(a.) Being, or accomplished, over the land, instead of by sea; as, an overland journey.
(adv.) By, upon, or across, land.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a close association between air temperature and the amount of sea ice we see, so if we reduce the temperature globally it looks like it will stabilize the Arctic,” said Dr James Overland, oceanographer at Noaa.
(2) These changes are happening much earlier than scientists thought, said James Overland, an oceanographer and researcher at the University of Washington.
(3) The Palestinian capital would be in East Jerusalem, with sovereignty over the holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary or al-Aqsa mosque compound, and overland contiguity with the rest of the Palestinian state.
(4) • A longer version of this article will appear in Overland 212
(5) He was arrested on Sunday after a shooting spree that killed a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather outside a popular Jewish community center, and a third victim outside a nearby Jewish retirement home in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park.
(6) The numbers reaching the US overland halved almost immediately as Mexican authorities doubled the number of migrants they detained and deported .
(7) Of those, only a few thousand make their way overland across Europe to Calais.
(8) Like all Amerindian groups they show limited HLA polymorphism, which probably reflects the small founder populations that colonized America by overland migration from Asia 11,000-40,000 years ago.
(9) The 16-year-old had started his journey by being smuggled overland with an older brother who was killed when they reached Iran.
(10) Manning Clark, Julia Gillard, Simon Overland, Christine Milne, virtually anyone with progressive ideas slightly to the left of the soup spoon, are among the cohort who have been targets of the paper.
(11) Those vaccinations, later distributed overland throughout eastern Syria, nevertheless bypassed villages blockaded by government forces just a dozen miles from the UN headquarters in Damascus, where polio has already been detected.
(12) • Pitches from £3pp, hostalnaylamp.com 10 Camping Quinta LaLa, Cusco This site, which attracts overlanding vehicles and tents, has only basic facilities, but what it lacks in luxury it makes up for by being quiet, secure and within walking distance of Cusco, Peru’s most stunning, and heavily touristed, colonial city, the capital of the Inca empire at the time of the Spanish conquest.
(13) Rudd's parents were originally from London, and his father was a TWA employee who moved around America but kept a semi-permanent base in Overland Park, Kansas.
(14) The cost will depend on whether the kit will go overland to the Pakistani port of Karachi or via countries bordering the north of Afghanistan.
(15) The UN does not have enough helicopters to deliver aid to Jonglei where overland travel is impossible in the rainy reason.
(16) He also is accused of fatally shooting 53-year-old Terri LaManno, who was visiting her mother at the retirement home in Overland Park.
(17) 8.56pm GMT Half-time emails "Er, that was a penalty," reckons Ben Overlander.
(18) My cousins helped me arrange the overland journey from Lebanon.
(19) Now they embark on the dangerous 2,500-mile journey overland through Africa and across Libya before making an equally hazardous crossing by sea to Italy on migrant boats.
(20) The contents of the bag are not known, nor why it was being taken overland across the border.
Portage
Definition:
(n.) A sailor's wages when in port.
(n.) The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage.
(n.) A porthole.
(n.) The act of carrying or transporting.
(n.) The price of carriage; porterage.
(n.) Capacity for carrying; tonnage.
(n.) A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry.
(v. t. & i.) To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.
Example Sentences:
(1) Incorporation of FMDP into a dipeptide structure has produced effective antifungal agents (portage transport).
(2) This paper describes methods for simultaneous cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of repeated measurements obtained in cohort studies with regular examination schedules, then uses these methods to describe age-related changes in pulmonary function level among nonsmoking participants in the Six Cities Study, a longitudinal study of air pollution and respiratory health conducted between 1974 and 1983 in Watertown, Massachusetts; Kingston and Harriman, Tennessee; St. Louis, Missouri; Steubenville, Ohio; Portage, Wisconsin; and Topeka, Kansas.
(3) Historically it was one of the first areas of western Canada visited by European explorers, travelling over the Methye Portage to reach the Clearwater and Athabasca rivers, rich sources of the furs that were shipped back to England to feed the demand for beaver hats – the first resource exploitation.
(4) Anoka and Portage cultivars of soybeans were inoculated with each of 8 and 24 strains, respectively, of Rhizobium japonicum and surveyed for H2 evolution and C2H2 reduction rates nodule weight, and plant dry weight.
(5) Nodules formed by strain 3Ilb 143 exhibited an efficiency of 1.0 on the following cultivars: Amsoy 71, Anoka, Bonus, Clark 63, Kent, Peking, and Portage.
(6) In Jamaica, however, professionals use the Portage model with only a few modifications.
(7) The isolation of multiresistant strains will be in rapport with the antibiotic resistant plasmide portage.
(8) Save time for Grand Portage state park which has Minnesota's highest waterfall.
(9) This paper describes how Portage has been adapted for brain-damaged adults.
(10) Many councils in England and Wales have reduced spending on portage, a speech and language therapy home visiting service used to prepare individuals up to five years old with learning disabilities for mainstream schooling, while almost one in five councils do not provide any portage services at all, Mencap said.
(11) The Portage model and its benefits to families are outlined.
(12) Of the 50 Portage County, Wisconsin, women who participated in the first study, 45 participated in the follow-up: 18 formerly exposed and 27 formerly unexposed.
(13) A cross-sectional epidemiological study investigating the respiratory health of children in two Canadian communities was conducted in 1983-1984 in Tillsonburg, Ontario, located in a region of moderately elevated concentrations of transported air pollutants, and in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, situated in a low pollution area.
(14) Ohio (7.30pm ET) Real Clear Politics average: Obama +2.3pt 2008 result: Obama won by 4.6pt 2004 result: Bush won by 2.1pt Swing counties with 50k+ population: Hamilton (+2.2), Lake (-3.7), Montgomery (+1.6), Portage (+4.4), Stark (+0.9), Wood (+2.5) No Republican has ever won the presidency without winning Ohio.
(15) In order to circumvent the presumed permeability barrier to sulfanilic acid, advantage was taken of the technique of portage transport.
(16) Sulfur dioxide (SO2), sulfate, and particulate nitrate levels were significantly higher in Tillsonburg than in Portage la Prairie (P less than 0.05), but nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and inhalable particles (PM10) differed little between the communities.
(17) In the late 1960s in rural Wisconsin, the Portage Guide to Early Intervention was developed to manage development delay in preschool children.
(18) This overview of Portage services in various countries indicates that these services alone are relatively unimportant as direct agents of social change and may be an important element of broader social changes.
(19) As well as considering cross-cultural aspects of Portage, variability within one country, the United Kingdom, is considered by comparing one service in an inner-city area and one in a rural area.
(20) Professionals in India and Bangladesh have incorporated Portage into a variety of early intervention services, thereby modifying the model considerably.