(n.) A tree (Olea Europaea) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.
(n.) The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.
(n.) Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; -- so called from the form. See Oliva.
(n.) The oyster catcher.
(n.) The color of the olive, a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
(n.) One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion.
(n.) An olivary body. See under Olivary.
(n.) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.
(a.) Approaching the color of the olive; of a peculiar dark brownish, yellowish, or tawny green.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
(2) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(3) Hypertrophy is restricted to subdivisions of the inferior olive included in recurrent cerebello-mesencephalic-olivary circuits.
(4) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(5) It's of her and Barack Obama planting an olive tree in Uhuru park in the city centre in October 2006.
(6) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
(7) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
(8) McVeigh's brother Oliver said nothing had been found there and the organisation set up to locate him and other IRA victims – the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims – needed more information.
(9) Dali Tambo [son of exiled ANC president Oliver] approached me to form a British wing of Artists Against Apartheid, and we did loads of concerts, leading up to a huge event on Clapham Common in 1986 that attracted a quarter of a million people.
(10) A strong EBV activation activity was observed in aqueous extracts of some Cantonese salted dried fish from China, harissa (a spice mixture) and to a lesser extent qaddid (dry mutton preserved in olive oil) from Tunisia.
(11) The present study compares the atherogenicity of a standard diet and diets with 10% olive oil or 10% margarine added, in rabbits maintained at a mean plasma cholesterol level of about 20 mM for 13 weeks.
(12) But she did back moves advocated by the Solicitor-General, Oliver Heald, to place a duty on parents to protect their children and make it illegal to permit their daughters to be mutilated.
(13) The postnatal maturation of the GABAergic innervation of the rat inferior olive was studied with an antiserum to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), the GABA-synthesizing enzyme.
(14) Downing Street explained on Thursday night that Oliver and Michel shared the cost of the bill, and so no hospitality was extended and nothing need be declared.
(15) Administered to rats by stomach tubing oxythioquinox (Morestan) toxicity is very strongly increased after solubilisation in olive oil.
(16) Among the fats, olive oil is recommended more than other vegetable oils (64%).
(17) In the investigation, the neocortex was represented by the frontal cortex (field 10), the old cortex by the hippocamp, the midbrain by black substance, and medulla oblongata by the inferior olive.
(18) "If you don't want my gear [on TV], I've got plenty of other places to take it," Jamie Oliver told advertisers last autumn, brazenly and a tad cheekily, at a Channel 4 "upfront" preview presentation of its 2014 schedule.
(19) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(20) The changes in both molecules were also observed in animals in which the inferior olive was destroyed by electrocoagulation, ruling out the possibility of a direct action of 3-acetylpyridine on dendritic microtubular proteins.
Olivin
Definition:
(n.) A complex bitter gum, found on the leaves of the olive tree; -- called also olivite.
Example Sentences:
(1) The study demonstrates that the partial substitution of olivine can reduce the concentration of free silica to acceptable health levels.
(2) Olivine inhalation also suppressed splenic PFCs and alveolar macrophage phagocytosis, but to a lesser degree than silica.
(3) Two factories were singled out for specific attention: one where asbestos was used in calcium silicate brick production and one where olivine, used as a raw material, may have been contaminated with natural mineral fibers and where the production process would have exposed workers to coal-tar pitch volatiles.
(4) Olivine is a magnesium iron silicate (Mg, Fe) SiO4 which occurs in nature and contains little or no free silica.
(5) A method for cryogenically grinding and separating (by size) fibrogenic minerals in the 1-micron size range is described and verified for chrysotile asbestos, quartz, forsterite (an olivine), and tantalum with a battery of analytical tests.
(6) The foundry was surveyed once before the substitution of olivine and three times after the changeover.
(7) A comparative study was done in mice on the effects of silica and olivine inhalation.
(8) In animals tested after 570 days of dust exposure, it was determined that the ability to lyse allogeneic tumor cells in vitro was impaired by olivine slightly more than by silica, while antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxic and mitogenic responses by splenic lymphocytes were unchanged by inhalation of either dust.
(9) Field tests were carried out to compare the air quailty in a gray iron foundry before and after changing the molding material from the standard silica based sand to the mineral olivine.
(10) Previous studies have shown that silica exposures in the cleaning of castings can be reduced or eliminated through the use of mold coatings, which minimize sand burn-in on the casting surface; by application of high-velocity, low-volume exhaust hoods; and by the use of a nonsilica molding aggregate such as olivine.
(11) They are the radium-bearing Peitou stones, an unusual occurrence of uraniferous zone at Sanhsia, and uranium precipitation in the glassy olivine basalt in a tea field at Tachi.
(12) A laboratory study of the interaction of H2O frost with samples of the minerals olivine (Mg,Fe)2SiO4 and pyroxene (Mg,Fe)SiO3 at -11 degrees C to -22 degrees C revealed that an acidic oxidant was produced.