(n.) A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.
(n.) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.
(n.) A den or cave.
(n.) The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
(n.) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
(n.) The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt.
(n.) A collection of objects lodged together.
(n.) A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.
(v. i.) To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street.
(v. i.) To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
(v. i.) To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.
(n.) To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.
(n.) To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
(n.) To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
(n.) To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.
(n.) To lay down; to prostrate.
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
(2) About 40% of the claims were lodged in Germany compared with only 4% in Britain.
(3) Platelets appear to be involved in tumor cell lodgement, since thrombocytopenia significantly reduces the number of lodged tumor cells.
(4) It has emerged that Kelvin MacKenzie , who attacked the decision by Channel 4 News in his Sun column and called on readers to complain to the media regulator, did not in fact end up lodging a complaint himself.
(5) A custody or visitation dispute occurred in 12 (39%) of 31 sexual abuse complaints lodged against a parent.
(6) Before bids being lodged, sources had indicated that Sky was not prepared to make a knockout bid to snatch back the rights from BT, which has justified the expense to customers and shareholders as “financially disciplined”.
(7) It was shown that CO2 levels previously recorded in the winter lodges of this species are sufficient to reduce postdive oxygen consumption and rate of rewarming in unrestrained animals.
(8) The catheter fragments were lodged in the pulmonary artery in 3 cases and in the right atrium in the others.
(9) The venue was originally home to Marlesford Lodge school, which was remodelled as a boarding school in 1884.
(10) But in a last-ditch effort, his lawyers lodged an appeal for clemency on Monday morning.
(11) Griffin vowed to lodge a complaint at the "unfair" way the Question Time programme was produced, despite the BNP's claims that his appearance sparked the "biggest single recruitment night in the party's history".
(12) Scarborough council said leaving the houses standing could cause a domino-effect down the steep slope above the picturesque harbour where the explorer Captain James Cook lodged and learned his seafaring skills.
(13) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
(14) It is the latest attack on the government from the Hungarian economist, whose previous criticism of David Cameron's "nasty" looking restrictions on benefits for foreigners led the angry prime minister to lodge a formal complaint.
(15) However, an increasing body of experts argues something must be done to arrest disengagement by winning over this so-called Generation Y, born after 1982, who are predicted to be poorer than their parents, and according to Ipsos Mori research, have a record low level of trust in their fellow man.Guy Lodge, of the IPPR thinktank, makes the case for an even more radical solution – compulsory voting for first-timers.
(16) For that you will be expected to provide full board and lodging.
(17) The angioarchitecture of the cortical gray-white junction suggests that an air embolism might preferentially lodge in this border zone, and thus ischemia of the border might go unrecognized if one depended only on the difference in average blood flow to define the gray-white junction.
(18) He also lodged a patent for a new vaccine against measles called Transfer Factor, which he claimed could also be a treatment for inflammatory bowel disease.
(19) It is unknown whether metastasis of cancer to cancer is a random occurrence or is due to selective lodging, survival and growth within another malignant neoplasm.
(20) Preliminary murder charges have been lodged against two men – both students at Islamic religious schools, who were arrested at the scene after being overpowered by bystanders – and against a third assailant who fled and has yet to be found, an officer said.
Valuable
Definition:
(a.) Having value or worth; possessing qualities which are useful and esteemed; precious; costly; as, a valuable horse; valuable land; a valuable cargo.
(a.) Worthy; estimable; deserving esteem; as, a valuable friend; a valuable companion.
(n.) A precious possession; a thing of value, especially a small thing, as an article of jewelry; -- used mostly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our results show that large complex lipid bodies and extensive accumulations of glycogen are valuable indicators of a functionally suppressed chief cell in atrophic parathyroid glands.
(2) The urban wasteland ecosystem contained in outdoor lysimeters employed as a model gives valuable information and has considerable value in predicting the ecological fate of industrial chemicals.
(3) This method can characterize reliably flavivirus field isolates at the molecular level without extensive virus propagation and molecular cloning, and will be a valuable tool for molecular epidemiological studies.
(4) Hayden had argued that the harsher interrogation techniques had provided valuable information and said that the techniques did not amount to torture.
(5) In 8 of 44 cases, the karyotype was established on short-term culture alone, which proved to be a valuable supplement in this study.
(6) It is mentioned that the lack of a valuable status for industrial physicians may adversely affect the evolution of training programs in Switzerland.
(7) In deep forms of acne, particularly acne conglobata, Akne-Mycyna may be a valuable supplementation of systemic treatment.
(8) Transluminal iliac angioplasty is a valuable adjunct to distal bypass surgery by improving arterial inflow without the requirement for major aorto iliac surgery.
(9) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
(10) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(11) Despite 50 years of criminalisation, illicit drugs are now the third most valuable industry in the world, after food and oil.
(12) This phenomenon is similar in many respects to the antigen-induced blockade of normal antibody-secreting cells, and provides a valuable model system for analyzing the mechanisms of antigen-mediated cellular inactivation.
(13) This model provides a standard nonoperative approach for the induction of intestinal ischemia in dogs and could be a valuable tool in the study of intestinal ischemia.
(14) The consistency of the major positive component (P100) of the full-field pattern-reversal response provides a clinically valuable and objective means of detecting visual field defects.
(15) The cartilage of the concha is a valuable substitute of the bridge and the posterior wall of the external auditory conduct.
(16) Use of very short heat shocks to induce the heat shock response will be valuable in identifying the precise time at which a specific defect can be induced.
(17) This instrument is valuable for use with intravascular fetal transfusions.
(18) Detection by EUS in all 11 cases of a small tumor of less than 30 mm in the biliary tract provided valuable information for the precise diagnosis.
(19) This study shows that aqueous humour examination for toxoplasma antibodies is a valuable diagnostic tool in a selected group of posterior uveitis patients.
(20) Lanthanum nitrate used in this investigations is a valuable marker of the intercellular spaces.