(n.) A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.
(n.) A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll.
Example Sentences:
(1) The company which has put forward the plans has been commissioned to build lagoons in China and has plans for others in Swansea.
(2) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
(3) A most likely new microsporidia parasites Atherina boyeri Risso, 1810 and is found from the lagoons south of Montpellier to the Berre lagoon.
(4) Tourists Guy and Jo from Margaret River, in Western Australia, were preparing to sail in the lagoon in a glass-bottom boat when a police officer stopped them.
(5) Tidal lagoons could also provide much of the power needed to make up for the predicted shortfall in UK energy that will be caused by the phasing out of coal plants and ageing nuclear reactors over the next decade, he added.
(6) TLP says the Cardiff project could begin construction by 2018 and be generating power by 2022, meaning there would be some overlap with the first lagoon pilot period.
(7) "A third lagoon will be competitive with the support received by new nuclear, but comes without the decommissioning costs and safety concerns," he added.
(8) Rio 2016 follows the expert advice of the World Health Organization, whose guidelines for Safe Recreational Water Environments recommend classifying water through a regular program of microbial water quality testing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rowers carry boats at the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon in Rio de Janeiro.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An illustration of the Tidal Lagoon Power’s project at Swansea Bay.
(10) They also claim that walling off the bay would turn it into a “septic lagoon” of trapped freshwater.
(11) Earlier this month, the Guardian revealed allegations that the government's engineering consultants , Parsons Brinckerhoff, had miscalculated the costs of a tidal lagoon project of the kind championed by FOE.
(12) The more water we impound, the more power we produce, the less support we require," said Mark Shorrock, chief executive of Tidal Lagoon Power.
(13) The fate and persistence of the mosquitocidal bacterium, Bacillus sphaericus, in dairy wastewater lagoons was evaluated in conjunction with trials of its larvicidal efficacy against Culex stigmatosoma.
(14) These include lined lagoons, chemical fixation of sludge, and ground sealing.
(15) Tidal lagoons on this scale are an exciting, but as yet an untested technology.
(16) A Cornwall Against Dean Super Quarry campaign has been set up and Gabriel Yvon-Durocher, senior lecturer in natural environment at the University of Exeter, said the project was “the first real test of what it means to be a Marine Conservation Zone, but will also be under intense scrutiny from conservation groups and the marine science community.” In a statement, Tidal Lagoon Power said it would soon appoint a marine works contractor to source and transport rock to the project but denied a decision had been taken to source materials from Cornwall: “No decisions have been taken with regards rock supply.
(17) The AP’s first published results were based on samples taken along the shores of the lagoon where rowing and canoeing events will be held.
(18) The slow-moving creature, which can measure up to 4.5m long and weigh 350kg, is found in the coastal lagoons and rivers of 21 states, and can reach as far inland as Mali, Niger and Chad.
(19) The not yet solved and serious uncertainities which need priority in the research are, according to the speaker, the control of the amebiasis of hatchery rainbow trout, the incysted icthyophtiriasis of various fresh water fishes, the rainbow trout myxosomiasis (Whirling disease), and the argulosis of eel reared in brackish water lagoons.
(20) There may be a role for tidal lagoon power in providing predictable low-carbon electricity in the UK if projects can be delivered at acceptable cost.
Oasis
Definition:
(n.) A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert.
Example Sentences:
(1) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(2) We stayed at the Secret Garden Tulum Hotel (doubles from £63) which offers a green oasis at reasonable prices.
(3) Photograph: KHIZR KHAN This sombre, serene oasis overlooking the Potomac river might also prove the graveyard of Donald Trump’s ambitions for the US presidency.
(4) "We're not really here," read John Reid's T-shirt, quoting a City song from the difficult years, as he stood in a daze in Albert Square listening to Oasis blast out from the speakers.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest WDBJ7’s station manager pays tribute to Adam Ward and Alison Parker WDBJ itself is an oasis in a down economy.
(6) The government needs to change tack and admit that its obsession with structural changes to schools has failed.” Ofsted chief criticises independent schools' lack of help for state schools Read more Wilshaw’s letter was based on the results of inspections of the management and operations of seven academy chains running 220 schools across the country: AET, E-Act, Wakefield City Academies, Oasis, CfBT, The Education Fellowship and the most recent, School Partnership Trust Academies (SPTA).
(7) Mark Coyle, who co-produced Definitely Maybe, said that Gallagher’s second solo LP reminds him “in some respects of the spirit” of Oasis’s 1994 debut.
(8) The OASI eligibility provisions include a retirement test (or earnings test), and in 1979 aged beneficiaries who are under age 72 give up $1 in current benefits for each $2 of annual earnings above $4,500.
(9) The image of the militants stalking the ruins of the ancient oasis, a hub of the Silk Road, has been a propaganda coup highlighting the impotence of the international community.
(10) The Trustees note that the combined assets of the OASI and DI programs will be sufficient to pay OASDI benefits on time well into the next century based on all four sets of economic and demographic assumptions.
(11) It said 12 had been killed and 10 injured in the shooting, understood to have taken place at the Bahariya oasis around 4pm on Sunday, local time.
(12) In the cities of Oasis and Riverside, Calif., tadpole shrimp significantly reduced the abundance of immature mosquitoes (Cx.
(13) The relationship between drying (moisture content) of soil and tadpole shrimp hatch was determined in studies conducted in mesocosms at the University of California Aquatic and Vector Control Research facilities at Riverside and at Oasis in the Coachella Valley of southern California.
(14) The burrows of R. opimus were the main shelters and breeding places of the sandflies, but infection was not transmitted equally in all burrows.It was known that the distribution of sandflies within the burrows was influenced by the humidity in the different parts of the burrow and a survey showed that the highest rate of infection of gerbils occurred in the burrows in those areas with the highest subsoil moisture content.Studies of the prevalence of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis among people in the settlements of the Murghab oasis showed that the years with the highest infection rate were also years with slightly higher rainfall and lower air temperatures in this area.
(15) Writing in the Observer , Rogers, whose architectural partnership designed the Millennium Dome and the National Assembly of Wales, states that the “brilliant garden bridge will enhance our public realm and reconnect the city, strengthening London’s renaissance, celebrating the river, creating an oasis of calm and beauty, and opening up new perspectives on London”.
(16) Restaurant Bar de la Marine (28 rue Achard) is a little oasis of comfort amid the rubble of the past and the concrete of the future.
(17) Celebrity use Celebrities who have admitted taking ecstasy include Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher, who claimed that taking drugs is 'like having a cup of tea', boyband star Brian Harvey and Blur's Damon Albarn.
(18) And, Jinkyo-En which was a desolate waste has come to an oasis in life for the Hansenites.
(19) The Trustees note that the assets of the OASI and DI Trust Funds, on a combined basis, will be sufficient to permit the timely payment of OASDI benefits for many years into the future, on the basis of all four sets of assumptions shown in the report.
(20) Therefore, hatch rates at Oasis were not associated with the length of the drying period (G = 35, P greater than 0.05).