(n.) A kind of soil; an earthy mixture of clay and sand, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
(n.) A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making molds for large castings, often without a pattern.
(v. i.) To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
(2) Adsorption and movement of carbofuran (a systemic nematicide) were studied using two Indian soils (clay loam and silt loam) of alluvial origin.
(3) Only a few Oncomelania snails and patients were observed in areas covered with red loam.
(4) Touch the soil, as Dughan did, and as his daughter did too at the sight of him, and it felt greasy, heavy, as if someone had poured cream onto loam.
(5) Auxotrophic recipient cells (thr- leu- thi- rpsL) were incubated in a sandy and a silty clay loam soil, and the transducing phage lysates from prototrophic strains carrying transposon 10(Tn10) in either purE or aroL regions were added.
(6) The two soil specimens are similar in that they differ from a typical clay loam in high content of carbon, hydrogen, and organic nitrogen and low levels of sodium, potassium, and titanium.
(7) on nodulation, growth, and grain yield was undertaken in red sandy loam of Bangalore, having a pH of 4.0.
(8) The rate of oxidation increased with the clay content of the soils from sandy loam to clay loam.
(9) To determine whether aflatoxin was bound to the silty clay loam soil, aflatoxin B1 was added to this soil and incubated for 20 days.
(10) Vertical soil microcosms flushed with groundwater were used to study the influence of water movement on survival and transport of a genetically engineered Pseudomonas fluorescens C5t strain through a loamy sand and a loam soil.
(11) An enzyme which catalyzed the hydrolysis of crotoxyphos ((E)-1-phenylethyl 3-[(dimethoxyphosphinyl)oxy]-2-butenoate) was isolated from nonsterile and radiation-sterilized Chehalis clay loam with 1.5M Tris (2-(hydroxymethyl)-2-nitro-1,3-propanediol) and partially purified with lead acetate treatment.
(12) Equilibrium adsorption coefficient (K) values measured using a batch-slurry technique follows the order clay loam greater than silt loam soil.
(13) Parathion mixed with 100-mesh sieved dust resulted in increasing "ppm" levels with decreasing particle size; extent of parathion conversion to paraoxon was independent of particle size for the sandy loam dust used.
(14) Aflatoxin decomposition proceeded most slowly in the silty clay loam soil.
(15) When applied to autoclayed Chehalis clay loam, purified enzyme lost 75% of its activity after one week and the remainder within two weeks.
(16) The enrichment procedures often lead to a falsely positive determination of the factors; Testing of ABO groups was most unfavourably influenced by loam, that of Gm by clay and chalk soils.
(17) Both methods utilized beef extract solutions to achieve desorption and recovery of viruses from representative soils: a fine sand soil, an organic muck soil, a sandy loam soil, and a clay loam soil.
(18) The experiments were confined to the effects of the addition of different sources of carbon (glucose, wheat straw, and sawdust) on the microbial activities in soils: loamy sand, loam and saline clay were used.
(19) The influence of composted peat on the effectiveness of different doses of mineral fertilizers was studied in model greenhouse experiments with barley of the Pirkka variety cultivated in sand and poorly cultivated sandy-loam soil.
(20) Leaching through silt clay loam (0-18 cm) columns from Ullensaker was very fast.
Parget
Definition:
(v. t.) To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.
(v. t.) To paint; to cover over.
(v. i.) To lay on plaster.
(v. i.) To paint, as the face.
(n.) Gypsum or plaster stone.
(n.) Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
(n.) Paint, especially for the face.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was followed by a Greek chorus comprising Rebecca Adlington and Lucy Pargeter, who wailed that they looked much, much worse.
(2) Many fewer people at Radio 4, for example, knew that it was Nigel Pargeter who would fatally leave The Archers at Christmas 2011 , another recent example of a script-twist successfully protected.
(3) "The Brotherhood," concludes Alison Pargeter in the new edition of her eponymous biography of the movement , "has shifted from semi-clandestine opponent to legitimate political power almost overnight."
(4) James Pargeter is partner and head of residential projects at Drivers Jonas Deloitte and member of the Homes and Communities Agency's Design and Sustainability Advisory Group This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional.
(5) The protest against the development has received the backing of celebrities such as the actor Dominic West – who grew up in the area – comedian and TV presenter Paul O'Grady and stars of the rural soap Emmerdale including Roxanne Ghawam-Shahidi, Lucy Pargeter and Charley Webb.
(6) James Pargeter, head of residential projects at Deloitte real estate, agreed: "Even in London [£600,000] will get you quite a few options.
(7) For Pargeter the answer is no – or at least, not yet: "The movement can still rely upon a core base who will vote for them because of what they stand for as much as for what they do or achieve politically."