completely adopted all of KSÍ’s infrastructure improvements and become, in the process, a monument to Iceland’s soccer revolution.
(8) Juhel Miah and a group of children and other teachers were about to take off from Iceland on 16 February on their way to the US when he was removed from the plane at Reykjavik.
(9) A few emerging-market economies have similar wobbles to Iceland but get assistance from the International Monetary Fund.
(10) In an intensification of his engagement with the EU debate, David Cameron, the UK prime minister, will take on the arguments for this semi-detached relationship with the EU during a visit to Iceland on Wednesday.
(11) But the task remains to move the country's remaining fossil fuel-dependent sectors to clean technology: Iceland's fishing fleet, cars and buses, which run on oil and petrol, ironically make the country one of the highest per head greenhouse gas emitters in Europe .
(12) Iceland , which has a population of just over 300,000, has currently capped the number of refugees it accepts at 50.
(13) Ethanol intoxications were seen 5-7 and 2-3 times as frequently in Finland and in Iceland, respectively, than in the other three countries.
(14) The study comprised 16 community health centres in Iceland and their target population, 12 rural and four urban.
(15) Linkage between chromosome 5 markers and schizophrenia has been proposed for a small number of Icelandic and English families.
(16) We worked awfully hard for this Premier League status and we don’t want to give it up.” Gylfi Sigurdsson’s 61st-minute strike – his sixth goal in 10 games – settled a scrappy Liberty Stadium contest that failed to spark into life until the Iceland international finished from substitute Leroy Fer’s pass.
(17) We estimate that the genetic variability at the apo A-IV gene locus accounts for 3.1% of the total variability of HDL-C and for 2.8% of the total variability of triglycerides in the population from Iceland.
(18) In Iceland, the first jurisdiction to pass legislation to put tobacco out of sight in 2001, the number of young smokers fell significantly, and laws have now been successfully implemented in nearly all Canadian provinces and Ireland too.
(19) Of all children diagnosed with leukemia in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, 981 had discontinued therapy before 1985 and had been followed up annually after cessation of therapy.
(20) This study describes the development of elderly mortality in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) during this century.
Scandinavian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Scandinavia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scandinavian forensic psychiatrists, lawyers and criminologists have analyzed and discussed the present situation and have found that there is still a need and justification for forensic psychiatry.
(2) At the Second Scandinavian Congress on Image Analysis in 1981 Kohonen provided evidence that the map of signals has the same topological order as the map of reactions.
(3) We present our management protocol as well as a survey of the routine management of acute epiglottitis in children in the five Scandinavian countries.
(4) In Scandinavian countries a sophisticated system for rehabilitating the hearing impaired has evolved and communication aids are recommended extensively.
(5) My assembly report, Braking Point , showed the big advantages of making 20mph the default speed limit for urban areas and, as the previous mayor's road safety ambassador, I pressed for the adoption of the zero-casualty approach applied in Scandinavian countries.
(6) This investigation of 28 tumours from 22 patients of Scandinavian origin shows that at the electron microscope level there is no difference between malignant cells in the invasion nodulus of superficially spreading melanoma and nodular melanoma.
(7) In the course of showing us the "dark" side of Scandinavian life, Michael Booth writes that Finland is "burdened by taboos" about the civil war, second world war and cold war ( The dark heart of Scandinavia , 28 January).
(8) But the British prime minister oozed schadenfreude with the result, received strong support from the Germans, the Dutch and the Scandinavians and looked pleased with the stalemate, portraying himself as the scourge of bloated Brussels, the guardian of the British and the European taxpayer.
(9) Because this concept has important implications for preventive cardiology, the results of several prevention trials, including the Cooperative North Scandinavian Enalapril Survival Study (CONSENSUS), Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD), and Survival and Ventricular Enlargement (SAVE) are awaited eagerly.
(10) Values for the control group were not different from the predictive values of Scandinavian reference studies or British submariners, although the ECCS standard predicted significantly lower values for the lung function variables both in divers and the control group.
(11) These results support the Scandinavian experience that herniography has a useful role in the management of patients who may have occult hernias as the underlying cause of abdominal wall symptoms.
(12) In the Scandinavian countries few regulations govern hospital infection control.
(13) At three months, patients with moderate to severe strokes (less than 40 on the Scandinavian Stroke Scale) in the ancrod group showed average improvement by a factor of 3 over the placebo group.
(14) It can have Scandinavian levels of public spending while the Bank of England provides Royal Bank of Scotland with a lender of last resort guarantee.
(15) Since up until now no uniform recommendations regarding indication for therapeutic abortion following irradiation have been drawn up in Western Germany, it is advisable to fall back on those recommendations drawn up by Scandinavian countries on the basis of thorough radiobiological knowledge and experience.
(16) The results showed that average intake of NSP by a Japanese in the above years did not exceed 13 g per day, which is as low as the corresponding intake by the Scandinavians and the British whose risk of colon cancer is known to be high.
(17) The results obtained by the new continuous-flow system were compared with those measured by the kinetic method according to the Scandinavian recommendation (10).
(18) Abnormal lactose tolerance tests were found in 81% of 98 blacks, 12% of 59 whites of Scandinavian or Northwestern European extraction, and three of nine non-European whites.
(19) The trial comprised eight Scandinavian neurologic centres and was designed as a double-blind cross-over study with 4 weeks' run-in, four weeks washout, and 8 weeks of either treatment.
(20) We consider a class of Markov models, referred to by Cox (1981, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 8, 93-115) as "observation-driven" models in which the conditional means and variances given the past are explicit functions of past outcomes.