(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.
Serpentine
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a serpent; having the shape or qualities of a serpent; subtle; winding or turning one way and the other, like a moving serpent; anfractuous; meandering; sinuous; zigzag; as, serpentine braid.
(n.) A mineral or rock consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of magnesia. It is usually of an obscure green color, often with a spotted or mottled appearance resembling a serpent's skin. Precious, or noble, serpentine is translucent and of a rich oil-green color.
(n.) A kind of ancient cannon.
(v. i.) To serpentize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Non-occupational exposure of the population living in the vicinity of the serpentine mining and processing mill in Nasławice was assessed.
(2) In October 2013, for a group exhibition at London’s Serpentine Gallery , they published a report called Youth Mode: A Report on Freedom , one chapter of which was entitled “Normcore”.
(3) The rock consists essentially of the fibrous serpentine mineral chrysotile (asbestos) and platy serpentines.
(4) The Serpentine's Poetry Marathon talks last year gave us 47 men and 18 women, as did its Manifesto Marathon the previous year.
(5) A few details of their plans have been revealed including the indication of it being the Serpentine's lowest pavilion ever, with the roof barely 1.5 metres (5ft) off the ground.
(6) Serpentine vessels were well seen as flow voids against high signal cyst or tumor on T2-weighted images, but contrast-enhanced CT also demonstrated them.
(7) A Swiss, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, is the co-director of the Serpentine Gallery.
(8) We present a case of cerebral giant serpentine aneurysm (GSA) and propose a definition of GSA.
(9) This giant serpentine aneurysm is a rather rare disease.
(10) In 10 years, only one solo woman architect, Zaha Hadid, has sketched the Serpentine's garden tent.
(11) Multiple extremely low-intensity serpentine "flow void" signs, indicating afferent and efferent vessels, were observed within or around the tumor.
(12) But later came work as diverse as The Maybe (1995) featuring the actor Tilda Swinton lying in a glass vitrine in the Serpentine Gallery, in London; a melted silver dollar drawn into wire so thin it was as long as the Empire State Building is tall; the wrapping of Rodin's The Kiss in a mile of string; and a 40-minute video of Parker interviewing Noam Chomsky.
(13) Angiograms in each case revealed a distinctive serpentine vascular channel surrounded by an avascular area causing a "mass effect."
(14) Environmental factors: The drinking-water pool in northern California is contaminated with asbestos of the serpentine type, which is associated with mesothelioma of the peritoneum and carcinoma of the lung, gallbladder, and pancreas.
(15) A simple and effective method of temporary tarsorrhaphy, which is referred to as intermarginal serpentine temporary tarsorrhaphy, is presented.
(16) Two cases of serpentine supravenous hyperpigmentation developing in the area of fotemustine infusions are reported.
(17) In some macaque species, transcervical aspiration of the uterine contents carries a significant risk of disturbing the cervical milieu due to the serpentine nature of the cervix.
(18) Overseas, he designed the United Nations secretariat in New York, the Communist party headquarters in Paris and Serpentine gallery summer pavilion in Hyde Park, London.
(19) Turn another, and you gaze on the royal park with the glories of the Serpentine.
(20) That led to a commission from the Serpentine Gallery, and performances in Paris and Moscow.