(a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the language spoken by its inhabitants.
(n.) The Norse language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(2) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(3) His favourite book is The Poetic Edda, a landmark collection of Old Norse poetry.
(4) (2) The Knowledge inbox overflowed with various further Sportings and Football Clubs from around this wide footballing world of ours and a few examples that highlight the difficulty of classifying exactly what constitutes 'non-native' (should Hibernian, derived from the Roman name for Ireland, count for example, or 'Rovers, which is apparently derived from Norse?).
(5) Whole settlements, complete with livestock could have retreated to these brochs at times of Norse attacks from the sea.
(6) In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil was an enormous ash tree that harboured all the life in the universe.
(7) Cloud and hosting services of industry giants like Amazon and GoDaddy are being used to launch the attacks, Norse’s research indicates.
(8) Byatt was speaking at the launch of her new book, a retelling of the Norse Ragnarok myth, in which, after a succession of natural disasters, the world ends: a story she has found compelling since her childhood during the war.
(9) Security consultants the Guardian contacted on Norse’s claims aren’t entirely sure there is enough proof of Iranian involvement.
(10) It marked the end of the Norse rule in Scotland – and the victory is commemorated each year at the Largs Viking Festival.
(11) But Norse believes it has enough evidence to substantiate its claims, which it will soon detail in full.
(12) In its own research, Norse set up fake systems that appeared to belong to businesses and critical infrastructure providers that would have proven attractive to attackers.
(13) The author Joanne Harris, whose new novel The Gospel of Loki is set in the world of Norse mythology, also called Nordby's discovery "very, very interesting".
(14) Kinship is largely due to local drift rather than Norse admixture, the estimate of which is obscured by drift and appears highly unreliable.
(15) ‘The groups are allowed to operate on financial crimes...’ Rather than large, singular groups of digital spies, Iran has quietly built up a secret, disparate army of “mercenaries”, each separate from one another but with similar aims, according to the authors of the report, which will be published soon by Silicon Valley security company Norse.
(16) Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage (£1.49 + IAP) Icebreaker is a puzzle-action game with a viking theme, tasking you with freeing Norse warriors by solving 140 physics-puzzle levels.
(17) Loosely based on the legendary saga of the Norse hero Ragnar Lothbrok , Vikings has moments of surprising historical clarity mixed up with a lot of HBO-style sex, mainly between Lothbrok and his wife Lagertha.
(18) "Banks don't cure disease", declared one gentle placard; "Science is more useful than duck islands" and "Ancient Norse is not a luxury," said others.
(19) To assess the temporal and spatial variation of one form of oral tori, palatine torus, observations were made on all available Greenlandic Norse skeletons, as well as on samples of medieval Icelanders and Norwegians.
(20) The figure for Alan Taylor's film, which once again stars Chris Hemsworth as the Norse god of thunder, suggests the movie is well on the way to a global debut of at least $200m when it debuts in North America and China next weekend.
Scandinavian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Scandinavia, that is, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Scandinavia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scandinavian forensic psychiatrists, lawyers and criminologists have analyzed and discussed the present situation and have found that there is still a need and justification for forensic psychiatry.
(2) At the Second Scandinavian Congress on Image Analysis in 1981 Kohonen provided evidence that the map of signals has the same topological order as the map of reactions.
(3) We present our management protocol as well as a survey of the routine management of acute epiglottitis in children in the five Scandinavian countries.
(4) In Scandinavian countries a sophisticated system for rehabilitating the hearing impaired has evolved and communication aids are recommended extensively.
(5) My assembly report, Braking Point , showed the big advantages of making 20mph the default speed limit for urban areas and, as the previous mayor's road safety ambassador, I pressed for the adoption of the zero-casualty approach applied in Scandinavian countries.
(6) This investigation of 28 tumours from 22 patients of Scandinavian origin shows that at the electron microscope level there is no difference between malignant cells in the invasion nodulus of superficially spreading melanoma and nodular melanoma.
(7) In the course of showing us the "dark" side of Scandinavian life, Michael Booth writes that Finland is "burdened by taboos" about the civil war, second world war and cold war ( The dark heart of Scandinavia , 28 January).
(8) But the British prime minister oozed schadenfreude with the result, received strong support from the Germans, the Dutch and the Scandinavians and looked pleased with the stalemate, portraying himself as the scourge of bloated Brussels, the guardian of the British and the European taxpayer.
(9) Because this concept has important implications for preventive cardiology, the results of several prevention trials, including the Cooperative North Scandinavian Enalapril Survival Study (CONSENSUS), Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD), and Survival and Ventricular Enlargement (SAVE) are awaited eagerly.
(10) Values for the control group were not different from the predictive values of Scandinavian reference studies or British submariners, although the ECCS standard predicted significantly lower values for the lung function variables both in divers and the control group.
(11) These results support the Scandinavian experience that herniography has a useful role in the management of patients who may have occult hernias as the underlying cause of abdominal wall symptoms.
(12) In the Scandinavian countries few regulations govern hospital infection control.
(13) At three months, patients with moderate to severe strokes (less than 40 on the Scandinavian Stroke Scale) in the ancrod group showed average improvement by a factor of 3 over the placebo group.
(14) It can have Scandinavian levels of public spending while the Bank of England provides Royal Bank of Scotland with a lender of last resort guarantee.
(15) Since up until now no uniform recommendations regarding indication for therapeutic abortion following irradiation have been drawn up in Western Germany, it is advisable to fall back on those recommendations drawn up by Scandinavian countries on the basis of thorough radiobiological knowledge and experience.
(16) The results showed that average intake of NSP by a Japanese in the above years did not exceed 13 g per day, which is as low as the corresponding intake by the Scandinavians and the British whose risk of colon cancer is known to be high.
(17) The results obtained by the new continuous-flow system were compared with those measured by the kinetic method according to the Scandinavian recommendation (10).
(18) Abnormal lactose tolerance tests were found in 81% of 98 blacks, 12% of 59 whites of Scandinavian or Northwestern European extraction, and three of nine non-European whites.
(19) The trial comprised eight Scandinavian neurologic centres and was designed as a double-blind cross-over study with 4 weeks' run-in, four weeks washout, and 8 weeks of either treatment.
(20) We consider a class of Markov models, referred to by Cox (1981, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 8, 93-115) as "observation-driven" models in which the conditional means and variances given the past are explicit functions of past outcomes.