(n.) A shrubby plant of the genus Jasminum, bearing flowers of a peculiarly fragrant odor. The J. officinale, common in the south of Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is J. Sambac, and, with J. angustifolia, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see Gelsemium). Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of Calotropis and Faramea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because the housing crisis goes far beyond us Focus E15 mums | Jasmin Stone Read more Annette May, 68, from Lambeth Annette May has watched with mounting dismay as the community fabric of the council estate where she has lived for 44 years steadily unravels.
(2) The country is often celebrated as the sole success story, its move from the jasmine revolution of the streets to democracy has been short and comparatively smooth.
(3) Jasmin Lorch, from the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, said: “If the military gets the feeling that its vested interests are threatened, it can always act as a veto player and block further reforms.” The New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch said the elections were fundamentally flawed, citing a lack of an independent election commission with its leader, chairman U Tin Aye, both a former army general and former member of the ruling party.
(4) It feels like it was only yesterday that I was kicking Blue Jasmine down the stairs like Tommy Udo in Kiss Of Death.
(5) Blue Jasmine contains two scenes that would have triggered the warning spots (which otherwise would face being cut).
(6) Click here for the Magic in the Moonlight trailer Compared with the gloomy ruminations on ageing and aspiration that characterised the well-received Blue Jasmine, which won Cate Blanchett an Oscar , this is Allen going back to the knockabout farce and blithe May-December couplings that populate his lighter films.
(7) Her brother has the dairy-free apricot and jasmine sorbet.
(8) The sleep time was prolonged by terpinyl acetate and phenethyl alcohol, and was shortened by lemon oil and jasmin oil.
(9) Speaking about his most recent release, in which Cate Blanchett plays Jasmine, a socialite whose luxurious New York life abruptly ends with the suicide of her corrupt financier husband, Allen said he felt more comfortable writing serious roles for women, rather than men.
(10) We went to a house party but got booted out because we had a foam fight in their bathroom and in the process Jasmine lost her trousers.’ Photograph: Robert Lang Lang photographed both boys and girls but, when choosing images for his show, he found the images of the women particularly striking.
(11) Jasmine, broke and shaky, goes to stay with adopted sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) in her boxy San Francisco flat.
(12) "We choose pink to represent the Jasmine revolution and to show that we do not want violence," said Rudhwan Masude, head of the student union at Sana'a University.
(13) Our critic Peter Bradshaw gave Blue Jasmine five stars and hailed it as his best in 20 years.
(14) Twenty-year-old Jasmin Stone of Focus E15, who continues to campaign vociferously on housing issues , is disillusioned by the lot.
(15) The message – posted on an overseas website on Saturday – was titled "The jasmine revolution in China".
(16) The anti-carcinogenic effects of the 5 varieties of Chinese tea were also not the same the Fujian Oolong tea and Jasmine tea had the strongest effect.
(17) The romantic comedy has been picking up lukewarm early reviews , by contrast with recent Oscar-winning Allen fare such as 2012's Midnight in Paris and last year's Blue Jasmine.
(18) PVR Pictures, Blue Jasmine's Indian distributor, had planned to show the film on 25-30 screens last weekend, but the film was pulled.
(19) Its “Jasmine revolution” in 2011 unseated a corrupt dictator relatively peacefully and ushered in a transition to democratic elections and habits.
(20) It could take years to recover," adds Jasmine Atkinson, who works at the reserve.
Yellow
Definition:
(v. t.) To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.
(superl.) Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.
(n.) A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green.
(n.) A yellow pigment.
(v. i.) To become yellow or yellower.
Example Sentences:
(1) It contains 10,000 apartments so far, in blocks that might appear Soviet but for shades of blue, green and yellow.
(2) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
(3) 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.
(4) This paper analyzes the nucleotide sequences of three viruses: Kunjin, west Nile, and yellow fever.
(5) The bacterial-binding activity and mammalian receptor-binding activities in each of two samples co-chromatographed on a Remazol yellow GGL-Sepharose affinity column strongly indicated that the same immunoglobulin species reacts with both antigens.
(6) Fifty physiologically characterized units were injected with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) or Lucifer yellow CH (LY) and their processes were traced to the crista.
(7) ELISA, cDNA dot blot hybridization and transmission by vector aphids were used to investigate the occurrence and degree of cross-protection produced in oat plants by virus isolates representing five strains or serotypes of barley yellow dwarf virus, namely PAV, MAV, SGV, RPV and RMV.
(8) The potential use of Lucifer Yellow exchange inhibition as a test for the screening of tumor promoters is discussed.
(9) The mechanisms that protect female viable yellow mice from hyperglycemia are not known.
(10) Yellow lupin nodule specific sequences were selected by screening of cDNA library prepared from lupin nodule poly(A)+RNA.
(11) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
(12) Physiologically identified giant fibers were filled intracellularly with Lucifer Yellow.
(13) The spectra were obtained with a variety of excitation wavelengths, spanning the UV, violet, and yellow-green regions of the absorption spectrum, and at temperatures of 30 and 200 K. The RR data indicate that the structures of the bacteriochlorin pigments in RCs from Rb.
(14) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
(15) N-Methylformamide extracts of acid-treated precipitated VFe protein of the V-nitrogenase of Azotobacter chroococcum are yellow-brown in colour and contain vanadium, iron and acid-labile sulphur in the approximate proportions 1:6:5.
(16) A bloody nasogastric aspirate is believed to imply active upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding, while a nonbloody yellow-green nasogastric aspirate that contains duodenal secretions suggests the absence of bleeding proximal to the ligament of Treitz.
(17) The JT one was soft from what I saw and it was a yellow card.
(18) Mutant plants are characterized by reduced height, defective yellow striping on leaves, and aborted kernels on ears.
(19) Yellow signs swing from lampposts urging citizens to “hold high the great banner of national unity”.
(20) South Korea was put on high alert a year ago amid fears that the North was about to provoke a clash in the contested waters of the Yellow Sea.