(n.) A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
(n.) A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel.
Example Sentences:
(1) A hypothesis that the unexpected similarity of infection in the two strains was related to differences in rates of contact with the peat trays was not supported by preliminary data on mouse behaviour that revealed equal frequency of contact with peat trays between strains.
(2) By its calorific value the mycelial waste is equal to brown coal or peat.
(3) From the typed letters on Clarence House notepaper underlined in his own hand, to the clever blend of courteousness and implied threat used in his own correspondence and by his righthand man, Sir Michael Peat, the case has revealed in detail how the prince wields his power.
(4) Also missing from the negotiating text is any provision to protect and restore the world's peat soils, which account for 6% of all global C02 emissions.
(5) Corrected radiocarbon dates directly from bone and from peat matrix gave consistent ages in the range of 7,790 to 8,290 yr before present (BP).
(6) But Heathrow’s new sustainability plan suggests other ways to offset the leap in emissions, including by restoring British peat bogs.
(7) The new compounds phenylethanolaminotetralines (PEAT), unlike the reference beta-adrenoceptor agonists isoprenaline (Iso), ritodrine (Ri) and salbutamol (Sal), produced half-maximal inhibition of spontaneous motility of rat isolated proximal colon at substantially lower concentrations (EC50 2.7-30 nM) than those inducing beta 2-adrenoceptor-mediated responses (relaxation of guinea-pig isolated trachea and rat uterus) and had virtually no chronotropic action (EC50 greater than 3 x 10(5) M) on the guinea-pig isolated atrium (a beta 1-adrenoceptor-mediated response).
(8) In order to optimize cultivation of lipid synthesizing yeast on peat oxidates, the above compounds should be added in certain concentrations.
(9) In a rather strange piece of royal doublethink, Peat said this would not do, as it "would suggest the personal involvement of the prince".
(10) Others took hold when peat bogs dried for agricultural use self-ignited, burning underground.
(11) It was revealed that the peat extract causes a decrease in the production of the A1 spermatogonia, and as a result a decrease in the intensity of spermatogenesis.
(12) It was observed that radon baths had mainly an analgesic effect, peat or paraffin poultices as well as diadynamics were particularly useful in cases with increased tonus of paravertebral muscles.
(13) Concentrations of gamma-emitting natural radionuclides and 137Cs were analyzed in the size fractionated fly-ash emissions from a 100-MWt peat- and oil-fired power plant.
(14) It would have involved 181 huge turbines each requiring concrete bases 20 ft deep, roads and cables, and would have destroyed a swathe of this rare peat moorland.
(15) However, Peat said the trustees "honestly believe it would not have made any difference given the direction the BBC chose to go".
(16) At that time, Charles’s then private secretary, Sir Michael Peat, said it was his “duty to make sure the views of ordinary people that might not otherwise be heard receive some exposure”.
(17) The respirable fraction of peat dust recorded in the breathing zone of the workers correlated significantly with a decrease in forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1).
(18) To study the levels and distributions of radionuclides released in the Chernobyl accident, we sampled surface peat from 62 sites in Southern and Central Finland and measured 131I, 134Cs, 137Cs, 132Te, 140Ba, 103Ru, 90Sr, 141Ce, and 95Zr.
(19) Losing forests in these areas could also affect leaders’ efforts to rein in greenhouse gas emissions to tackle climate change, the study said, because of the amount of carbon stored in trees and peat.
(20) "You can't replace peat with concrete, and ever hope to get away with it.
Peaty
Definition:
(a.) Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Adam Peaty wins Great Britain’s first gold of Rio 2016 Andy Murray skipped through his opening round with a straight-sets (6-3, 6-2) win over Serbia’s Viktor Troicki .
(2) It concluded a busy first day in the pool for British swimmers, with Adam Peaty breaking his own world record in the heats of the 100m breaststroke.
(3) At their furthest edges, the lochs' peaty brown water laps against fields and hills that form a natural amphitheatre; a landscape peppered with giant rings of stone, chambered cairns, ancient villages and other archaeological riches.
(4) When I close my eyes and think of home, it’s the peaty smell of the monsoon, the harsh light of the equatorial sun, the clashing sounds of the capital city, Dhaka, that come to mind.
(5) The world record is nothing without Olympic gold.” Peaty and Murdoch were the only swimmers to get automatic qualification times for the World Championships.
(6) No one is saying Peaty is anything other than a magnificent advert for British swimming as he blitzes the rest of the breaststroking world.
(7) Together that’s made a pretty exciting team.” It has certainly started well and looks set to get even better, just as Peaty’s barber suggested it would: “I was pretty nervous about Olympic qualification until I was chatting to my barber one day and he said: ‘You’re a world record holder.
(8) Adam Peaty took a sledgehammer to the 100m breaststroke world record at the British championships on Friday night as he became the first man to break 58 seconds .
(9) But Adam Peaty is a different story – here, making his Olympic bow, he broke his own 100m breaststroke world record in the heats and must now be considered the overwhelming favourite to win gold in Sunday’s final.
(10) It did feel faster than the first 50 and I soon tied up but that is where more training is going to help me go faster.” Peaty, however, is nothing if not grounded and looked ahead to the World Championships, and the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro next year.
(11) And environmentalists are worried that the expansion of cornfields will dry out peaty soils, leading to greenhouse gas emissions, and be harmful for biological diversity.
(12) Guy freely admits Saturday’s final did not go as planned but is still hoping to channel his inner Peaty.
(13) Peaty is already a world, Commonwealth and European champion and could be on course to leave all kinds of former greats – Moorhouse, Duncan Goodhew, David Wilkie – in his wake.
(14) As Spice concedes the most fancied swimmers do not always win gold, even if Peaty does now look odds on to do so.
(15) The peaty material is mostly matted with decomposed plant fibres.
(16) On Friday, his mother and grandmother were among supporters in the stands to see Peaty claim his second title of the week.
(17) Life time of Listeria monocytogenes (strain PS 10401, serovar 4b) was studied in three sorts of soil: a chalky soil, poor in organic matters (pH 8.3) a peaty soil rich in organic matters (pH 5.5) a mixture of a chalky and peaty soil (pH 7.9).
(18) It is Marshall who helps quieten the voices of self-doubt that sometimes loom and it is her faith in Peaty that helps the swimmer believe in himself.
(19) Joseph Peaty, who was diagnosed with HIV after being among those given contaminated transfusions, said the review could lead to higher payments for people with hepatitis C. The 44-year-old said he was "disappointed, but not surprised" that the full compensation demand had been rejected.
(20) So speedy was Peaty that Ross Murdoch, who trailed in his wake, set a new Scottish record of 59.13sec to become the second fastest man in the world this year and book his place in the team.