(1) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
(2) Adjoining his office, in the green room where Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, Hollande settled into a lush dining chair, more elaborate than the rest around the meeting table.
(3) The tale of native American Pocahontas's love for an English captain in 17th-century Virginia and her journey to England, it made much of innocence versus colonial exploitation, contrasting the lush, wild vegetation of America with the manicured gardens of England.
(4) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
(5) Smaller Kalymnos, Kasos, Kastellorizo and Symi are less lush than their bigger companions but all have elegant harbours – a legacy of their trading past – and rocky interiors that offer good walking.
(6) And then, out of the distance rush the intricately detailed hordes, like lushly painted Games Worshop figures.
(7) From the summit, accessed via the Summit trail or a paved forest service road, visitors can marvel at the line of Cascade volcanoes to the east, the lush, green Willamette valley below and the Pacific Ocean to the west, making this one of the best places for views in the state.
(8) In Australia, the sudden flush of vegetation that followed the loss of large herbivores caused stacks of leaf litter to build up, which became the rainforests' pyre: fires (natural or manmade) soon transformed these lush places into dry forest and scrub .
(9) There was still snow in June this year in the Northern Velebit national park, which contrasts lush beech forest with more austere pine-spiked ridges, and here there is a proper day's hiking to be had, requiring detailed maps, sensible shoes and a chat with the ranger beforehand.
(10) Doubles from £84, B&B Le Gite d’Indaiatiba, near Paraty Le Gite díIndaiatiba, near Paraty Paraty has one of Brazil’s most astonishing settings, where rainforest-covered peaks spill down to bay after beautiful blue bay, so why not back off the historic centre a bit and make your way into the lush surroundings of the Serra do Bocaina mountains?
(11) Amazon shoppers searching for Lush products would instead be directed to similar products described as "lush".
(12) and MacFarlane's newest animated sitcom, The Cleveland Show , may wonder what has happened to their comic hero once they have seen him step out behind the microphone in his tuxedo to the accompaniment of Wilson's lush strings.
(13) From there it was on to Kentucky, which had a 14% poor roads rating and many well-tended arcs of asphalt swooping through lush, wooded hill country.
(14) The resort, one of the largest ever foreign investments in China, includes a 225-acre Magic Kingdom-style park with a castle surrounded by themed areas, with guests entering through a lush 11-acre garden.
(15) Samples collected from or near surface waters in a lush hardwood forest yielded four salmonellae serotypes from six culturally positive samples.
(16) Sangin's lush wheat fields and dense poppy groves soon became killing fields.
(17) Winning tip Wadi Bani Khalid, Oman You might not imagine the Middle East as a swimmer's paradise, but Wadi Bani Khalid in Oman's Sharqiyah region is a lush oasis.
(18) Henderson's acknowledged scientific hero was Jay L. Lush, with whom he studied during his Ph.D. program at Iowa State College and with whom he shared similar talents and the intuition that made both of them leaders in the field of animal breeding.
(19) Starting in a lush valley edged by high cliffs, it climbs a side valley to a rocky ridge.
(20) It was special, too, to have someone take beautiful pictures.” Those pictures promote an idyll that doesn’t seem to belong to this age, with both women wearing vintage dresses, carrying picnic baskets filled with passionfruit curd through a lush garden.
Thick
Definition:
(superl.) Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick.
(superl.) Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.
(superl.) Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness.
(superl.) Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain.
(superl.) Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring.
(superl.) Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.
(superl.) Deep; profound; as, thick sleep.
(superl.) Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing.
(superl.) Intimate; very friendly; familiar.
(n.) The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.
(n.) A thicket; as, gloomy thicks.
(adv.) Frequently; fast; quick.
(adv.) Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.
(adv.) To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure.
(v. t. & i.) To thicken.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
(2) An increase in membrane thickness was observed on phosphorylation.
(3) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(4) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(5) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(6) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
(7) At 7 days axonal swellings were infrequently observed and the main structural feature was a reduction in myelin thickness in affected nerve fibers.
(8) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(9) The NAD-dependent enzymes (except alpha-GPDH) showed a stronger reactivity in the proximal tubules, while the NADP-dependent ones were more reactive in the thick limb of Henle's loop and distal convoluted tubules.
(10) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(11) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
(12) The degree of overlap varies with the thickness of the arborization and is in the order of 1-2 mu.
(13) The spatial resolution of a NaI(T1), 25 mm thick bar detector designed for use in positron emission tomography has been studied.
(14) In the longitudinal direction, however, spatial resolution of under slice thickness could not be obtained.
(15) Thus, multiparae had very thick border zones composed predominantly of large nodules and, additionally, of vacuolated cells and fibrous tissue.
(16) The thickness of the media in the groups behaves like the number of nuclei: in hypertension with the highest values, there is no significant decrease as far as the 8th cross-section, while in the coronary sclerosis and third decade groups the values come closer together after the 6th cross-section.
(17) A model for left ventricular diastolic mechanics is formulated that takes into account noneligible wall thickness, incompressibility, finite deformation, nonlinear elastic effects, and the known fiber architecture of the ventricular wall.
(18) These force-generators are identified with projections (cross-bridges) on the thick filament, each consisting of part of a myosin molecule.
(19) Piretanide blocks the Na+ 2Cl- K+ cotransporter protein in the thick ascending limb (TAL) of the loop of Henle reversibly.
(20) Dioptric aniseikonia was calculated between 1 month and 24 months after surgery (with Gruber's and Huber's computer program) on the basis of most recently obtained values (bulb axis length, depth of the anterior chamber, lens thickness, necessary refraction), and compared with subjective measurements taken with the phase difference haploscope.