(n.) The ramie or grass-cloth plant. See Grass-cloth plant, under Grass.
(n.) Any one of three species of large South American ostrichlike birds of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. Called also the American ostrich.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among those speaking at the Liverpool Momentum meeting on Tuesday night was Rhea Wolfson, the Momentum-backed candidate for a place on the Labour national executive committee, which helps govern the party.
(2) The mute swan (Cygnus olor), mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos), common gallinule (Gallinula chloropus), common rhea (Rhea americana), and red-billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) were the 5 species most frequently affected of the 1,032 deaths from 1973 through 1983.
(3) President Obama hit the nail on the head by urging us to focus on expanding jobs in our nation’s infrastructure,” said Rhea Suh, the president of the National Resources Defence Council.
(4) In the latter order Dromaius is distinctly different from the reduced Struthio and Rhea which are closely related to one another by the presence of a rod-like endonuclear perforatorium.
(5) I kept thinking there must be an entire population of women like me, struggling day after day.” The medical visits had slowed down and Rhea felt frustrated and dejected at her painstakingly slow recovery.
(6) An in vitro enzymatic assay that transfers [3H]Gal to terminal GlcNAc moieties labels alpha A and alpha B crystallins in lens homogenates from man, rhesus monkey, rat, cow, and rhea (an ostrich-like bird).
(7) Similar organisms were identified by Warthin-Starry staining in the cecum of a juvenile rhea from a fourth flock that histologically had mild lymphocytic typhlitis.
(8) Unsurprisingly, both Rhea and John can’t help but think about cancer recurrence and what they might do differently the next time around.
(9) On one side sat two people close to the Corbyn project: the veteran Labour leftie and Momentum founder Jon Lansman , and Rhea Wolfson , a Scottish Momentum activist recently elected to Labour’s national executive.
(10) By homologous comparison with pheasant HbD (Phasianus colchicus colchicus), the alpha D-chains of American rhea differ by 28 amino-acid exchanges, the alpha D-chains of ostrich by 23 residues.
(11) The work done during each step to lift and to reaccelerate (in the forward direction) and center of mass has been measured during locomotion in bipeds (rhea and turkey), quadrupeds (dogs, stump-tailed macaques, and ram), and hoppers (kangaroo and springhare).
(12) It’s a simple idea that will change the world: cut carbon pollution today so our kids won’t inherit climate chaos tomorrow,” said the Natural Resources Defense Council president, Rhea Suh.
(13) Rhea Suh, the president of the US-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), said: “India’s strong climate plan offers a comprehensive approach to curb the worst impacts of climate change.” Germana Canzi, an analyst at UK-based Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, hailed India’s pledge as significant and said: “The path of that India will now take in its development is extremely important for the future of the climate, particularly as the country is set to surpass China to become the world’s most populous country by 2028, with 1.45 billion people.” Nitin Pandit, CEO of the World Resources Institute in India, said: “As one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, India recognises the domestic benefits of confronting this issue.
(14) "Even up here there are living creatures: vicuñas, rheas and vizcachas.
(15) The amino-acid sequence of alpha D-chains from HbD of adult American rhea and ostrich has been determined.
(16) New data on the cell kinetics of the cartilage growth plates in the chicken, budgerigar and rhea derived from studies with tritiated thymidine labelling are given.
(17) Rhea and her husband read extensively and asked many questions, suppressing the frequent misgiving that they were treading in the doctor’s territory.
(18) Intensive chemotherapy followed and with it, a series of severe complications including pneumonia, significant weight loss and, like Rhea, debilitating fatigue, which at its peak forced him to use two walking sticks to stand up.
(19) The ratio of amino-acid exchanges for beta:alpha A:alpha D for American rhea and ostrich is found to be 1:5.5:6.5.
(20) The landing-strip was fenced off to stop the horses, wild pigs and rheas eating the grass.
Saturn
Definition:
(n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
(n.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.
(n.) The metal lead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our results indicated that Saturn's magnetic field was being dragged round Enceladus in a way that suggested it had an atmosphere."
(2) A linear accelerator (Saturne CGR 20) was utilized to deliver 15-20 Gy to the tumor volume.
(3) Six wore daily wear soft contact lenses, two wore extended-wear soft contact lenses, one wore a polymethylmethacrylate hard contact lens, one wore a gas-permeable hard contact lens, and one wore a Saturn lens (combined hard and soft lens).
(4) So while in Japan you can easily stumble across a remote-control tissue box or a battery-operated planetarium for your bathroom (by which I mean a waterproof Saturn-shaped orb that floats in the bath and projects the entire visible universe onto the ceiling), the sense of surrounding novelty has diminished.
(5) delta-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA), a heme precursor accumulated in acute intermittent porphyria and saturnism, undergoes autoxidation leading to ammonium ion and probably the corresponding alpha-ketoaldehyde.
(6) Some of the useful clinical radiation characteristics required for treatment planning using the 6,9,13,17, and 20 Me V scanning electron beams obtainable in a CGR Therac-20 Me V Saturne linear accelerator are outlined.
(7) A crew of robots and humans – headed by a captain named Pirx – is sent out into space to launch two satellites into Saturn’s rings.
(8) They have sent back images of Saturn's rings, Jupiter's red spot and sulphur volcanoes on its moons Europa and Io, and of "winter" on Uranus.
(9) For example, the Saturn project in Germany uses sensor-based technologies for sorting and recovery of nonferrous metals.
(10) In this respect, Saturn's satellite Titan is exemplary.
(11) Similar modules, also launched using reusable boosters, would remain in Earth’s orbit to refuel the interplanetary craft to be able to use multiple trips, including to other parts of the solar system such as Enceladus, a moon of Saturn on which Nasa’s Cassini mission recently found evidence of a polar subsurface water ocean that could harbor life.
(12) The effect of pure preparation of ordram, fosalon, DDT, methoxychlorine, hydrel, dihydrel, 2,4-D, 2M-4C and of technical preparations of saturn, linuron, ronstar and keltan on the membrane functions (respiration and motility) of Azospirillum brasilense and Chromatium minutissimum cells and on malate and NADH oxidation by the isolated membranes of Micrococcus lysodeikticus was investigated.
(13) Radiation therapy using a Rokus-M installation or a Saturn linear accelerator was performed in 26 cases, chemoradiation treatment--14 and cytostatic therapy alone--in 79 patients.
(14) Overall, the SoftPerm lens is a vast improvement over the Saturn II and is a reasonable means of correction of irregular astigmatism.
(15) It is hoped that this report will draw the attention of the practising physician and Preventive Medicine Departments to this unusual cause of saturnism.
(16) I still remember reading The Rings of Saturn for the first time.
(17) A sequence of nonrigid and rigid percepts (both 2-D and 3-D) precedes this Saturn-like configuration.
(18) Our results suggest that alcohol influences the lead metabolism and that the usual drinkers constitute a risk population for saturnism.
(19) The authors have developed a method for implantation of the Saturn-type intraocular lens (IOL), designed by Krasnov and Pivovarov, during a simultaneous cataract extraction with trabeculectomy.
(20) In all the patients manifested disturbances in the microcirculatory bed of the bulbar conjunctiva are revealed, the general character being identical at saturnism and TEL-intoxication.