(v.) A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.
(v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
(v.) A bank; a fund.
(n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
(n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
(n.) To attain in value; to amount.
(v. t.) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
(v. t.) To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
(v. t.) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
(v. t.) Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.
(v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.
(v.) That upon which a person or thing is mounted
(v.) A horse.
(v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) The first method used an accelerometer mounted between the teeth of one of the authors (PR) to record skeletal shock.
(3) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
(4) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
(5) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
(6) "You have three million people coming in from all over the world who could potentially carry a novel pathogen home with them," says Mounts.
(7) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
(8) H-2b mice primed with the wildtype of vesicular stomatitis virus serotype Indiana (VSV-IND wt) mount an in vitro measurable cytotoxic response against the nucleoprotein (NP) of VSV-IND and are protected against a challenge infection with a vaccinia-VSV recombinant virus expressing the NP of VSV-IND (vacc-IND-NP).
(9) On dissected mucosa stained by the PAS-alcian blue whole-mount method the density and distribution of goblet cells in various parts of the middle ear was determined in 13 children, ranging in age from 9 days to 14 years.
(10) Luciferase activity was monitored quantitatively, and the protein was immunolocalized in whole-mount embryonic brains.
(11) They had mounted a vigorous lobbying campaign, both in public and behind the scenes, since the legislation first came to light this month .
(12) The problem for Labour is that, to mount an effective challenge to the ascendant Conservative party, they must first come to some agreement about why they are losing.
(13) Corneas of bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) were mounted between lucite chambers.
(14) The announcement comes amid mounting frustration in the international community over Israel’s continued settlement activity, regarded by many countries as illegal.
(15) He was accused of disrespecting the FA Cup with such a weakened team but he mounted a strong defence, referencing the club’s seven injuries that have left him with only 13 fit senior outfield players.
(16) The surface mount electronic internal controller provides motor commutator, energy management, telemetry, and physiologic control functions.
(17) The preparation was mounted in an organ bath and superfused with Tyrode solution containing hemicholinium-3 and eserine.
(18) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
(19) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
(20) Eighty-eight percent of subjects receiving CVD 103-HgR mounted a significant (greater than fourfold) rise in Inaba vibriocidal titre while 68% did so for the heterologous Ogawa serotype.
Paddock
Definition:
(n.) A toad or frog.
(n.) A small inclosure or park for sporting.
(n.) A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
(2) Six of the WAD goats carried natural infections of H. contortus and T. colubriformis and eight other (tracer) goats acquired their infections from a grass paddock artificially contaminated with H. placei, C. pectinata and C. punctata, during May to October.
(3) The values tended to recover slowly after the removal of the cast, then more quickly after the horses returned to the paddock four weeks later.
(4) Peak infestations in both paddocks also occurred simultaneously in May.
(5) Six experiments were conducted to determine the relationship between the serving capacity of bulls as predicted by a 40-min yard test and their fertility during paddock mating, measured by the conception rate at first oestrus and the pregnancy rate at the end of 10 weeks of mating.
(6) In zoological and judicial terms, the deer habituated to paddock keeping still belong to wild animals that are held captive.
(7) Observations for estrus were conducted three times daily in a dirt paddock containing a testosterone-treated cow.
(8) Theileria infections were induced in cattle by feeding ticks on them from 3 sources: (a) adult rhipicephalid ticks obtained from the vegetation in a paddock containing an eland EAO at the Animal Orphanage, Nairobi National Park, Kenya, (b) Rhipicephalus appendiculatus adults fed as nymphs on the same eland, (c) R. pulchellus adults fed as nymphs on an eland W 68 captured in the Machakos district of Kenya.
(9) Six year-round, all-forage, three-paddock systems for beef cow-calf production were used to produce five calf crops during a 6-yr period.
(10) All 18 2-year-old Brahman bulls grazing in a paddock containing Castanospermum australe trees were diagnosed as heterozygotes for Pompe's disease by measurement of mononuclear cell alpha-glucosidase activity.
(11) Instead Key flailed all round the paddock and was forced to retreat centimetre by centimetre.” The controversy leaves a picture of “loose governance of his office ... and of his cabinet” as well as “bad judgment in talking to Whale Oil”, he says.
(12) Disk meter height responses to SR did not differ (P greater than .10) between steer and cow-calf paddocks.
(13) It reported that the previous evening, Richard Casey, the minister for Australia’s science agency, the CSIRO, had announced that a sheep paddock outside Parkes in western New South Wales would be the site of Australia’s new, £500m giant radio telescope.
(14) Consumption of a sodium chloride based supplement followed by food and water restriction in yards for over 30 hours, resulted in nervous disorders in 5 of 60 three-year-old steers within hours of being released into a paddock.
(15) In Trial 2, eight ruminally cannulated steers (avg wt 234.4 kg) grazed a 2.4-ha paddock of Vona-variety wheat and were assigned randomly to either MRDD or C treatments.
(16) They nudge the soft earth or a companion before snorting and continuing on up through the paddocks to the shed.
(17) Feral pigs were excluded from one paddock for most of lambing by means of an electric fence.
(18) Three paddocks were contaminated with Haemonchus contortus eggs from early spring to mid summer by yearling sheep.
(19) Paddock 1 was used for the controls, paddock 2 for the levamisole group (dosed at 3, 6 and 9 weeks after the start of grazing) and paddock 3 for the ivermectin group (dosed at 3 and 8 weeks after turn-out).
(20) By making use of artificially infected donor sheep, six camps (paddocks) were seeded with a resistant field strain of H. contortus until it was confirmed by means of worm-free tracer lambs that the grazing had become infective.