(n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
(n.) A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
(v. i.) To play; to sport.
(n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(2) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
(3) Biological magnification of insecticides and PCB's occurred in both lakes.
(4) The remaining 5 soil samples, obtained from sites that were not in close proximity to lakes, were also negative except for one that contained type B.
(5) Tepco has taken on a US consultant, Lake Barrett , who led the NRC's cleanup of Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the nation's history.
(6) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
(7) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(8) In order to control adult midges, the distribution of larvae in the lake, the period and quantity of emergence from water, the time of flight, and the dispersal range of T. akamusi midges were studied.
(9) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
(10) A simplified procedure is described whereby tissue is removed via a posterior eyelid approach so that the eyelid may be tightened both horizontally and vertically, thus inverting the punctum and fixating it in the lacrimal lake.
(11) A nearby sign warns that the lake and its environs are a protected natural area, where building is prohibited.
(12) See kajakkompaniet.se and langholmenkajak.se for information Swimming, Liljeholmsbadet Stockholmers swim all year round at the floating bath on lake Mälaren in Hornstull on Södermalm.
(13) Over 40% of fish originated from private fishfarms whereas 20% were of governmental origin (governmental fishfarms, rivers, lakes) and 20% from aquaria.
(14) Biological nitrogen fixation, as determined by acetylene reduction, occurs in Lake Erie.
(15) Jason Kreis and the unremarkable success of Real Salt Lake Read more Kreis had built a serial playoff team in Salt Lake by defining a philosophical approach to the churning personnel turnover that the league’s roster-building restrictions tend to dictate.
(16) Aggregated virus was not dispersed by one-step dilution (7,000-fold) in distilled or untreated lake water but was dispersed if phosphate-buffered saline or clarified secondary sewage plant effluent was used as diluent.
(17) The paper presents data concerning the activity of microflora in water and ooze deposits of lakes of the Yaroslavl Region.
(18) Gardner was sentenced to death for fatally shooting a Salt Lake City attorney in 1985 while trying to escape from a courthouse.
(19) Total concentrations can range from a few parts per million in non-polluted intertidal and oceanic areas to parts per thousand in heavily contaminated estuarine, lake and near-shore environments.
(20) "My mother was born in Monte Carlo where her father – from the Lake District – was working for Cook's the travel agents, and educated in Nice.
Madder
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The less than full-throated defence of the cabinet member follows similar comments by White House chief of staff Dennis McDonough on Sunday, who said the president was “madder than hell” about the scandal.
(2) Twenty compounds were isolated from the roots of Rubia tinctorum which are used as a commercial source of madder color.
(3) Tom Madders, head of campaigns at the National Autistic Society, said: "The Department for Work and Pensions is certainly guilty of helping to drive this media narrative around benefits, portraying those who receive benefits as workshy scroungers or abusing a system that's really easy to cheat."
(4) But you put them in a madness asylum they get madder and madder and completely lose their mind, whereas if you work with them, they get better."
(5) You can watch as "the Mad Hatter gets even madder", and throw pepper at the Duchess.
(6) This "scrounger rhetoric" was already having an impact on people's lives, Madders said, citing a woman who rang the charity to say a neighbour who formerly gave lifts to her autistic child had stopped doing so following press articles about disabled people receiving free cars under a government scheme .
(7) President Barack Obama is "madder than hell" about the scandal enveloping the Department of Veterans Affairs, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said on Sunday.
(8) He's madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year's Mr Madman Competition!
(9) This will have an impact on cancer detection, as well as causing problems for the management of patients who may have benign diseases, but whose symptoms are significantly impacting on their quality of life and employment.” Labour’s Justin Madders, a shadow health minister and Cheshire MP, said: These plans are a betrayal of the founding principles of the NHS, that access to care should be available to everyone, and also that long waits shouldn’t happen.
(10) On quantitative analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography, the contents of ruberthric acid and lucidin-3-O-primeveroside in commercial madder color were determined 0.07% and 0.04%, respectively.
(11) The president is madder than hell,” McDonough told CBS's Face the Nation.
(12) The Labour MP Justin Madders, chair of the APPG, said social mobility was “shamefully low” at the top of UK society.
(13) We also investigated lucidinethylether, which is formed from lucidin by extraction of madder roots with boiling ethanol.
(14) Labour MP Justin Madders, a shadow health minister, recently outlined his concern about the lack of public attention so far on “Jeremy Hunt’s opaque and secretive reorganisation of the NHS, which is being drawn up behind closed doors at this very moment through sustainability and transformation plans”.
(15) Why do some men – Andrew Neil joked about being "madder than a box of Nadine Dorrieses" – feel able to laugh at her in so unbridled a fashion?
(16) "I don't think they're any madder than Jeremy Paxman or John Humphrys!"
(17) Camp is made in a dune's hollow and we go even madder.
(18) The differential diagnosis of the condition is discussed: especially the hydrolethalus syndrome, and the Young and Madders' syndrome reported in 1987.
(19) Obama – whom a spokesman last week described as “madder than hell” about the VA scandal – was delivering his weekly address on the first day of the long Memorial Day weekend.
(20) Two main coloring constituents in the commercial madder color were isolated and identified as ruberthric acid and lucidin-3-O-primeveroside.