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Midsummer


Definition:

  • (n.) The middle of summer.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Summer


Definition:

  • (v.) One who sums; one who casts up an account.
  • (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.
  • (n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
  • (v. i.) To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.
  • (v. t.) To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
  • (2) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
  • (3) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
  • (4) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
  • (5) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
  • (6) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
  • (7) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
  • (8) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (9) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
  • (10) Two epidemics of meningoencephalitis caused by echovirus type 7 and coxsackievirus type B 5 in the summer and autumn of 1973 in Umeå in Northern Sweden were compared.
  • (11) We are also running our graduate internship scheme this summer.
  • (12) Read more Grabban, who moved to Carrow Road from Bournemouth in 2014 for around £3m, has been a target for Eddie Howe for some time and the manager had three bids for him turned down in the summer.
  • (13) Summers was not a popular choice among many of the World Bank's developing country members.
  • (14) High degress of multinucleation were observed least frequenctly in the summer both in patients with and without known malignancy.
  • (15) Son was signed from Hamburg for €10m that summer to replace Schürrle.
  • (16) All the summer deals in graphical, Etch-a-sketch form .
  • (17) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
  • (18) McNear was in New York that summer after her junior year and for nearly two months they were lovers in Manhattan.
  • (19) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
  • (20) The last time I saw Ruqayah was in the summer of 2014, in a chain cafe in Cairo’s largest shopping mall.

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