(n.) An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.
Example Sentences:
(1) Outbreaks of coccidioidomycosis and isolation of Coccidioides immitis have been reported from Amerindian middens.
(2) Results showed that a high percentage of the midden soils contained C. immitis, whereas none of the adjacent, nonmidden soils yielded the fungus.
(3) Physicochemical analyses revealed that the dark color and alkaline pH of the midden soils were due to past organic contamination.
(4) 'We are protectors, not protesters': why I'm fighting the North Dakota pipeline Read more Kandi Mossett, an organiser with the Indigenous Environmental Network explains: “There are sacred sites out here, there are midden pile sites, historic sites.
(5) In Chile in 1962, two Italian journalists wrote pieces comparing the host country to a midden – not particularly tactfully, as there had been an earthquake two years previously killing 6,000 people – and so the home team responded to the slight by hoofing the Azzurri around like old socks in the infamous David Coleman baiting Battle of Santiago .
(6) The shell midden habitation and cemetery site originally yielded the remains of 390 individuals.
(7) The physicochemical properties of the midden soils were compared with nonmidden soils and positive soils.
(8) The pathogens do not survive very long in stored farmyard manure because of the temperatures and biological and biochemical activities prevailing in the middens.
(9) Not that global warming is a reality for anyone but a few scaremongering communists who want us all to eat nettles and live in middens.
Ridden
Definition:
() p. p. of Ride.
(p. p.) of Ride
Example Sentences:
(1) In this open study we reviewed the circadian distribution of extra doses of narcotic analgesics in 61 bed-ridden patients with cancer pain.
(2) State, regional and municipal public administrations remain politicised and ridden by patronage.
(3) Even so, the whole thing was knocked together for a fraction of a normal commercial and it's a pretty funny spoof of a cliché-ridden car advert.
(4) Innovation is required to provide home care to minorities who reside in economically depressed, crime-ridden, and drug-infested sections of cities.
(5) The factors with a significant influence on mortality were: emergency in institutionalized patients (p less than 0.05), the ASA classification (ASA III and more, p less than 0.05), autonomy (bed-ridden patients, p less than 0.05), medical history (more than 4 associated organ defects, p less than 0.01) and malignant disease (p less than 0.001).
(6) These relationships no doubt exist on a continuum, but at the clinical extreme, which is our focus, they are conflict-ridden and painful for both parent and child.
(7) Although EU member states will provide more than half the staff, debt-ridden Athens faces a mammoth task in getting 1,500 staff in place at a time when public sector recruitment is frozen.
(8) The course is floodlit, so can ride also be ridden at night.
(9) Her horse Barber’s Shop won the Tattersalls & RoR Thoroughbred Ridden Show.
(10) She’s keen on promoting bike culture and, once she’s ridden to work at the museum, the bike sits idle on prime tourist turf for the rest of the day.
(11) It is a pusillanimous, jargon-ridden, self-perpetuating proof of Parkinson's law .
(12) The out patients showed the most favorable outcome and the prolonged bed-ridden patients the worst outcome.
(13) Richard Dunwoody briefly set a new high of 1,699 but McCoy passed that 11 years ago and every winner he has ridden since then has been a record-breaker.
(14) In an internal email to staff, Bill Francis, the head of IT for BA’s parent company, IAG, said an uninterruptible power supply to a core data centre at Heathrow was over-ridden.
(15) Ridden by Racheal Kneller , it won the 14.30 at Southwell today and made a select few very happy.
(16) Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), has reluctantly ridden to the rescue many times during the crisis; the ECB will begin large-scale buying of Italian and Spanish bonds on Monday.
(17) Other declared runners include Join Together, who is trained by Paul Nicholls and will be ridden by Daryl Jacob, who teamed up to win this year's National with Neptune Collonges.
(18) Mendes, agent, transfer intermediary, adviser to anonymous investors buying stakes in players, “partner” to smaller clubs, “leverager” of relationships in rich ones, has ridden that change.
(19) The crucial portfolio of economic and monetary affairs – policing national budgets, public spending, safeguarding the crisis-ridden euro – is expected to go to Pierre Moscovici, a French Socialist, whose room for manoeuvre will be limited by the powers vested in the two "super-commissioners", Jyrki Katainen and Valdis Dombrovskis, former prime ministers of Finland and Latvia, both of whom backed the strong Merkel position on austerity throughout four years of the euro crisis.
(20) Medical treatment, physiotherapy, and finally surgery can give very satisfactory results in an old patient, avoiding loss of function, a miserable existence and becoming bed ridden.