(n.) A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.
(n.) A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
Example Sentences:
(1) Included in the thermal destruction category are treatment technologies such as rotary kiln incineration, fluidized bed incineration, infrared thermal treatment, wet air oxidation, pyrolytic incineration, and vitrification.
(2) Kiln dust (KD) was fed as a digestive tract buffer, and the +KD diets contained 1.23% Ca and .37% P compared with .45% Ca and .36% P in -KD diets on an as-fed basis.
(3) The addition of Georgia cement kiln dust to the diet of cattle or weanling male rats has been reported to increase body weight and feed efficiency.
(4) Just twenty-four hours after the Duchess of Cambridge's pregnancy announcement, royal baby mania saw the government rush to end discrimination against female royals in the line of succession and the first commemorative mugs hit the kiln.
(5) In a small area (approximately 40 km2) against the mountains there is a concentration of over 20 large plants: oil refinery; iron and steel mill; fertilizer, cement, and gypsum production; coke kilns; and chemical, paint, and many other ancillary plants.
(6) Smoking was performed in the kiln of the institute at controlled temperatures.
(7) A total of 23 stationary air samples were collected during the entire working period of the kiln either above the kiln doors or approximately 2 m in front of the kiln doors (i.e.
(8) While surveying the hygienic conditions in small to medium ceramic industries, it was noted that an acute thermal stress problem existed in kiln unloading operations being performed manually.
(9) Read more The rescued children had moved from the eastern state of Odisha and were living and working with adults presumed to be their parents in the brick kiln, police said.
(10) Four steers were IS and 24 steers were assigned to a factorial arrangement of treatments (- or + Synovex-S ear implant and - or + dietary kiln dust), fed for 126 d and slaughtered.
(11) Children work in farms, eateries, mining, cotton firms, brick kilns and homes.
(12) The changes in the microbial load during steeping, germination, drying, kilning, and debranning of wheat and chickpea were studied, and the microflora of a weaning food formulation based on 48-hours germinated wheat and 24-hours germinated chickpea was also assayed.
(13) The level of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) from smoking kilns in Danish smokehouses was determined.
(14) The air is thick with fumes; smog seeps out from the hundreds of wood-burning kilns and smokehouses scattered across this community.
(15) Another is to burn the munitions in an armoured kiln.
(16) They cannot be built any bigger, as the lifting machinery and conveyor belt used to ferry the coffin into the 1,000C kiln are not designed to handle anything heavier.
(17) The rotary kiln incinerator at the 3M Chemolite plant in Cottage Grove, Minnesota is briefly described.
(18) A survey of benzo(a)pyrene contents in 32 samples of smoked fish is given, which had been hot or cold smoked in two different types of kilns.
(19) From India’s brick kilns to North Korean labour camps in Siberia – from fishing boats off the coast of Thailand to the enslavement of children in cannabis factories and nail bars across the UK – global awareness of the nature and scale of modern slavery is growing.
(20) Baum points to China and Vietnam, where soot from brick kilns is now coming under strict regulations.
Kin
Definition:
(n.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
(n.) Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
(n.) Relatives; persons of the same family or race.
(a.) Of the same nature or kind; kinder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Frequently, however, only incomplete data on confounders can be obtained from sources such as next-of-kin or co-workers.
(2) To test these competing hypotheses, a series of health, income, life satisfaction, and social participation variables (interaction with family, kin, neighbors, and friends) was examined with data from a large (N = 1269) sample of middle-aged and older blacks, Mexican Americans and whites in Los Angeles County.
(3) All deaths under age 80 were classified as being in former nuclear or non-nuclear workers depending on information supplied by next of kin.
(4) In addition, it is shown that the evolutionary mechanism which causes increases in the frequency of outsider excluders is a form of kin selection or group selection.
(5) The artist bravely offers us a more inclusive idea of who and what constitutes kin.
(6) The results suggest that young mothers who reside with their mothers or other adult kin, and those who are in close proximity to them, are no more likely to seek prenatal care during the first trimester, or to avoid smoking or drinking during pregnancy.
(7) Data on smoking habits, occupation, and residence were obtained from a next of kin to each study subject.
(8) The effects of intracellular pH on an inwardly rectifying K+ channel ("Kin channel") in opossum kidney (OK) cells were examined using the patch-clamp technique.
(9) An organ recovery coordinator from the local OPO helps the hospital staff in determining donation potential, seeking consent from the next of kin, and managing the donor after consent has been obtained.
(10) The approximate ED50 for the inhibition of collagen synthesis was near the Kin (0.4 nM; apparent dissociation constant of receptor nuclear internalization), while the ED50 for osteocalcin synthesis (0.08 nM) was below the Kin, and the ED50 for 24-hydroxylase induction (20 nM) was greater than the Kin.
(11) Although SMS acutely inhibits cAMP accumulation in both kin- mutants, neither mutant exhibited an enhanced forskolin-stimulated cAMP synthetic rate after chronic SMS treatment.
(12) A burden that falls initially on the next of kin who may even be elderly and, indeed, be in need of some sort of care themselves.
(13) Discussion of the patient's condition, technicalities, and judicial consequences with the next of kin, attendants, a pastor, and another physician is a necessary prelude.
(14) Federal regulations require researchers conducting clinical trials to obtain consent to experimentation from their intended subjects or, if the latter are incompetent, from next of kin.
(15) In the kin which the author examined, a further apparently familial renal hypoplasia was noted.
(16) Due to the overlapping of the statistical distribution curves of the normal and defective kins os isozymes, dependent on the relation of x and s, ranges of activity are shown where the measured enzymic activity is not conclusive for the judgement on the number of acting alleles, on the chosen probability level.
(17) We estimate the amount of time the average person spends in nursing homes over his or her lifetime (lifetime nursing home use), using data from the National Mortality Followback Survey of the next of kin of a sample of persons 25 years of age or older who died in 1986.
(18) Four generations of a kin with congenital Factor XII deficiency were examined for coagulation and fibrinolysis, with the homozygous female carrier of features with a Factor XII below 1% also revealing certain indications of a disturbed fibrinolysis.
(19) Douglas county sheriff John Hanlin said during the press conference that officials were still working to notify victims next-of-kin and said the medical examiner’s office was expected to release their names and brief biographies Friday afternoon.
(20) The second permits researchers to initiate experimental therapy under emergency conditions, and then to obtain consent to continue from the subjects' next of kin.