(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").
Lisle
Definition:
(n.) A city of France celebrated for certain manufactures.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the laser-induced shockwave lithotripsy (LISL) the laser-pulses of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser produce an optical breakdown in the irrigation liquid surrounding the urinary stone.
(2) Using an order usually reserved to force owners to clean up derelict or shabby properties, Kensington and Chelsea council has told owner Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring that she must repaint the garish design back to its original white.
(3) Meanwhile, Lisle Austin, the Barbados official who was banned for one year after he went to court in the Bahamas to try to force through his claim to succeed Warner as president of Concacaf has branded Fifa as "corrupt".
(4) If Cool succeeds in climbing the world's highest mountain again, he will have honoured a pledge by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Lisle Strutt, deputy leader of the pioneering 1922 expedition, made to Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who awarded the climbers medals at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix.
(5) In a work, the results of studying the properties of 17 types of the surgical knots of polyamide threads (braided, lisle, monothreads) are presented.
(6) But as Ms Lisle-Mainwaring demonstrated by painting her £15m terrace house like an ice-cream stall from Margate, we are free in the UK to be creative.
(7) Defying Kensington and Chelsea council’s ruling that the beach hut-style design should be removed, Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring said she was “entitled to do what I wish with it, and there are a lot of people who agree with me.
(8) It’s more Camden or something like that.” “My neighbours say they want the building kept in commercial use,” Lisle-Mainwairing said.
(9) Significant differences were found in the subclass results obtained by the ICN ImmunoBiologicals assay (Lisle, Ill.), compared to the two reference laboratories.
(10) So my first reaction when I read about the red and white stripes that Lisle-Mainwaring had painted on her townhouse in South End, in London’s Kensington, was pride that we live in a nation where such bursts of cultural creativity are possible – even if it was motivated by revenge and a bit of mild vandalism.
(11) Laser-induced shockwave lithotripsy (LISL) appears to be a very promising solution to this problem.
(12) Candy-stripe house redesign makes Kensington neighbours see red Read more If Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring lived in Celebration, Disney’s model town in Florida, painting the outside of her house with red stripes might not have sent her to the electric chair, but there would have been consequences.
(13) 10.40am: An email arrives from our Fans' Network member Rod de Lisle on how New Zealand's progress is being experienced over there: "Unusually, the round ball code has kicked rugby off the front page in NZ sports papers this week.
(14) Laser-induced shock wave lithotripsy (LISL) with a Q-switched neodymium-YAG laser depends on the generation of a laser-induced breakdown in the fluid surrounding the stone.
(15) Kensington and Chelsea council says house stripes must go Read more Lisle-Mainwaring, who lives in Switzerland, was said to have ordered the stripes be painted in order to provoke her neighbours.
(16) Laser induced shockwave lithotripsy (LISL) on artificially inserted human renal calculi was realized in explanted pig ureters.
(17) Her solicitors said they had no comment to make on any further legal action that would be taken by Lisle-Mainwaring.
(18) Yet this is how Kensington resident Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring has chosen to express her annoyance with the local council and neighbours, who objected to her basement development but are now “horrendously unhappy”.
(19) Since the LISL is an endoscopic technique, problems arise from the transmission of the laser pulses through optical fibers.
(20) She may tell the press that everyone around her loves the stripes, and there are always a few eccentric people who like odd things just because they are odd, but I can tell you that most people absolutely do not think that way.” Lisle-Mainwaring has the right to appeal by 5 June in the magistrates court but otherwise must repaint the front elevation white and carry out repairs to the windows by 3 July.