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Kelt


Definition:

  • (n.) See Kilt, n.
  • (n.) Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool.
  • (n.) A salmon after spawning.
  • (n.) Same as Celt, one of Celtic race.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Kelts may have a similar origin but they might include the Berbers of ancient Iberia as a third component.
  • (2) Japanese-American author Roland Kelts , who writes about Japan's youth, says it's inevitable that the future of Japanese relationships will be largely technology driven .
  • (3) Kelts says the need to escape into private, virtual worlds in Japan stems from the fact that it's an overcrowded nation with limited physical space.
  • (4) However, this study shows that fresh-water-adapted kelts exposed to seawater demonstrate rapid adaptation (within 48 h) in osmoregulatory parameters to values characteristics of seawater-adapted salmonids.
  • (5) As is characteristic for marine teleosts, kelts drink seawater and process the ingested water in the gut to replace body water lost by osmosis to the hyperosmotic medium.
  • (6) These fish, known as kelts, reportedly show a limited ability to hypoosmoregulate.
  • (7) Since the end of the second world war and the lifting of censorship restrictions, manga has been a platform for confronting and grappling with social and political taboos,” said Roland Kelts, the author of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the US .
  • (8) The physiological mechanisms involved in adaptation to a hyperosmotic external medium are discussed, and the osmoregulatory capacity of kelts is compared with that of salmon at other stages of the life cycle.
  • (9) A protozoan infection (Trichodina truttae) was identified in captive Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) kelts that died in spring of 1988 and 1989.
  • (10) This paper describes the measurement of whole body Ca, Cl, K, N, Na, O and P in Atlantic salmon parr, adults and kelts by neutron activation analysis (NAA).
  • (11) Anthropogenic 137Cs was found in sea-water (SW) salmon but not found in the freshwater (FW) stages (parr and kelts).

Knelt


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Kneel
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Kneel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Within seconds the chanting ceased as hundreds knelt to pray on the street.
  • (2) Something needs to change, and we’re just looking for solutions and working together to find them.” Thomas, Jenkins, Arian Foster and Kenny Stills knelt together during the anthem at the Dolphins’ opener.
  • (3) Finally Walter [Sisulu] came to me and knelt beside my bed, and I handed him the telegram.
  • (4) At one point, one knelt in front of the gleaming coffin topped with white roses.
  • (5) Jet-lagged and exhausted as I was, I knelt down and grasped my skull in anguish right there in front of the telly, bathed in the apocalyptic orange flames.
  • (6) They knew the lions were going to tear them to pieces but they knelt down and they prayed and they sang.
  • (7) She knelt in front of her sobbing husband and tried to ask him what was wrong.
  • (8) She knelt from a spot near the bench while the fellow substitutes around her stood.
  • (9) He knelt, changed magazines and started firing again, this time single shots.
  • (10) I didn't want to face the humiliation of their pity, so I knelt behind a bin and hid until they passed.
  • (11) While the dramatic picture of the cleric knelt beside Howes was beamed around the world, no one would know until years later that beneath his coat that day Reid was carrying an envelope containing one of the numerous top secret messages he ferried between Sinn Féin and Hume.
  • (12) As a police officer approached, Belcher knelt behind a vehicle, saying, "Guys, I have to do this...
  • (13) In the film, Ni says that during her pre-trial interrogation, a police officer [Xiao Wei] from Xicheng district police station "peed in my face" as she knelt on the floor.
  • (14) Several hundred men knelt around me in silence, their eyes closed and their hands on their knees.
  • (15) I started feeding her very discreetly when the waiter hurried over with a huge napkin, knelt down and said it was policy to cover up,” she told the Guardian.
  • (16) With an empty glass, he knelt down by a steel drum marked cabernet sauvignon 2013.
  • (17) Segmental epidural block allowed of lower dosages of bupivacaine, but only when the patient knelt on all four was it possible to eliminate post-block fetal heart deterioration completely.
  • (18) Another man was seen in the middle of the road holding his left leg while two people knelt over him.
  • (19) As the show ended, model Kristen McMenamy knelt down, found the end of a white rope in the autumn leaves that covered the catwalk, and followed it as it revealed a forest, hidden behind a fake brick wall.
  • (20) He tweeted: “50 yrs [sic] ago today, we set out to march from Selma to Montgomery to dramatize to the nation that people of color were denied the right to vote.” John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) Before we left a little church called Brown Chapel AME, we knelt and joined together in prayer.

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