(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.
Thorn
Definition:
(n.) A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.
(n.) Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.
(n.) Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.
(n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.
(v. t.) To prick, as with a thorn.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the outspoken journalist and human rights activist has long been a thorn in Ali Abdullah Saleh's side, agitating for press freedoms and staging weekly sit-ins to demand the release of political prisoners from jail – a place she has been several times herself.
(2) Daballen navigates the jeep between thorn bushes and over furrows, guided by a rising moon and his intimate knowledge of the terrain.
(3) Adoption and fostering: ‘The best thing you have ever done’ Read more The process of adopting disabled children was much harder when she first did it in the 1980s, Thorn says, adding that people tended to be bemused as to why any parent would volunteer for the additional work involved in bringing up children with varying needs.
(4) Puncture wounds were cuased in 9 patients by sea urchin spines and 1 patient by a date palm thorn.
(5) Supporters said they were not surprised she had been let go as she had become “a thorn in the flesh” of the DfE after speaking out against government policies.
(6) The call by Denmark’s prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, for the country to stand together echoes the Norwegian response after the massacre at Utøya .
(7) Sperm motion was analysed using the Hamilton-Thorn system before and after incubation and treatment.
(8) Three cases are reported in which pseudotumours developed in the hand following injury by oil palm thorns.
(9) Since becoming Denmark's first female prime minister two years ago, Thorning-Schmidt has had to contend with the media nickname of "Gucci Helle", so called because of her fondness for designer clothes.
(10) Wyden and Udall have been thorns in the side of the intelligence community, using their position on the committee, which permits them privileged access to classified briefings, to repeatedly challenge senior officials on the accuracy of their public testimony.
(11) He said police reports in Sweden showed SW had told a friend, Marie Thorn, that she felt police and others around her "railroaded her" into pressing charges.
(12) Although reviewers' letters may be considered an unnecessary thorn in the side, the improved practice that has resulted from these efforts gives strong support to their continued activities.
(13) In layers V and VI they mainly contact with the dendrite trunks and with the nervous cell bodies and more rarely with thorns.
(14) They gradually displayed active membrane pseudopodia, thorn-like processes and petal-like ruffles after 2 h to 4 h of cultivation.
(15) Other names circulating in EU capitals for the top commission job include the Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny, the outgoing Finnish prime minister on the centre-right, Jyrki Katainen, and the Danish prime minister on the centre-left, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
(16) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
(17) Synovectomy and removal of the plant thorn usually results in normal joint function.
(18) But, as Aimee Thorne-Thomsen, the vice president for strategic partnerships at Advocates for Youth, wrote in 2010 , rather than focus on if abortion is rare enough to make enough people comfortable, "What if we stopped focusing on the number of abortions and instead focused on the women themselves?"
(19) One teacher, who was hiding in a closet in the math lab, heard Thorne yell, "Put the gun down!"
(20) Based on a correlative radiographic and histologic slab study of the wrists in 50 infants who died of unrelated diseases, the author's chief conclusions are as follow: 1) On the wrist radiograph of the infant, bone bark in the Ranvier's groove may appear as a "thorn-like" bony process on the margins of the metaphysis of the radius and ulna.