(n.) One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
(n.) One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.
(n.) A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, where his father was a rubber planter.
(2) As scholar Thavolia Glymph writes in Out of the House of Bondage , her study of women and slavery in America, the insinuation has long been that planter women "suffered under the weight of the same patriarchal authority to which slaves were subjected".
(3) Use bigger planters combining many plants together in a large volume of compost.
(4) Planters Peanuts Planters introduced the Mr Peanut trademark figure after it was submitted by a schoolboy in a company-sponsored contest in 1916.
(5) In the middle of one gallery is a giant garden planter, fashioned from a truck tire and cast in glowing orange resin.
(6) She revealed that she was descended from a prominent 17th-century Barbadian planter, though she knew very little of him beyond his name and the parish in which he had owned hundreds of acres and enslaved peoples.
(7) But there’s a lot you can do with paint, and planters and stones from old bridge projects.
(8) Women are in a difficult position as both planters and weeders of maize and as caretakers of the ill AIDS patients.
(9) WINNING TIP: Lela's Taverna, Kardamyli, Peloponnese Overlooking the old port in this pretty village, Lela's has a terraced dining area shaded by a vine-covered pergola, with planters tumbling bright red geraniums.
(10) During her time in South America, she travelled around the Dutch colony, sketching local animals and plants but also criticising the treatment of indigenous people and black slaves by Dutch planters.
(11) Margaret Beckett, former foreign secretary What we already knew: Tried to claim £600 for "the supply of plants for hanging baskets, tubs, pots, planters, pouches and garden", and another £711 for "labour and materials for painting of summer house, shed and pergola" on her Derbyshire constituency home while also living in a grace an favour home in London.
(12) Dear Planters Peanuts, At a time when the government has been rightly condemned for the number of millionaires and public schoolboys in the cabinet, I was frankly appalled to see the elitist way in which you market your product.
(13) In Study 2, first- through fifth-grade children were given the task of estimating the likelihood that a bug would fall on a pot containing a flower when presented displays of planters containing either 2, 3, 4, or 5 pots with flowers, and 6, 8, or 10 pots total.
(14) On neurological examination, Parkinsonism, bucco-lingo-masticatory dyskinesia and bilateral extensor planter reflex were present, but tetany was not observed anywhere.
(15) It has been a curse of coffee planters ever since it appeared in east Africa 150 years ago.
(16) "We want to change the community mindset so that mining isn't the only focus of income – there's agriculture, plantations, other jobs to do here," says Untung, 54, from an office so huge it encompasses four sofas, various planters and orchids, and a flatscreen TV.
(17) If you want something more unusual, try a specialist website such as Waterbuttsdirect.co.uk , Simplywaterbutts.co.uk or Greenfingers.com where you can choose from standalone and wall-mounted decorative butts that look like (or are) wooden barrels, terracotta pots, stone walls, metal planters – even Roman columns – in a wide variety of sizes, materials and prices.
(18) The food court looks attractive, fringed by herb-filled planters made from more reclaimed rollercoaster.
(19) Tour guides will wax lyrical about the gracious lifestyles led by the planter families who lived in them.
(20) In 6 patients reporting contact with primrose positive tests were obtained with flowers and leaves of this plant, four of five tobacco planters tested who had eczematous lesions of the hands, aave also positive results of the test with tobacco leaves, and in three children reporting contact with butter-cup changes were observed resembling dermatitis pratensis bullosa.
Vase
Definition:
(n.) A vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a Grecian vase. See Illust. of Portland vase, under Portland.
(n.) A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.
(n.) The body, or naked ground, of the Corinthian and Composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.
(n.) The calyx of a plant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Digitized images of objects (a face and a vase) were submitted to two-dimensional Fourier analysis.
(2) "They've got 22 games left (18 league games, the two-leg Vase semi, the Durham Challenge Cup final, and a League Cup quarter-final), all to be played by 4 May – 22 games in 45 days.
(3) Leave voters, including a soldier, a mother expecting a “Brexit baby” due nine months after the vote, a rare chicken breeder, a witch, and a hammer-wielding Nigel Farage fan, have all been chosen to represent the various faces of Brexit on a new vase by the artist Grayson Perry .
(4) Neovascularization of malignant tumour tissue was successfully displayed by colour Doppler in the vases of endometrial and ovarian cancers but no abnormal blood supply was observed in the cases of early cervical cancers.
(5) Overall, immature mosquitoes were found in more than 60% of the vases lacking liners and in more than 50% of the vases with aluminum liners.
(6) "Let us sit here," she suggests, ushering me to a window seat beside a vase of flowers.
(7) Water-holding stone vases were sampled in 4 central Florida cemeteries to compare the prevalence of mosquitoes in containers with and without metallic liners.
(8) (3) Correct item recognition decreased after 1 week for those items (faces and vases) seen in the inspection series only and not in the first test after 1 h.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
(9) As we talk at the Posk centre, which has been cleaned of the graffiti daubed on it last week, journalists from around the world inspect the vases of flowers from local well-wishers and the memorials in the lobby to fallen Polish heroes from the second world war, during which 2,408 Polish airmen alone were killed.
(10) VASe correlated linearly with VI and VO2 in all subjects in all trials.
(11) Given a choice of six colours, both sides chose blue for their respective vases.
(12) Other nervous system regions express significant quantities of NCAM both with and without VASE.
(13) Nick Flynn was visiting the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge last month when a loose shoelace, a lack of handrails and a bit of bad luck brought about the destruction of the Qing dynasty vases, thought to be worth £100,000 in total.
(14) High mortality and a lack of development were observed in a field test involving the introduction of Aedes aegypti larvae into stone vases with copper liners.
(15) I went into a marble windowsill and collided with a vase which shattered into thousands of razor-sharp shards and I was unhurt.
(16) As he itemises the contents of the pawnbroker's shop ("a few old China cups; some modern vases, adorned with paltry paintings of three Spanish cavaliers playing three Spanish guitars; or a party of boors carousing: each boor with one leg painfully elevated in the air by way of expressing his perfect freedom and gaiety …") you sense that Dickens barely knows how to stop.
(17) Eye movements and perspective reversals were continuously recorded on film for 9 subjects who fixated a central point on black line drawings of the Necker cube and Rubin vase figure.
(18) She also came bearing a limited edition Tiffany sterling silver honeycomb and bee bud vase.
(19) Within the limits of the PCR methodology, no evidence for any alternative exon other than the previously identified VASE was obtained.
(20) During development of the rat central nervous system, neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) mRNAs containing in the extracellular domain a 30-bp alternative exon, here named VASE, replace RNAs that lack this exon.