(n.) A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the ice.
Example Sentences:
(1) While many, particularly older Albanians, are unconcerned about the gradual obliteration of the concrete reminders of a brutal, highly militarised regime, others believe the igloo-shaped pillboxes and spacious underground shelters should remain.
(2) So, even after a massive snow fall, we don’t get much time to enjoy its pleasures – digging out igloos once the storm has passed, pretending we’re Laura Ingalls Wilder and trying to make maple candy in the snow , sledding down that one big hill.
(3) The igloo-shaped tents, on the shores of Lake Torassieppi in Finnish Lapland, have one transparent wall facing north for prime sky-gazing.
(4) With temperatures at a pleasantly bearable -1C, some of the crew went on to the ice surrounding the ship in all directions and killed time by making igloos.
(5) Igloo is working with the Homes and Communities Agency on a pilot scheme at Trevenson Park near Pool in Cornwall to provide more than 50 custom-build homes, alongside conventional new-builds.
(6) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian In the 1960s, a group of Italian artists known as the Arte Povera movement rejected the industrial achievements of Italy's postwar "miracle", choosing instead to make art that was rooted in nature and the fragile human past – casting tree trunks, building igloos.
(7) They suggested householders excavate holes in their living rooms and build “igloo shelters”; the components cost £554 – about £1,500 in today’s money.
(8) He told Grieve: "You would virtually have to be living in an igloo not to know the identity of at least one Premier League footballer who has obtained an injunction.
(9) I'm going to be a lonely old hermit living out in some kind of desert igloo with a couple of robots.'"
(10) The message he wanted the meeting to send out to the Occupy protesters huddling in their igloos was that Davos "gets it".
(11) Your red top drones on about British jobs for British workers, yet your own reporters' pay has been on ice so long it was last seen living in an igloo and hunting seals.
(12) It looks fun: Camp Alphaville (@CampAlphaville) What the heck is an igloo anyway?
(13) Or, as Michael Bruce, the CEO of online estate agent Purplebricks.com, puts it: “Inspiring people to realise their potential.” Worst part of the job: “Too many meetings,” says John Styring, the CEO of Igloo Books.
(14) John Sawyer, head of custom-build at builder Igloo Regeneration, suggests these homes typically offer 10% more space for an average £10,000 less than an equivalent new-build.
(15) The Occupy protesters have set up a camp of igloos in this Swiss Alpine resort attended by prime ministers, central bankers, business people and charitable organisations from across the globe.
(16) The resort also offers igloo-building, skidoo rides and a tour of the slopes on a piste basher.
(17) Its discreet style is inspired by the old Rapa Nui dwellings, which someone described to me as flat-roofed igloos but with grass growing over the top.
(18) This year the protests will be centred on an igloo, which will be home to Occupy the World Economic Forum.
Inuit
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The diets of the Inuit, as of all Indigenous People, are not comprised solely of the historically traditional foods; however these foods are still vitally important as a source of nutrients and cultural definition.
(2) The tuberculosis experience is an important part of modern Inuit history and an understanding of how they viewed it goes some way towards explaining some of the attitudes Inuit have toward the health system in the North today.
(3) While the rates of tuberculosis were quite low in the last group, which constitutes about 82% of the population of Canada, they were 16 times higher among Indians and 24 times higher among Inuit.
(4) Longitudinal observations made during the past two decades on the prevalence of chronic ear disease in Inuit Elementary School Children in the Eastern Canadian Arctic reveal that as the current segment of this population enters into the 1990's a significant decrease in the prevalence is occurring.
(5) But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.
(6) Overall prevalence rates for HBsAg were marginally higher among Inuit than Dene (3.9% and 2.9%, respectively; P less than 0.05), as were rates for anti-HBs (24.5% and 21.5%, respectively; P less than 0.01).
(7) Tuberculosis provided Canadian Inuit with a harsh and bitter lesson in how to be sick in the twentieth century.
(8) Whatever evolves, Inuit co-operation and advice is essential; their cultural identity must be respected if any project is to be successful.
(9) Today, the Copper Inuit family has lost its focus as the primary agent of socialization and learning, and many young Inuit now spend most of their time within the context of a greatly expanded peer group which has gradually acquired the values and aspirations of the southern adolescent sub-culture.
(10) Thirty-four infants (25 Inuit and 9 Caucasians) with protein-energy malnutrition and intractable diarrhea were treated with total parenteral nutrition (TNP) consisting of a casein hydrolysate, a soybean emulsion and dextrose.
(11) The vast territory has a population of more than 33,300 people, of whom 84% are Inuit.
(12) At the same time, Inuit family relations have undergone drastic changes as a result of population increase, population concentration, access to government housing, introduction of formal schooling, and the availability of social subsides.
(13) Mads Christensen, executive director of Greenpeace Nordic, confirmed the group had reputational problems with many Inuit because of its campaigns against seal culling in the 1970s and 80s.
(14) The original said Aqqaluk Lynge is the former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council.
(15) In contrast to Caucasian populations, in the Inuit population the apoE polymorphism showed only a minor influence on the plasma lipid and (apo)lipoprotein levels, as evaluated by multiple regression analysis, with the exception of apoE levels.
(16) said Terry Audla, president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, which represents about 55,000 people.
(17) By the age of two years 69.2 percent of Dene, 63.5 percent of Inuit, 33.3 percent of non-native and 22.9 percent of Edmonton children had CMV antibody.
(18) It also heard David Cameron's environment adviser, millionaire environmentalist Zac Goldsmith, and an Inuit leader from Greenland both say climate change was already seriously affecting life around the world.
(19) Rates for colorectal cancer in Canadian Inuit are similar to those expected for the Canadian population as a whole and do not appear to be increasing.
(20) Prevalence and incidence rates for rheumatic diseases were found to be minimal among the Inuit people in the Keewatin District of the Northwest Territories, Canada.