(v. t.) To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine.
(v. t.) To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow.
(v. t.) To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men.
(v. i.) To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay.
(n.) A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn.
(n.) The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
(v. t.) To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.
Example Sentences:
(1) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(2) Mowing was very effective when it was done at a height of 2 cm from the soil.
(3) Four years ago, a poll of DC energy insiders found that 91% thought Transcanada (the Canadian company that wants to build the pipeline) would quickly and easily acquire the permit for the pipeline; the company was so confident that they mowed the strip they were about to dig up across the centre of the country.
(4) Grass-mowing of swampy meadows at the beginning of summer drying distinctly restricts numbers of snails, when Zonitoides nitidus lives in the habitats.
(5) --predators-placing without previous grass-mowing is effective only on banks of rivers.
(6) Highest was the activity of lucerne from the first mowing, gradually decreasing in each of the following mowings.
(7) "They're burning billions of dollars to catch a guy who wants to mow somebody's lawn."
(8) We believe that the increased nasal and ocular symptoms coincident with lawn mowing are allergic phenomena significantly associated with skin test sensitivity and specific IgE antibodies to grass pollens but not with sensitivity or specific IgE to molds or grass-leaf extract.
(9) When it's all done, you look back and you're like: 'Oh look, I mowed a whole lawn.
(10) Variations were likewise established in the content of genestein and cumestrol in dependence on the mowing itself and the yield.
(11) Westminster map The fact is that the attacker in his attempt to spread terror, was reduced to mowing down pedestrians on a crowded Westminster Bridge to tragically fatal effect.
(12) If you're going to cleanse the country of indigents, then you may as well do it all in one go: clear out the squatters, get rid of all the "beds in sheds", demolish unofficial Gypsy sites, hustle the rough sleepers out of doorways, and sweep away anyone a bit weird, like Anne Naysmith, 75, who slept in her old car, and built a charming garden in a car park corner next to a railway embankment, until TfL came along and mowed down the shelter, flowers and fruit trees.
(13) Ecological Impacts "Minimal" George said the overall ecological impact of mowing the grass and removing the beetles would likely be "minimal."
(14) Positive skin tests to grasses, trees, and weed pollens were more frequent in those patients with symptoms exacerbated by lawn mowing (p less than 0.03).
(15) Not the drunk neighbour who called us little black bastards, even when we mowed his lawn for him.
(16) A number of individuals with perennial or seasonal rhinoconjunctivitis state that their symptoms may suddenly worsen on exposure to lawn mowing.
(17) The spiel for Jeff Allen’s book, Get Laid Or Die Trying , entices the reader by promising to teach them tactics for: “Deflecting last-minute resistance with a single word” and “Convincing a girl you just met that before you fuck her, she must mow your lawn” and he gets around his home of San Francisco in a vehicle he’s nicknamed a “rape van” .
(18) 6.24am GMT Third set: Dimitrov* 5-4 Nadal Dimitrov positively mows through the next game to make it 5-4!
(19) Graham, the Fish and Wildlife biologist, compared the mowing to the hay harvesting that regularly takes place in the region's ranches.
(20) All samples demonstrated that genestein was present in the first and fourth mowing, while the content of cumestrol varied within a wide range showing no markedly expressed correlations.
Stack
Definition:
(a.) A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch.
(a.) A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
(a.) A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet.
(a.) A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:
(a.) Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel.
(a.) A section of memory in a computer used for temporary storage of data, in which the last datum stored is the first retrieved.
(a.) A data structure within random-access memory used to simulate a hardware stack; as, a push-down stack.
(n.) To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
(2) The planar 7H-pyridocarbazole cations form stacks approximately parallel to b. Interactions between stacks occur by weak van der Waals forces.
(3) How does it stack up against the competition – and are there any nasties in the small print?
(4) Rayburn, who was also told by his jobcentre he would lose his benefits if he did not work without pay, said he spent almost two months stacking and cleaning shelves and sometimes doing night shifts.
(5) Carcinogen-modified oligodeoxynucleotides were single-stranded, but there were often considerable stacking interactions between the pyrenyl residues and the oligonucleotide bases, indicating that electrophoresed oligomers were single-stranded but in a native, versus random coil, conformation.
(6) Intermolecular contacts occur in both oligomers in the minor groove: in the B form through twisted guanine-guanine hydrogen bonding, and in the Z form through base-base stacking and the water network.
(7) If we were to have a plebiscite before the end of the year, and you were to reverse-engineer that, it would make interesting speculation about the timing of an election.” Abetz said in January he would need to see whether a plebiscite was “above board or whether the question is stacked” before deciding to heed any result in favour of marriage equality.
(8) Using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies we show in normal cells precursor forms of beta-gal in the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) and in the Golgi apparatus throughout the stack of cisternae.
(9) The AFB1 moiety is face-stacked in the major groove with its long axis approximately perpendicular to the helix axis.
(10) Between February and July of 1989, 22 patients underwent the use of the Stack autoperfusion catheter following acute occlusion or obstructive dissection during coronary angioplasty; in 20 cases conventional balloon was used in an attempt to correct the angiographic appearance followed by the use of Stack catheter when results were sub-optimal.
(11) The breaking up of the microtubular cytoskeleton is followed by vesiculation of the rough endoplasmic reticulum and partial atrophy, as well as dispersion of the stacks of Golgi cisternae.
(12) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
(13) The notochord, which is composed of a stack of flat cells surrounded by a connective tissue sheath, elongates dramatically and begins straightening between stages 21 and 25.
(14) However, AGC and AC in their hydrogenated form also caused aggregation and stacking of the stratum corneum lipid liposomes.
(15) Their lineup proved to be stacked, with breakouts from AL home run leader Chris Davis and doubles machine Manny Machado, who powered the O's through starting-pitching issues to hang in a tight division.
(16) Electron energy-loss spectroscopic element-distribution images are acquired from cytochemical reaction products in a variety of cellular objects: (1) colloidal thorium particles in extra-cellular coat material, (2) iron-containing ferritin particles in liver parenchymal cells, (3) barium-containing reaction products in endoplasmic reticulum stacks, (4) elements present in lysosomal cerium- and barium-containing precipitates connected with acid phosphatase (AcPase) or aryl sulphatase (AS) enzyme activity.
(17) We also observed slender tubules connecting Golgi stacks to neighbouring rough endoplasmic reticulum.
(18) I always get brown meat on the chicken, and when I do finally remember to stack the dishwasher, do I get any credit?
(19) (C13-A14-C15) segment at pH 8.9 establishes that X5 and A14 are directed into the helix, partially stack on each other, and are not stabilized by intermolecular hydrogen bonds.
(20) Multiple jobseekers can work in one store at the same time, cleaning or stacking shelves and competing against each other for a potential offer of paid work.