(n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain.
(n.) The strong wood or timber of the oak.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lesson, spelled out by Oak Creek's mayor, Steve Saffidi, was that it shouldn't have taken a tragedy for Sikhs, or anyone else, to find acceptance.
(2) Poison oak, ivy, and sumac dermatitis is a T-cell-mediated reaction against urushiol, the oil found in the leaf of the plants.
(3) By design these plants are adjacent to the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and such a location would seem ideal for an experiment on the wedding of nuclear and fossil sources of energy.
(4) The results indicated that the induction phase as well as the maintenance phase did not induce a statistically significant hyposensitivity to urushiol, and we were thus unable to decrease sensitivity to poison ivy and poison oak in humans using orally ingested PDC-HDC diacetate.
(5) The pollen of ash (Fraxinus), oak (Quercus), beech (Fagus) and plane tree (Platanus) was regularly found in high percentages during these years.
(6) The identification of this strain, originally called the Oak Ridge strain, and the establishment of a new species for it were based on morphologic, serologic, and immunochemical studies.
(7) It even had carved oak bears as newel posts on its modest staircase.
(8) At a press conference held outside the temple on Sunday, Oak Creek police chief John Edwards said the "heroic actions" of the two officers "stopped this from being worse than it could have been", noting that many people had gathered for worship at the time of the attack.
(9) It might smell close to pot, he said, but would be “tainted” because of all the other items and plants like poison oak burning along with it.
(10) In previous experiments it was found that birch, beech, alder, hazel and oak are pollens with importance in pathogenesis of early pollinosis in our region of Central Europe.
(11) Changes in IgE to oak, elm, box elder, AgE, and rye grass group I were minimal.
(12) The oak processionary moth, a native of southern and central Europe, has become established in south-west London and parts of the home counties since being found in England in 2006.
(13) It was shown that an increase in the content of 3-OAK-A in the liver during carcinogenesis initiation and progression is accompanied by a decrease in the AA content in this organ.
(14) Leaves collected from the gizzard were identified as coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia).
(15) We contrast two theoretical approaches to social influence, one stressing interpersonal dependence, conceptualized as normative and informational influence (Deutsch & Gerard, 1955), and the other stressing group membership, conceptualized as self-categorization and referent informational influence (Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher & Wetherell, 1987).
(16) Amardeep Singh, of the Sikh Coalition, thanked Oak Creek's citizens for turning out in solidarity.
(17) The ash dieback fungus found in East Anglia last week is just the latest invader to pose a serious threat to UK trees, and government ecologists say that more than 3m larch trees as well as thousands of mature oaks and chestnuts have been felled in the past three years to prevent similar fatal plant diseases from spreading out of control.
(18) Soon he, Oakes and Alan Brien were all sharing an office.
(19) A mystery disease causing Britain's oak trees to "bleed to death" has prompted a £1.1m research effort to identify its cause.
(20) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
Peso
Definition:
(n.) A Spanish dollar; also, an Argentine, Chilian, Colombian, etc., coin, equal to from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each is estimated to make up to 100,000 pesos (£70,000) a year in a country where 30% of the population live below the poverty line.
(2) The association's vice president, Luis Peña, proposed at the time that transactions conducted in cash be limited to about 50,000 pesos (£2,400).
(3) The five worst-performing currencies this year have been the Argentinian peso and Brazilian real, with losses of more than 30% versus the dollar, the South African rand, Turkish lira and the Russian rouble, which have tumbled more than 18 %.
(4) Amnesty’s researcher spoke to two people said to be paid killers, who take orders from a police officer who pays them 5,000 pesos ($100) for each drug user killed and 10,000 to 15,000 pesos for each alleged drug dealer killed.
(5) These 12-peso morsels are pure corazón Mexicano (heart of Mexico).
(6) For every peso spent on volunteers, the Philippine Red Cross receives eight pesos worth of service and improved service delivery.
(7) With police officers taking home a monthly salary of just 3,500 pesos (£178), they make easy pickings for the cartels.
(8) Based on the average cost per case, the analysis disclosed that for every peso (constant 1983 currency) that IMSS spent on family planning services to its urban population during 1972-1984 inclusive, the agency saved nine pesos.
(9) In the two C-141 transport planes that carried them, they had packed: 23 wooden crates; 12 suitcases and bags, and various boxes, whose contents included enough clothes to fill 67 racks; 413 pieces of jewellery, including 70 pairs of jewel-studded cufflinks; an ivory statue of the infant Jesus with a silver mantle and a diamond necklace; 24 gold bricks, inscribed “To my husband on our 24th anniversary”; and more than 27m Philippine pesos in freshly-printed notes.
(10) "I would not be surprised if it can go as high as 250 billion [pesos, $5.8bn, £3.6bn]," Balisacan told Reuters, commenting on the likely cost of reconstruction.
(11) Alejandro Hope, a prominent commentator, tweeted : “Virgilio Andrade surprises the world by concluding that there wasn’t, isn’t, and never will be any conflict of interest in the Higa case.” Mexico's finance minister plunges government deeper into crisis Read more Andrade told reporters that his investigation had found no evidence that either the president nor his minister had helped the holding company, Grupo Higa, and its subsidiaries, obtain the 22 contracts it currently maintains with the federal government, worth a total of 1,300m pesos ($76m).
(12) More recently, living costs for such foreigners have been driven down even further as the prospect of a Trump presidency has caused the Mexican peso to sink.
(13) The devalued peso precipitated a swift recovery in exports and the country soon swung into a massive trade surplus.
(14) The Mexican government offered a reward of 60m pesos ($3.8m) for information leading to the drug lord’s recapture, but the escape was extremely embarrassing for the government .
(15) He said this involved Rivera paying 10.5m pesos ($635,000) in rent for the period the family occupied the mansion, with the company returning the 14.5m pesos ($875,00) she had already made in payments on the mansion.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest El gobierno mexicano ha realizado muchos intentos por luchar contra el problema del peso generalizado del país.
(17) Like most barra soldiers, Diaz started by roaming the streets around the stadiums charging fans 40-60 pesos (£8-10) to park their cars near the stadium.
(18) That shouldn’t be taken for granted now that Britain is about to take a giant political and economic leap into the dark – and sterling has already plunged further this year than the Argentinian peso.
(19) A decrease was achieved from the hospital rate admission by diarrhea and dehydration, throw the oral dehydration therapy in a 66%, the mortality rate was reduced 72% and an expenditure of $619,243,480.00 pesos in drugs and auxiliary examinations of diagnostic was avoided.
(20) It tumbled as much as 13%, a huge move for a currency, crashing through 20 pesos per dollar.