(n.) A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
(n.) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
(n.) A layer or stratum.
(n.) A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
(n.) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
Example Sentences:
(1) This bony strut reduces inferomedial displacement of the muscle cone and provides a medial supporting "ledge" in cases requiring late orbital reconstruction.
(2) The continuous ledge will be covered with a cast continuous bar, intended to restore the lingual crown morphology.
(3) The number of two-year sojourns in a hospital and other data are reported on the basis of an evaluation of the signature ledges of the clinical histories in the district Dresden.
(4) In April 2001, he secured the con- viction of Klan member Thomas Blanton for driving the men to the church in the middle of the night to lay a dozen sticks of dynamite on the window ledge.
(5) The ledges of some pleats partly grow toward each other as ring like diaphragms, leaving openings whose boundary is composed of alveolar epithelium separated by a basal lamina from a connective tissue sheath with capillaries.
(6) All the determinants for ledging were not identified with this study, and further research is indicated.
(7) In the outer and middle layers of the spiny deposits, the Ca, P, and Mg concentrations were all significantly higher than those of the ledge-type deposits.
(8) Calculus components of the ledge-type deposits contained crystal types quite similar to sandy grain-shaped hydroxyapatite (HAP), plate-shaped octacalcium phosphate (OCP), and hexahedral Mg-containing whitlockite (WHT).
(9) Geologists sort the waterfalls into two types: wedding-cake falls, which descend in multiple tiers, and bridal-veil falls, that plunge over a ledge into a pool.
(10) Ridge POAMES occurred most frequently, followed by combined, ledge and the nodular exostose types.
(11) The edges of the breaks appear clinically as glassy ridges or ledges and are also called Haab's lines.
(12) 15 had a significantly higher incidence of ledging.
(13) Hypoplasia of the labial enamel of 15 out of 19 teeth from sheep killed after recovery from the infection was classified according to the extent and depth as pits, grooves or larger areas of missing enamel with ledge-formation cervically.
(14) Immature spores in the strain studied had a ledge which disappeared during maturation.
(15) Shaping effectiveness of the tested files was qualitatively evaluated in terms of respect for conservation of the apical constriction and the presence or absence of ledging, specially in the apical third of the root canals.
(16) By following the continental ledge in search of sardines, sardinella, and mackerel, it hopes to catch 3,000 tonnes of fish in a four- to six-week voyage before it offloads them, possibly in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
(17) This preliminary study suggests that such a wheelchair feature might improve the safety of wheelchairs in conditions involving inadvertent loss of caster support, as when they drop off a stair or ledge.
(18) A complicated system of low lying slanting, diagonal mucosal ledges forms between the tall longitudinal folds.
(19) Ten of the 107 had small enamel fractures, primarily occurring on cingulum ledges.
(20) Each of the nine objects was placed on a ledge inside a dummy television screen next to the video screen, the food items alternating with the neutral objects, and 20 female patients with anorexia nervosa and 20 female controls matched for age were asked to adjust the size of the video recording to that of the real object.
Lode
Definition:
(n.) A water course or way; a reach of water.
(n.) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3 Turn left to follow the path, keeping Monk's Lode on your left.
(2) A 1971-72 study of the Nevada Carson River drainage system by the Geological Survey, U.S. Department of Interior, revealed substantial amounts of mercury from pre-1900 gold and silver milling operations of the Comstock Lode.
(3) Isolated in Ivory Coast: S. dabou (8,20:Z4,Z23,l,W), S. elokate (9,12:c:1,7), S. assinie (3,10:1,w:Z5), S. anna (13,23:Z35:e,n,Z16), S. mpouto (16:m,t:-), S. banco (28:r:1,7), S. abidjan (38:b:l,w); in Senegal: S. bignona (17:b:e,n,Z15), S. lode (17:r:1,2), S. derkle (52,e,h:1,7); in Tchad: S. moussoro (1,6,14,25:i:e,n,Z15), S. drogana (1,4,12,27:r,i:e,n,Z15); in Algeria: S. hydra (21:c:1,6); in Haute-Volta S. farakan (28:Z10:1,5); in Republique Centrafricaine: S. babili (28:Z35:1,7).
(4) The samples of 2 lode quartz and 4 sand quartz originated from different mines in Poland were used for the experiment.
(5) This valuable lode of research findings offers a basis for comparing the developmental neurobehavioral toxicity of lead across species and for assessing the validity of animal models of developmental neurotoxicity.
(6) Shrubs and trees are on your left; the reed-edged water of Wicken Lode is on your right – take care to stay on the paths.
(7) Gachapon machines are found all over Japan, but the mother lode is at Akihabara's Gachapon Kaikan where more than 450 machines are lined up inside a warehouse-like space.
(8) The sheer size of the haul – described by one official recently as a mother lode of intelligence – has slowed the flow of information, however.
(9) "OK, so Kilfenora is the home, the mother lode, for Father T**.
(10) It is understood that British computer forensics experts at GCHQ are on standby to help sift through what one US official described as "the mother lode of intelligence" to the Politico website.
(11) 2 After 450m follow the path round to the left, and then turn right across the footbridge of Monk's Lode.
(12) The A. have then lodeed for the correlation that should exist, in series of both sexes in France and Congo: a more hallow plantar arch = a stronger T.F.T.
(13) Each of us chooses to seek a different "mother lode," up a different stream.