(v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
(v. & n.) To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.
(v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.
(v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
(v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
(v. t.) To make soft or muddy by trampling
(v. t.) To begin and not complete.
(v. i.) To become soft or muddy.
Example Sentences:
(1) No association was detected between the overall frequency of fish for dinner and breast cancer risk (chi 2 trend = 1.39, p = 0.24), but there was an inverse relation with the frequency of main meals containing fish in poached form.
(2) Peter Knights of WildAid, a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in San Francisco, observed that people who argue against the destruction of ivory stockpiles think that having a legal supply is the answer to the poaching problem.
(3) People talk about poaching, but in the long-term it’s also about securing space for habitat.
(4) Defensively we made a lot of mistakes.” It was not the prettiest goal, but it was a strike that showed just how valuable poaching reflexes can still be in a game that has largely moved away from the sniffer type of forward (although Bacca is far more rounded than that).
(5) Even if Morgan is caught, people fear that his powerful backers in the army will find another militia to continue poaching and stealing gold.
(6) Fishing news Barcelona chairman Sandro Rosell says Arsenal were "immoral" to poach their youth player Jon Toral: "We don't like it that clubs come in with offers of money just before boys turn 16.
(7) Poaching has gradually reduced since then but remains well above sustainable levels.
(8) New head of the UK operations Jackie Hunt, who was poached from Standard Life last year, received £3.5m despite having joined the board only in September – including a "one-off relocation payment" of £188,679.
(9) Kenya's president has set fire to more than five tonnes of elephant ivory worth £10m to draw attention to poaching deaths.
(10) But Scanlon said there were some encouraging signs, including in parts of eastern Africa , such as in Kenya, where the poaching trend has declined.
(11) There has been a spate of thefts of rhino horns and elephant tusks from European museums, zoos and auction houses in recent years, amid a rising illegal trade in poached or stolen ivory .
(12) Civil unrest has also led to the illegal poaching of mountain gorillas.
(13) Some 558 rhino have been killed in South Africa already this year, setting the country on course for a gruesome new record number of poaching deaths, wildlife officials said on Thursday.
(14) Game rangers have had their arms upgraded to take on the poaching gangs, and the military, operating under an unofficial shoot-to-kill policy, has been brought into Kruger National Park, where hundreds of rhino have been lost.
(15) To stop poached horn from entering the legal market, suppliers can fit legal horns with traceable transponders and DNA signatures for less than 200 dollars per horn, he says.
(16) Edna Molewa, South Africa's minister of water and environmental affairs, told an anti-poaching street parade on Sunday that the trade was also a threat to the country's tourism industry.
(17) On the other hand big universities will be able to establish significant funds, which will be used to poach students from other universities rather than helping the disadvantaged.
(18) If you forgo alcohol, incidentally, you could eat one of a handful of the main courses which come in just under £10, such as a special of smoked haddock with summer vegetables, soft poached egg and herb velouté, or the homemade fish fingers with salad and tartare sauce.
(19) The delegates are expected to consider on Friday a more controversial topic: a call to resume the legal ivory trade as a way to stop the recent rise in elephant poaching in Africa .
(20) I asked her what she thought of the freezing weather here and she said she was used to it.” At lunch, Kate dined on herb-infused vegetable terrine, poached salmon with dill hollandaise sauce, lemon pearl barley risotto and sautéed vegetables.
Water
Definition:
(n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
(n.) A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.
(n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.
(n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.
(n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
(n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.
(v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."
(v. t.) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
(v. t.) To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
(v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.
(n.) To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
(v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.
(v. i.) To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.
Example Sentences:
(1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
(2) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
(3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(4) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(5) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(6) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(7) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(8) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(9) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(10) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(11) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(12) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(13) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(14) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
(15) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
(16) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(17) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
(18) It is especially efficacious in evaluating patients with cystic lesions, especially those with complex cysts not clearly of water density.
(19) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
(20) Changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were measured over 254 cortical regions during caloric vestibular stimulation with warm water (44 degrees C).