(n.) A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.
(n.) Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice.
(n.) See Isle, n., 2.
(v. t.) To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle.
(v. t.) To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(3) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(4) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(5) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(6) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(7) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(8) A programme is described in which indigenous personnel are trained to provide culturally appropriate rehabilitation services for islanders of the Pacific Basin.
(9) Stimuli presented to this island could be detected and discriminated, although the subject reported he did not see them.
(10) Tepco has taken on a US consultant, Lake Barrett , who led the NRC's cleanup of Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the nation's history.
(11) Features of barrier island physiography and ecology were studied relative to selective bait deployment and site biosecurity.
(12) In a second phase of the study, a comparison was made between mortality rates of male and female progeny of White Leghorn-Rhode Island Red reciprocal crosses.
(13) Hospital discharge summary data were used to identify and study all 2,870 Rhode Island residents hospitalized in-state with head injuries during 1979 and 1980.
(14) The arrival on Monday was another first for the two countries since Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced a historic rapprochement in December 2014, and comes weeks after Obama’s visit to the Caribbean island.
(15) A fortnight ago the two countries signed a US$27 million deal to tackle deforestation on the island of Sumatra - a key problem in Indonesia where 80 per cent of emissions come from deforestation, both by legal and illegal loggers.
(16) There was an upstream "HTF" island (Hpa II tiny fragments) followed by four direct repeats of the "chorion box" enhancer.
(17) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(18) In Tokyo, the US president warned China against forcibly pressing its maritime claims, following Beijing's unilateral declaration last autumn of an air exclusion zone over Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.
(19) Nicholas Shaxson – the author of Treasure Islands, a book about the world of tax evasion – described the demands as "incredibly powerful".
(20) The Rhode Island Democrat got his start in national politics in 1999 when he was appointed to the Senate as a Republican after his father’s death.
Jura
Definition:
(n.) 1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.
(n.) The Jurassic period. See Jurassic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The canton of Berne is a heterogeneous region, geographically speaking, extending from the foot of the Jura mountains to high Alpine regions.
(2) At least two centuries after the species was hunted to extinction in the UK, three beaver families have been released into three lochs in forest unpopulated by people near the Sound of Jura in Argyll.
(3) The daily diet comprised local hams and Morteau sausage, local morels, honey beer, the fortified Macvin du Jura wine, and the extraordinary liqueur de sapin, an aperitif produced in nearby Pontarlier whose distinctive flavour comes from pine-shoot tips.
(4) Even if the Jura is low in comparison with Chamonix (about an hour and a half away), what it has to offer is unique.
(5) The remaining parts of p135 exhibited only limited homology, mainly with pseudorabies virus protein 0, but the entire sequence was highly conserved between two strains of BHV-1 (K22 and Jura).
(6) A five year study of the malformations Registry of the Rhone-Alpes-Auvergne-Jura area shows that the association between renal agenesis and syndactyly (with or without the eye abnormalities) is quite rare.
(7) Total RNA was isolated from Madin-Darby bovine kidney cells which had been infected with BHV-1.2b strain K22 or BHV-1.1 strain Jura in the presence or absence of metabolic inhibitors.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest View of the Jura from Geneva.
(9) The charm of places like the Jura lies in what they are definitively not: resorts designed to push as many people through the slopes as possible.
(10) Examinations performed for three years in a southern Jura's resort allow for securing a preliminary approximation as regards the seasonal population variations.
(11) Elliott and Hanning write: “Soon after his return from Jura, Cameron held a meeting in the Piccadilly offices of Robert Fleming, a merchant banker from the family who was helping to bankroll his campaign.
(12) The authors describe lesions of Echinococcus multilocularis larvae found in one of 476 Clethrionomys glareolus and one of 16 Arvicola terrestris examined from Lorraine and in four Microtus arvalis from Jura.
(13) Drive a few miles west from Geneva airport, with Mont Blanc behind you and the Jura mountains ahead, and you'll soon find yourself 80 metres above a giant underground particle collider, powerful enough to recreate, for a split-second, the earliest moments of the big bang.
(14) 'I think it will be easier to keep warm here,' he wrote to Astor from Jura, 'as we are better off for coal etc.'
(15) Like many residents, Gomes – known locally by the respected moniker Dona Jura – considers the cable car a mixed blessing, but she has taken advantage of its construction to relocate her bar to a viewing platform connected to the Américo Brum cable car station.
(16) The Dental Faculty of Strasbourg studied the following departments: Doubs, Jura, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Territoire de Belfort.
(17) Marriage-first birth intervals are examined in two historical populations, Quebec (1608-1765) and Haut-Jura (1689-1980), comparing intervals in mothers and daughters, and in sister-sister pairs.
(18) Monitoring first covered the Rhône-Alpes region, then was extended to the Auvergne region in 1983 and to the Jura district in 1985.
(19) He had also returned to Jura to finish Nineteen Eighty-Four.
(20) And what is most striking about the Jura is the sense of how its small and charming ski station feels such a part of the community and the landscape.