(n.) A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kier and Machar have presided over a conflict that has displaced more than two million people.
(2) Sweet taste receptor models that have been published are mainly based on the original Shallenberger and Acree model of the glucophores AH-B with contributions from Kier (AH-B-X).
(3) Two graph theoretical approaches (the distance method of Wiener and the connectivity index method of Randic, Kier, and Hall) and an approach utilizing ad hoc molecular descriptors were employed.
(4) We are not talking about current spending that the chancellor will decide on come the budget.” More boasts about HS2's benefits – but costs keep going off the rails Read more Carillion’s joint venture with French construction company Eiffage and UK firm Kier has won two contracts worth £1.4bn to design and build the North Portal Chiltern tunnels to Brackley and the Brackley to Long Itchington Wood Green tunnel South Portal.
(5) The companies – Balfour Beatty , Carillion, Costain, Kier, Laing O'Rourke, Sir Robert McAlpine, Skanska UK and Vinci – said: "The scheme is intended to make it as simple as possible for any worker with a legitimate claim to access compensation."
(6) Correlations between Hansch's hydrophobic parameter (pi) and Kier and Hall's topological index (1 chi) allowed pi to be substituted by 1 chi in the structure-activity correlations of the carcinogenicity data of the nitrosamines studied.
(7) When people applied for work on building sites, senior employees at Carillion, Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Kier, Costain, McAlpine and more than 30 other companies would fax their names to the Consulting Association, where Kerr would check his files to see if they matched.
(8) The activity of these renin inhibitors was found to be significantly correlated with Kier's first-order valence molecular connectivity index (1 chi v) and with the molecular weight (MW) of the molecules.
(9) Formerly Group chief executive Officer Kier Group plc.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest When people applied for work on building sites, employees at Carillion, Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Kier, Costain, McAlpine and more than 30 other companies would fax their names to the Consulting Association, where Kerr would check his files to see if they matched.
(11) Satisfactory regression models for solubility were obtained with both the Randic-Kier-Hall approach and the ad hoc descriptors approach.
(12) The director of public prosecutions, Kier Starmer QC, issued a statement on Savile's offending.
Pier
Definition:
(n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.
(n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.
(n.) A projecting wharf or landing place.
Example Sentences:
(1) In north Wales, Llandudno town council has had to cancel its annual display at short notice after it was told it would have to pay at least £22,000 to insure the wonderful Victorian pier in case of a fire.
(2) The centre-left PD party, for example, is in turmoil - with leader Pier Luigi Bersani resigning over the weekend after both his favoured candidates for the presidency were rejected.
(3) In between, I watch a parade of Berliner life: women chain-smoking in the pool’s trademark wicker chairs, fully clothed men sipping a morning beer in the 26C heat, kids jumping off the diving pier and screaming down the large waterslide.
(4) The Piers Harris Self-Concept Scale was administered to 174 fourth and sixth graders, half of whom attended SDP schools and half control schools.
(5) For all that it might suggest seaside breaks and afternoons whiled away on the pier, the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth does not feel like a happy place.
(6) You think that your experiences are anything compared to mine?” In response to the recording journalist, Piers Morgan tweeted: “This tape is outrageous.
(7) Model Katie Price's interview with Piers Morgan, in which she spoke about her breakup with husband Peter Andre and her recent miscarriage, brought 4.5 million viewers to ITV1 on Saturday, 11 July.
(8) "I ask because I saw Piers Morgan on TV suggesting that Arsenal were the best team ever because they went a season without losing.
(9) Two reservation groups, matched for age and sex, received four administration of a personal (Piers-Harris) and an Indian self-concept scale, in a repeated measures counterbalanced design, varying language and order.
(10) "I have a lot of admiration for Rupert Murdoch personally," Brown told GQ's interviewer, Piers Morgan.
(11) Abbado's land cascades down a steep slope into the Mediterranean, and you have to negotiate a series of crazily angled wooden walkways, designed by him, to get to his beach and the pier for his yacht.
(12) Jeremy’s older brother Piers – a self-employed weather forecaster – was a prime example.
(13) Is it any wonder that Piers Morgan has moved to the US?
(14) He would soon find strong allies in Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the Italian left, who would sweep Italy off her feet, and in the German Social Democrats who would finally oust Angela Merkel from power.
(15) That wasn't a problem, as long as there was a high turnover of new initiates, all figuratively staggering out of Margate pier at six in the morning, convinced they had just discovered the future of music.
(16) Piers Morgan has spent a bitter week hitting out at his former CNN colleague Anderson Cooper, blaming the dismal ratings for Piers Morgan Tonight on Cooper’s poor lead-in.
(17) Because – and I hate to break this to Piers – if you are emasculated by the notion of a woman making her own reproductive choices, then you were never much of a man to begin with.
(18) What's always puzzled me about the charge sheet against Boris is the Piers Gaveston problem.
(19) Compared with the other designs, prostheses with nonrigid connectors at the pier exhibited greater apical and horizontal stress particularly with one-point loading on the pier.
(20) There are bad days, increasingly so for them, but then there are days like this that break new boundaries of cataclysmic play and make those of us who predicted a close series seem like end-of-the-pier charlatan soothsayers.