(n.) A fruit allied to the lemon, but much smaller; also, the tree which bears it. There are two kinds; Citrus Medica, var. acida which is intensely sour, and the sweet lime (C. Medica, var. Limetta) which is only slightly sour.
(n.) Birdlime.
(n.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.
(v. t.) To smear with a viscous substance, as birdlime.
(v. t.) To entangle; to insnare.
(v. t.) To treat with lime, or oxide or hydrate of calcium; to manure with lime; as, to lime hides for removing the hair; to lime sails in order to whiten them.
(v. t.) To cement.
Example Sentences:
(1) In labelled acidic waters, the 26Al was present predominantly in low molecular weight forms, whereas in labelled limed waters the major fraction of 26Al was present in a high molecular weight form.
(2) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
(3) When treated after exposure to ribonuclease, the colonies fluoresced lime-green.
(4) Adult Persian lime trees grafted on Citrus macrophylla and C. volkameriana were used, planted on a groundwater-affected red ferrilytic soil in the La Habana Province.
(5) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
(6) Alfalfa plants of a resistant, a susceptible and a highly susceptible strains were grown in unlimed soil at pH 5.8 and in limed one at pH 6.9 and inoculated by the pathogens of vascular wilt, Corynebacterium insidiosum and Verticillium albo-atrum.
(7) Most obvious differences can be found for Cd: While the concentrations of soluble Cd in anaerobically digested sludge only increase at pH values lower than pH 4, the solubility of Cd in precipitation sludge and limed sludges already show rapid increases at pH values lower than 7.
(8) While it is still hot, juice the lime into a cup and stir in the granulated sugar (which will not dissolve completely).
(9) A solution – injecting the graves with a lime solution to speed up decomposition – was eventually discovered by a graveyard worker, who charged the Norwegian authorities $670 per plot.
(10) The soda lime capacity is 25 litres (approximately 20 kg).
(11) 3 First squeeze lime juice over the fruit, then dip it into the flavoured salt.
(12) The frequency of micronucleated cells (MNC) derived from exfoliated human oral mucosal cells has been measured to assess genotoxic damage in chewers of betel quid with tobacco (BQT) and tobacco with lime (T).
(13) This fruit possesses a taste-modifying substance that causes sour foods--e.g., lemons, limes, or grapefruit--to taste sweet.
(14) The results obtained in R. tigrina have been discussed in relation to the increased calcium deposits in the paravertebral lime sacs and to the possible enhanced secretion of the parathyroid glands.
(15) "I do a mean ceviche with it – coconut milk, lime juice and chilli.
(16) Lime Street was closed off by police as the demonstrations continued.
(17) He also produced this effect in some of his sculptures, for example Untitled (Funerary Box for a Lime Green Python) (1954), where a pair of solemn-looking palm leaves gives the work a consciously ritualistic tone.
(18) Grab a table if you're arriving late enough for the restaurant section to have emptied, and make the barman get his big grinder out by ordering a mandarinha – Beija-Flor cachaça, mandarin syrup, lime juice and black pepper.
(19) Once it's a deep golden colour all over, transfer to a dish and season with a squeeze of lime or lemon juice, coarse sea salt, plenty of hazelnut butter (the butter will need a good stir, because the solids will settle to the bottom) and a grind of black pepper.
(20) The amount of Ni extracted by ammonium acetate was reduced by 36% in the limed metal soil compared with the unlimed metal soil.
Lind
Definition:
(n.) The linden. See Linden.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lind, who is expected to decide Manning's sentence shortly, has given no clues about which way she might be leaning.
(2) The fact is we are going to be collateral damage,” Another woman told Linde how she was currently being headhunted for a major job in London but had been asked to sign a contract guaranteeing her rights to permanent residency in the UK, something she said she could not do.
(3) Detailed evidence for the sequence has been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50047 (9 pages) at the British Library (Linding Division), Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from which copies can be obtained on the terms given in Biochem.
(4) Speaking in January, after meeting Swedes who had experienced xenophobia since the Brexit vote, Linde said: “I am astonished at what I heard.
(5) The contraction was maintained at 5% of the maximum voluntary contraction, a tension during which the muscle blood flow might be expected to increase by about three times (Lind & McNicol, 1967).3.
(6) But Lind will have to decide whether she believes Manning is really contrite, and not merely apologising as a pragmatic bid for a shorter sentence.
(7) Lind put herself into the character of Manning, and wondered whether the intensity of his motive could have blotted out his awareness of the consequences of his actions: "I'm thinking so much about what I want to do with this information that the enemy never crossed my mind," Lind speculated.
(8) Jennifer Lind One aspect of the leaked Chinese contingency plan is monumental – if it were true.
(9) A further 112 days will be deducted as part of a pre-trial ruling in which Lind compensated Manning for the excessively harsh treatment he endured at the Quantico marine base in Virginia between July 2010 and April 2011.
(10) Adrian Lamo, left, in 2011 In earlier pre-trial hearings the judge presiding in the case, Colonel Denise Lind, ruled that the defence must not discuss the soldier's motive for leaking in the course of the trial up to verdict.
(11) The use of a synthetic zeolite (type 4A, Union Carbide Corp., Linde Div., New York, N.Y.) in a procedure for the preparation of pure cell wall fractions proved successful for many gram-positive, gram-negative, and acid-fast bacteria, as well as for some fungi.
(12) The examinations of DWORSCHAK and LINDE encouraged us to use peracetic acid in the rooms of creches in presence of children systematically.
(13) Colonel Denise Lind, the judge presiding over the court martial in the absence of a jury, has ruled that for Manning to be found guilty of "aiding the enemy" the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he knowingly gave helpful information to al-Qaida, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula and a third terrorist group whose identity remains classified.
(14) • Judge Denise Lind announced the sentence in a hearing that lasted about two minutes.
(15) In pre-trial hearings the judge, Colonel Denise Lind, ruled that to make the charge stick the government must prove that Manning knowingly gave intelligence information, via WikiLeaks, to al-Qaida and its affiliates, including al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
(16) At early assessment eight previously asymptomatic patients (31 per cent) from the Nissen group and six (23 per cent) from the Lind group experienced difficulty swallowing.
(17) A rather touching YouTube video is doing the rounds in which Bicep2 principal investigator Chao-Lin Kuo takes a bottle of champagne and a video camera to cold-call Linde with the news that they have confirmed inflation.
(18) Crucially, Lind has set the prosecution the challenge of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Manning had "a general evil intent", in that he "had to know he was dealing, directly or indirectly, with an enemy of the US".
(19) However, on Friday, in a series of written findings released after the prosecution finished their sentencing arguments, Lind provided a harsh summary of Manning's actions.
(20) Jennifer Lind is an associate professor of government at Dartmouth College and the author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics (Cornell University Press, 2008).