(1) Sean Ingle Wimbledon No one has broken Roger Federer’s serve at these championships, let alone taken a set, and the appreciative midsummer murmurs from No1 Court as the seven-times Wimbledon champion elegantly dissected Tommy Robredo suggested they believe he retains the game to win a record eighth title.
(2) As a result of abstaining from food and water for 24 h during the midsummer Tishah-b'Ab fast, blood viscosity increased by 16.5% in 27 subjects studied; plasma viscosity increased by 10.3% in nine; hematocrit, by 3.1% in 27; serum total protein, by 6.3% and albumin, by 7.7%, both in 29 subjects.
(3) Total conceptions exhibited a clear annual rhythm with an autumnal rise followed by a sharp midwinter fall and an annual low in midsummer.
(4) Columns of fighters carrying rifles, trucks laden with rockets and men in white wearing mock suicide vests were on the move through the former slum-turned-battlefield soon after sunrise in a futile attempt to beat the blazing midsummer heat.
(5) "The midsummer floods have been growing and threatening this bridge and finally took it out," he said.
(6) The next day, I paused under a roofed public space built by Intu, the owners of the second shopping mall, to span Midsummer Boulevard.
(7) Comparison of concentrations during two 24-h periods, one in midsummer and one in midwinter, showed that there was a marked circadian cycle in winter which was greatly modified during the long day length of summer.
(8) Midsummer solar UV-radiation in southern Finland was measured by a spectroradiometer, polysulphone film dosimeters, and a solid-state UV-meter.
(9) Frogs fed crickets and wax moth larvae possessed larger fat bodies than did the midsummer control animals killed immediately after their arrival in the laboratory.
(10) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(11) The pattern of sheep nematode infective larvae on pasture shows a marked midsummer peak arising largely from the ewe peri-parturient egg output.
(12) In nymphs which fed in midsummer, the life cycle is completed in 2 years.
(13) Aedes are present at 525 degree Days, experience a midsummer decline at 900 degree Days, then resurge at 2,400 degree Days to mostly disappear at 2,700 degree Days.
(14) But he rose rapidly through the ranks to play Oberon in Peter Hall's 1962 Midsummer Night's Dream, the Antipholus of Ephesus in Clifford Williams's classic bare-boards Comedy of Errors in the same year, and Edmund in the international tour of Peter Brook's King Lear (1964).
(15) The frequency of AOM attacks was lowest around midsummer and highest in early winter.
(16) Courgette plants love to eat and drink, so start feeding from midsummer onwards, particularly if growing them in pots.
(17) Gonadotropes were more common in sexually active males than sexually quiescent ones, while lactotrope numbers were much greater at midsummer than midwinter.
(18) As a consequence of preventing stem elongation and seedhead formation earlier in the growing season, mefluidide treatment of tall fescue maintained forage quality at a higher level during midsummer.
(19) During the summer solstice visitors can watch an English-language performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the park and the Basque writer Anjel Lertxundi will lead Carte Blanche, a programme of events curated by guest artists.
(20) SHAKESPEARE IN BITS: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM £10.49 As more students get their hands on iPads, so more interesting educational apps will come out.
Solstice
Definition:
(v. i.) A stopping or standing still of the sun.
(v. i.) The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion.
(v. i.) The time of the sun's passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust. in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Regression occurred after the summer solstice and recrudescence occurred after the winter solstice.
(2) Immunization to provoke a persistent anti-melatonin antibody response at the winter solstice resulted in significantly increased greasy fleece weight, % cashmere yield, and mass of cashmere produced, but no change in fibre diameter in both sexes.
(3) Five adult pasture-bred French Friesian cows were used to qualify the circadian profile and characterized pulsatility of plasma melatonin, and to estimate melatonin secretion rate, around the summer solstice.
(4) Ovaries, pituitary gland, hypothalamus and a blood sample were collected from six groups of mares (6-12 mares per group) at death, 1 week before day of the winter solstice and 1, 2, 3 and 12 weeks afterwards.
(5) Plasma melatonin was measured at the summer and winter solstices and the autumn and spring equinoxes in Romney Marsh sheep held under natural conditions in South Australia (35 degrees S).
(6) In June, the owner, Oliver Poiss, threw a huge summer solstice party with six wild boar roasting on spits and a $10,000 equipment giveaway.
(7) The following year, three animals were transferred from natural to summer solstice daylength on February 25 and were held on the artificial photoperiod until September 30.
(8) The solstice marks the peak of summer and takes place when the sun is at its highest point in the sky.
(9) Nobody knows what they mean: they may be solstice markers, clan symbols, decorative motifs or simply ancient graffiti.
(10) On the summer solstice, 3 groups of ovariectomized ewes (n = 6) bearing s.c. Silastic implants of estradiol (OVX + E) were placed in different day length treatments: 1) natural photoperiod; 2) artificial photoperiod, stimulating natural day lengths; or 3) artificial photoperiod equivalent to that of the summer solstice (16.25L).
(11) A control group was held on the winter solstice day length (10L:14D) until the end of the study in mid-March.
(12) At 6-14 days after each of the solstices and equinoxes, six females were exposed to a photoperiod equivalent to the natural day length at these times.
(13) The amplitude of the day-night rhythm decreased in such a way that the nocturnal peak of melatonin completely disappeared during the winter solstice.
(14) Castrated rabbits were perfused during spring; castrated rabbits with testosterone capsule implants were perfused during late spring, around summer solstice and in summer and castrated rabbits with placebo implants were perfused during periods (iii) and (iv).
(15) Perfusions were performed in the following four periods, defined by season and time after testosterone and placebo implants: (i) spring; before implants, (ii) late spring; 0-2 weeks after implants, (iii) summer solstice; 2-4 weeks after implants and (iv) summer; 4-6 weeks after implants.
(16) At approximately the spring and autumn equinox and the summer and winter solstice, rats were killed at 3-h intervals over a 24 h period and their serum thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3) and reverse T3 levels were determined.
(17) (3) The time of onset of the breeding season does not depend upon the decreasing photoperiod after the summer solstice, nor does it require the photoperiod to stop increasing as the summer solstice approaches.
(18) Animals maintained in natural photoperiods or simulated natural changes in daylength after the winter solstice all entered reproductive quiescence by early February.
(19) This marginal delay in the arrest of reproductive activity seen in both experiments indicates that the lack of decrease in day length around and after the winter solstice may play some role in timing the end of the breeding season.
(20) The importance of decreasing photoperiod after the summer solstice in determining the onset and duration of the breeding season was tested by housing ewes from the summer solstice in either a simulated natural photoperiod or a fixed summer-solstice photoperiod (18 h light:6 h dark; summer-solstice hold).