(n.) A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.
(n.) Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water.
(v. t.) To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
(v. t.) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
(v. t.) To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to.
(v. t.) To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron.
(v. i.) To make a dirty stir.
Example Sentences:
(1) The umpires allow them a different one, perhaps because the previous incumbent was wet - it landed in a puddle, where the water-sucking thing had egested, apparently.
(2) Scores of sopping-wet pedestrians have complained to police after being splashed when motorists drove through puddles, figures show.
(3) Girls continue to fetch polluted water from muddy puddles and rivers, walking past broken hand-pumps and schools they would be attending if they had the time.
(4) There are mothers in pastel hijabs, men in T-shirts and longyis, and naked children clutching on to grandparents, jostling for space among puddles and dust, held back by guards with rifles.
(5) Marcus is totally, completely, 100% not guilty, but the trauma of finding family tartare strewn around his house has inspired him to prove his innocence via moves that range from "violent shouting", "lying down in puddles covered in his wife's blood" and "escaping from police custody to run around Manchester with his hood up, punching everyone".
(6) Results are discussed in terms of chlorophyll organization in developing photosynthetic membranes with reference to the lake or puddle models of photosynthetic unit organization.
(7) In one, contrast enhanced CT demonstrated peripheral puddles of contrast medium within the mass, similar to the findings seen in cavernous hemangiomas of the liver.
(8) Aaron grew up in Chico, California, a giant hop, skip and puddle jump from Candlestick Park.
(9) But by drawing leadership from such a tiny gene puddle they reflected an aberration of the very democratic impulses and meritocratic culture with which most Americans identify and apparently cherish.
(10) The authors have made investigations about the presence of pathogen mycobacteria in puddles of rain water and in rill waters of sanitary formations and municipal slaughter-house of Yaoundé.
(11) Walking becomes an exercise in dodging mud puddles.
(12) Last week he unveiled a house in Southwark made of 10 tonnes of wax bricks, which will be heated each morning over the coming month, until is is no more than a mushy puddle on the pavement.
(13) An approximate calculation of the ratio of the power put into the boat's motion to the power lost as water movement in the oar "puddle" suggests that increasing the blade area of the oar will result in improved efficiency.
(14) It's the infrastructure – Moscow, a sprawling metropolis that is home to 11.5 million people officially, and up to 17 million unofficially, has almost no drains on its roads, leaving melting snow and mud puddles to stagnate with nowhere to go.
(15) John Torode asks ex-athlete Darren Campbell, poking a plate of puddle-water with noodles.
(16) The two most recent additions to the estate are Bumpkin and Puddle cottages, converted from an ancient farm building with thick stone walls and beamed ceilings.
(17) Seemingly spontaneous holiday larks abound; we're one puddle of purple vomit away from the dream Brits abroad weekend.
(18) Instead, the officers had to guide the way with torches, helpless to offer shelter to the tired clusters of men, women and children coming through the puddles at the side of the motorway in the darkness.
(19) He has been trailed through mud, puddles and cow pats; dropped and recovered countless times; handed back to us by supermarket security guards and kindly old ladies; washed, very rarely.
(20) The reasons for reindwelling the catheter in 6 patients were: 1) the urostoma had come to be at skin level by disturbance of blood supply for the ureter, and 2) urine puddled just on the urostoma and oozed out between the skin and Varicare flange.
Stream
Definition:
(v. i.) To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
(v. i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
(n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
(n.) A beam or ray of light.
(n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
(n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
(n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
(v. i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.
(v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
(v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
(v. t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
(v. t.) To unfurl.
Example Sentences:
(1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
(2) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(3) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(4) Starting from the hypothesis that a new type of cooperativity, dynamic cooperativity, is present in the elementary cycles of the chemo-mechanical conversion, quantitative and consistent agreement was obtained between the theoretical and experimental data on the temperature dependences of the streaming velocity and the ATPase activity, including the presence of the phase transition.
(5) Animal behaviour can be viewed as a stream of elements, which, once accurately described, can be counted and timed.
(6) Yesterday streams of worshippers and tourists entered Sir Christopher Wren's building for Sunday services, apparently unconcerned by events outside.
(7) Apple could quite possibly afford to promise to pay out 80% of its streaming iTunes income, especially if such a service helped it sell more iPhones and iPads, where the margins are bigger.
(8) To induce thrombosis we damaged the vessel wall over a short segment by compression and exposed the damaged media to the blood stream.
(9) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
(10) Changes to the Mac Pro desktop computer are also expected, as is a new music streaming service .
(11) The clash is the latest in a deadly stream of attacks since July, which officials said had already claimed the lives of at least 70 members of the security services and hundreds of PKK militants.
(12) Both main-stream and side-stream cigarette smoke condensates and some fractions, containing water-soluble bases, water-insoluble bases, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, were found to induce AHH activity in lung and liver, the lung being induced to the greatest extent.
(13) The outstanding advantages in microsurgery are as follows: (1) After moderate hemodilution had been performed, blood stickiness was so reduced that the resistance of blood stream was decreased.
(14) A high stability of the blood stream in the vascular constructions studied is explained as a possibility of counterstream gas exchange between the arterial and venous blood in the truncal vascular micromodule.
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(16) The pulmonary efflux streams by the buccal contents with minimal mixing, and relatively pure air is pumped into the lungs.
(17) Jay-Z has won control of a Swedish music streaming company after more than 90% of shareholders accepted the star’s $54m (£36m) offer.
(18) The results of the present study focused on differences in types of self-touching by patients and physicians, semantic content of utterances when self-touching was displayed, and temporal location of self-touching within the speech stream.
(19) These convective streaming motions combine with molecular diffusion to produce augmented diffusion which transports O2 and CO2 between the trachea and the peripheral alveoli.
(20) The correct diagnosis was assisted by marked leucocytosis with the release of a major number of plasmatic cells into the peripheral blood stream.