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Isle


Definition:

  • (n.) See Aisle.
  • (n.) An island.
  • (n.) A spot within another of a different color, as upon the wings of some insects.
  • (v. t.) To cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Viruses isolated from ticks (Ixodes uriae) from a seabird colony on the Isle of May, Scotland, were shown by complement fixation tests to be related to the Uukuniemi and Kemerovo serogroups.
  • (2) That was incorrect: for example, the Isle of Wight has never had a female MP.
  • (3) The problem, said Dr Kinsey, was that Shakespeare's "sceptred isle ... set in a silver sea" is now set in a sea of rubbish.
  • (4) But there are two key factors which are slowing down the crucial progress of renewable energy in the Western Isles.
  • (5) People born in the Southern Regions and in the Isles, when compared with people ever resident in Turin, have low mortality from malignancies and accidents and in general from all causes of death but respiratory diseases.
  • (6) Six-revolute-joint instrumented spatial linkages (6R ISLs) have become often-used devices to measure the complete six-degree-of-freedom motion of anatomical joints.
  • (7) Researching his book, he travelled to Kyrgyzstan, Australia, Tasmania, America, and throughout Europe and the British Isles.
  • (8) A curious mixture, born in South Africa and living on the Isle of Man, he draws on the oddities of both as a source for gags.
  • (9) Having personally witnessed their live act (Black Flag frantically twanging Bootsy’s Rubber Band) at Dingwalls in late August, I thought I’d made a great discovery until, two breathless days later, and a mere few hours before they left these fair isles, the Peppers deposited their press kit in my lap.
  • (10) The owners of a wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight won a repossession order today in their attempt to end an occupation of the plant by workers protesting at planned job losses.
  • (11) Vestas has confirmed the closure of two sites on the Isle of Wight and Southampton with the loss of 425 jobs.
  • (12) Gastrointestinal tuberculosis continues to occur sporadically in hospitals in the British Isles.
  • (13) Most immediately in Zurich is the likely publication of a settlement made in court in the Swiss canton of Zug, in connection with alleged bribes paid to senior Fifa officials in the late 1990s by the marketing company ISL.
  • (14) Nearly 11,000 islanders had objected to the scheme, which had been supported by the Western Isles council and the island's main community trust.
  • (15) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
  • (16) Six systems for defining and evaluating disease activity in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (the Ropes system, the National Institutes of Health [NIH] system, the New York Hospital for Special Surgery system, the British Isles Lupus Assessment Group [BILAG] scale, the University of Toronto SLE Disease Activity Index [SLE-DAI], and the Systemic Lupus Activity Measure [SLAM]) were tested on 25 SLE patients who were selected to represent a range of disease activity.
  • (17) 'A n excessive sense of entitlement" was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself.
  • (18) The apogee, for me, is his book Terra Nullius , a 2005 Australia travelogue that indicts Britons and white Australians for terrible abuses such as the transportation of Aborigine women to the chillingly named Isle of the Dead where they were given inappropriate and often fatal syphilis treatment, and the extensive forced separation of "half-blood" children from their families to prison-like camps.
  • (19) Information will be available at goldenballyork.co.uk • Today sees the official re-opening of one of the British Isles's most remote convenience stores.
  • (20) He has a fixation with islands (Cyprus, Sicily, The Tempest 's nameless "isle").

Istle


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Ixtle.

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