(a.) Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing.
(a.) Bulky; corpulent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
(2) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
(3) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
(4) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
(5) He is likely to propose increased funding of plant disease experts, the stepping up of surveillance at ports of entry and a Europe-wide "plant passport" system to trace the origins of all plants coming into Britain.
(6) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
(7) Appropriate antimicrobial treatment of systemic infections enables the immunocompromised child to keep the Port-A-Cath in place for a long time.
(8) Barbacoas is a small port town in south-west Colombia, which linked the southern regions of the country in the 19th and 20th century.
(9) An analysis has been made of 447 ovarian tumours submitted for histological examination to the Department of Pathology, Port Moresby General Hospital, for the period 1978-1982.
(10) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
(11) Since Yemeni militia backed by Saudi airstrikes retook the port city from Houthi rebels in July last year , Aden was officially back in government control but largely dependent on other countries for its security.
(12) Porec , a port in Istria, is a good place to learn to sail; try the marina (marina-porec@pu.tel.hr) or istra-yachting.com .
(13) Port Vale are in deep financial trouble and their administrators will not let him pay half the player's wages.
(14) The unions said the government can bypass EU state-aid rules by updating Port Talbot’s blast furnaces and claiming it is investment into research and development, skills, and lowering carbon emissions.
(15) Determination of changes in lightness by photoelectric colorimetry provides an objective, quantitative means to evaluate the effects of laser treatment of port wine stains.
(16) All ports were successfully placed under local anesthesia, with catheter tip location determined by an electronic sensor wand.
(17) Police reinforcements are being sent to the embattled port of Calais in an attempt to prevent increasingly desperate attempts by migrants to gain access to the UK.
(18) The prevalence of penicillin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in black men with acute urethritis at two clinics for sexually transmitted diseases in Port Elizabeth was assessed during the latter half of 1986.
(19) Am I going to be separated from husband and children in airports and ports?
(20) If it means calling in the French military to support the police, then so be it.” A Eurotunnel spokesman said: “Eurotunnel reiterates its call to the authorities to provide a solution to the migrant crisis and restore order to the Calais region.” The Port of Dover, which faced heavy disruption all week due to striking ferry workers in France, said it remained open for business.
Rotund
Definition:
(a.) Round; circular; spherical.
(a.) Hence, complete; entire.
(a.) Orbicular, or nearly so.
(n.) A rotunda.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, with only 20 days of monocular deprivation both deprived and non-deprived rotundal neurons are larger than normal.
(2) Ustinov was born in Swiss Cottage, London, an almost perfectly spherical 12lb baby and only child, descended as he later said "from generations of rotund men - it was the 214th prize in the lottery of life".
(3) I'd quite like to be a balding, rotund, Jungian analyst between 40 and 50."
(4) In slim black jeans, motorcycle boots and a T-shirt darkened with sweat from the soundcheck he has just come from, he is anything but rotund – in fact he is lean and sinewy.
(5) Nucleus pretectalis was identified as a major target of rotundal efferents as well as a significant input to nucleus rotundus.
(6) In a previous study, rotundal lesions in the 'trained' hemisphere caused deficits in interocular transfer of visual discrimination when the lesion was made after acquisition of the monocular learning, but not when the lesion was made before the monocular learning.
(7) The woman of the house was rotund and had some trouble walking.
(8) Bottle cells forming in vivo show a predominantly animal-vegetal apical contraction and a concurrent apical-basal elongation, whereas those forming in cultured explants show uniform apical contraction and remain rotund.
(9) He painted The Kongouro from New Holland from sketches by the voyage's official artist – who had died on the way back – and a kangaroo's skin, which it is thought he inflated, no doubt leading to his roo's somewhat rotund appearance.
(10) The rotund (rn) mutation in Drosophila is unique in that its phenotype is limited to the deletion of specific distal parts, though not the extremities, of all adult appendages.
(11) Large spherical bodies designated "rotund bodies" are formed as a result of the association of a number of separate cells.
(12) They also exhibited important phenotypic defects, such as slow growth in liquid broth, a tendency to aggregate as 'rotund bodies', a twisted filamentous shape, and an extreme sensitivity to lysozyme, suggesting protective and shaping roles for the S-layer in T. thermophilus HB8.
(13) With a "Ladies and gentlemen, the members of the President's review board," the inaptly named former Senator Tower (he is a rotund five foot five) led in his fellow-candidates for the Pulitzer Prize.
(14) Her rotund, elegant wooden creations suggest waves curling over rocks perforated by the sea.
(15) The Cube is for people who find Total Wipeout – rotund insurance sales-people being hurtled into butterscotch Angel Delight in South America – too cerebrally arduous.
(16) The rotund body thus appears as a series of rods, usually lying in parallel around the periphery of the sphere, completely connected by means of the fused outer layer.
(17) Brief anaerobic exercise and purely static forms of training (sprint, strength sports) do not produce substantial increases in the size of the heart, but a rotund heart shape with rounding of the cardiac tip and in some cases a discrete increase in the wall thickness of the ventricular myocardium is frequently observed.
(18) Some rotundal units appeared sensitive to substrate vibration.
(19) Today he's not the rotund of Superbad nor quite the skinny of post- Moneyball ; he looks tall and broad-chested, well-groomed, with close-cropped hair.
(20) The nucleus rotundus, the diencephalic station of the tectofugal pathway, exhibits the fastest development: rotundal neurons reach their maximum size at 20 days of age; the volume of this structure reaches adult size at the same time.